On the surface, the report of the Telecom Policy Review panel looks for sweeping changes in the way telecom is regulated in Canada. Less price regulation, faster decision making, responsive to consumer complaints.
But the way it gets there is by adding some new Ottawa bureaus. Watch for new acronyms like the TCT (Telecom Competition Tribunal) and the TCA (Telecom Consumer Agency). Certain spectrum functions from Industry Canada are recommended to be shuffled across the river to the CRTC.
It isn’t clear to me that the functions proposed for these two new organizations could not be handled under the existing organizations.