04 February, 2012 Last updated 18 hours 27 minutes ago

Pelmorex calls for industry-wide regulations on market power of integrated companies

The Weather Network owner Pelmorex Communications Inc. is calling on the CRTC to implement a series of new industry-wide policies to “safeguard” against excessive market power from vertically integrated communications companies that have more than a 25 per cent audience share.

“Concentration in the industry, and in particular vertical integration, is going to continue, frankly,” Paul Temple, senior vice-president of regulatory and strategic affairs at Pelmorex, said in an interview.

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