CMN 1160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Universal Service, Canadian Content, Natural Monopoly

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 1160
• Professor: Daniel Pare

Document Summary

Week 10a: communications policy sector by sector. Communication companies that began as broadcasters, publishers or cable or telephone companies have become multi-platform media conglomerates, creating a much more complicated and concentrated picture of media ownership in canada today. Policies developed by: industry canada telecommunications policy & international submarine cable licensing, spectrum policy and management, canadian heritage. Independent regulatory body: industry canada - spectrum, broadcasting. Authority comes from the telecommunications act and the broadcasting act: crtc telecoms & broadcasting. Quasi-judicial status full range of regulatory powers: ensure that rates are just and reasonable one of the key things that both broadcasters companies. Defining future extremely expensive to develop across the country (landlines, proper wire in the country) Telecommunications prone to market failure too costly to set up. Better to have one large company to regulate as public utility. Wire- or radio-based communication networks that carry information from one point to another without.