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Backgrounder: Canada’s telecom ownership laws

By: Howard Solomon On: 04 Mar 2010 For: Network World Canada Creator

In the past seven years there have been three reports urging the government to encourage foreign investment in telecom carriers by removing investment restrictions. A look at what those reports said may suggest where the Conservative government will go with its new telecom policy

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The Harper government is keeping the lid on details its new planned strategy for loosening the rules covering foreign ownership and control of the telecom and satellite industry.

According to newspaper reports, Industry Minister Tony Clement told Ottawa reporters Wednesday that one step will be amending the Investment Canada Act, which allows the government to review foreign takeovers over a certain value, to include the telecommunications and satellite sectors.

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Tags: CRTC, Foreign ownership, Industry Canada, telecommunications

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Howard Solomon Howard Solomon is assistant editor of Network World Canada covering network infrastructure and communications issues. An IT journalist since 1997, he has written for several of IT... more

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John

by 3/5/2010 9:57:25 PM

Goodbye Bell. Hello Verizon.

Goodbye, Rogers. Welcome back, AT&T

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