July 15th, 2010WirelessNorth.ca on Canada’s Digital Economy
Back in June Industry Canada sent our fine blog an invite to participate in the consultation for Canada’s digital strategy. Being the opinionated sots sorts that we are, were (http://de-en.gc.ca/submissions/“>amongst many others) were happy to help out. A few of our ideas:
- Addressing some remaining sore points in Canada’s mobile services: international roaming and Canada’s world-leading contract lengths.
- Do not let future spectrum auctions act as a deadweight tax on connectivity: Reinvest all spectrum proceeds back into Canada’s digital economy
- On not feeding the dinosaurs: be wary of legacy business models and interests capturing the digital agenda, actively invest in new models and in disruption
- Invest in policy that enables any/all Canadians to be creators and innovators
- Waive tax on the pipes: Exempt wired and wireless data service from GST/HST
- Establishing better metrics and targets to measure Canada’s digital competitiveness
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