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700 MHz auction rules to be released this month: Report February 1, 2012 - 6:04pm — The Wire Report
The federal Conservative government will announce the rules for the upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction this month, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. OPINION: Copyright and 'the cloud': What goes up must come down October 25, 2011 - 4:07pm — By Howard P. Knopf
On Oct. 14, 2011, I had the pleasure of being a commentator along with Grace Westcott on a panel about competition and intellectual property implications of “the cloud.” The panelists were Prof. Salil Mehra, Prof. Pamela Samuelson, Dr. Craig McTaggart, and Prof. Oliver Goodenough. This was the wrap-up panel to a day-long conference organized by Prof. Ariel Katz who is the director of the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. (A webcast is archived here). My remarks here are an elaboration of points I raised in my own brief comments that followed excellent presentations. CRTC requests Rogers to devise plan to protect gamers from throttling September 16, 2011 - 4:00pm — By Nicholas Kyonka
The CRTC has asked Rogers Communications Inc. to devise a plan to ensure online gamers are not inadvertently targeted by the company’s Internet traffic shaping practices. In a letter to the Internet provider dated Sept. 16, the CRTC noted that, by Rogers own admission, errors in classifying video games as non-time sensitive applications can lead to users experiencing slowed connectivity if other peer-to-peer applications are running at the same time and collective data usage exceeds 80 Kbps. CBSC says broadcasters can air Dire Straits song, overturns earlier ruling August 31, 2011 - 1:37pm — The Wire Report
The Canadian Broadcasts Standards Council (CBSC) on Wednesday overturned an earlier ruling that required broadcasters to edit out the word “faggot” when they aired the Dire Straits song “Money for Nothing.” A national panel decision from the CBSC on Wednesday said the offensive word “is not merely discriminatory and insulting, but it is also aggressive, hurtful and painful. Even if there was a time when the word had a more benign connotation, or, even if it did not, was less socially unacceptable, that time is past.” Google's Android and Apple's iOS continue march to smartphone domination August 30, 2011 - 4:09pm — The Wire Report
Now in the hands of more than two-thirds of American smartphone users, the popular mobile platforms from Google Inc. and Apple Inc. are continuing to squeeze competitors out of the U.S. market, comScore Inc. said in new research released Tuesday. In data about American smartphone usage, comScore reported that, during the last three-months, the Google and Apple mobile platforms reached U.S. market shares of 41.8 per cent and 27 per cent, respectively. Music Canada calls on top court to review interpretations of 2004 fair dealing precedent July 28, 2011 - 12:46pm — By Stefan Dubowski
Music Canada is challenging the legal interpretations of a seminal 2004 Supreme Court decision on copyright, leading critics to say it could impact research and innovation across the country. The controversy surrounds a factum submitted to the Supreme Court as commentary for a case that is reviewing whether online song previews should be exempt from copyright. Opinion: Broadband access problem 'will be solved with minimal government subsidy' July 8, 2011 - 2:14pm — By John Maduri
On June 30, The Wire Report ran a story headlined “Tory broadband plan falls short of target for 98 per cent of homes, experts say.” The Wire Report is a major source of timely and relevant news on telecom matters, so this response is not meant as a criticism. As the CEO of Canada’s largest rural broadband company, I am grateful for the space to offer another point of view on the effort to reach 100 per cent broadband access in Canada. Tory broadband plan falls short of target for 98 per cent of homes, experts say June 30, 2011 - 4:13pm — By Danika J. Grenier
Industry experts say the Conservative government’s Broadband Canada plan will fall short of its 98 per cent broadband connectivity target—depending on how broadband is defined. “I don’t think we have a plan to get from 95 to 98 per cent,” Catherine Middleton, the Canada research chair in communication technologies in the information society at Ryerson University, said in an interview. Remove foreign ownership limits in telecom, broadcasting distribution: Report June 24, 2011 - 3:48pm — The Wire Report
The C.D. Howe Institute is calling for an end to Canada's foreign ownership restrictions in telecom and broadcasting distribution, the Toronto-based think tank announced in a report Thursday. The institute’s competition policy council, which held an inaugural meeting June 17, called for a blanket removal of foreign ownership restrictions for telcos and broadcasting distributors—including vertically integrated ones that are also content providers. ACTRA, Conference of the Arts call for early review of new media exemption June 22, 2011 - 5:54pm — By Mark Burgess
GATINEAU, QUE.—The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) and the Canadian Conference of the Arts (CCA) are calling on the CRTC for an early review of its new media exemption order and the development a regulatory framework that covers the new media on the Internet. Ferne Downey, ACTRA’s national president, told CRTC commissioners during hearings on vertical integration Wednesday that, while she welcomes the commission's consultation on over-the-top services, the organization cannot wait for the commission’s scheduled review of the exemption in 2014. |
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