Last week, I posted on
the Public Safety Canada seeming attempt to circumvent
the government’s spectrum consultation by submitting dual letters – a
public letter expressing mild concern with foreign ownership and a
secret letter warning of “consi…

Fresh off Bill C-30, the Internet surveillance legislation, Public
Safety Canada now
says
that opening the Canadian telecom market to foreign ownership “would
pose a considerable risk to public safety and national security.”

After months of delay, Industry Minister Christian Paradis unveiled the
government’s telecom strategy last week, setting out the details of the
forthcoming spectrum auction and tinkering with longstanding foreign
ownership restrictions. Spectrum …

Dear Readers: Your exuberant  reporter is pleased to announce our winner of the day! ———————————————————— By Richard J. Brennan, National Affairs Writer They may look like white pines on steroids, but they’re actually Bell Canada towers. The telecommunications company plans to disguise the towers it erects in cottage country to look like trees so they [...]

Dear Readers; As Solar storms go, this last one came and went, and not much happened. Good thing too, if we got hit with a big one, Armageddon could be as simple as a year or two without electricity! ———————————————————– Richard A. Lovett for National Geographic News As solar storms go, the two March 6 [...]

Canada’s offer to the Europeans in the Canada-EU Trade Agreement
negotiations on several key areas leaked yesterday. The
documents reveal that Canada wants both telecom foreign ownership and
cultural protections kept out the agreement.

Prophet recently conducted a spot survey of some 5,000 consumers to see which brands they’d put on the deathwatch for anytime between now and 2015. Anyone who even skims the news headlines will find their rankings no big surprise: Eastman Kodak topped the list with 27 percent of the group, with Netflix and the U.S. [...]

The Globe reports
that the government is considering changes to the foreign ownership
restrictions in the telecom sector by removing restrictions for
companies with less than 10 percent market share.

Wind Mobile founder Naguib Sawiris is in the news
today
for comments about his regret of investing in Canada and frustration
with the government’s commitment to competition. Sawiris says “there’s
no real political will here to introduce competiti…

The world has been sitting on pins and needles since the CRTC’s hearings on vertical integration in the telecom-media-Internet industries held in June. The CRTC’s just come out with its new rules on the subject today.You can see the press release&…

The Ontario election campaign kicked off last week with the Liberals,
Progressive Conservatives, and NDP promoting their policy platforms and
quickly jumping into debates on the economy, health care and education.
While the dominance of those thr…

Telecom policies, particularly Internet and wireless issues, have
generated enormous public interest over the past year. Politicians have
evidently taken note with all political parties expressing concern over
Internet data caps, net neutrality, …