Rube Goldberg MachineFaithful readers of my blog will know that normally my posts are about regulatory issues, but I thought it would be fun to take a break from the usual depressing posts about the state of telecom competition in
Something is rotten at Prom Du Portage
CRTC Chairman Ian ScottTwo weeks ago the Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) filed a Part One application with the CRTC asking for Ian Scott to "recuse himself, or be recused, from deciding all matters affecting service-based competition"
The CST-GA is "SHAKEN" down small carriers
If you've been following by blog, you'll know that equal access for all telecommunications providers to participate in the SHAKEN/STIR call authentication framework has been one of the causes I have been most passionate about.
The Canadian PSTN needs Next Generation Routing
Last week wasn't great for the Canadian Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). Two of Canada's largest competitive carriers suffered outages - Iristel was victim of a DDoS attack that lasted over 24 hours, between November 15th
The Federal Court just killed Section 36 of the Telecom Act
Today the Federal Court of Appeal issued its ruling [https://thoughtfireconsultinginc-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/mgamble_egate_net1/EeFLgFRtXhBJomMZyjn6XVsBZ0ZnUco6ALjeIwlgQpmRBw?e=adIyVu] in the GoldTV case. For those not familiar with the GoldTV case, it was a federal court case
Canada's CRTC - Regulation at Sloth Speed
Almost one year ago today (357 days ago to be exact), Tim Denton [https://tmdenton.com/] and I participated in the CRTC review of mobile wireless services on behalf of the Internet Society, Canada Chapter [https://www.cpac.ca/en/
Certificates for me, but not for thee
Today the Internet Society, Canada Chapter intervened in a Part One application by Mitel Cloud Services Inc [https://services.crtc.gc.ca/pub/ListeInterventionList/Documents.aspx?ID=296917&en=2020-0895-3&dt=i&lang=e&S=O&
Hey CRTC - Don't issue a "Call for Comment" if we can't.
This week I did something I have never had to do before - I filed an intervention with the CRTC [https://services.crtc.gc.ca/pub/ListeInterventionList/Documents.aspx?ID=295886&en=2020-187&dt=i&lang=e&