Telecommunications
Balancing FRAND Commitments and Corporate Interests: Innovative SMEs Square Up Against Industry-leading Standard Essential Patent (SEP) Portfolios
This past summer, several of our members had the opportunity to attend the Canadian Telecom Summit hosted in Toronto featuring a wide-range of discussions ranging from expansions in telecommunication protocols to the implications of privacy and data security in the technology sphere. Among other topics was the discussion surrounding the emergence of Internet of Things […]
Telecom Network Innovation: XaaS and New Business Models in the 5G Era
The 17th Annual Canadian Telecom Summit (CTS2018) must have set the “innovation skeptic’s” expectations high by centering on the fifth-generation (5G) network theme and related developments. For example, the “Network Innovation: Transforming networks & applications for nexgen services” panel’s discussion touched on automation, network virtualization, data monetization, and Internet of Things (IoT) commercialization. However, despite the […]
5G Networks Promise More Innovation and Disruption — But They Promise More Regulatory Discussions, Too
On June 4 to 6, 2018, the 2018 Canadian Telecom Summit (“CTS 2018”) featured discussions on the rise of a new protagonist in the information domain — 5G wireless networks. The event provided scope for continuing the conversation on how to support 5G deployment and what the new technology will mean to entrepreneurs, innovators, the […]
Canada’s Progress with Making Innovative Technology Accessible & Affordable
For the third year in a row, Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, was a keynote speaker at the Canadian Telecom Summit (“CTS”). In his closing keynote for CTS 2018, he reiterated the importance of increasing the quality and coverage of innovative technologies at affordable prices for Canadians. He then updated the […]
Highlights from Canadian Telecom Summit 2018
The Canadian Telecom Summit has been one of the largest annual meetings of telecom professionals in Canada for nearly twenty years. This year’s summit, from June 4 – 6 in Toronto, featured wide-ranging discussions including leading telecom executives from Canada, the U.S. and Europe and government officials on the major issues and goals facing the […]
Spotlight on Prof. Daithí Mac Síthigh’s New Book “Medium Law”
According to Daithí Mac Síthigh, Professor of Law and Innovation at Queen’s University Belfast, making distinctions between media technologies matters a lot for regulation and law. During a talk at Osgoode Hall Law School on November 6, Prof. Mac Síthigh elaborated on this idea, arguing for the importance of medium-specific approaches to media law and […]
Connecting Canadians, Empowering Inclusive Innovation
Innovation is, once again, a topic of great concern for Canadian policy makers and the commentariat. And for good reason. Yet, at a time when (mainly foreign) companies – notably Alphabet (Google), Apple, Tesla, Amazon, and Facebook – are lauded as being the ‘world’s most innovative’ (for example, see FastCompany and the Boston Consulting Group) […]
Money Talk(s) and Competition Conflict: The CTS17 Regulatory Blockbuster
Earlier this month, I attended the 2017 Canadian Telecom Summit and covered the Regulatory Blockbuster panel. The Regulatory Blockbuster is an annual event where regulatory representatives from telecom companies (this year, TELUS, Rogers, Bell, and TekSavvy) and other representative stakeholders (this year featured the Public Interest Advocacy Centre) debate regulation, pricing, and future challenges to […]