Timothy M. Denton

    C10, the government’s new Broadcasting Act, is a panicked reaction of elites to the power of the Internet. All the stated rationales are inadequate to explain the totalitarian impulse to control speech that oozes from the new bill. The very excess of the proposed Act is a sure sign of darker intentions.   […]

The purpose of this note is to draw your attention to certain features of the draft legislation that may not be apparent and that will have long term negative consequences for Canadians generally. The Act is not about broadcasting. It is about the licensing of expression through video on the Internet. The act declares almost all such […]

The idea that democracy can be salvaged through the sanitization of the speech that sustains it is both confused and dangerous. The Canadian Commission on Democratic Expression thinks otherwise. On Wednesday this week the Commission announced a plan for the federal government to assert a measure of control over social media platforms by imposing a […]

      Chris MacDonald, lately a commissioner of the CRTC, and Peter Menzies, former Vice Chairman for Telecommunications at the same agency, recently published a paper called Building Internet Access is Job 1.We think it is a useful contribution to public discussion of matters of national importance. There is much that the Internet Society likes. Before […]

This was published today in the Financial Post. It represents the position of the Internet Society, Canada Chapter.   The cabinet recently sent a message to the CRTC. In substance the cabinet declined to decide upon an appeal by the large carriers against a decision on rates for interconnection by smaller ISPs. But that is not the […]

5G is the latest rage-o-rama of the telecom buzzword industry. It is providing the carriers with yet another excuse to fight network interconnection from smaller users. In this sense 5G is a two-fold layer of BS. What do I mean by double BS? Because 5G technology is not going to be anything different from 4G, […]

  Occasionally a disaster brings a dose of reality into the consideration of abstract issues. The COVID19 pandemic points out a glaring mistake at the heart of the BTLR report. All over North America, demand for telecommunications services is surging. Businesses are responding by moving on-line as never before. Telephone usage has gone up. People […]

The carriers are agitating the regulator to be deeply concerned about 5G. Articles appear in the quality press about why 5G will generate the need for capital, and why the CRTC should not allow MVNOs in consequence. Reduced profits through more competition will make it more difficult for Canada to compete against other nations more […]

https://www.cpac.ca/en/programs/crtc-hearings/episodes/66153138/  Good morning/afternoon Commissioners, Staff and Hearing participants.   The Internet Society Canada Chapter is pleased to appear before you on this issue.  My name is Timothy Denton, chairman of the Internet Society, Canada Chapter and to my right is Matthew Gamble, a director of the Internet Society, Canada Chapter. First, a word about who we […]

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/