CRTC hearings
on High Cost Service Areas
CRTC
hearings on High Cost Service Areas K-Net Services staff in partnership
with the Nishnawbe-Aski Telecommunications Working Group is coordinating
participatioin in and monitoring of the CRTC proceedings studying telecommunication
services to “High Cost Serving Areas (HCSA). Begun in May, 1998 by Wawatay
Native Communications Society, this process involved several presentations,
asking and responding to questions from the other groups in the hearings.
The final presentation was made in January, 1999 with Final Arguments
being filed with the CRTC in February, 1999.
This project is
funded by Industry Canada's FedNor program.
All the presentations
made on behalf of the group include: