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Telecoms pooh-pooh affordability fund

News | 05/26/2017 2:31 pm EDT
PIAC executive director John Lawford (third from right), seated among members of the Affordable Access Coalition during the basic services hearing on April 14, 2016./ Screenshot via CPAC.

Establishing a dedicated fund to tackle service affordability for low-income Canadians as part of the CRTC’s basic telecom services objective is not the right way to handle the issue, according to the majority of service providers who responded to an application to review and vary the regulator’s December decision.

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