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Information & Ethics committee  Very few consumers who call us use the term “net neutrality”. We did receive complaints from our customers, but that was when Music Unlimited was pulled. As you know, we did not challenge the CRTC's decision, but we had to manage the situation by offering other advantages to our

February 13th, 2018Committee meeting

Dennis Béland

Information & Ethics committee  I can answer with respect to the Music Unlimited Program, which the CRTC unfortunately decided to end. When we created the program, we were aware of the challenges regarding net neutrality. We opened it to all music streaming services that met the technical requirements, which i

February 13th, 2018Committee meeting

Dennis Béland

Information & Ethics committee  Okay. I'm sorry.

February 13th, 2018Committee meeting

Dennis Béland

Information & Ethics committee  Spectrum allocation is obviously critically important, and the best way I can describe it to you is.... I've sat in every spectrum auction war room at Québecor since 2008. When Québecor is bidding on spectrum, we're looking at it through one calculus, which is by asking oursel

February 13th, 2018Committee meeting

Dennis Béland

Information & Ethics committee  I beg your pardon, I did not hear the question.

February 13th, 2018Committee meeting

Dennis Béland

Information & Ethics committee  Are you talking about our service providers that are Canadian icons?

February 13th, 2018Committee meeting

Dennis Béland

Information & Ethics committee  Well there are some basic protections in place against the disappearance of Canadian service providers, including the fact that the Canadian spectrum is issued by the Canadian government. By the way, I would like to briefly reply to the comments by my friend from TELUS.

February 13th, 2018Committee meeting

Dennis Béland

Information & Ethics committee  It's about the innovative concept of spectrum neutrality that he spoke about this morning. However, in answer to your question, Canadian suppliers are well established in Canadian law. Canadian authorities award the most essential resource for the spectrum. As you heard this mor

February 13th, 2018Committee meeting

Dennis Béland

Information & Ethics committee  Oh yes! I'll respond in English, if you don't mind, to this innovative concept of spectrum neutrality. In my remarks on net neutrality, I mentioned that there's probably a different definition of net neutrality for each intervenor. Well, for spectrum neutrality I think you wo

February 13th, 2018Committee meeting

Dennis Béland

Information & Ethics committee  I would say that I'm not aware of any specific analysis done in that regard. Clearly, we're very aware of where our traffic goes, where our peering points are, etc. Similar to what Pam just said, I would say it's best to say we're in wait-and-see mode right now on that point.

February 13th, 2018Committee meeting

Dennis Béland

Information & Ethics committee  I'm not aware of any specific company-to-company exchanges on that point. No.

February 13th, 2018Committee meeting

Dennis Béland

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chairman, committee members, good morning. My name is Dennis Béland and I am the vice-president of regulatory affairs and telecom at Quebecor Media Inc. Today, I am representing Vidéotron, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quebecor Media Inc. Vidéotron would like to thank the com

February 13th, 2018Committee meeting

Dennis Béland