For decades, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has been missing in action, standing idly by as Canada's telcom companies merged with each other and with media giants, created three bloated, anticompetitive vertically integrated monopolies; now the CRTC has repented its sins, adopting its proposed pro-competition agenda (which was bitterly opposed by the Big Three), with far-reaching implications for mobile virtual network operators, facilities sharing, rural coverage, accessibility and investment. The policy goes into effect immediately.
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Jun 18, 2019
Canada's telcoms regulator adopts a sweeping new pro-competition agenda
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Library Socialism: a utopian vision of a sustaniable, luxuriant future of circulating abundance
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