The CRTC’s goal of fuelling wireline competition by jumpstarting the industry’s rollout of the disaggregated wholesale regime Tuesday will be constrained if interim access fees remain high and if the issue of how small providers will connect to fibre facilities is not addressed, representatives of small providers say.
Despite a decrease in funding for Canadian television and digital projects over the year, the Canada Media Fund (CMF) managed to generate $1.4 billion worth of production activity over that period, the organization said in its annual report released this week.
A group of police departments and emergency authorities that run public safety answering points (PSAPs), or 911 call centres, is telling the CRTC that a distinction it drew between primary and secondary PSAPs in a decision on next-generation 911 (NG911) will negatively affect the new system.
