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LEAPING FORWARD – WIRELESSBROADBAND AND A NATIONAL DIGITALSTRATEGY
November 30, 2009
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The Authors
The Authors are Michael Hennessy Senior Vice-President, Regulatory and Government Affairs and TedWoodhead Vice-President, Telecom Policy and Regulatory Affairs, TELUS Communications Company.They have prepared LEAPING FORWARD – WIRELESS BROADBAND AND A NATIONAL DIGITALSTRATEGY for discussion around Canada’s digital future at nextMEDIA Toronto, November 30 .December 1, 2009 at The Design Exchange, Toronto.Michael Hennessy has been involved in the communications industry in Canada for 25 years, originallywith the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, then Bell Mobility and prior to joining TELUS as President of Canadian Cable Television Association. He has also been a member of the Board of the Canadian Television Fund and is currently Chair of the Banff World Television Festival.Ted Woodhead has been involved in the communications industry in Canada for 17 years. Prior to joining TELUS in 2004, he was Director of Regulatory Affairs with Rogers Wireless and prior to that wasDirector of Convergence Policy and Infrastructure Access with the Canadian Radio-television andTelecommunications Commission. He is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and was calledto the Bar in 1989.
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Table of contents
1. Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 4
2. The leap forward we took and how we are doing our part in advocating for a national digitalstrategy ......................................................................................................................................................... 4 3. Networks enhance social, cultural and economic welfare .................................................................. 5
4. Mobile wireless broadband can help drive this future! ....................................................................... 7
5. Canada needs a national digital strategy ............................................................................................. 9
6. Principles for a national digital strategy .............................................................................................. 9
7. Broadband investment never stops ................................................................................................... 12
8. Spectrum capacity will be the next big barrier to growth ................................................................. 13
9. Coda ................................................................................................................................................... 16
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