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SaskTel wants stay on BH Telecom funding

Briefs | 04/20/2021 2:52 pm EDT

Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. is requesting a stay in the distribution of $9.5 million in funding the CRTC awarded to BH Telecom Corp. for a Saskatchewan project that BH Telecom says that would connect more than 26 communities to high-speed internet, but that SaskTel is duplicative because most of the communities are already connected.

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