Government Operations committee  You may know that we hand out a lot of licences for spectrum. We also certify equipment. On our website for many years we've had a series of time performance: if you apply for a licence, you can expect it within x days if the application is complete, and within y days if it requi

Industry committee  Telecommunications is often used as a very generic word to cover telephone or cellular.... Broadband refers to your ability to get the Internet either on your smart phone or on your laptop or on your computer, with a range of video or multi-tasking, a certain capacity and robustn

Industry committee  Certainly the CRTC has been looking at a number of those issues. I believe they have announced that they're having a hearing into universal service obligations. A number of countries have looked at that as a way of ensuring that on the lower cost, consumers, through their payment

Industry committee  Perhaps we could answer this, but just with respect to Nortel. We've certainly been looking very closely at what is happening in the west end of Ottawa with the various asset purchases. We want to ensure that the high-paying research and development jobs stay in Canada, that we

Industry committee  Let me help with that answer. We don't check with the CRTC beforehand to see whether they are Canadian-owned and -controlled in order to allow them to bid for spectrum. A number of the companies are new entrants. They are putting together business cases and business models and t

Industry committee  I'm presuming you're talking about the spectrum auction revenues. They go straight to the consolidated revenue fund. So yes, the money goes to the government and is lodged there. Before anyone bids, they are very well aware that they must comply with Canadian ownership and contro

Industry committee  We are looking against the radio regulations requirements, not against the Telecommunications Act. We've never actually had a situation, to my belief, in which we've had to refund it, because after having paid that amount of money, of course the company is very interested in brin

Industry committee  I think you heard this morning about how important the fourth-generation LTE is. About every major player in the telecom equipment or telephone or telecom infrastructure business is trying to work on technology related to LTE. That would include Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Samsung,

Industry committee  When we talk about the do-not-call list, it's an opt-out. You put your name onto a list to indicate you do not want to receive telemarketing calls. So there will not be an Internet list for opting out of spam. It's a different regime from opting in; there won't be a single list c

Industry committee  I can ask Richard to speak more directly about what we learned from other countries and their experiences, but I think we were concerned that if we narrowed it too much, people would claim they were not doing direct marketing, but something else—the provision of information, or s

Industry committee  It envisages the three separate organizations--the Privacy Commission, the Competition Bureau, and the CRTC--as being able to work with their counterparts. I wouldn't have described it quite as Interpol; I'd describe the communications regulator in Australia as the counterpart fo

Industry committee  And we can't help them. Not only can spammers stay in Canada and feel somewhat protected, because there are no laws in Canada that allow us to go after the spammer, but it also prevents us from sharing information that could be helpful to these other jurisdictions.

Industry committee  I don't know enough about real estate to know whether you're signing on with a specific agent, and any of the agents working for the same company are all working towards the same goal. Perhaps during the discussions, as you try to establish this relationship with the realtor, tha

Industry committee  Under subclause 10(6) it talks about donations or gifts and it talks about volunteer work. There's usually an 18-month period that allows that relationship, if you like, to continue. So that's one way in which what are called “existing non-business relationships” are protected.

Industry committee  The Canadian Association of Internet Providers has reacted quite favourably to this. The Canadian Chamber of Commerce has reacted quite well. Mr. Perrin Beatty put out a statement after the bill was tabled.