I would also like to receive comments from your Committee on comprehensive telecommunications reform, in order to give careful consideration to your feedback and propose amendments to the Telecommunications Act when we are ready.

EGNOS is the first phase, GNSS 1, of the European Union's policy on a global navigation satellite system or GNSS; the second phase, GNSS 2, is the Galileo programme and the actual launch of a new constellation of radio navigation satellites.

"Universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS)" means a third-generation mobile and wireless communications system capable of supporting in particular innovative multimedia services, beyond the capability of second generation systems such as GSM, and capable of combining the use of terrestrial and satellite components (Article 2).

"Universal mobile telecommunications system" means a third generation mobile and wireless communication system capable of supporting in particular innovative multimedia services, beyond the capability of second generation systems such as GSM, and capable of combining the use of terrestrial and satellite components.

In section 7 of that bill, Parliament put in a telecom policy for Canada, and we have picked out just a few of the key policy objectives relevant to this discussion: To facilitate the orderly development of the Canadian telecommunications system; to render reliable, affordable service to all Canadians; to promote the use of Canadian transmission facilities; to maintain Canadian ownership of facilities-based carriers; to foster increased reliance on market forces for the provision of telecom services; and to ensure that regulation, where required, is efficient and effective.

In 1987, European telecommunications administrations signed a memorandum of understanding in the context of the CEPT (Conférence européenne des administrations des postes et des télécommunications) to introduce a pan- European public digital cellular telecommunications system in their respective countries by 1991.