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Length of reimbursement period major concern in local calling area debate

All sides in the debate over expanding local calling areas (LCAs) disagree with the CRTC’s suggestion of a three-year compensation period for lost LD revenues. Whether that period is too long or too short depends on whether one is making the calls or carrying them.

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AT&T Canada restructuring hailed as positive move to keep competition alive

Last week’s announcement that AT&T Canada has successfully negotiated a new deal with its bondholders and that it will operate under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) while it restructures is being heralded as the best chance for the CLEC to survive (NL Update, Oct. 15/02). Observers inside and outside of the negotiations like what they see.

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Rogers sees strong digital cable growth in Q3
Rogers Cable Inc. added a healthy 67,500 digital cable set-top boxes in 63,400 digital households during its fiscal third quarter ended September 30, according to financial results released October 16 by Rogers Communications Inc. The cableco attributed the strong growth to increased marketing aimed at creating greater awareness of the value and features of digital cable, the introduction of new bundled offerings of high-speed Internet and digital cable, and changes to its VIP customer loyalty program, which enabled some customers to trade certain price discounts for the use of a digital box. Rogers also noted that it commercially launched video-on-demand in the latter part of Q3 covering an area of 530,000 homes passed in central Toronto, complete with a library of over 200 titles. More details.

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The opinions expressed in this editorial are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Decima Reports.
 

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National Library has role to play in encouraging innovation in Canada

The National Libary of Canada submitted its views on how innovation in Canada could be furthered. Following is an excerpt from its brief on the innovation agenda. The full submission can be found here.

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CNM People

The Canadian Newspaper Association (CNA) has hired Global Public Affiars Inc. lobbyists Sarah Anson-Cartwright and Edmond Chiasson to push for a legislative review of the Access to Information Act. The CNA is likely readying itself to push for a broad public hearing on proposed reforms to the Act before changes recommended by a special task force in June are implemented.

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CNM Short Takes

Kalador launches on Irish mobile phone network
Vancouver-based Kalador Entertainment Inc. has launched its games and entertainment services on the mobile phone network run by Vodafone Ireland. The Irish telco has over 1.7 million subscribers, and holds 57% of the market in that country. Kalador's Play Anywhere technology is deployed over carrier networks across North America, Europe and Asia and generates millions of page views of network traffic.

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Newspapers online conference hears proposed model for digitizing content

The National Library of Canada heard from dozens of stakeholders in the electronic newspaper industry on October 7-8 as part of its current consultation into helping the sector. Delegates at the Reborn Digital – Digitization of historical Canadian newspapers conference heard from several private, public and academic leaders in the field of digitizing newspaper content for public access. While the proposed models for posting journals online differed among speakers, several common challenges emerged, including difficulties establishing standardized indexing, a lack of resources, and hard choices between making the publications easy to use or saving money with bare-bone versions.

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CAB remains opposed to compulsory licence for Internet retransmitters

The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) has reacted in no uncertain terms to calls by several parties for a CRTC decision in favour of allowing Internet retransmitters to operate. Last month, several groups including the Canadian Cable Television Association (CCTA), the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP), the CBC, and Bell Canada made cases for either creating a new exemption order that would allow companies such as JumpTV.com Canada Inc. to retransmit over-the-air broadcast signals via the web, or to create a licensing regime for the same purpose (CNM, Oct. 3/02).

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Cheers and jeers for copyright reform agenda proposal tabled with Parliament

Industry Canada, working in cooperation with Canadian Heritage, has tabled a controversial new report with a recommended time frame for dealing with digital copyright issues. The report, mandated by Parliament in the 1997 Bill C-32 copyright reform process, has surprised some, angered others, and left experts unsure whether Ottawa can accomplish its goals in the stated time frames.

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