Ramblings of a Canadian Telecom Nerd
On Thursday of this week I was returning from the Risk and Assurance Group conference in New Orleans [https://riskandassurancegroup.org/new-orleans-conference-5-6-apr-2022/]. Because there were no direct flights to Buffalo (or Toronto), from NOLA, my return trip had me going
Earlier today I had the honour of presenting a talk at Risk and Assurance Group (RAG) conference [https://riskandassurancegroup.org/new-orleans-conference-5-6-apr-2022/] in New Orleans on the history of STIR/SHAKEN in Canada from the perspective of smaller providers. RAG doesn&
Today at day four of the SIPNOC 2022 conference, Jacques Sarrazin, President & CEO of the Canadian Secure Token Governance Authority (CST-GA [https://cstga.ca]) gave an update on the state of SHAKEN/STIR in Canada and the state isn&
Rube Goldberg MachineFaithful readers of my blog will know that normally my posts are about regulatory issues, but I thought it would be fun to take a break from the usual depressing posts about the state of telecom competition in
CRTC Chairman Ian ScottTwo weeks ago the Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) filed a Part One application with the CRTC asking for Ian Scott to "recuse himself, or be recused, from deciding all matters affecting service-based competition"
If you've been following by blog, you'll know that equal access for all telecommunications providers to participate in the SHAKEN/STIR call authentication framework has been one of the causes I have been most passionate about.
Last week wasn't great for the Canadian Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). Two of Canada's largest competitive carriers suffered outages - Iristel was victim of a DDoS attack that lasted over 24 hours, between November 15th
Today the Federal Court of Appeal issued its ruling [https://thoughtfireconsultinginc-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/mgamble_egate_net1/EeFLgFRtXhBJomMZyjn6XVsBZ0ZnUco6ALjeIwlgQpmRBw?e=adIyVu] in the GoldTV case. For those not familiar with the GoldTV case, it was a federal court case