OTTAWA—The federal government should appoint an expert panel to study communications regulatory reform and come up with a roadmap on how to how to proceed on the prickly issue, CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein says.

“You need the foundation. Someone has to develop a new concept, a new way to [proceed],” von Finckenstein told The Wire Report following a panel discussion in Ottawa Thursday, titled “Telecom in Canada: A New Owner’s Manual,” hosted by Canada 2020. 

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