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Stingray, Music Choice settle U.S. lawsuits

Stingray Group Inc. and Pennsylvania-based music company Music Choice have settled their duelling U.S. lawsuits involving patent infringement.

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OPC takes Facebook to Federal Court

The Office the Privacy Commissioner has filed a much-anticipated notice of application in Federal Court against Facebook Inc., some nine months after the OPC announced that the social media giant had violated the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. 

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CRTC tells Bell and Quebecor to play nicer in Part 1 roaming decision

BCE Inc. must keep providing Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron with wholesale roaming on an ongoing basis, the CRTC said Wednesday in a decision that also took the two perennial rivals to task for not first working together to solve the issue.

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VMedia blasts ‘regressive’ BTLR recommendation

VMedia Inc. says a recommendation from the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review panel’s report that stipulates a primary reliance on “market forces” could stifle competition in Canada’s telecommunications industry, if enacted.

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CRTC says no to delay, compensation for ending landline subsidy

The CRTC has upheld its decision to phase out a subsidy for landlines through 2021, and in a pair of decisions today rejected requests to maintain the subsidy for at least 10 years and to compensate providers for eliminating it.

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Confusion over Guilbeault remarks on BTLR online news recs

OTTAWA — On Monday Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault, with some help from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, walked back comments he made over the weekend to CTV News regarding licensing of online news, following the recommendations of an expert panel that news websites be brought into the CRTC’s regulatory sphere.  

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