Information & Ethics committee  That's the reason we launched that process; it all started with some of the other applications. I mentioned when Vidéotron offered a set of music services with zero rating. Those services did not count toward the data cap. We looked at that and we said we didn't want this to occu

Information & Ethics committee  Good morning, Mr. Chairman and honourable committee members. My name is Chris Seidl, and I am the executive director of telecommunications at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. With me today is my colleague Stephen Millington, senior general counsel

Industry committee  They're from our annual “Communications Monitoring Report”. We do a survey each year of all the service providers in Canada. We just published that report earlier this month, and it covered both the broadcasting and telecom industry. We captured the availability of the 50/10 for

Industry committee  Our funding has obviously not been launched, because we're in the implementation design phase right now. We'll have that decision next year, and then we'll set up the fund. Probably funds will start flowing in 2019. As part of our decision back in December, we looked at transpo

Industry committee  We're still in design right now, but we're designing it to be complementary to other government programs. One of the eligibility criteria that we provided in December of last year is you have to have some other government funding program to be eligible for our fund as well. We'r

Industry committee  The intention is to complement, and it's a shared responsibility from all levels of government, communities, service providers, and the public sector to support bridging the gap.

Industry committee  What you're describing is the gap we've identified in the underserved areas. I would consider those areas underserved because they're—

Industry committee  They're eligible for the funding from various programs out there. We should really try to stay away from any specific price regulation on the Internet. We consider that market essentially competitive in that case, because you do have choices. In some of those more rural areas,

Industry committee  I obviously can't talk about the details of the ongoing consultation, but we did develop a fund to allow eligibility for all areas that are underserved. Right now part of the consultation is to identify the priorities.

Industry committee  We try to get as large a record as we can on any of our files. We did get quite a lot of interventions on our basic telecom proceeding from last year. We had over 50,000 Canadians participate, including all of the major service providers, and governments as well, and technology g

Industry committee  In terms of the CRTC broadband fund, no, it's not part of the discussion. We set net neutrality rules starting back in 2009, and most recently this year as well with the zero rating decision on differential pricing. We want to have a level playing field for the application space

Industry committee  One quick answer is that when we included wireless as part of our basic service, we captured it as the latest technology, so that will evolve over time. We expect to continue to support the evolution of new technologies out into covering all areas, including major roads, which wo

Industry committee  When we made those projections, we did it based on the amount of funding that we put forward as well. We're trying to do the right balance of money that comes from the industry, which obviously might be passed on to consumers as well. Our existing local service subsidy, which we'

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for this opportunity to talk about broadband Internet services and the regulatory action to be taken by the CRTC to increase access in rural and remote areas of Canada. My name is Chris Seidl. I'm the executive director of telecommunications and currently t

Industry committee  It really allows Canadians to participate in the digital economy, from residences and businesses across the country. Obviously we have that capability in urban centres, with both the latest technology on the mobile side and the higher speeds. We also set quality-of-service standa