Westerners more likely to buy NetFlix
Here is another interesting result from the CRTC’s “Communications Monitoring Report”. Western Canadians subscribe to NetFlix in far greater numbers than Ontarians. The subscription percentage is 71%...
View ArticleSupreme Supreme Court Rules CRTC does not have jurisdiction to implement...
The fee for carriage would have allowed the traditional over the air broadcasters like CTV, and Global, to charge a fee to the cable, satellite and other distributors for the right to carry their...
View ArticleSun News Wants to be on Basic Cable
Good commentary from Terry Field on Sun News trying to get on basic cable in a new CRTC proceeding. http://www.troymedia.com/2013/01/25/canadian-tv-consumers-are-still-the-real-losers/ Three things...
View ArticleBCE Acquisition of Astral Media Round 2 Part 2
Last week participants filed their objections to the second BCE application to acquire Astral Media. There were 834 interventions in total, many of which are one-page letters of support or opposition....
View ArticleBCE Acquisition of Astral Media Round 2 Part 3 – Telus Strategy vs BCE Strategy
In the debate over whether or not BCE’s second proposed acquisition of Astral Media is a good thing or not, one of the interesting aspects is the difference in fundamental business strategy between...
View ArticleMobile Wireless Competitors for Sale
Both The Globe and Mail and the Financial Post report that all three of Canada’s new entrant wireless mobile companies are for sale, the latest story focusing on Telus’ interest in picking up...
View ArticleThe Wireless Industry Code
The CRTC released the Wireless Industry Code on Monday. The Code itself has 8 pages of rules and 2 pages of definitions and is accompanied by a 1-pager entitled “Your Rights as a Consumer” which has a...
View ArticleBCE Acquisition of Astral Media Approved
The CRTC finally approved BCE’s acquisition of Astra Media, the second time that BCE presented a deal for approval. In this version of the deal BCE has sold interests and will divest itself of several...
View ArticleBig News in Wireless
There has been a great deal of news about wireless developments in the last several weeks. We have had the following events: CRTC’s Wireless Code Public Mobile gets major new shareholders Telus bid...
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