Industry committee  Well, I just feel it's important to.... Sorry.

Industry committee  I think you still care, but the most important thing is that there is an instigator of competition. MVNOs, if starting from zero, eventually will build up to become instigators of competition. Wind was there. Freedom to a slightly lesser extent is there now. So it still matters.

Industry committee  First off, you referred to what Mr. Wood would want, but earlier today Mayor Wood talked about the story we all remember of long distance. Most of us should remember spending 30¢ a minute per call from Montreal to Toronto. Those days are long behind us because of service-based co

Industry committee  There were a few things in there, but in the interest of time, I think I'll start at the back. What you're referring to, when you talk about splitting up the major telcos, is structural separation, separation where the infrastructure.... I referred earlier to the infrastructure

Industry committee  Sure. The answer at the back is easy. It will help Canadians. Let me explain. Retail-minus has been used in a number of places by the CRTC before. Our recommendation was that the CRTC use it to set interim rates. Remember that when the CRTC sets a rate, they have to do a long s

Industry committee  Yes. I'll make a quick comment and then [Technical difficulty—Editor]. First, it's important to understand that Shaw, with Freedom.... Before it was Freedom, it was Wind, and Wind itself I referred to earlier as the instigator. It was an instigator of competition; it wasn't a ve

Industry committee  Go ahead, Geoff.

Industry committee  Is that specifically regarding spectrum licensing, or regarding this merger?

Industry committee  My comments in my opening were about the merger itself, and what I was saying with respect to this merger was that the only way this could go ahead—while still protecting what was set up and what was intended by the spectrum licensing—was for Freedom, its customers, its network a

Industry committee  Yes, the Competition Bureau could do that, etc. Yes, absolutely.

Industry committee  My colleague, Geoff White, was trying to get a comment in there. Geoff, do you want to go ahead?

Industry committee  Good day, and thank you. I'm Matt Stein and I'm appearing today as chair of the Competitive Network Operators of Canada, or CNOC. I'm joined by Geoff White, our director of legal and regulatory affairs. Geoff also teaches communications law at the University of Ottawa. Unlike ma

Industry committee  Connecting 100% of Canadians will take all the technologies that we have available to us, but in the end, terrestrial access is going to provide lower-latency/higher-quality access. So, yes, satellites will absolutely be an important part of the strategy, but we need to put ever

Industry committee  Again, there may be a more fulsome answer that Geoff would think of, but I would say that there's nothing that stops the CRTC from setting interim rates. They set the interim rates based on the recommendation of the big carriers which, of course, are always astronomically high.

Industry committee  I would say the first step is to stand behind the CRTC. It works on this every single day. I'm going to hand it over to Geoff for a more complete response.