Let the Market Decide: The Case Against Mandatory Pick-and-Pay

Lawson Hunter, Edward Iacobucci and Michael Trebilcock
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Lawson Hunter: Stikeman Elliott LLP
Edward Iacobucci: University of Toronto
Michael Trebilcock: University of Toronto

No 184, e-briefs from C.D. Howe Institute

Abstract: A proposal by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to mandate “pick-and-pay” television offerings for Canadians is deeply misguided, according to a report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Let the Market Decide: The Case Against Mandatory Pick-and-Pay,” authors Lawson Hunter, Edward Iacobucci and Michael Trebilcock find that mandating consumers to be able to subscribe to pay and specialty services on a service-by-service basis would be a slippery slope to still more regulation, and would become irrelevant at best in the ongoing telecom revolution.

Keywords: Governance and Public INstitutions; Telecommunications; broadcasting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L82 L96 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-09
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Published on the C.D. Howe Institute website, September 2014

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