{"id":9690,"date":"2016-10-06T09:36:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T13:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=9690"},"modified":"2016-10-06T16:09:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T20:09:05","slug":"competition-investment-and-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=9690","title":{"rendered":"Competition, investment and innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>We have already started work on The 2017 Canadian Telecom Summit<\/a>, taking place next year from June 5-7 in Toronto. Our theme for 2017 will be: “Competition, Investment and Innovation: Driving Canada’s Digital Future<\/em><\/strong>” and we will also be recognizing 25 years of communications competition in Canada.<\/p>\n

A colleague suggested that it might be interesting to highlight ways that innovations originating in the communications sector have made a positive impact on our daily lives. So I have been going through various archives to research some of the inventions that have come out of the labs of service providers and suppliers. Starting November 1, my Twitter feed will highlight one each day leading up to the conference, with a #CTS17 hashtag. <\/p>\n

I will also collect them in Storify<\/a>. As I was pulling together some of the innovations, I noticed that there were major anniversaries or milestones in the past few weeks, such as last week’s 60th anniversary of the first trans-Atlantic call over the TAT-1 submarine cable:<\/p>\n

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60 years ago today, 1st phone call on a trans-Atlantic cable took place: Canada's Minister of Transport Marler, AT&T Chair, UK Postmaster<\/p>\n

— Mark Goldberg (@Mark_Goldberg) September 25, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n