Image via Wikipedia The CRTC held day two of their new media hearings today, with more to follow in a week. The goal is of the hearings is to figure out just what to do with this new fangled media, to discern whether incentives or regulation is required to encourage the spread of Canadian content. [...]
A few days ago the CRTC has opened up a public consultation regarding the exemption of regulation for new media. Among other things, new media contains the internet. The old exemption was from 1999 and now the CRTC is trying to decide whether or not it’s still appropriate. User generated content, that is any content [...]
photo credit: Seattle Municipal Archives The CBC has managed to round up most of the telecom issues in one post about the election. Among them are the new fees for incoming SMS messages, throttling of third party DSL ISPs, and the lack of competition on the wireless front. The last good point that they made [...]
photo credit: mrbill CBC just had two pieces on the throttling fiasco that’s still going on. One was an interview with Bell’s Mirko Bibic by Spark, the other was from The Current. The interview with Nora Young of Spark went over general issues of net neutrality, which is why my questions weren’t asked. My questions [...]
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