Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Good afternoon, gentlemen. It's a pleasure to meet you.
There are some things I don't really understand. In your presentation you say this: In June 2009, the Commission announced that it would continue to exempt from its licensing requirements services that deliver broadcasting content over the Internet or through mobile devices.This decision reflects the Commission's view that these platforms currently act in complementary fashion to the traditional broadcasting system
We agree that "mobile devices" means telephones. If I understand correctly, you made this decision assuming that, in any case, this was supplementary; that it was broadcasting, but that you were nevertheless going to exempt it. So you decided not to regulate mobile telephones.
Then you say you "made a reference to the Federal Court of Appeal to find out whether the Broadcasting Act applies to ISPs." I don't know why you yourselves made the decision in one case and referred to the Federal Court of Appeal in the other. If I understand correctly, you didn't ask whether that applied to mobile telephone services "to the extent that they provide access to broadcasting content."
In addition, when your chairman, Mr. von Finckenstein, appeared before the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology, he said he wanted the three acts, the Broadcasting Act, the Telecommunications Act and the Radio-Communication Act, to be merged. Allow me to tell you that I am absolutely confused about the orientations that have been adopted, the means used to justify those decisions and the fact that your chairman concluded that these three acts should be merged.
I am very confused, and, very fortunately, I am not the only one. Today, for the average person, the telephone, Internet service, computers and television are starting to resemble each other quite a bit. Furthermore, when you plug a PlayStation console into your television set, you have the Internet directly on your television. I don't understand. Explain that to me.