9th Annual
TELECOMMUNICATIONS FORUM

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

8:15

Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00

Welcoming Remarks from Insight Information

9:05

Opening Remarks from the Chair

Vicky Eatrides
Deputy Commissioner of Competition
Competition Bureau

9:15

The State of the Wireless Industry – Innovations and Evolution 6 Billion
Users and Counting

Paul Cowling 
Senior Director, Regulatory Affairs
Shaw Communications

Jeff Leiper 
Chief Policy Advisor
Information and Communications Technology Council

Drew McReynolds 
Managing Director, Telecommunications and Media
RBC Capital Markets

• Results of the ICTC Canadian Consumer Technology Experience Survey, released November 2012
• How has the wireless market evolved over the last year?
• The effects of the rollout of LTE in Canada
• The impact of the upcoming spectrum auction on providers and users
• Devices, applications, services and technology
• Continued growth in wireless data
• WiFi's role in meeting demand for wireless broadband
• Predictions for 2013 – staying in the game

10:15

Networking Coffee Break

10:30

The State of Competition in the Business Market

Teresa Griffin-Muir 
VP Regulatory Affairs
MTS Allstream

Corinne Pohlmann
VP National Affairs
Canadian Federation of Independent Business

• Implications of concentration
• The equation for network investment by competitors versus incumbents
• The state of wholesale access
• Impact on lagging Canadian productivity and prospects for review
• Ethernet as emerging IP protocol

11:30

CRTC's Wireless Code of Conduct

John Lawford
Executive Director/General Counsel
Public Interest Advocacy Centre

Simon Lockie 
Chief Regulatory Officer
WIND Mobile

Craig McTaggart
Director, Broadband Policy
TELUS

Stephen Zolf 
Partner
Heenan Blaikie LLP

• Background to the proceeding: provincial consumer protection legislation to oversee the terms and conditions of wireless services; applications by consumer groups to the CRTC to prohibit certain wireless billing practices
• Response of the federal wireless carriers to provincial developments
• Will steps taken by the CRTC to "occupy the field" with a national code avoid a "patchwork quilt" of provincial structures?
• Impact of the CRTC's current stance to forbear from regulating wireless services: Is Commission intervention now warranted?
• Is Wireless Code of Conduct justified under the 2006 Federal Government Policy Direction?
• Process issues: is a public consultation with public and stakeholder input appropriate?
• Is there support for a national code among stakeholders and the public?

12:30

Networking Luncheon

Keynote Luncheon Address

The Honourable Geoff Regan, P.C., M.P.
Vice-Chair and Member of the
House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry,
Science and Technology, and Liberal Critic for Industry
and Consumer Affairs

1:45

Concentration, Regulation and Competition: The Role of Government

Konrad von Finckenstein 
Former Chairman
CRTC

Jacob Glick 
Senior Policy Counsel
Google Canada

Lawson A.W. Hunter, Q.C. 
Counsel, Stikeman Elliott LLP
Former Commissioner of Competition, Competition Bureau and
Former Assistant Deputy Minister, Industry Canada

Sheridan Scott 
Partner, Co-Head of Competition, Antitrust and Foreign Investment
Bennett Jones LLP
Former Commissioner of Competition, Competition Bureau

The Competition Bureau, the CRTC and Industry Canada all have a major impact on the structure of the telecom sector.

• Should the current roles and responsibilities be changed?
• Should competition in dynamic industries such as telecommunications be reviewed under the Competition Act in the same manner as moremature sectors of the economy?
• Should the CRTC have jurisdiction to review mergers in the telecom sector, as it does in the
  broadcast sector?
• Should spectrum licences be granted by the CRTC rather than the Minister of Industry
• Should the lines of jurisdiction between the CRTC and Competition Bureau be clarified?
• Does the CRTC have sufficient expertise to assess competitive impacts?
• Should the CRTC's broader "public interest" mandate trump the Bureau's narrower "effect of competition" mandate?
• Should spectrum be transferred from Industry Canada to the CRTC?
• Does the increasing vertical integration in broadcasting make the CRTC more relevant than the Competition Bureau?

2:45

Networking Luncheon

3:00

Updates on Bill C-11 – Copyright, Internet and Mobile Content

Gilles M. Daigle 
Partner
Gowlings LLP

Michael Koch 
Partner
Goodmans LLP

Aidan O'Neill 
Partner
Fasken Martineau Dumoulin LLP

• Supreme Court of Canada decisions concerning copyright and the Internet
• Update on Bill C-11 (Copyright Modernization Act)
• Update on Copyright Board of Canada matters
• Mobile content
• Fee for carriage

4:00

Mobile Retailers – Shopping and Making Payments Through Your Phone

Lisa Campbell
Deputy Commissioner, Fair Business Practices Branch
Competition Bureau

Dan Kelly 
President and CEO
Canadian Federation of Independent Business

• Opportunities and risks for merchants
• Will this be a "fee-palooza" for banks, card brands, telcos?
• Who is the real customer for payments companies?
• How to get trust back in the payments business
• Security concerns and strategies
• Opportunities and challenges in the mobile environment
• Ensuring general impressions created by representations are not misleading
• Ensuring key information is available to consumers

5:00

Conference Adjourns for the Day

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

8:30

Continental Breakfast

9:00

Opening Remarks from the Chair

Vicky Eatrides 
Deputy Commissioner of Competition
Competition Bureau

9:15

The 2013 Spectrum Auction – Ensuring Fairness for Equal Advantage

Dennis Beland 
Senior Director, Regulatory Affairs
Quebecor

Gary Wong
Director, Legal Affairs
Mobilicity

• Understanding the new combinatorial clock auction model
• Impact on the bidders – incumbents, new entrants, regional carriers
• Avoiding biases and unfairness
• How will the spectrum caps work?
• Implications of the foreign ownership rule change
• What telecom companies must be aware of prior to the auction

10:15

Networking Coffee Break

10:30

Changes to Foreign Ownership Regulations and Impact on Competition and Consumers

Grant Buchanan 
Partner
McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Dvai Ghose 
Managing Director
Head of Research
Canaccord Genuity

Andrea Wood
Chief Legal Officer
WIND Mobile

Ted Woodhead 
Vice-President Telecom Policy and Regulatory
TELUS

• What the change will mean for telecom carriers and those holding a broadcasting license
• How will this impact foreign investment in Canada
• The influence on voting shares
• "Control in fact" test
• What happens if a telecom company is also a broadcaster?

11:30

Consolidations, Mergers and Acquisitions in Telecom and Broadcasting

Paul Collins 
Partner and Chair of Competition Law Group
Stikeman Elliott LLP

Anthony Durocher 
Assistant Deputy Commissioner, Mergers Branch
Competition Bureau

• Speculation as to upcoming M&A activity – incumbent and new entrant? New entrant and old new entrant? Is it inevitable?
• Is telecom more concentrated in Canada than abroad?
• Getting the merger through the competition authority, and lessons learned from previous telecom reviews in Canada and the U.S.
• Impact of broadcasting mergers on competition in the telecom/wireless industry

12:30

Networking Luncheon

1:45

Misleading Advertising in Telecom – What to Avoid?

Adam Fanaki 
Partner
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP

Brendan Ross 
Major Case Director and Strategic Policy Advisor
Fair Business Practices Branch
Competition Bureau

• What constitutes false or misleading advertising?
• Truth-in-advertising law versus freedom of expression – are they mutually exclusive?
• The testing rule – how much do you have to do to validate your claim?
• Rogers/Chatr and Bell Cases – lessons learned
• Telecom advertising in Canada: The Competition Bureau's views on practices to avoid

2:45

Networking Refreshment Break

3:00

Building Next Generation Networks in a Competitive Environment –
Challenges and Solutions

Philippe Gauvin 
Counsel, Regulatory Law and Policy
Bell Canada

Carriers face a number of hurdles when attempting to access public rights of way for the deployment of fibre and new wireless technologies. Hear lessons learned from Bell Canada on overcoming challenges, developing effective strategies and building next generation networks in today's competitive and economic climate.

4:00

Lawful Access to ISP Data – What the New Legislation Will Mean for You?

Stephen Zolf 
Partner
Heenan Blaikie LLP

• Content in Bill C-30 relating to ISPs and telecom companies
• Circumstances of mandatory disclosures to law enforcement
• Will new regulatory frameworks for internet need to be created?
• Who will be covering the cost of the new infrastructure that will be needed?
• What are the police powers over ISPs and telecom companies?
• Managing privacy with lawful access

5:00

Conference Adjourns for the Day

CLE Accreditation

Law Society of Upper Canada CPD: This program qualifies for 7 substantive hours.

From wireless, wireline, satellite and cable telecommunications and broadcasting companies, including internet service providers and industry associations:

• CEOs, CFOs, Presidents
• Vice Presidents, Directors and Managers:
  • Government and Regulatory Affairs
  • Business and Legal Affairs
  • Operations
  • Marketing
  • Consumer / Business Solutions
  • Technology

• From legal and consulting firms, government organizations including the CRTC, Department of Industry and the Competition Bureau:
• Commissioners
• Partners and Legal Counsels
• Spectrum Managers
• Policy Advisors
• Analysts in Telecommunications
• Finance and Regulatory Affairs Executives

The Canadian telecommunications industry continues to face rapid changes as a result of recent government and private sector actions.

The lifting of foreign ownership restrictions, the upcoming spectrum auctions, and the increase in telecommunication and broadcasting consolidation are changing the competitive landscape. At the same time, we are witnessing important legal challenges and changes to our statutory framework; with amendments to our privacy laws, copyright reform and anti-spam legislation. Taken together, these actions are transforming the industry.

The Annual Telecommunications Forum, organized by Insight Information, offers an opportunity for discussions and debates of current issues with industry leaders, private sector lawyers and government representatives. We will look back as we discuss the evolution of the wireless market, and will look forward as we predict upcoming M&A activity. We will hear from telecommunications, broadcasting and competition law experts, including former Commissioners of Competition and a former Chair of the CRTC. This is a forum you won't want to miss.

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Please note: Full payment is required in advance of conference dates. Please make all cheques payable to Insight Information.