Today was a good day. An unbelievably frantic one, but a good day nonetheless. I’ve been pouring blood, sweat and tears into a submission to the CRTC’s hearings on Bell’s bid to buy Astral Media to be held in Montreal next month. Today was the deadline for submissions to the CRTC. My submission is part
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OpenMedia.ca: Bell to gobble up Astral Media
Cross-posted from Mediamorphis Sometimes I just wish I could wake up in the morning and not be thrust into the hurly-burly of all the stuff roiling the telecom-media-Internet industries in Canada. But no! If it ain’t copyright maximalists trying to lock up content (Bill C-11) or spooks trying to stuff
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Debunking Bill C-11: Why Canadians should be concerned
Some of you may have noticed that I’ve been away for a while. Sorry about that for those of you who missed me. Let’s just say that I learned the hard way the steep cost of blogging, twitter, facebook, writing for the Globe and Mail, all for free, while holding
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: The Vertical Integration Elephant in the Room
Cross-posted from Mediamorphis
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OpenMedia.ca: The importance of Canada’s media economy
Editor’s note: This Policy Watch piece is a rare look at Canada’s media economy from the perspective of an academic researcher, rather than the usual commercial consultants. In this detailed entry, Winseck shows that media and the Internet—wired and …
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: The importance of Canada’s media economy
Editor’s note: This Policy Watch piece is a rare look at Canada’s media economy from the perspective of an academic researcher, rather than the usual commercial consultants. In this detailed entry, Winseck shows that media and the Internet—wired and …
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Ex-Politicos in Big Telecom Boardrooms
Cross-posted from Mediamorphis
Where do ex-politicians go when they retire? It would appear that they take up sinecure amongst the boards of directors at Canada’s leading telecom-media-Internet (TMI) companies.
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OpenMedia.ca: Fundamental guiding rules for telecom-media-Internet politics
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OpenMedia.ca: The vertical integration hearing is getting curiouser and curiouser
Cross-posted from The Globe And Mail
In the first of two column’s last week I offered evidence and argument as to why the CRTC’s current vertical integration hearing is not likely to deal effectively with the question of telecom, media and Internet…
OpenMedia.ca: Bell gouges and lies, the Competition Bureau charges, and Canadians know that something has to change
Cross-posted from Mediamorphis
Bell was slammed with the highest fine possible today for ripping people off for bundled telecom-media-internet, $10 million. The Competition Bureau meted out the stiffest punishment it has and arrived at a settlement o…
OpenMedia.ca: Vertical Integration hearings: Bolting the barn door after the horse has already left the stable
Written for The Globe And Mail
The CRTC’s hearings on vertical integration begin Monday. For the next two weeks, this means that the four major vertically integrated media companies in Canada – Bell, Shaw, Rogers and Quebecor – could face tough q…
OpenMedia.ca: Warrantless online surveillance will put too much power, at too high a cost, into the hands of Big Telecom
Written for The Globe And Mail
Should telecom network companies and Internet service providers function as arms of law enforcement and national security? Yes, according to the Investigative Powers for the 21st Century Act (Bill C-51), a bill that was i…
OpenMedia.ca: The CANARIE in the coalshaft: CPC cuts funding to Internet research network
Cross-posted from Mediamorphis
I received an email this morning alerting me to something that had, well, been flying under my radar: CANARIE, or Canada’s Advanced Research and Innovation Network as it is formally known. It appears that the Conse…
OpenMedia.ca: On Canada’s roaming charges: We could stand to improve
Cross-posted from Mediamorphis
It’s silly season again. The OECD just released another study showing that, on the telecom front, Canada is not doing so well, and continues to slide. This time, the OECD looked at the cost of “international…
OpenMedia.ca: Lawful Access: Murky intelligence operations running roughshod on the public Internet
Cross-posted from Mediamorphis
The other day I pounded away madly on the keyboard about global internet regulation. I was perturbed by the preliminary ‘e-G8′ meetings convened by President Sarkozy that seemed mostly designed to push a regulat…