Thursday, April 09, 2009

 

Lightening the regulatory burden

CRTCThe CRTC announced yesterday that it is lightening some of the reporting burden from the telecom industry, responding to changes in the industry and the marketplace.

Regulatory Policy 2009-183 gets rid of or modifies 8 out of the 9 regulatory measures that were under review regarding monitoring and reporting requirements.

Telecom Vice-chair Len Katz said:
As part of our ongoing efforts to reduce the regulatory burden on the industry, we reviewed the value of the reports that are submitted to us. Today’s announcement is an example of how we continue to seek more efficient and proportionate ways of regulating the Canadian telecommunications industry.
The reports under review consisted of:
  1. Affordability: Reporting eliminated
  2. Local pay telephone competition: Reporting eliminated
  3. Modem hijacking: Reporting eliminated
  4. Manual access to 9-1-1 ALI database: Reporting eliminated
  5. Competitor service interruption: Reporting eliminated
  6. 4-1-1 directory assistance call volume: Reporting eliminated
  7. Competitive IXPL routes: Reporting retained
  8. Telemarketing complaints: Reporting eliminated
  9. Affidavits for CDN services: Reporting modified
Before you flip out over the elimination of reporting requirements of telemarketing complaints, first consider that complaints are now filed with the National DNCL operator and forwarded to the Commission for investigation.

The 2009 Canadian Telecom Summit includes an address from the CRTC chair and our regulatory blockbuster. Have you registered yet?

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Posted by Mark Goldberg @ 4/09/2009 06:03:00 AM
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