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PIAC Submission to the Government Consultation on A Digital Economy Strategy for Canada
Thursday, Jul 29, 2010Download File: piac_submission_on_digital_economy_2010.pdf [size: 0.24 mb] PIAC Submission to the Government Consultation on A Digital Economy Strategy for Canada INTRODUCTION PIAC is grateful for the opportunity to comment on the important issues raised in the Consultation Document issued by the Government on Canada on the digital economy. Our comments are based on our work in ...
Bell Canada Touch-Tone Overcharge Reversed
Friday, May 21, 2010The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) today welcomed the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s (CRTC) decision on May 19 to reverse “Touch-Tone” charges imposed unilaterally by Bell Canada (Bell) on certain of its local telephone customers. The CRTC’s decision requires Bell to refund to all customers who have had rotary dial phone service since 1993 or earlier the ...
PIAC comments on the telecommunications foreign ownership provisions in the budget
Thursday, Mar 04, 2010PIAC has been asked about the effect of the loosening of foreign ownership rules on Canadian subsidiaries in the telecommunications market. PIAC is not in a position to comment from the standpoint of matters such as employment, taxation, research and development, or cultural sovereignty. PIAC’s comments are directed to the possible effect on the position of the consumer in the telecommunications ...
Consumer groups call for better telecommunications services for all Canadians
Friday, Feb 26, 2010Led by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre in Ottawa, a coalition of consumer groups will make submissions on behalf of consumers to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) during a consultation to review access to basic telecommunications services in Canada. This is an opportunity to ask the CRTC to make changes to protect consumers, as the telecommunications ...
PIAC says government issues contradictory broadband and wireless (Globalive) decisions
Friday, Dec 11, 2009While consumers welcome the Cabinet decision to allow Globalive to enter the wireless market, overturning an earlier CRTC decision, the two other decisions on Cabinet Appeals, effectively ensure the broadband market in Canada will remain a duopoly for some time to come. The two broadband decisions involve issues associated with the obligation of incumbent providers such as Bell Canada, Telus, ...