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Who Owns the Telecom-Media-Internet in Canada, 1984-2010?
This post has been sitting in the wings for a while waiting for me to finish the mad scramble that is the beginning of the school term and to catch my breath after a whirlwind tour to New Zealand. Yes,...
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Tales from New Zealand — the Ultrafast Broadband Internet: Digital Public...
Last month I visited Auckland, New Zealand to give a talk at the The Future with High Speed Broadband Conference organized by the Competition Commission (full paper here). The aim was to assess the...
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Weak Links and Wikileaks: How Control of Critical Internet Resources and...
I’ve written several times on Wikileaks over the past year-and-half. In this piece I draw together and update my thoughts on Wikileaks in light of recent developments, with a focus on how concentration...
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The Significant Impact of the Bell Astral Deal on Media & Internet...
Today was a good day. An unbelievably frantic one, but a good day nonetheless. I’ve been pouring blood, sweat and tears into a submission to the CRTC’s hearings on Bell’s bid to buy Astral Media to be...
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CRTC Kills Bell Astral Deal: What Happened and Why?
On Thursday this week, the CRTC killed the Bell Astral deal (news release, full decision). The decision was entirely unexpected by anyone, including me, although all along I have argued that Bell’s bid...
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Media and Internet Concentration in Canada, 1984 – 2011
As my last post explained, the media economy in Canada has grown immensely and become far more complex in the past twenty-five years with the rise of the Internet and digital media. In this post, I ask...
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Competition Bureau Blesses Bell – Shaw Take-Over of Astral Media
Bell Astral Round 2 officially got under way today with an announcement by the Competition Bureau that it will conditionally approve the deal. In the Competition Bureau’s words, ”Today’s agreement is...
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Growth and Concentration in the French-language Network Media Economy in...
Cross posted from the Canadian Media Concentration Research Project website. This post focuses on the development of and concentration trends in eight sectors of the network media economy in...
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