Week 7

Question 1

Competition Bureau

Answer 1

Investigates complaints and imposes necessary penalties.

Question 2

Incumbent Providers

Answer 2

How the CRTC describes former telecommunications monopolies.

Question 3

Cable-based carriers

Answer 3

How the CRTC refers to former cable monopolies

Question 4

1993 telecommunications act

Answer 4

based on Railway Act and National Telecommunications Powers and Procedures Act.

Question 5

Fundamental institutional shift brought about by auctioning process via examining evolution of Canadian spectrum governance in 3 distinct stages:

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Spectrum Auction

Answer 6

The government uses auction processes to sell rights to transmit signals over specific bands of spectrum and to assign scarce spectrum resources.

Question 7

According to Taylor spectrum auction is based in economic theory and

Answer 7

in step with the liberalization of markets worldwide.

Question 8

What precedent do we have for the potential break up of Google?

Answer 8

The break up of AT&T in the U.S..

Question 9

Facilities Based Competition

Answer 9

If you’ve got the wires you own the network.

Question 10

Alberta has its own publicly built and publicly funded backbone, who operates it?

Answer 10

Bell is paid to operate this system.

Question 11

Cost of fibre

Answer 11

Fibre itself is cheap, putting it in the ground is expensive.

Question 12

What does it mean when the CRTC forebears from regulation?

Answer 12

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.

Question 13

Megahertz

Answer 13

Frequency at which spectrum rests.

Question 14

What impact did the Bell V.S. Ben Klass case have on Rogers?

Answer 14

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.

Question 15

Spectrum is not tangible and yet

Answer 15

it drives the entire wireless industry.

Question 16

Set Aside

Answer 16

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

Question 17

What do non facilities based players requrie?

Answer 17

Access to a network, mandated by the CRTC.

Question 18

How do you measure how Canadian a company is?

Answer 18

80% of the board of directors must be Canadian to be considered a Canadian company.

Question 19

Fixed Wireless

Answer 19

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.

Question 20

Navdeep Bains Directive

Answer 20

Telling CRTC what to do

Get competition into the system

Stimulate investment and research

Question 21

Bernier Directive

Answer 21

Rely on market forces (that didn’t really work out)

Question 22

The telecoms market is a ___ intensive system.

Answer 22

The telecoms market is a capital intensive system.

Question 23

The point of Week 7

Answer 23

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.