MDSA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, Canadian Content, Policy Review
Document Summary
Overview of today: telecommunications, broadcasting, recorded music, cinema, new media, publishing, postal service. This convention has not been signed by the us and to date has no bearing on international trade law. Telecommunications: a billion industry with six subsections: local wireline telephone service, long-distance wireline telephone service, internet service, data transmission, private line, and wireless services, telecommunications act (1993) Governs telecommunications technology, infrastructure and distribution networks in canada. Does not given communications content: canadian radio-television and telecommunications commission (crtc) Directed to interfere with market forces as little as possible. Four basic principles: transparency, fairness, predictability and timeliness. Has refrained from regulating mobile, retail internet, international, satellite, and long-distance telephone services. Intervenes in areas regarding tariffs and the licensing of international telecommunications services: telecommunications policy review (2005-2006) Economic: establish a competition tribunal to expedite transition to a competitive, deregulated approach to telecommunications. Technical: promote rapid deployment of advanced telecommunications and ict networks throughout canada.
