CMST 1A03 Lecture 8: CMST 8
10 Mar 2017
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Cmst lecture 8: convergence, crtc, common-carriage rules (common & contract, net neutrality, canadian content, over-the-top / tv everywhere, mapl, copyright, canada music fund. Introduction: communications policy must adapt to changes in the mass communications sphere, convergence, the merging of technologies, media forms, and media industries. 8. 1 - how all these traditional companies are now converging ownership and media: as consumers we want more choice, only way to get more competition is by opening the field for american companies. Telecommunications: a billion industry with six subsectors: local wireline telephone service, long-distance wireline telephone service, internet services, data transmission, private line, and wireless services, this money stays in canada (profits remain in canada) If you open that, in what direction will that money go: telecommunications act (1993, governs telecommunications technology, infrastructure, and distribution networks in. Increasing demand for wireless service; need for more traffic space: telecommunications policy issues, key policy issues, market regulation, convergence, net neutrality, competition in wireless service provision.
