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Canada will not follow the US lead in converting all over-the-air television stations to digital. The CRTC stated Monday that only major markets, including capital cities, will be mandated to do the switch by August 31, 2011, leaving smaller markets to consider alternative delivery mechanisms.
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BDUs across Canada will have to pony up $102 million over the next year towards local programming, but whether or not they pay a monetary “fee” for carriage of broadcast signals will be decided by the parties involved, not the regulator, says CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein. However, the commission is waving a stick at BDUs to negotiate in good faith, warning they could lose access to the major US networks if they fail to reach an agreement.
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Some digital media industry executives are worried that the new Canada Media Fund (CMF) won’t support interactive media projects as well as it could because it lacks digital media representation on its board of directors, and the consultation process for fund management might not be as comprehensive as hoped.
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The CRTC’s first day of hearings on Internet traffic management practices, or Net Neutrality, focused largely on the technological solutions available to ISPs to deal with network congestion, but a solution from Juniper Networks to give consumers greater control in managing their own Internet uses grabbed some attention.
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The ‘BlackBerry experience’ is driving community stakeholders to demand remote broadband access – but some Canadian cities are pulling their workers off of costly cellular networks and driving data over Wi-Fi or WiMAX.
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