The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) (French: Opérateurs de Réseaux Concurrentiels Canadiens (ORCC)) is an organisation of over 30 independent Canadian telecommunications providers.12 It often lobbies to the CRTC and other regulatory bodies to represent the interest of its members in matter of high-speed Internet accessibility, VoIP industry regulations, anti-monopoly market competitiveness, and privacy of customer information.3456 CNOC's current president and chairman is Paul Andersen, also President of Egate Networks.78
Members
As of March 2022,9 companies which are active CNOC members are:
- ACN Canada
- B2B2C
- City-Wide Communications
- Coextro
- Distributel
- dotmobile
- Egate Networks
- Execulink Telecom
- Fidalia Networks
- InnSys
- ISP Canada
- Kingston Online Services
- LOGIX
- Netcrawler
- Odynet
- Oxio
- Packetworks
- Rally Internet
- Sentex Communications
- SkyChoice Communications
- Start.ca
- Storm Internet
- The Wire Inc.
- Transat Telecom
- VIF Internet
- VMedia
- VSOFT
References
References
- Surveillance law could close small ISPs: Lawyer, IT World Canada (November 16, 2011)
- Canadian Network Operators Consortium Inc, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
- Canada’s wireless operators hit back at CRTC access mandate, The Globe and Mail (May 15, 2018)
- CRTC rejects appeal by small Internet players over wireless access, The Globe and Mail (May 16, 2018)
- Telcos square off over traffic pumping after allegations of gaming the system, Financial Post (March 9, 2017)
- Canada’s ICT industry says no to more police powers to access subscriber data, IT World Canada (December 19, 2016)
- Pushing for competitive market, CRTC slashes wholesale fees charged by incumbent ISPs, The Globe and Mail (April 3, 2017)
- CNOC Elects New Leader of Board of Directors, Canadian Network Operators Consortium Inc. (Press Release dated Jun 19, 2018)
- "CNOC Members". CNOC-ORCC. Retrieved 21 January 2020.