Where are the federal Conservatives headed on policy? Over the past year there have been some odd priorities, at least to my mind. My favourite odd ducks are: 1 - Making a new training program a key plank of the last budget, pushing into provincial...
Roland Renner
Wireless Competition – Two New Studies
Two new studies on wireless competition in Canada were released last week. Also, Bell announced that it was cutting roaming rates to the U.S. “Wireless Competition in Canada: An Assessment” is by Jeffrey Church of the University of Calgary’s School of Public...
Wireless Ad Battles
The prospect of Verizon moving into the Canadian wireless market has resulted in an unprecedented ad campaign from the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA). Not since the days of the proposed “cable tax” that would have required cable, satellite...
Big News in Wireless
How about merging Wind and Mobilicity and picking up SaskTel and MTS to provide a regional incumbent base?
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The Swedish Response to Covid-19 versus Canada
In a recent New York Times article, David Wallace Wells asked, “How did No-Mandate Sweden End up with such an average pandemic”. Let’s be clear. This admission from the New York Times, who tried to destroy the response to Covid-19, starting in April 2020 and...
Draconian, Anti-Science Measures During the Pandemic Has Led to Loss of Trust in Our Institutions
Candida Auris is a fungus that, unlike most fungi, can survive in a human body. It is capable of spreading within the body, resulting in an agonizing death. For unknown reasons the fungus is spreading at a rather alarming rate. So far, cases have been confined to long...
Google vs. Telco and Cable: Fibre to the Home (FTTH) in Kansas City
Roland Renner shows that Google’s deployment of Fibre to the home (FTTH) In Kansas City has the potential to challenge the dominance of telecommunication and cable incumbent providers.
Will satellite bridge the digital divide?
The digital divide refers to the inability of a part of the population to access computers, digital media, and services available through broadband or high-speed internet. Society is divided into those who do have access to digital communications technology and those...
How to keep up with World-leading Internet Technology: Rebuilding the Last Mile
In order to keep up with world-leading developments in internet technology, Canada will need to create a policy climate that unlocks the innovation and solutions that only competition can bring.
Rebuilding the Last Mile: Keeping up with world-leading Internet technology
Canada has fallen behind the times in the area of high speed internet, where it once was a leader. To recover our former place, this study argues, a policy framework that encourages competition and allow third party companies to challenge incumbents will be necessary.
Cable & Television Industry show strong results for 2011
Over the past year or two a great deal has been written about the demise of the existing business models in video distribution and broadcasting and declaring the irrelevance of the CRTC. As Internet video grows there have been more predictions of the end of cable and...
Bell buys Astral Media
The way I heard it on Radio Canada (French CBC) in my car Bell paid a 39% premium on the share price to buy Astral Media. Astral worked the Canadian broadcasting system very very well. Now Bell owns it. Does anyone else remember Bell's acquisition of Daon...
More on IC Canada Telecom Rules
IC also released a document called, "Proposed Revisions to the Frameworks for Mandatory Roaming and Antenna Tower and Site Sharing" More information to digest to evaluate the competitive framework. So far, one of the new entrants from the previous round, Mobilicity,...
Why Can’t We get Hulu, Pandora and other Over the Top (OTT) Internet Services in Canada?
The growth of internet video and music sites are growing. Sites like Netflix and Rogers Anyplace TV are making a splash in Canada. But why don’t Canadians have access to other sites such as Hulu and Pandora? The answer is a combination of regulation and ownership issues. Until there are changes made to the way distribution rights are negotiated, many of these services will remain unavailable to Canadians.
IC Canada Announces New Telecom Rules
Industry Canada released two long-awaited telecom decisions yesterday. New foreign ownership rules and also the structure of the next spectrum auction, both key to the development of mobile wireless....