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Motion Picture Association Canada agrees digital media survey should wait for C-10

The CRTC’s efforts to implement a digital media survey are premature, according to the Canadian affiliate of the Motion Picture Association, who argued that the commission should wait until the Government’s update of the Broadcasting Act, known as Bill C-10 passes.

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Rogers files another MDU access complaint

Rogers Communications Inc. is asking the CRTC to force a high-rise building owner in Toronto, ON, to give it access to its own facilities for installation, maintenance and repairs the company says it needs to perform.

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TekSavvy’s wholesale appeal uses failed incumbent arguments from 2019: Bell

TekSavvy Solutions Inc.‘s arguments in its June challenge to the CRTC’s final decision on wholesale internet access rates — that the CRTC breached its duty of procedural fairness in not conducting a thorough review of the new rates — are the same arguments made by incumbent telecom companies (and rejected by the Federal Court of Appeal) back in 2019, according to BCE Inc.

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Consensus on CRTC data collection for foreign outlets; disagreement on how

Civil groups and Canadian telecoms companies agree that the CRTC should extend its digital survey to foreign digital media broadcasting undertakings operating in Canada, but can’t find consensus on the best threshold or if it even has the authority to do so, according to interventions in the CRTC’s consultation in the matter. 

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Rural B.C. receives $17.3m from UBF, provincial fund, for high-speed internet projects

The government has announced more than $17.3 million of funding for four high-speed internet projects in rural British Columbia in an effort to close the digital divide in remote communities.

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Telesat inks $109M deal with Ontario

Telesat Holdings Inc.‘s push to become Canada’s biggest purveyor of low-earth orbit satellites (LEO) got another boost Friday, as it announced a $109 million deal with the government of Ontario. 

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Quebecor calls for swift news media compensation legislation

Quebecor Inc.’s president and CEO is renewing calls for the federal government to implement a news media compensation strategy, to “ensure the sustainability of advertising revenue, and the vitality of competitiveness”  and for the CRTC to ensure swift negotiations with incumbents on wireless network access. 

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3500 auction should result in “careful consideration” by gov: Bell’s Bibic

For BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic, the high cost of the 3,500 MHz spectrum auction should result in the federal government making “careful consideration” in its assessment of wireless pricing going forward. 

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No reason to deny TSPs access to secure telephony identity certificates: CRTC

The CRTC has determined that, unless a telecommunications service provider (TSP) cannot be trusted to maintain the integrity of the anti-call-spoofing protocol known as STIR/SHAKEN, there is no reason to deny TSPs, that do not have direct access to numbering resources, access to secure telephony identity (STI) certificates.

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ISED launches new spectrum consultations, decides to forego consultations on residual spectrum auctions

The federal government Wednesday launched a trio of consultation documents on spectrum policy that it says is aimed at freeing up the valuable resource for use by rural Canadians. 

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