Actually, it's the other way around....the content regulator (CRTC) has permitted it, but emission of the actual signal still requires Industry Canada (or whatever they're called now) approval. That is really a formality or "due process" situation though.
I'm really not sure what the status of DAB is now. The industry promotional group was disbanded and a shadow of it was incorporated into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, but there hasn't be a single word released from them since. I never purchased a DAB radio, but last I heard, there were still some signals on-air, but others that had been broadcasting that signal had stopped.
One thing's certain...with HD Radio approved, DAB is as good as gone. On 4-Jan-07, at 3:57 PM, John Willkie wrote:
Overstated. It’s not an okay, it’s the regulator of RF permitting it, with the regulator of content needing to agree before it’s okay.Whatever happened to Eureka-147 services? John Willkie