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‘Very disappointing’: Independent ISPs say CRTC’s final wholesale access rates won’t help competition

| 04/24/2026 5:10 pm EDT

CRTC logo graphic The Wire Report

Independent ISPs say the CRTC’s decision on the final rates telcos must pay for access to wholesale high-speed internet services on each others’ networks will do nothing...

Canadian internet companies say their livelihood is dependent on changes to the Copyright Act — but Ottawa hasn’t taken action

| 03/26/2026 3:15 pm EDT

Pirate button on computer keyboard.

On its surface, the ISP Coalition is an unusual lobbying group. It is a team effort composed of telecom giants that are more comfortable as sparring partners — Rogers...

TekSavvy calls on CRTC in second Cogeco copper removal dispute

| 03/06/2026 5:30 am EST

Lead-lined copper wiring too small part of network to be concern, telecoms say

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is asking the CRTC to block Cogeco Inc. from ending...

Bell and Rogers fighting over TPIA disconnection charges

| 08/15/2025 5:03 pm EDT

Bell and Rogers fighting over TPIA disconnection charges

BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. are in a dispute over end-user...

Telecoms push back on CRTC’s proposed botnet blocking expansion

telecom | 08/15/2025 4:54 pm EDT

Telecoms push back on CRTC's proposed botnet blocking expansion

Major telecommunications companies across Canada voiced strong opposition to the CRTC’s proposal to expand its framework for limiting botnet traffic, arguing that overly...

Telecoms want federal cabinet to overturn CRTC decision on high-speed access

telecom | 06/20/2025 6:23 pm EDT

Federal and territorial governments invest in NWT fibre link

Most Canadian telecom players want the federal government to step in to...

Supreme Court dismisses TekSavvy’s wholesale rates appeal

telecom | 03/27/2025 5:22 pm EDT

Supreme Court dismisses TekSavvy’s wholesale rates appeal

The Supreme Court of Canada has rejected TekSavvy Solutions Inc.’s...

CRTC will not change temporary wholesale decision; final decision still on the table

Internet and Governance | 02/03/2025 6:53 pm EST

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

The CRTC has decided not to change its temporary decision on the wholesale...

Federal Court grants blocking order targeting pirate site copycats

Internet and Governance | 01/24/2025 5:42 pm EST

Federal Court grants blocking order targeting pirate site copycats

The reasons behind a Federal Court justice’s December decision to grant a...

TekSavvy wants to take fight over 2021 wholesale rate decision to Supreme Court

Internet and Governance | 10/10/2024 5:49 pm EDT

Supreme Court to hear Telus’ appeal of CRTC access to public infrastructure decision

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is looking to the Supreme Court of Canada for an...

Court rejects TekSavvy appeal of CRTC decision to revert wholesale rates

Internet and Governance | 07/24/2024 12:51 pm EDT

Rogers-Quebecor TPIA arrangements in Shaw merger violate Telecom Act: TekSavvy to CRTC

TekSavvy Solutions Inc.’s appeal of the CRTC’s reversal of a 2019...

TekSavvy and Rogers reach agreement in copper decommissioning dispute

telecom | 06/14/2024 4:20 pm EDT

Rogers-Quebecor TPIA arrangements in Shaw merger violate Telecom Act: TekSavvy to CRTC

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. have settled their dispute over the incumbent’s plans to upgrade its facilities in two Toronto buildings, a move that...

CRTC asks Rogers to maintain service for TekSavvy in decommissioning dispute

telecom | 06/03/2024 12:29 pm EDT

Price most critical factor when choosing telecom services: report

The CRTC has requested Rogers Communications Inc. maintain service for TekSavvy Solutions Inc. in two Toronto buildings until it can make a...

CRTC denies expedited decision on Big Three’s FTTP wholesale access

telecom | 05/06/2024 7:28 pm EDT

CRTC denies expedited decision on Big Three's FTTP wholesale access

Friday the CRTC denied an application by several stakeholders for an...

CRTC told not to grant FTTP access to big telecoms

telecom | 04/22/2024 6:25 pm EDT

Federal and territorial governments invest in NWT fibre link

A wealth of intervenors have told the CRTC that the large established telecoms should not be allowed to...

UPDATED: CRTC orders Cogeco to maintain TekSavvy’s access to facilities

telecom | 04/09/2024 1:15 pm EDT

Rogers-Quebecor TPIA arrangements in Shaw merger violate Telecom Act: TekSavvy to CRTC

The CRTC has ordered Cogeco Inc. to maintain TekSavvy Solutions Inc.’s...

Reseller market is healthy, incumbents tell CRTC internet hearing

telecom | 02/15/2024 1:39 pm EST

MVNO decision arrives at a ‘tipping point’: Bell CEO

Two large incumbent telecoms told the CRTC that broadband resellers are not in a threatened position. BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. appeared at the commission’s proceedings into...

Cogeco defends infrastructure upgrade amid TekSavvy dispute

telecom | 02/13/2024 4:58 pm EST

Rogers-Quebecor TPIA arrangements in Shaw merger violate Telecom Act: TekSavvy to CRTC

Cogeco Inc. is adamantly defending its right to upgrade infrastructure for...

Court denies stay in Bell vs CRTC case

telecom | 02/12/2024 4:40 pm EST

The front entrance of the Bell Canada building on Albert Street in Ottawa on Nov. 2, 2021 (photo by Andrew Meade)

The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed BCE Inc.’s motion for a stay against the CRTC’s decision to...

TekSavvy challenges Cogeco’s network changes 

telecom | 01/10/2024 4:57 pm EST

Rogers-Quebecor TPIA arrangements in Shaw merger violate Telecom Act: TekSavvy to CRTC

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. lodged a formal Part 1 complaint with the CRTC against Cogeco Inc., to address...

TekSavvy wants access to MDU building in Chatham-Kent

telecom | 09/21/2023 5:41 pm EDT

Rogers-Quebecor TPIA arrangements in Shaw merger violate Telecom Act: TekSavvy to CRTC

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC requesting that a real estate...

CRTC denies TekSavvy application alleging undue preference from Rogers-Quebecor OTAs

telecom | 09/15/2023 5:20 pm EDT

Rogers-Quebecor TPIA arrangements in Shaw merger violate Telecom Act: TekSavvy to CRTC

The CRTC denied an application brought forward by TekSavvy Solutions Inc....

TekSavvy resolves access problem in Chatham Ont.

telecom | 09/11/2023 3:26 pm EDT

Rogers-Quebecor TPIA arrangements in Shaw merger violate Telecom Act: TekSavvy to CRTC

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has settled a dispute over access to a building in Chatham Ont. The company filed...

TekSavvy files Part 1 application over property in Chatham Ont.

telecom | 08/11/2023 4:59 pm EDT

Rogers-Quebecor TPIA arrangements in Shaw merger violate Telecom Act: TekSavvy to CRTC

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has become the latest CLEC calling on the CRTC to...

Broadband interventions begin to flow into CRTC

Internet and Governance | 07/21/2023 3:48 pm EDT

Broadband interventions begin to flow into CRTC

The CRTC has published some of the interventions for its proceeding into the Broadband Fund. Most of the...

TekSavvy going up for sale “no surprise” as independent ISPs wrestle with wholesale model: CNOC

telecom | 06/23/2023 6:24 pm EDT

Rogers-Quebecor TPIA arrangements in Shaw merger violate Telecom Act: TekSavvy to CRTC

The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC)’s executive director said it is “no surprise” TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has gone up for sale. “As we have been...

Telecom sector seeing revenue increase: CRTC telecom report

telecom | 06/20/2023 5:24 pm EDT

A cell tower with a blue sky in the background.

The CRTC has issued its annual telecommunications survey for 2021. Coming out of the pandemic shutdown, the numbers are generally good. The sector experienced a 3.4 per cent jump in total revenues...

Incumbents oppose CRTC’s expedited review of FTTP access

telecom | 06/09/2023 9:55 am EDT

Incumbents oppose CRTC’s expedited review of FTTP access

Incumbent carriers are opposed to the expedited review of the CRTC’s...

Wholesale-based ISPs back Quebecor’s fibre complaint against Bell

Internet and Governance | 04/05/2023 3:48 pm EDT

Wholesale-based ISPs back Quebecor's fibre complaint against Bell

The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) and TekSavvy Solutions...

Shaw defends off-tariff agreements, Telus calls for review in TekSavvy complaint 

telecom | 02/23/2023 12:11 pm EST

Quebecor spectrum sale has 'broad implications': Barclays

Shaw Communications Inc. has argued that the type of off-tariff-agreement (OTA) that its hopeful future owner Rogers Communications Inc. has agreed to enter into with Quebecor...

On Rogers-Shaw, Champagne faces policy choice

Media | 01/26/2023 11:48 am EST

On Rogers-Shaw, Champagne faces policy choice

All eyes are on Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne, who is the last line of defense for...

TekSavvy application: a test for new-look CRTC and competition landscape?

telecom | 01/24/2023 12:18 pm EST

STB data measurement complex task, group says

Is last week's Part 1 application from TekSavvy Solutions Inc. a last minute, Hail Mary pass attempt at blocking the all-but assured blockbuster merger of Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...

Rogers-Quebecor TPIA arrangements in Shaw merger violate Telecom Act: TekSavvy to CRTC

telecom | 01/19/2023 3:00 pm EST

Rogers-Quebecor TPIA arrangements in Shaw merger violate Telecom Act: TekSavvy to CRTC

One of Canada’s largest wholesale-based internet...

TekSavvy calls on government to disallow Rogers-Shaw merger

telecom | 01/10/2023 3:23 pm EST

TekSavvy releases quarterly transparency report

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is calling on the Minister of Innovation François-Philippe Champagne to block the proposed takeover of Shaw Communications Inc. by Rogers Communications Inc. In a Tuesday...

CRTC grants Cogeco five new speed tiers

telecom | 01/09/2023 4:34 pm EST

Cogeco reports higher revenues and profit in Q3

In a Monday decision, the CRTC approved five new disaggregated Ethernet passive optical network...

CRTC approves interim rates for Rogers 1.5 Gbps aggregated TPIA service speed

telecom | 01/04/2023 4:54 pm EST

Wireless Code, home Internet, helping with data overage fees: Research

The CRTC approved, on an interim basis, a monthly rate of $49.06 for Rogers...

Vicky Eatrides appointed new CRTC chair; consumer advocates pleased

Media | 12/19/2022 4:08 pm EST

Vicky Eatrides appointed new CRTC chair; consumer advocates pleased

Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez Monday morning announced the...

CanWISP worried ISED proposals will reduce rural connectivity

Media | 12/01/2022 7:04 pm EST

50/10 Mbps standard just fine, CanWISP members say

"Stringent" limitations proposed for the non-competitive licensing (NCL) spectrum framework means small rural internet service providers (ISPs) will "have to drastically reduce the number of rural Canadians they serve," according to the Canadian Association of Wireless...

Hockey broadcasters win fresh site-blocking order

Media | 11/23/2022 7:43 am EST

CCSA decries Shaw’s plan to cut satellite service

The start of another hockey season brings another federal court site-blocking order for a trio of telecom...

Big 3 fight back against ISED’s efforts to protect wholesale regime

telecom | 08/11/2022 5:50 pm EDT

Big 3 fight back against ISED’s efforts to protect wholesale regime

Submissions to the Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic...

PIAC, CNOC detail disclosure request on Rogers outage 

telecom | 08/08/2022 6:54 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre has asked the CRTC to mandate that Rogers Communications Inc. reveal more about the details of what led to a nationwide outage across the telecom’s network on July 8.  In a Friday letter to the CRTC, PIAC wrote that Rogers’...

CRTC outlines framework to block botnets from internet traffic

telecom | 06/23/2022 5:48 pm EDT

CRTC outlines framework to block botnets from internet traffic

In a Thursday decision, the CRTC announced it was implementing regulations...

Rogers, Telus, want CRTC to deny TekSavvy TPIA tariff changes 

telecom | 06/03/2022 5:34 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. are asking the CRTC to deny a...

Integrity Commissioner refers TekSavvy’s Scott complaint to Ethics Commissioner 

Media | 05/05/2022 3:20 pm EDT

TekSavvy seeks permission to appeal CRTC rates decision, CNOC asks for public support 

Public Sector Integrity Commissioner Joe Friday...

TekSavvy calls for TPIA tariff changes to stop delayed access to new offerings

telecom | 05/03/2022 5:13 pm EDT

TekSavvy releases quarterly transparency report

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is asking the CRTC to speed up the regulatory...

CRTC approves, with changes, Shaw’s 1500 wholesale service

telecom | 04/05/2022 4:47 pm EDT

CRTC approves, with changes, Shaw’s 1500 wholesale service

Tuesday the CRTC approved an application by Shaw Communications Inc. to...

CRTC won’t order Bragg to relocate its TPIA point of interconnection

telecom | 03/25/2022 4:17 pm EDT

Frontier-Eastlink tariff tiff could affect other ISPs, CNOC warns

The commission denied an application by City Wide Communications Inc. requesting it order Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink to move its Nova Scotia third-party Internet...

Supreme Court dismisses TekSavvy appeal of GoldTV site-blocking order

Media | 03/24/2022 1:28 pm EDT

Supreme Court dismisses TekSavvy appeal of GoldTV site-blocking order

Updated with TekSavvy reaction. The Supreme Court of Canada Thursday...

TekSavvy asks for investigation by Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of CRTC comish

telecom | 03/02/2022 6:09 pm EST

TekSavvy asks for investigation by Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of CRTC comish

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has asked the Office of...

CRTC rejects CNOC request for Scott’s recusal

telecom | 02/16/2022 11:07 am EST

CRTC rejects CNOC request for Scott's recusal

The CRTC has decided that it will not consider a request from the Competitive Network Operators of Canada...

Paper billing for vulnerable customers, not universally: CRTC

telecom | 02/10/2022 5:42 pm EST

Paper billing for vulnerable customers, not universally: CRTC

The CRTC has determined that all communications service providers (CSPs),...

CRTC approves wholesale high-speed access tier for Shaw

telecom | 12/10/2021 3:40 pm EST

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

Shaw Communications Inc. was given approval by the CRTC Friday for a new wholesale high-speed access service tier. The commission okayed a 250 Mbps download and 15 Mbps upload system which Shaw will sell for $41.36 per month. This is similar to a ruling last month which...

Dynamic site-blocking case gets Nov. 23 hearing date 

Media | 11/03/2021 5:51 pm EDT

Bell, Rogers, and Quebecor seek first-ever 'dynamic' site-blocking order

A test-case for Canada's first-ever "dynamic" site-blocking order is headed...

Bell, Rogers, Quebecor apply for extended site-blocking in GoldTV

Media | 10/26/2021 9:30 am EDT

Telecoms’ site-blocking court request ‘draconian,’ TekSavvy argues

A trio of Canada's biggest broadcasters has asked the Federal Court for a...

Court grants CIPPIC, Beanfield intervenor status in dynamic site-blocking case

Media | 10/14/2021 5:39 pm EDT

Bell, Rogers, and Quebecor seek first-ever 'dynamic' site-blocking order

A Federal Court judge has granted intervenor status to the...

Petitions to overturn recent CRTC decisions gaining steam

telecom | 09/23/2021 7:09 pm EDT

Petitions to overturn recent CRTC decisions gaining steam

Days after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won another minority government...

New ‘dynamic’ site-blocking needs new safeguards: CIPPIC 

Media | 09/22/2021 5:56 pm EDT

Hockey broadcasters seek injunction against pirate streamers

The site-blocking order that will block a rolling list of pirate streaming...

Appeal of CRTC reversal of wholesale rates to go ahead in federal court

telecom | 09/15/2021 9:46 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

The Federal Court of Appeal will take up TekSavvy Solutions Inc.'s...

TekSavvy takes GoldTV site-blocking fight to Supreme Court

Media | 08/26/2021 6:11 pm EDT

Telecoms’ site-blocking court request ‘draconian,’ TekSavvy argues

After Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order survived an appeal from...

TekSavvy raising home internet plan fees

telecom | 08/25/2021 5:31 pm EDT

TekSavvy releases quarterly transparency report

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is hiking fees for some customers of its residential internet service by a few dollars per month, which it says is a consequence of the CRTC’s decision to revert the rates for wholesale-based internet service providers to interim levels from 2016. ...

National Capital FreeNet asks gov. to reverse CRTC wholesale rates decision  

telecom | 08/25/2021 5:09 pm EDT

An Ottawa-area internet service provider has added its voice to those asking the government to overturn the CRTC's decision to revert rates for wholesale-based internet service providers (ISPs) to...

The Wire Report’s guide to the 2021 federal election 

Media | 08/17/2021 2:35 pm EDT

The Wire Report's guide to the 2021 federal election 

After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally called Sunday for a...

TekSavvy’s wholesale appeal uses failed incumbent arguments from 2019: Bell

telecom | 08/09/2021 5:41 pm EDT

TekSavvy's wholesale appeal uses failed incumbent arguments from 2019: Bell

TekSavvy Solutions Inc.'s arguments in its June challenge to the CRTC's...

Companies must negotiate with Bell for MDU fibre IBW access or install their own, CRTC decides

telecom | 07/27/2021 7:24 pm EDT

Companies must negotiate with Bell for MDU fibre IBW access or install their own, CRTC decides

Companies using BCE’s Inc.’s fibre in-building...

Bell says permanent approval of call blocking ‘is overwhelmingly in the public interest’

telecom | 07/23/2021 6:46 pm EDT

Bell says permanent approval of call blocking 'is overwhelmingly in the public interest'

BCE Inc. is urging the CRTC to give it permanent approval to continue to block certain scam voice calls, saying the ​​benefits “are unmistakable” after a nearly...

CNOC petitions gov on wholesale rates

telecom | 07/15/2021 5:42 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

Fed up with the CRTC's May decision to overturn its 2019 decision on wholesale internet access rates, the...

TekSavvy wants regulatory framework before Bell permanently implements AI call blocking

telecom | 07/14/2021 6:23 pm EDT

TekSavvy wants regulatory framework before Bell permanently implements AI call blocking

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is recommending that the...

Bell, Rogers, and Quebecor seek first-ever ‘dynamic’ site-blocking order

Media | 07/08/2021 6:22 pm EDT

Bell, Rogers, and Quebecor seek first-ever 'dynamic' site-blocking order

Nearly six weeks after a Federal Court of Appeal upheld Canada's first-ever...

GoldTV blocking order survives TekSavvy appeal

Media | 05/26/2021 6:41 pm EDT

Telecoms’ site-blocking court request ‘draconian,’ TekSavvy argues

The Federal Court of Appeal has allowed Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order to stand,...

Quebec Appeal Court upholds decision finding Quebec site blocking law unconstitutional 

telecom | 05/14/2021 5:10 pm EDT

Quebec’s Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal from the province’s attorney general over its desire to have telecoms block access to illegal gambling sites.  In July...

Telecoms emphasize concerns, support for CRTC’s botnet blocking proposal

telecom | 05/06/2021 7:19 pm EDT

Telecoms emphasize concerns, support for CRTC’s botnet blocking proposal

Canada’s big-three telecoms are doubling down on their assertions that...

Feds considering site-blocking proposal

Media | 04/14/2021 6:20 pm EDT

Guilbeault doubles down on web giant legislation plans

The federal government has launched a consultation document to solicit feedback on whether or not it...

CRTC rejects incumbent request to expand Internet Code

telecom | 04/08/2021 5:05 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

The CRTC has rejected a request from a number of large facilities-based...

Accessibility reporting should apply to resellers: Bell, Shaw

Media | 04/06/2021 5:57 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

BCE Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. are taking issue with TekSavvy Solutions Inc.'s assertion that it will be unfairly burdened by regulations that will require companies to make their services more accessible to Canadians with disabilities. The CRTC is set to implement...

Quebecor would buy Freedom, but only with spectrum: PKP

telecom | 03/31/2021 6:21 pm EDT

Quebecor threatens legal action if MVNOs are mandated

Quebecor Inc. has indicated that, should the Competition Bureau force...

Focus on competition at ‘day of action’ following Rogers-Shaw deal

Media | 03/16/2021 6:10 pm EDT

As news of Roger’s Communications Inc.’s deal to acquire Shaw Communications Inc. sparks discussions on what it may mean for the wireless market in Canada, advocates say competition and other...

Focus turns back to CRTC as SCC rejects incumbent wholesale challenge 

telecom | 02/25/2021 5:46 pm EST

Focus turns back to CRTC as SCC rejects incumbent wholesale challenge 

As the Supreme Court of Canada  dismissed an incumbent challenge to an...

Incumbents push back on interim fibre resale rates proposal

telecom | 02/12/2021 5:11 pm EST

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

The request from the Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) for the...

Northern TPIA access for SSi should be expedited: competitors 

telecom | 02/10/2021 4:35 pm EST

The CRTC should move quickly to set wholesale prices in the North for SSi Canada's access to BCE Inc.’s Northwestel, according to an intervention by TekSavvy Solutions Inc.  In an intervention filed Monday on SSi's Part 1 application from December, TekSavvy wrote that the CRTC needs to move faster, given the delays in setting wholesale third-party internet access rates for competitive internet service providers across the country.  "TekSavvy’s experience in rate setting, and the incumbents’ willingness to litigate and pursue every appeal possible to avoid their regulatory...

Rogers pandemic ITMP policy ‘vague’ but does not discriminate, CRTC says

telecom | 01/11/2021 6:13 pm EST

There is insufficient evidence Rogers Communications Inc.'s pandemic-driven internet traffic management policy (ITMP) disproportionally affects wholesale end users, but at the same time the company...

CRTC to track wholesale quality of service in 2022

telecom | 01/04/2021 6:03 pm EST

CRTC to track wholesale quality of service in 2022

The CRTC is giving incumbent telecom companies that provide wholesale high speed internet access a year...

Policy impacts of CRTC wholesale rates outside SCC purview: TekSavvy, CNOC

telecom | 12/07/2020 6:29 pm EST

Policy impacts of CRTC wholesale rates outside SCC purview: TekSavvy, CNOC

The Supreme Court appeal incumbent telecoms filed in November amounts to...

CRTC seeks further information on telecoms’ paper billing practices

Media | 12/03/2020 3:15 pm EST

A CRTC consultation on paper billing practices in the telecommunications and broadcasting sectors is continuing, with the commission requesting that all major companies respond to a series of...

TekSavvy asks for judicial review of CRTC wholesale rate stay

telecom | 10/29/2020 1:32 pm EDT

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is asking the Federal Court of Appeal to review the CRTC's Sept. 28 decision to grant a request from incumbents for a fresh stay on the implementation of the lower wholesale...

CRTC hears differing pitches to fix lagging disaggregated regime

telecom | 10/13/2020 6:04 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

In order to make its disaggregated wholesale regime work, the CRTC should...

Rogers still too vague about its use of ITMPs: TekSavvy

telecom | 10/02/2020 4:02 pm EDT

In an ongoing dispute between Rogers Communications Inc. and some of its third party internet access (TPIA) wholesale customers over COVID-19-related internet traffic management practices (ITMPs),...

TekSavvy will count bills from Bell, Rogers against debts until it receives retroactive payments

telecom | 09/25/2020 5:10 pm EDT

Beginning with its next invoice, TekSavvy Solutions Inc. will not be paying its wholesale fees to BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. as invoiced, instead "setting off...

Bell says TPIA delays are Videotron’s fault

telecom | 09/24/2020 5:34 pm EDT

In response to a complaint to the CRTC from Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron that BCE Inc. was unduly delaying Videotron's arrival in the Abitibi region, Bell subsidiary Cablevision du Nord says the delay is Videotron's fault.  In a Tuesday filing with the CRTC, Bell said that the delay is a "direct consequence of Videotron's errors" in forecasting the number of subscribers that would need third-party internet access, according to the French-language filing.  On Aug. 4, Bell said in its filing, Quebecor told Bell it was forecasting ten times the number of third party internet access (TPIA)...