Volume: 17 Issue: 1
(February 2017)

Keywords:
canadian regulator declares broadband internet basic telecommunications servicebroadband internet held basic telecommunications service canadas national regulator canadian radio-television telecommunications

Jurisdictions:
Canada

BROADBAND: Canadian regulator declares broadband internet a basic telecommunications service

‘Modern telecommunications services - The path forward for Canada’s digital economy,’ Telecom Regulatory Policy CRTC 2016-496, 21 December 2016

Broadband internet has been held to be a basic telecommunications service by Canada’s national regulator, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (‘CRTC’) in a decision that sets out the actions being taken to help Canadians participate in the digital economy and society.