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Stakeholder reaction to CRTC policy direction mixed

News | 05/27/2022 5:33 pm EDT
CRTC chairman Ian Scott appears alongside other commissioners at a public hearing into sales practices on Oct. 26, 2018. Photo by Andrew Meade.

Amongst those independent internet service providers (ISPs) who had been pleading with the federal government to overturn the CRTC’s 2021 reversal of a 2019 decision that drastically lowered the rates those ISPs paid for access to incumbent networks, reaction to Thursday’s proposed policy direction was like the policy itself: decidedly mixed. 

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