Canadian Heritage committee  Good morning. The Canadian television market has experienced significant ownership concentration over the last 15 years, and 79% of commercial television revenues are now controlled by four vertically integrated private broadcasters. Many of these also control massive stables o

Industry committee  The CRTC has an important role to play here, and it's on their three-year plan to revisit that basic service objective. This is what allows Canadians in rural, remote, and hard-to-reach places to have the ability to access plain old telephone service and dial-up Internet. But as

Industry committee  Thank you. Other countries and Europe have had far more extensive experience with international and domestic roaming and have gone to a pricing model that's more reflective of cost. That's the message John and I are trying to relay. The fix that's in this bill today just passes

Industry committee  Thank you. I think the question was about whether we think this particular bill is going to solve the problem facing wireless competition and the market power of the incumbents. I think the short answer is no. Our recommendation is that the CRTC process, which is much broader in

Industry committee  Thank you. Yes. Our point there is that the CRTC has done a fact-finding exercise to look into the issue of what the incumbents are charging the smaller competitors and regional players for this roaming. It's come to light that the incumbents are charging up to 10 times, perhaps

Industry committee  Thank you. I think I would just add that we're living with the learnings of the 2008 spectrum auction, in which the regulator recognized the need to have these measures to promote competition, and these specific measures were the mandated roaming and the mandated tower-sharing.

Industry committee  On the first point that wholesale roaming fees directly affect the way Canadians select and use their wireless devices and therefore affect retail competition, where unreasonably high wholesale roaming rates, or restrictive terms and conditions are imposed by one carrier on anoth