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Northwestel and Electrical Workers in talks as strike goes into fourth week

Both formal and informal talks between northern ILEC Northwestel and its striking workers are continuing as the walkout heads into its fourth week. Technicians, operators, and clerical workers from local 1574 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) set up picket lines on May 27.

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Internet market still in hands of major ISPs, Industry Canada study reveals

The Internet market in Canada is broadly-based, but the vast majority of revenues is going to a select few service providers. That is the major finding of a report prepared for Industry Canada by a Toronto-based polling firm.

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Price cap ruling – Smaller incumbents face challenges from latest price cap mechanism

The impact of the CRTC’s price cap ruling has been primarily focused on the major players, but the country’s smaller ILECs are saying they shouldn’t be lost in the shuffle because they are affected as well. All three of Canada’s regional telcos tell Network Letter they are disappointed with Telecom Decision 2002-34.

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Competition still in infancy with plenty of problems for incumbents and new entrants

The advent of competition in the telephony market has been a good idea but the implementation leaves much to be desired, representatives of ILECs and CLECs agreed at a conference in Toronto last week. The Celebrating 10 Years of Telecom Competition in Canada meeting, held June 11-12, heralded the release of Telecom Decision 92-12, which first opened up the long distance telephone market to new players.

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Price cap ruling – Telcos still grumbling about CRTC price cap ruling, appeals likely

The fallout from the CRTC’s price cap decision is just beginning, as both ILECs and CLECs alike consider their next moves. While no one has formally decided to launch an appeal of Telecom Decision 2002-34, proceedings arising out of the ruling will give all parties further opportunities to attempt to change the regime.

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CNM Special Edition Update

Heritage Committee creates Permanent moratorium on Internet retransmission

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CNM Short Takes

Leitch, UWaterloo open multimedia communications lab
Leitch Technology Corp. and the University of Waterloo will build one of the largest and most advanced multimedia communications labs in the country, it was announced June 6. Leitch has pitched in $330,000 in cash and equipment for the lab and much of the infrastructure, including audio and video conversion and interface equipment, test generators and a 3D non-linear editing system. The facility, which will temporarily occupy 650 square feet in the school’s electrical and computer engineering department, will be expanded to more than 1,100 square feet and is scheduled to open in Waterloo’s new Centre for Environmental and Information Technology building in September 2003.

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IDCS steering committee seeks ways to put recommendations into action

A final report published by the Infomation Deficit: Canadian Solutions (IDCS) forum held in October 2001 isn’t the end of the group’s efforts to put Canadian content online. Janice Dickin, chair of the group’s steering committee, says she and her colleagues are in the process of finalizing several grant applications that put the report’s recommendations into practice.

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Proposed hikes to private copying tariff draws record number of objectors

An unusual number of individuals, organizations, and companies have objected to the Canadian Private Copying Collective’s (CPCC) proposed tariff on music storage media including blank CD-Rs and MP3 players. There are currently 83 formal objectors to the levy, which would double the tariff collected on CD-Rs and could more than double the price of some new MP3 players.

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Options all on table as Parliamentarians debate final shape of C-48 legislation

After an intense two weeks of hearings, members of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage are poised to vote on the controversial Bill C-48 to clarify the role of Internet retransmitters within the Copyright Act. After hearing from final witnesses on June 11, the committee will proceed to clause-by-clause examination of the legislation on Monday, June 17. Though the committee will likely follow the wishes of the ministers of Industry Canada and Canadian Heritage that the bill be passed without regulations attached, it seems sure that C-48 will go to third reading in the House of Commons with an explicit moratorium on the operations of companies such as JumpTV.com Canada Inc. for at least one year (CNM, May 31/02).

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