Week 7 Flashcards
Competition Bureau
Investigates complaints and imposes necessary penalties.
Incumbent Providers
How the CRTC describes former telecommunications monopolies.
Cable-based carriers
How the CRTC refers to former cable monopolies
1993 telecommunications act
based on Railway Act and National Telecommunications Powers and Procedures Act.
Fundamental institutional shift brought about by auctioning process via examining evolution of Canadian spectrum governance in 3 distinct stages:
1) Pioneering theoretical debates on spectrum auction
2) Dramatic technical and industrial change of the 1980’s
3) Rise of spectrum auctioning process in Canada over the past 2 decades
Spectrum Auction
The government uses auction processes to sell rights to transmit signals over specific bands of spectrum and to assign scarce spectrum resources.
According to Taylor spectrum auction is based in economic theory and
in step with the liberalization of markets worldwide.
What precedent do we have for the potential break up of Google?
The break up of AT&T in the U.S..
Facilities Based Competition
If you’ve got the wires you own the network.
Alberta has its own publicly built and publicly funded backbone, who operates it?
Bell is paid to operate this system.
Cost of fibre
Fibre itself is cheap, putting it in the ground is expensive.
What does it mean when the CRTC forebears from regulation?
If the CRTC forebears from regulation it is an acknowledgement that they COULD regulate but they choose not to. Therefore, if the CRTC forebears from regulation, the telecommunications market is liberalized.
Megahertz
Frequency at which spectrum rests.
What impact did the Bell V.S. Ben Klass case have on Rogers?
Rogers bought the exclusive rights to Hockey Night in Canada. Looks like the intention was to be able to offer it for free if users went with Rogers. But after seeing Bell loose to Klass Rogers had to nix that plan.
Spectrum is not tangible and yet
it drives the entire wireless industry.
Set Aside
Government auctioning spectrum but says to big telecoms companies “you no can have”
Not for Bell, Telus, Rogers
Like setting aside land and saying “you can’t develop this”
Setting spectrum aside for new entrants in the game
What do non facilities based players requrie?
Access to a network, mandated by the CRTC.
How do you measure how Canadian a company is?
80% of the board of directors must be Canadian to be considered a Canadian company.
Fixed Wireless
Like a cellphone, antennae on roof picks up signal
Must be in site of tower
Things like trees or weather can get in the way bu speeds are pretty good.
Navdeep Bains Directive
Telling CRTC what to do
Get competition into the system
Stimulate investment and research
Bernier Directive
Rely on market forces (that didn’t really work out)
The telecoms market is a ___ intensive system.
The telecoms market is a capital intensive system.
The point of Week 7
Telecommunications is a complicated industry here in Canada.
Yes we have a free market but history suggests otherwise.
It’s a free market, but heavily regulated.
