Month: February 2020
Floggings will continue until morale improves
/Darren Entwhistle, Grand Chief of the Telus Nation, has threatened that the jobs of 5000 Telus employees and the reduction of investment if they have to reduce prices by 25% or accept mandated MVNOs. I was led to wonder whether he will have them flogged on their way out the door. https://www.cpac.ca/en/programs/crtc-hearings/episodes/66152098/
Read more »The BTLR Report: hubris and overreach
/How could any group of seven apparently sane and certainly highly educated specialists believe that Canada will legislate into being a system of state control of communications as pervasive, as illiberal and as unfree as what they have proposed in the final report of the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review (BTLR), which they submitted to the federal […]
Read more »It’s not just Broadcasting: Skype! the CRTC is Coming for You
/My colleague Philip Palmer wrote the following on the BTLR, and I take the liberty of publishing it here. The first comments on the final report of the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislation Review Panel (“the Report”) have largely focussed on the proposed extension of broadcasting legislation to internet content providers, such as Netflix, […]
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