The Ontario Telephone Service Commission (OTSC) was a quasi-judicial
regulatory
Regulation is the management of complex systems according to a set of rules and trends. In systems theory, these types of rules exist in various fields of biology and society, but the term has slightly different meanings according to context. Fo ...
agency which regulated independent
telephone companies
A telephone company, also known as a telco, telephone service provider, or telecommunications operator, is a kind of communications service provider (CSP), more precisely a telecommunications service provider (TSP), that provides telecommunica ...
(that is, those other than Bell Canada) in
Ontario
Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central C ...
,
Canada
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. It reported to the provincial legislature through the minister of transportation and communications.
It served as the regulator for the independent companies until April 26, 1994, when a decision by the
Supreme Court of Canada in the case Téléphone Guevremont Inc. v. Quebec (Régie des télécommunications),
994
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Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
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1 S.C.R. 878
transferred Canada's provincially regulated telephone companies to federal jurisdiction, meaning that they would be regulated by the
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.
See also
*
List of telecommunications regulatory bodies
This article is a list of the legal regulatory bodies that govern telecommunications systems in different countries.
This list contains bodies ensuring effective regulatory role in a territory which is not necessarily a state, but is listed as "t ...
References
Grindlay, Thomas. ''A History of the Independent Telephone Industry in Ontario''. 1975.
Defunct Ontario government departments and agencies
Communications in Ontario
Communications authorities
Regulators of Canada
1994 disestablishments in Ontario