The CRTC has given incumbent telephone companies more pricing flexibility about a month after allowing them to offer different prices in the same region, known as rate de-averaging. Telecom Decision 2007-36, issued on May 25, allows ILECs to use a price range within a range and comes less than a month after the new price cap regime (Price Cap 3) was released in Telecom Decision 2007-27.

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