As few as 30 per cent of Canadian cellphone users could be accurately located when calling 911 under an improved system that will be launched next February, a report says.
Home telephone bills and services are being freed from federal control in more than 200 exchanges across much of Canada with the latest decisions from the federal telecommunications regulator.
A government ruling allows Canada's biggest phone companies to be freed from regulations in some markets, opening the door for more competition and lower home telephone bills.
The CRTC will make commercial radio stations air more Canadian jazz, blues and concert music, and double the amount it collects from stations to support home-grown talent.
Canada's telephone giants will continue to face pricing and competition controls on their burgeoning Internet voice services, the federal regulator said Friday.
In an ironic twist, a former Quebec shock jock-turned Independent MP, who has spent more than a decade battling with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, was named to the committee that oversees the body.
Controversial former Quebec City radio host Andre Arthur, the lone Independent MP heading to the House of Commons, says he has no problems working with any party.