Industry committee  The CRTC has its normal enforcement procedures, and this will strengthen what the CRTC has.

Industry committee  Thank you for that question. In terms of service availability for rural areas, I think you would be looking at both wireless, as we've mentioned, and also broadband availability. A program has been announced in the budget, and the government will be going ahead with investments

Industry committee  They started with a fact-finding, and then on December 12, 2013, they launched their process, which is called CRTC 2013-685. That is their process on unjust discrimination, undue preference. Then in February of this year they started the second process, which is 2014-76, the re

Industry committee  The first one is a fact-finding. The second is a procedure that looks at whether there is unjust discrimination and undue preference. It's looking at a specific part of the Telecommunications Act, section 27. Then they're going to have a broad review, a review in general, of

Industry committee  It was launched in February 2014. The date for submissions is May 15. There has been a notice of hearing established of September 29, 2014.

Industry committee  The CRTC currently has its normal enforcement measures, but in addition, the government is introducing administrative monetary penalties. As I mentioned previously, this was announced by our minister in December and it also was announced in the budget. There will be further actio

Industry committee  The CRTC often do fact-findings to establish the evidence base. In mid-2013 they did a fact-finding on the issue. On the basis of that, they decided to go ahead with a proceeding. Their first proceeding is on unjust discrimination, undue preference, and their second proceeding is

Industry committee  In terms of coverage of our wireless networks, I think we do have very, very good coverage of wireless networks in Canada. We have what are called HSPA+ networks, which are at 99%, and what are called the LTE networks, which are the high-speed data networks. We're actually doing

Industry committee  Yes, on the monetary penalties, there has been a significant action taken in that regard. In December 2013 Minister Moore announced new enforcement measures that will increase consumer protection in the telecom sector, and they will provide candidates—

Industry committee  This has been announced through the budget in the upcoming period that there will be action taken to bring into effect amendments to the Telecommunications Act to put into place administrative monetary penalties.

Industry committee  The government has taken action on a number of occasions to address this issue. It first took action in 2008, when it required that carriers provide roaming to other companies. Then in 2013 the government extended those policies indefinitely. Now the government is taking further

Industry committee  Thank you very much, Chair. We're pleased to be here this afternoon to explain section 16 concerning wireless roaming rates and to respond to your questions. To start, I would like to explain what is meant by roaming rates in this amendment. This amendment addresses wholesale r

Industry committee  As I noted, in terms of the business models in the market, there's competition that gives consumers choice as to what they would choose to purchase. In terms of the transparency of information, so that consumers are aware of what they are purchasing, that is being addressed. More

Industry committee  The graph isn't about LTE. Our LTE coverage is about 45% now. This graph is more a wireline coverage, referring to slide 14—

Industry committee  Yes, that's the idea. It will be at two-thirds coverage. What we expect to see.... Right now, HSPA networks have very good coverage in Canada; they are at 98%, if not beyond. We would quite expect that the telecom providers will upgrade those networks to LTE, because they're goin