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Deregulation and Competition
PIAC: Local Telephone Customers Will Pay the Price for Deregulation
Friday, Aug 03, 2007August 3, 2007 For immediate release Attention: News/Business Editors OTTAWA—Ordinary consumers will pay the price for today’s deregulation of Canada’s major urban local telephone markets by the CRTC, says the Public Interest Advocacy Centre. The Commission today released decisions deregulating local exchange services for most local telephone exchanges in Ontario and Quebec, many in ...
PIAC: Don’t hold your breath waiting for lower phone bills
Friday, Jul 27, 2007July 25, 2007 For immediate release Attention: News/Business Editors PIAC: Don’t hold your breath waiting for lower phone bills (PIAC 25/07)—OTTAWA—Today the CRTC followed Industry Minister Maxime Bernier’s orders by deregulating 14 out 88 exchanges local telephone exchanges in New Brunswick and 49 of 147 in Nova Scotia even though sufficient competition to protect ...
PIAC slams BCE-Telus merger proposal
Thursday, Jun 21, 2007June 21, 2007 For immediate release Attention: News/Business editors PIAC slams BCE-Telus merger proposal (OTTAWA)—The Public Interest Advocacy Centre slammed the BCE-Telus merger proposal as contrary to the interests of ordinary Canadian consumers. “The idea that creating a gigantic company with about 70% of all telecom revenues could be good for consumers belongs in a satire ...
PIAC Comments Regarding Local Telephone Deregulation Coming
Friday, Apr 27, 2007April 27, 2007 PIAC will be filing its comments on the various applications by large telephone companies to deregulate local phone service in major Canadian cities, in the upcoming days. Watch here for updates!
IN THE MATTER OF a proposed Order under Section 8 of the Telecommunications Act – Policy Direction to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission - Speaking Notes Michael Janigan Executive Director and General Counsel Public Inter
Wednesday, Apr 11, 2007Before the House of Commons Standing Committee Industry, Natural Resources, Science and Technology October 19, 2006 IN THE MATTER OF a proposed Order under Section 8 of the Telecommunications Act – Policy Direction to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission Speaking Notes Michael Janigan Executive Director and General Counsel Public Interest Advocacy Centre ...
Deregulation of Telecommunications - Speaking Notes Michael Janigan Executive Director and General Counsel Public Interest Advocacy Centre February 26, 2007
Wednesday, Apr 11, 2007Before the House of Commons Standing Committee Industry, Natural Resources, Science and Technology February 27, 2007 Deregulation of Telecommunications Speaking Notes Michael Janigan Executive Director and General Counsel Public Interest Advocacy Centre February 26, 2007 Download File: speaking_notes_industry_committee_february_26_2007.pdf [size: 0.09 mb] Deregulation of ...
Consumer Groups Oppose Bernier Plan to Deregulate Local Telephone Service
Monday, Jan 15, 2007Media Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, January 15, 2007 Consumer Groups Oppose Bernier Plan to Deregulate Local Telephone Service OTTAWA – Canadian consumer groups in a press conference given today condemned Industry Minister Maxime Bernier’s various manoeuvres seeking to hasten deregulation of local telephone service. The Minister’s proposals ignore the Canadian ...
Consumers Question Need for Minister’s Direction to CRTC
Monday, Dec 11, 2006Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, December 11, 2006 Consumers Question Need for Minister’s Direction to CRTC Poll Shows Canadians Opposed to Price Deregulation OTTAWA – Today’s announcement by the federal government Industry Minister Maxime Bernier opens the door to premature deregulation of local phone service say Canada’s major consumer groups. Charles ...
PIAC: POLLARA Survey Shows Phone Company Deregulation Plans Unpopular with Canadians
Thursday, Sep 07, 2006September 7, 2006 For immediate release Attn: News/Business editors PIAC: POLLARA Survey Shows Phone Company Deregulation Plans Unpopular with Canadians (OTTAWA)—Results of a Pollara survey released today by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) shows Canada’s big telephone companies have a long way to go in convincing Canadians that they should be able to set their own ...
The End of (Traditional) Regulation?
Thursday, Feb 17, 2000THE END OF (TRADITIONAL) REGULATION? A RESPONSE TO PROFESSOR RICHARD SCHULTZ Speaking Notes, Philippa Lawson, Public Interest Advocacy Centre pippa@web.net; http://www.piac.ca “Breaking the Mould: Reconceiving Telecommunications Regulation” Conference Faskin Martineau/University of Toronto February 17, 2000 Richard, let me begin by summarizing your position. I heard you ...
Residential Consumers and the Transition to Competition in the Long Distance Market
Friday, Feb 12, 1999Still A Long Distance To Go Residential Consumers and the Transition to Competition in the Long Distance Market By Angie Barrados This study measures the effects of the first five years of long distance competition on residential consumers. It examines how competition theory has informed the development of competition in the long distance market, and contains a quantitative analysis of ...
Can the Competitive Model of Telecommunications Deliver the Goods?
Tuesday, Jan 12, 1999By Michael Janigan (Speech to Pacific Telecommunications Council) Pacific Telecommunications Council '99 Introduction By now, few of us have not been exposed to the visionary rhetoric that has accompanied the dawning of the so-called information age. Fortunately there is no amount of cynicism engendered by the hype surrounding the Information Highway that can fully extinguish the ...
A Consumer Advocate’s View of the Experience with Telecommunications
Saturday, Nov 14, 1998CANADIAN BAR ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE ON CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN ADMINISTRATIVE AND EMPLOYMENT LAW November 13 & 14, 1998 PROCEDURAL FAIRNESS AND DEREGULATION: A CONSUMER ADVOCATE'S VIEW OF THE EXPERIENCE WITH TELECOMMUNICATIONS INTRODUCTION The Canadian telecommunications industry has undergone dramatic changes during the last decade – changes in technology, market structure and ...
Consumer Charter for A Connected Canada
Tuesday, Nov 03, 1998CONSUMER CHARTER FOR A CONNECTED CANADA WHEREAS telecommunications is an essential service for Canadians, and is increasingly essential to the social and economic well*being of Canada and its regions; WHEREAS telecommunications has replaced postal service as the primary method of distance communication in Canada, with the same need for equitable and affordable access; WHEREAS “to ...
Presentation to the Standing Committee on Industry on Bill C-17
Thursday, Dec 04, 1997PRESENTATION TO THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON INDUSTRY ON BILL C-17: AN ACT TO AMEND THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT AND THE TELEGLOBE CANADA REORGANIZATION AND DIVESTITURE ACT BY THE CONSUMERS’ ASSOCIATION OF CANADA, LA FÉDÉRATION NATIONALE DES ASSOCIATIONS DE CONSOMMATEURS DU QUÉBEC, AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE December 4, 1997 Madame la présidente, membres du comité, nous ...