Industry committee  Do you mean in applying the order to bill for usage? I find it difficult to see the...

Industry committee  At the time, the 2009-2007 government order was aimed at protecting Bell Canada's investments. Usage-based billing shows the will to protect the investments made by Bell Canada. Usage-based billing, it is argued, is aimed at protecting investment. It has to do with the enforcemen

Industry committee  The most appropriate response would be, as I mentioned, a separation of functions to allow for investment at that level of the network of companies and thus ensure that there will be competition. In the network, there are some places that cannot be duplicated or rebuilt, and thus

Industry committee  So we need to ask the question and they need to demonstrate that their network is congested. This would be one of the first things that have to be shown because we still do not have any evidence. It is no longer the time to ask questions, it is time to act. When we note that the

Industry committee  It does give this impression. Indeed, the speed matching order only considered the investment of incumbent companies, so that they would continue investing, whereas in the usage-based billing decision, it was just the opposite. So there appears to be an about-face that is done ev

Industry committee  No. We challenged the implementation of this directive and the issues that were interpreted by the CRTC. We informed the commission at that time that, as far as usage-based billing was concerned, in our opinion, the CRTC did not properly interpret the directive.

Industry committee  Deregulation only works in a highly competitive market. In order to have a competitive market when there is no competition, we have to establish the conditions required to have this competition. So we out of necessity have to regulate in order to enable competition to occur and

Industry committee  In the decision on, among other things, speed matching, the government order was aimed at protecting the investment made by companies, whereas, in the other decisions, this investment was set aside. So there is a lack of consistency in the policies. Do we want open competition a

Industry committee  We can conclude that the CRTC misinterpreted the 2006 directive. Indeed, in order to achieve competition at a lower cost, certain aspects should have been regulated and we should have had effective regulations, something that the CRTC did not do when it took the deregulation appr

Industry committee  Once again, we have to wonder about the way that this decision was implemented to get this result. Indeed, speed matching did appear to make sense when the 2006 directive was implemented, whereby competitors were to have access to the same speed as incumbents. In this instance, w

Industry committee  Okay.

Industry committee  I would like to thank the committee for inviting me to testify. My name is Anthony Hémond, and I am a lawyer and analyst in telecommunications with the Union des consommateurs. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission said the following about usage caps t

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  For music streaming, I previously mentioned that there were agreements between those who want to stream music, the societies and creators. In fact, you can't record streamed music with some of these services. The consumer, or user, only listens to the music. The proposed models o

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I'd like to discuss certain minor points. I often hear it said that the United States doesn't have a royalty system. It previously had one that applied to DAT digital cassettes. They tried to apply it to the ancestor of the iPod, the Rio. You should also pay attention to the mess

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Yes. The European Union, for example, imposes levies. The purchase of devices outside Canada represents quite a small market share. Why? It shouldn't be forgotten that, if you buy a device in the United States and it breaks down, the company may well tell you that, since you boug