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How can the CRTC regulate landlords, who aren’t carriers?<\/p>\n

The issue has come up in the past when dealing with access agreements for wireline telecommunications services and broadcast television distribution. In 1999, the CRTC decided on a clear demarcation point for inside wiring so that tenants could subscribe to competitive telecom services [Decision 99-10<\/a>]. Decision 2003-45<\/a> provided additional guidelines for negotiation of building access agreements.<\/p>\n

But the CRTC has limited powers in regulating building owners or property managers. Instead, it uses indirect regulation – such as finding that an agreement between a regulated carrier and the unregulated party (such as a landlord) contravenes the Telecom Act or Broadcast Act – as it did in 2007<\/a> with the dispute over access by Shaw to buildings developed by Concord Pacific.<\/p>\n

So this brings us to the case of San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (the BART). Of course, the CRTC doesn’t regulate San Francisco, but it would be helpful to discuss whether such a case would contravene Canadian telecom regulations. Here is some background. it is increasingly common for landlords to install a distributed antenna system (DAS) for improving wireless connectivity inside highrise buildings or shopping centres or subway systems, for cellular, WiFi, internal mobile radio and first responders.\u00a0Some DAS (such as Optiway<\/a>) are multi-frequency and have sophisticated management capabilities. It is not uncommon for the DAS to be carrier independent and be owned by the landlord or managed on the landlord’s behalf.<\/p>\n

On July 11, (as explained here by BART<\/a>) the San Francisco subway system disrupted cellular access inside their subway tunnels because it believed that mobile services within their system would otherwise be used to incite illegal activity. For various viewpoints on the legality or correctness of this, see Public Knowledge<\/a> and Public CEO<\/a>\u00a0(Public CEO asks the question of whether access to cellular service is an absolute right).<\/p>\n

So, to return to the Canadian context, would Toronto Transit violate any laws if it did the same thing in the same circumstances? Or what about a major shopping centre? Or an office building temporarily cutting its distributed antennae in the food court?<\/p>\n

To add some colour to the discussion, what if the landlord got into a dispute with just one carrier and disconnected their access to the interconnection point? Or refused to interconnect with other carriers?<\/p>\n

Are Distributed Antenna Systems a form of “telecommunications facility” and are there conditions under which a building owner would become a telecommunications common carrier<\/a> under the Telecom Act?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How can the CRTC regulate landlords, who aren’t carriers? The issue has come up in the past when dealing with access agreements for wireline telecommunications services and broadcast television distribution. In 1999, the CRTC decided on a clear demarcation point for inside wiring so that tenants could subscribe to competitive telecom services [Decision 99-10]. Decision …<\/p>\n

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