{"id":38,"date":"2009-12-14T06:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T06:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2009-12-14T06:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T06:11:00","slug":"a-common-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"A common thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was considerable press and editorial coverage of Industry Minister Clement&#8217;s decision to intervene in the Globalive ownership issue. No need to rehash that ground here. I spoke to a couple reporters from Canadian Press talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/s\/capress\/091211\/national\/clement_globalive\">consumer<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.news.finance.yahoo.com\/s\/11122009\/2\/biz-finance-globalive-decision-latest-blow-crtc-authority.html\">policy<\/a> issues.<\/p>\n<p>There was a common thread in the decisions; the government continues to support a model of facilities-based service providers being the means to deliver sustainable competition in world of converged communications.<\/p>\n<p>The three decisions from Friday support a theme of fostering an environment favouring private sector investment in advanced telecommunications infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>In its decision to send speed-matching back to the CRTC, the Government said that it wants the Commission to consider the impact of its Decision on incentives for investment.<\/p>\n<p>Will Industry Canada keep this in mind when it is developing its auction policy for the next major swath of mobile wireless bandwidth?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View IC Schedule - Globalive\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/23985717\/IC-Schedule-Globalive\" style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;\">IC Schedule &#8211; Globalive<\/a> http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=23985717&#038;access_key=key-11xt7pmkzsdnfisrdx5g&#038;page=1&#038;version=1&#038;viewMode=list<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View Allstream Order in Council pc2009-2006\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/24015524\/crtc-2008-117-pc2009-2006\" style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;\">MTS Allstream Order in Council<\/a><br \/>http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=24015524&#038;access_key=key-1tmo7fmofjsb2dddk1fq&#038;page=1&#038;version=1&#038;viewMode=list<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View Bell \/ TELUS Order in Council\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/24015688\/crtc-2008-117-pc2009-2007\" style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;\">Bell \/ TELUS Order in Council<\/a> http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=24015688&#038;access_key=key-bbo0ezlgp1h11zd8gap&#038;page=1&#038;version=1&#038;viewMode=list<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was considerable press and editorial coverage of Industry Minister Clement&#8217;s decision to intervene in the Globalive ownership issue. No need to rehash that ground here. I spoke to a couple reporters from Canadian Press talking about consumer and policy issues. There was a common thread in the decisions; the government continues to support a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=38\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A common thread<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A common thread &#8226; Telecom Trends<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There was considerable press and editorial coverage of Industry Minister Clement&#039;s decision to intervene in the Globalive ownership issue. 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