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[–] i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Beware of those trying to use these arguments to allow multi-national corporations to invade the spectrum.

The CRTC currently act as a band-pass filter on the size of corporations trying to use the airwaves.

We regularly see larger corps asking for exemptions to be even more monopolistic... For example, there is a limit of 2 radio station that a same company can own. Without this, we wouldn't have many small/medium businesses owning radios.

On the "big" side, I think they're doing ok (regarding radio + TV, internet is another thing altogether).

On the "small" side, I don't have much direct experience but it seems things could be made less restricted. For example, requiring a ham radio licence should be enough to begin with!