Klass, Winseck, Nanni
There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch: Historical and international perspectives on why common carriage should be a cornerstone of communications policy in the Internet age Submitted before the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission Telecom Notice of Consultation CRTC 2016-192, Examination of differential pricing practices related to Internet data plans ! Prepared by Benjamin Klass, Dwayne Winseck, Ph.D., Marc Nanni and Fenwick McKelvey, Ph.D. June 2016 Mr Klass is a Ph.D. student at the School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University. Dwayne is a Professor at the same school and the Director of the Canadian Media Concentration Research Project (the CMCR Project). Marc Nanni has a degree in chemistry, and has worked in the pharmaceutical and telecommunications fields and wrote the wire and cable side quality manuals used by Motorola and in various wireline, fibre and cable industries. Fenwick McKelvey is an assistant professor in information and communication technology policy at the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University. The CMCR Project is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and has the mission of developing a comprehensive, systematic and long-term analysis of the telecom, internet and media industries in Canada, and to contribute to public policy debates on such issues. The preparation of this report has been done as an independent research exercise with no other funding than that just declared and with the sole aim of contributing to the CRTC’s Proceeding on Differential Pricing -- Telecom Notice of Consultation CRTC 2016-192, as amended by TNC CRTC 2016-192-1.
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