Comments on: Bell and Telus stall Globalive with CRTC foreign-ownership hearing hijinks

By: Foreign Ownership Rules to Change? « Thoughts on things

Foreign Ownership Rules to Change? « Thoughts on things — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:41:29 +0000

[...] (a majority of its capital was to come from an Egyptian based company called Orsacom) was being questioned prior to launch. It comes as no surprise that Bell and Telus were responsible for most of the noise. The company [...]

By: bsharwood

bsharwood — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:34:02 +0000

Seems like Rogers entered the fray today with a protest against the ownership structure. But as I wrote a couple weeks ago here, (http://think-forward.ca/2009/09/the-canwestglob...) the CRTC has now backed itself into a corner.
But then again, the CRTC might not hold itself to legal principles like precedent.

By: The Canwest/Globalive Ownership Dilemma | Think Forward

The Canwest/Globalive Ownership Dilemma | Think Forward — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:36:56 +0000

[...] the bidding is complete and the specifics on Globalive’s ownership structure is still not clear, the other carriers are calling foul. Building a large Canadian wireless carrier is not cheap. None of the major Canadian investors [...]

By: caddman

caddman — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:14:41 +0000

The reason why Rogers isn't protesting like Telus & Bell is that Globalive will NOT be initally operating on their own wireless network but will be roaming on the Rogers wireless network until such time that Globalive is able to get their own network on the air. Needless to say this will provide a great income stream to Rogers that neither Bell or Telus can tap into, regardless of whether they're switching to HSPA or not because the new Bell/Telus networks won't be mature enough to provide reliable roaming to any new provider in Canada, or even to any international provider who's customers visit Canada.

By: jaretmanuel

jaretmanuel — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:53:41 +0000

I couldn't agree more and I commented on it as my first post. This is the first time I read Ken Campbell's comment in the post article so thank you for that. Canada is good at being innovation killers and it is movements like the people in Startup North that I aspire to be a part of. Startup North people/contributors get it, they are the new breed, and they are hungry to bring innovative change to the masses. Globalive should start a movement in itself and leverage this ridiculous protest to the max and get a healthy protest going on their wireless soapbox site.

By: Serge

Serge — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:09:18 +0000

The key bits: “In a pair of decisions announced earlier this week, the CRTC decided for the first time in its history to hold a multi-party public hearing on whether a telecom carrier is complying with the Canadian ownership and control rules. It announced that it would subject Globalive Wireless to the first such public review…. Led by TELUS, the incumbents asked the CRTC to hold a ‘multi-party’ public hearing process to review the legitimacy of new cellular entrants under section 16 of the Telecommunications Act. On Monday, the CRTC granted them their wish. After having spent several months holding public consultations on the issue of whether there ought to be a public review of Globalive’s ownership structure, the CRTC announced that going forward – but with retroactive application to the new entrants – it would use a “framework” based on the complexity of the applicable ownership structure to determine the level of public scrutiny to bring to the ownership review. First up, Globalive Wireless.”