Industry committee  That's a great question and great point. We believe in quality coverage and affordable prices. The mechanisms that we have in place today are leading towards those lower prices, but now is not the time to pull a 180 and move in a direction that will hurt our new entrants in deliv

Industry committee  I'm not going to get into direct costs with our members, but I will say this: the tipping point is looking at the overall public policy. The overall public policy that we've had in Canada now for the last 10 or 15 years, since a policy directive came down in 2006 by the previous

Industry committee  Great question. You heard from the CRTC, and us. It's not easy, and doesn't always make economical sense. I think government now, and in the past, has been on the right path, in terms of supporting facilities-based carriers, because they're the ones that build the networks. Has

Industry committee  Thank you very much. Good morning. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to speak here this morning. Motion M-208 asked this committee to study fiscal and regulatory approaches to encourage investment in rural wireless infrastructure. Since Canada launched wireless service

Human Resources committee  Good question. I do want to touch a bit on timelines. I realize what the minister said, but I'll back up what Ms. Young said about flexibility. When you used to bring in legislation, if you put a specific timeline on something and you missed that timeline, you were going to be c

Human Resources committee  Great. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. It's a pleasure to be here this evening representing the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association, which I'll refer to as the CWTA. I'm joined this evening by Ursula Grom Grant, our Senior Director of Industry Affairs, who is our

Finance committee  I know. I struggle with it too, and at the beginning, I didn't believe it. It's part of the CRTC's numbers. Just to put it in perspective, in terms of where we were in 2011, the number was 45%. So the number is increasing as more investments are being made, and all governments ar

Finance committee  When we asked for the Accenture report to be done, coming from a small rural province, I said that I wanted to make sure that this will be factored in for what's going to happen with agriculture, in our rural communities, in our fisheries, in all the other communities out there.

Finance committee  I don't know if they factored in what happens with the government revenue, but if I were on the government side.... I always look at things and ask what happens if you don't do it. If you don't do it, you're going to lose out on those incremental taxes that are going to come in.

Finance committee  I do see it as being part of the game-changer. When I talk about the evolution of it, if you look at where we are now with our 4G LTE, I talk about 98.5% or 99% of Canadians, according to the CRTC.

Finance committee  I'll tackle that one first. With regard to spectrum, we do pay some of the highest rates in the world for spectrum in Canada. I think they're about 10 times higher here than in the United States, and that would be an area where we'd look for some relief, in terms of spectrum, b

Finance committee  You already have a lot of the carriers in Canada, ranging from.... I have members such as Bell or Rogers, going all the way to Xplornet, that are already talking about 5G and how they can deliver on it, and they want to deliver it for their customers. Their customers are governme

Finance committee  It is. Interestingly, I was in your situation not too long ago, and if you had asked me what 5G was, I probably would have said it was a type of aircraft or golf driver. I had not a clue what 5G was. This is a new world for me. From everything I've seen so far, 5G is going to be

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Welcome to Prince Edward Island. It's a pleasure to be representing the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association today, which I'll refer to as the CWTA. The CWTA is the authority on wireless issues, developments and trends in Canada. We re

Information & Ethics committee  Just to be a little more clear, it's around their legitimate business interests. They allow more innovation than we would here. That would be the change that I would advocate for.