Month: May 2016
Joy and gladness at the CRTC
/The Globe reports today that Commissioner Raj Shoan and the Chairman are at it again. If it were 1816 instead of 2016, they could have had a duel and settled it like gentlemen. Instead they have to go through the fussy mediation of lawyers and judges. The thought that one could die at dawn tomorrow […]
Read more »Why Corcoran mystifies me
/Terry Corcoran is the editorial head of the Financial Post, and I have had some harsh words to say about his writings on telecommunications policy. It would be unfair to base an opinion of his whole work on this unfortunate portion. I am mystified by the apparent contradiction between his decentralized market thinking, and […]
Read more »Canada missed the boat on regulating the Internet 20 years ago”
/“Canada missed the boat on regulating the Internet 20 years ago”, said Entertainment lawyer Stephen Stohn and, it should be noted, executive producer of Degrassi: The Next Generation and co-owner of Epitome Picture. He told conference attendees that he told the CRTC back then “we really need to start thinking about regulating the Internet,” but that the Commission […]
Read more »How not to network a nation
/There is an excerpt in First Monday from a book by Benjamin Peters called “How not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet”. “the central proposition that this book develops and then complicates is that although the American ARPANET initially took shape thanks to well-managed state subsidies and collaborative research environments, the comparable […]
Read more »Terry ‘Bellhead’ Corcoran is only coherent if big telco is the answer
/Terence Corcoran fights against bad policy night and day at the National Post. At least he tries. But on telecom policy I have been forced to conclude he only has one policy. Giantism is good, and competition be damned if it gets in the way of giantism. If that is not so, then he is radically […]
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