The CRTC fumbles, again.
Written on December 15, 2011 at 12:35 pm, by wunderbar
The CRTC ruled this week that Bell Media cannot hold exclusive rights to streaming NHL and NFL games to their mobile devices. This means that Bell must allow other cellular providers, like Telus and Rogers, access to their licensing deals with both the NHL and NFL so they can stream live games to their devices Read more...
CRTC rules against Usage Based Billing
Written on November 16, 2011 at 12:28 pm, by wunderbar
The CRTC has made a very important, and surprising, ruling on the state of usage based billing on wholesale ISP’s in Canada. While this actually won’t affect most people reading this, it is a pretty important and precedent setting ruling. The most surprising thing about the ruling? The fact that it is actually pro-consumer, not Read more...
Why the CRTC needs an overhaul – Part 2
Written on March 16, 2009 at 10:58 pm, by wunderbar
This is the second part of my post/rant about the CRTC. You can find part one here. In part one I briefly talked about the protectionism the CRTC takes with regards to Canadian content. I want to talk a bit about how the CRTC handles TV, and how it is really limiting how Canadians can Read more...
Why the CRTC needs an overhaul – Part 1
Written on March 12, 2009 at 10:33 pm, by wunderbar
The title says it all doesn’t it? the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission(CRTC) is broken, and needs to be fixed. the problem is, is that I’m not sure if it can be. For those of you who don’t know, the CRTC is the governing body of all radio, TV, telephone, cell phone, and internet traffic Read more...
