... has been granted bankruptcy protection for its TV operation, is the last of the major broadcasters to appear before the CRTC asking that the regulator set conditions that would compel cable and satellite operators to ... to support all the stakeholders. Given the two apparently mutually-exclusive propositions, CRTC commissioners have been paying close attention to any idea that promises what chairman ...

... 1, 2009, customers will see a new line on their invoice called CRTC LPIF Fee, and a corresponding charge of 1.5% of their ... the LPIF fees collected. These fees are directly remitted to the CRTC’s Local Programming Improvement Fund, for the use solely by ... and Global serving markets with less than 1 million people. The CRTC has the following to say about cable companies passing on the LPIF fee to ...

... contentious and long-running. He noted it was first discussed at the CRTC in 1971. Still Von Finkenstein is looking for a resolution of the issue, ... approach.” Von Finckenstein said he didn’t want the CRTC to impose a solution, he said he wanted the two sides to come together and figure ... Local programming dying, CTV tells CRTC hearing And if you’re having trouble making sense ...

... of Telecom Regulatory Policy 2009-657. That sucks. The only part of this that can be considered to be positive is that the CRTC said that the throttling must be in compliance with the new framework that CRTC set ... and the Globalive/Wind Mobile decision, it really highlights the fact that the CRTC is completely out of touch with reality and needs to be replaced or eliminated. And the ...

... the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Over the last few weeks, Globalive tried to change the structure of its operations to ... . Orascom owns 65.1% of the equity in Globalive. Under CRTC rules, a Canadian carrier is eligible to operate as ... been reworking the arrangement with Orascom in an effort to appease the CRTC. Globalive's board structure was changed, and ...

... under the name of WIND Mobile in Canada.  According to the press release published on the CRTC website, it was determined that:  “Globalive is controlled in fact by Orascom, a ... not currently eligible to operate as a Canadian telecommunications common carrier. We will have more on the CRTC’s decision in a future post.  In the mean time, head over the the ...