Industry committee  At Execulink we're studying the programs carefully, including the rapid funding stream, which has some aggressive deadlines for construction and completion. We're reviewing them carefully. I really can't speak for other members. Perhaps Mr. Thomson can weigh in if he has knowledg

Industry committee  Thanks. Execulink has applied through SWIFT and our funding the last few years has come through the SWIFT program, which is funded both provincially and federally, and I think the federal portion is coming from ISED. I'm not sure that's tied directly to CTI, but it's tied to a

Industry committee  I missed the first part in the translation. I apologize. Are you talking about wholesalers for small operators?

Industry committee  Thank you. The wholesale regime that TekSavvy has been addressing today is focused on the large incumbents. There has been a need and a desire for many of the networks that have been funded from the public sector to have an open access policy. I don't know examples of operators

Industry committee  Today I'm focused as a representative of CCSA. I can't really speak to wholesalers' ability to complain. Perhaps a different witness could address that.

Industry committee  I'll dive into the use of fibre optics as the technology of choice that I talked about. The programs that Execulink has taken advantage of are fibre first. It's been a long-standing position of the CCSA that threshold facilities are the best way to get sustainable, long-term, br

Industry committee  I think where we and our members are are investing is in our communities. We stop investing when the business case dies or the retail rate and the cost to build and serve our networks don't connect. That's where the programs that we and other CCSA members have been accessing have

Industry committee  Thank you, Madame Chair, and committee members. My name is Ian Stevens, and I am a board member of the Canadian Communication Systems Alliance, or CCSA. I'm also CEO of Execulink Telecom, based in Woodstock, Ontario. Joining me today is CCSA's CEO, Jay Thomson. Thank you for th

Industry committee  There's a process whereby you could subordinate the licence, which I think you were talking about, which Quebecor did. There have to be willing partners on both sides. Quebecor was willing to do that in many areas, and London's my favourite area. London is well serviced, but I gu

Industry committee  From my perspective, it would be to be able to participate in the auction upfront, but also a horizon perhaps two years afterwards, where if the spectrum is not being used the licensee could be required to give it back, and by requiring to give it back they would also be incented

Industry committee  I think the connect to innovate program, as Mr. Proctor alluded to, is fairly well balanced in terms of the reporting requirements. When you're getting big funding, it's nice to know that taxpayer dollars are being nicely shepherded. There's a business case point; it's probably

Industry committee  We were successful with the connecting Canadians project. We had several projects on the go. It took us about 80 man-hours every quarter to do the reporting to get the funding released, and for us, the project was large enough that it made sense. But some of the CCSA members, whe

Industry committee  I can take that. I see that as very problematic, trying to coordinate it between all the operators. Perhaps a different thought could be this. When you license spectrum, typically the conditions of licence are that 50% of the population is serviced within a period of time, but t

Industry committee  I can't comment on that. Perhaps you can.