Industry committee  I was going to add that our department is actually consulting on a licensing framework to support next-generation satellites currently, including the LEOs.

Industry committee  That is done by the spectrum information technology branch at ISED. They are called tier sizes. It depends on the type of spectrum being auctioned and the particular auction parameters. There are different tier sizes used for different auctions, and there are also different types

Industry committee  As I said, it depends on the type of spectrum that's being auctioned. There are different ways the tier sizes are determined. Some of them can be tier 4, which are small. Tier 1 is national. Tier 2 is more provincial.

Industry committee  There are deployment conditions. In certain auctions that have had really great rural coverage you have deployment conditions that will push it further into that tier size so it will have obligations for more deployment. If you have a specific example you want to refer to us, I

Industry committee  Yes, very much so. In fact, as we put together our programs and our gap assessment, a critical part of it is to know the benefits and how people need the technology. We use a couple of different types of sources. There is economic literature, which will point to increases in empl

Industry committee  In ISED, there is a long-standing coordination group with the FCC that exists in the spectrum information management section of the department. I don't want to put an exact number of years on it, but it's very long standing. There is a well-known need to have cross-border frequen

Industry committee  Certainly. In general, the Canadian approach to spectrum management is called “fast follow”, given that we are adjacent to the United States and they have the market. They have the critical size of the market. We can't afford to have our own rules and regulations in Canada, so we

Industry committee  I'd point to a number of initiatives we have done for spectrum management in Canada. Since 2008, the government has more than doubled the amount of spectrum available for commercial mobile services through the spectrum auction AWS-1 in 2008 as well as auctions for 700 MHz AWS-3 a

Industry committee  We've always had a close collaboration with the FCC on border frequency issues and interference issues. It's a long-standing management issue we've always had with the United States.

Industry committee  I now turn to slide 12, on affordable access. We are also moving forward with initiatives designed to help increase broadband adoption. Budget 2017 proposed to invest $13.2 million over five years in a new affordable access program that will facilitate access to low-cost home I

Industry committee  Thank you, and good morning, all. We really are pleased to be here today. Thank you for inviting us to discuss access to broadband Internet across Canada. As the chair mentioned, my name is Pamela Miller, and I am the director general of the telecom policy branch at Innovation

Finance committee  Yes. Thank you very much. The range is up to $10 million on the first offence and up to $15 million for a subsequent offence.

Finance committee  Yes, there could be a warning process. There would be a due process put in place by the CRTC that would go through the administrative law process in order to determine the nature of the offence. There would be a possibility for negotiation beforehand, if necessary.

Finance committee  Yes, there could be an appeal to the CRTC and also representation to the courts.

Industry committee  In terms of the actions to date, Industry Canada has consulted on roaming extensively in the past. There have been a number of consultations on that in terms of mandating roaming, and the improvements that we also made in 2013. As I mentioned previously, the CRTC will be contin