Industry committee  One of the challenges we've seen with ideas like a skinny basic package around cable is that in the past they were buried on websites. They were impossible to find and impossible to navigate. I think what we're talking about with a universal package that's available to everyone i

Industry committee  I think it's definitely incredibly expensive for the amount that's going into purchasing spectrum. I think in the last round for spectrum, it will be a little while before it's actually deployed. It's all preventative and trying to hedge around 5G. I think if the spectrum is to

Industry committee  I'll go first, but I will try not to take up so much time. I'll make sure Mr. Thomson also gets to speak. I think it needs to include a focus on ensuring that the high speed is actually available in homes, not just technically available. We really need to make sure it's getting

Industry committee  I think where we see unlimited data plans is often in those urban areas if you have fibre or cable connections. For those on satellite or those who rely on any sort of wireless services, they are not unlimited at all, and even if they are unlimited and not subject to a financial

Industry committee  I would have to look at the map to see if I could find an area that would identify as somewhere that has access, but I think that it's really hard to point to a large swath of rural Canada that would consider itself sufficiently connected.

Industry committee  The rates that the CRTC put out in August were so dramatically reduced from its previous rates that there is no way the CRTC could be off by that much. The rates customers are paying right now are way too high. I think the best example of whom to believe might be what we heard fr

Industry committee  We've heard a lot of concern around the way that the regions are divided with regard to spectrum and how that often lets companies own the spectrum but only develop the services in the most-developed areas. So ultimately, we would put forward that if companies are not using that

Industry committee  No. It's not a political slant; it's actually an argument regarding efficiency. When we look at the approach to date of trying to get any new companies to come in and start a network from scratch and build across the country, that is dramatically less effective; it is a waste of

Industry committee  Facilities-based competition, I think, has caused a lot of the problems that we're seeing right now in our market. There are definitely costs upfront in investing in that infrastructure, but the current model has really forced incumbents, in particular, and those vertically integ

Industry committee  I don't think that's possible without significant government intervention and funding.

Industry committee  I don't think the amount in dollars spent is really the metric, although we do know that connecting the majority of rural Canada is going to cost a fair bit. Really, adoption needs to be the number one metric, not just in terms of who technically has access to services but also i

Industry committee  Good evening, and thank you for having me today. I'd like to begin by acknowledging that I am joining you today from Ottawa, the traditional unceded territories of the Algonquin nation. My name is Laura Tribe. I'm the executive director of OpenMedia, a community-based organizat

Industry committee  It looked like Michael wanted to speak. Michael, do you want to speak?

Industry committee  I would say that OpenMedia doesn't have an official position on this, but my opinion—

Industry committee  —on your opinion is that I think we are five years now, almost six years in, since this has been another year since the five-year period, and we are debating quite small nuances within the Copyright Act itself. Overall, it's held up for five years, and I think a lot of that is a