TAGGED AS WHOLESALE RATES
PKP says CRTC interim FTTP access rates need to be reflective of Bell’s true costs; Freedom lifts Quebecor to profitable Q3
telecom | 11/09/2023 4:48 pm EST
Quebecor Inc. president and CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau is delighted with the CRTC for mandating wholesale access to incumbents’ FTTP networks in Ontario and Quebec., he said...
Staffieri applauds CRTC move to “level the playing field” in Ontario and Quebec; reports quarterly loss
telecom | 11/09/2023 4:40 pm EST
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri said, during the company’s third quarter conference call on Thursday, that he supports the CRTC’s decision to “level the...
Bell fibre build progress threatened by regulatory uncertainty: Bibic
telecom | 11/02/2023 3:58 pm EDT
In a Thursday quarterly earnings conference call, BCE Inc.'s president and...
Competitors oppose incumbents’ stance in second phase of FTTP access review
telecom | 10/19/2023 5:15 pm EDT
The debate over what the future of the wholesale high-speed-access (HSA)...
Both sides react to MVNO decision from CRTC
telecom | 10/11/2023 5:17 pm EDT
Both BCE Inc. and Quebecor Inc. have reacted to the CRTC’s decision that Bell Mobility's offer on...
Infrastructure investments could see cuts due to wholesale rates: Bibic, French
telecom | 09/28/2023 6:54 pm EDT
BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. reiterated their concerns around the CRTC’s...
CRTC keeps Phase II wholesale rates approach with enhancements
telecom | 07/07/2023 6:11 pm EDT
The CRTC has opted to keep its cost-based rate setting approach for wholesale telecom services but made a few enhancements such as directing wholesale service providers to provide market-level information with its rate-setting applications, ensuring regular updates are...
Wholesale model upside down: Jetté
telecom | 05/24/2023 6:18 pm EDT
According to the CEO of one of Canada's largest regional internet service providers, the recent state of...
Relocation of Eastlink’s TPIA point of interconnection chance for gov. to redeem itself: PIAC
telecom | 09/12/2022 3:58 pm EDT
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and the...
City Wide wants GiC to force relocation of Eastlink’s TPIA point of interconnection
telecom | 08/15/2022 3:39 pm EDT
City Wide Communications Inc. is asking the...
TekSavvy wants concrete actions in CRTC policy direction, PIAC argues for directive language
telecom | 07/20/2022 5:13 pm EDT
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) says...
CRTC will allow Bell to keep central office location secret for disaggregated service, over TekSavvy’s objections
telecom | 07/07/2022 5:32 pm EDT
The CRTC had decided to allow BCE Inc. to keep...
Gov. issues new CRTC policy direction with guidance for wholesale regime
telecom | 05/26/2022 4:02 pm EDT
The federal government is seeking to issue a new policy direction to the...
Distributel’s claims for revised interim rates for disagg regime are unfounded: Rogers, Quebecor
telecom | 05/05/2022 5:35 pm EDT
Distributel Ltd.’s request to revise interim...
CRTC approves wholesale high-speed access tier for Shaw
telecom | 12/10/2021 3:40 pm EST
Shaw Communications Inc. was given approval by the CRTC Friday for a new...
Disaggregated wholesale regime not ‘doom and gloom’: CNOC chair
telecom | 09/29/2021 5:33 pm EDT
With a shift to a disaggregated access model anticipated by the Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC), Distributel Communications Ltd. CEO and CNOC chair Matt Stein,...
CRTC wants more info from Bell on certain retroactive wholesale payments
telecom | 09/27/2021 5:30 pm EDT
The CRTC wants BCE Inc. to clarify why the company wants to make payments...
Appeal of CRTC reversal of wholesale rates to go ahead in federal court
telecom | 09/15/2021 9:46 pm EDT
The Federal Court of Appeal will take up TekSavvy Solutions Inc.'s...
TekSavvy raising home internet plan fees
telecom | 08/25/2021 5:31 pm EDT
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is hiking fees for some customers of its residential internet service by a few...
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...
Iristel asks CRTC for incumbents’ MVNO template agreements
telecom | 08/24/2021 5:55 pm EDT
The CRTC has said it will consider a procedural request from Iristel Inc. to direct the incumbent wireless carriers to publicize their template agreements for wholesale mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) and seamless roaming services, in a letter published this week. ...
CNOC petitions gov on wholesale rates
telecom | 07/15/2021 5:42 pm EDT
Fed up with the CRTC's May decision to overturn its 2019 decision on wholesale internet access rates, the...
Industry Committee calls for stricter timelines on CRTC rate-setting procedures
telecom | 06/22/2021 6:13 pm EDT
The House of Commons Industry committee is recommending that the government...
CIK Telecom suspending investments following CRTC wholesale rates decision
telecom | 06/04/2021 5:26 pm EDT
Independent internet service provider (ISP) CIK Telecom announced Friday that it would dial back a planned $300 million fibre network development, blaming the CRTC's decision to revert wholesale...
Bell restores network investment pledge; TekSavvy petitions gov on wholesale rates
telecom | 05/31/2021 6:11 pm EDT
In what the company says is a direct response to the CRTC's reversal on...
Wholesale rates decision signals shift at CRTC: wholesale ISPs, analysts
Media | 05/28/2021 6:11 pm EDT
As reaction continues to pour in following the CRTC's Thursday decision to...
UPDATED: CRTC reverts wholesale access rates to interim 2016 levels
telecom | 05/27/2021 4:00 pm EDT
The CRTC Thursday announced that it is setting permanent rates for...
Incumbents push back on interim fibre resale rates proposal
telecom | 02/12/2021 5:11 pm EST
The request from the Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) for the...
CNOC asks CRTC for interim framework on fibre resale rates
telecom | 01/08/2021 6:25 pm EST
Frustrated with what it said is the deteriorating state of competition in...
SSi asks CRTC to mandate third-party access to fibre in the North, new wholesale rates
telecom | 12/09/2020 2:27 pm EST
Northern broadband provider SSi Canada is asking the CRTC to order BCE Inc.’s Northwestel to provide third-party internet access (TPIA) to its monopoly cable and fibre...
Policy impacts of CRTC wholesale rates outside SCC purview: TekSavvy, CNOC
telecom | 12/07/2020 6:29 pm EST
The Supreme Court appeal incumbent telecoms filed in November amounts to...
CNOC, advocates push gov’t to be tougher on affordability
telecom | 11/27/2020 11:38 am EST
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) and advocacy group...
Regulatory delays a slow-moving incumbent tantrum: CNOC
telecom | 11/19/2020 1:53 pm EST
On the heels of the incumbent appeal of a Federal Court of Appeal decision...
CRTC process and delays take centre stage at CNOC ISP Summit
telecom | 11/05/2020 11:16 am EST
A day after CRTC chairman Ian Scott addressed the Competitive Network Operators of Canada's ISP Summit and gave no more details about when the regulator would give some finality to the issue 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 internet rates it announced in August 2019. In the court filing, TekSavvy takes issue with the regulator's application of the test for granting a stay, known as the RJR-MacDonald test. The CRTC granted a stay on the implementation of its own wholesale rates until it decides on a review-and-vary request from the incumbents, the only remaining challenge to the slashed wholesale rates, after the...
CRTC won’t enforce lower wholesale rates until review-and-vary is finished
telecom | 09/28/2020 4:16 pm EDT
The CRTC said Monday it has approved a stay request from incumbent telecoms asking the regulator not to enforce the wholesale rates it lowered in August 2019. That means the lower rates won’t be...
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...
Small ISPs ask CRTC to move quickly on wholesale rate R&V
telecom | 09/11/2020 5:41 pm EDT
After the Federal Court of Appeal dismissed the incumbent telecom companies’ challenge of the CRTC's wholesale internet rates Thursday, independent internet service providers are now asking the...
Federal Court dismisses incumbents’ wholesale rates appeal
telecom | 09/10/2020 10:55 am EDT
The Federal Court of Appeal dismissed Thursday the large telecom...
Bell tells court cabinet decision on wholesale ‘vindicates’ its concerns
telecom | 08/20/2020 5:52 pm EDT
BCE Inc. and a coalition of cable companies have submitted letters to the...
Bell bringing cabinet’s wholesale appeal response to Federal Court
telecom | 08/17/2020 7:56 pm EDT
Lawyers representing BCE Inc. have asked a Federal Court of Appeal judge to...
Cabinet says CRTC wholesale rates too low, may harm investment
telecom | 08/15/2020 9:06 am EDT
The Liberal government has sided with Canada’s largest telecoms in their...
Bell was previously in favour of retroactive payments, TekSavvy argues
telecom | 06/26/2020 8:34 pm EDT
BCE Inc.'s argument that retroactive payments mandated by the CRTC in its August wholesale rate decision are an unconstitutional tax is a "disguised attack" on the "entire rate setting regime" laid...
Court has jurisdiction to overturn wholesale rates, big telecoms argue
telecom | 06/25/2020 11:19 pm EDT
The CRTC's wholesale rates ruling from last August ignored the intentions of a 2006 Maxime Bernier-era policy directive, and the decision to slash wholesale rates for third-party internet service providers must be set aside, lawyers representing the incumbent cable carriers and telecom companies sought to convince the Federal Court of Appeal's three judge panel Thursday. Much of the first day of testimony on the hearing's first day centered around whether or not the court had the...
Wholesale rates stay ‘forces’ Distributel to apply temporary surcharge
telecom | 06/03/2020 3:18 pm EDT
Distributel Communications Ltd. will charge a “very small” number of customers a $5 temporary surcharge on each internet bill, due to a legal challenge against last year’s wholesale rates...
Network performance supports light regulatory touch: Bibic
telecom | 05/27/2020 6:58 pm EDT
The performance of networks in other countries during the COVID-19 crisis...
Conservatives and NDP united for enforcement of wholesale rates
telecom | 05/05/2020 5:27 pm EDT
Opposition parties that normally hold differing views on any given issue...
Retroactive payments for wholesale rates are not a tax: CNOC
telecom | 04/29/2020 5:45 pm EDT
In a Tuesday filing with the Federal Court of Appeal, the Canadian Network Operators Consortium (CNOC) said that the appeal of the CRTC's August wholesale rate decision by some six companies should be...
‘Work together,’ CRTC tells wholesale-based ISPs, incumbents
telecom | 04/23/2020 1:21 pm EDT
The CRTC has responded to a letter from The Canadian Network Operators Consortium (CNOC) and TekSavvy Solutions Inc. taking issue with changes to incumbent installation and repair procedures, saying it won’t require the filing of additional information in response to the...
Wholesale appeal is on shaky legal footing, TekSavvy argues
telecom | 04/16/2020 5:39 pm EDT
The ongoing appeal by incumbent telecoms of the CRTC's wholesale internet rates decision from August should be dismissed because the appeal argues that the regulator made errors in fact, rather than...
TekSavvy also calls for lower, emergency wholesale rates
telecom | 04/14/2020 6:42 pm EDT
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is joining a call made last week by Conservative...
Wholesale rate appeal could go ahead as scheduled
telecom | 04/03/2020 2:06 pm EDT
The Federal Court appeal of the CRTC’s lowered wholesale internet rates could still include a hearing in June as originally scheduled, despite the COVID-19 pandemic that has ground most of the country to a halt. A notice...
Teksavvy lays off staff, increases internet bills
telecom | 03/26/2020 6:39 pm EDT
Teksavvy Solutions Inc. has laid off 130 staff and will implement a flat $5 bill increase for its...
CRTC orders Bell to sign agreement with CloudWifi
telecom | 03/26/2020 5:22 pm EDT
The CRTC has ordered BCE Inc. to sign an agreement that would allow CloudWifi Inc. to progress its application to become a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC), finding Bell’s continued refusal to do so is “unnecessarily...
Teksavvy asks Competition Bureau to investigate Rogers, Bell
telecom | 02/20/2020 6:42 pm EST
The Competition Bureau has been asked to investigate a “pattern of anti-competitive activities” in wholesale and retail internet markets by BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications, in a complaint filed...
Fibre wire access scheme already exists, PIAC argues
telecom | 02/12/2020 5:46 pm EST
CloudWifi Inc.’s application for small internet service providers to be able to access fibre...
Teksavvy calls for public support in wholesale rates battle
telecom | 01/20/2020 3:47 pm EST
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has launched a public campaign urging the federal government to reject petitions filed by the major telecommunications providers, calling on it to reverse a CRTC decision that...
Bell says CRTC used bad costing process in wholesale rate decision
telecom | 01/03/2020 5:28 pm EST
In yet another appeal of the CRTC’s decision lowering wholesale internet rates, BCE Inc. filed a fresh review-and-vary application to the regulator the week before Christmas, arguing that that the CRTC relied on an “irrevocably broken” underlying costing process and framework. The CRTC’s methodology, Bell argues in the Dec. 20 filing, delivered rates that were below cost for Bell, and “failed to follow proper costing principles or prior Commission directives in developing the...
Videotron ‘diving’ like a soccer player over gigabit internet: TekSavvy
telecom | 11/27/2019 4:15 pm EST
Quebecor Inc.’s cancellation of its gigabit internet service is akin to a soccer player diving, or feigning injury to draw a penalty, TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is arguing in an intervention to the...
Federal Court grants leave to appeal, stay in wholesale rate cases
telecom | 11/22/2019 5:08 pm EST
The CRTC’s decision to lower wholesale rates for its aggregated regime...
Quebecor says it cut gig speeds due to new wholesale rates
telecom | 11/07/2019 5:12 pm EST
Quebecor Inc. executives confirmed on Thursday that its previously...
Incumbent reaction to wholesale rates warning shot for fibre, conference hears
telecom | 11/06/2019 9:13 pm EST
TORONTO — The aggressive way incumbent telecom companies reacted to the...
CNOC challenging Telus appeal in speed cap case
telecom | 10/08/2019 6:07 pm EDT
The Canadian Network Operators Consortium has filed its arguments in Federal Court against Telus Corp.’s appeal of a CRTC decision that would temporarily suspend a speed cap affecting wholesale-based service providers. The CRTC initially meant to prohibit those smaller ISPs from offering speeds faster than 100 Mbps if they didn’t move to the new disaggregated wholesale internet service regime. The CRTC then lifted that speed cap in March. Telus successfully convinced the Federal Court of Appeal in June to look at the case on the basis that the CRTC deviated from a standard...
TekSavvy sticking to lower internet prices despite wholesale rate stay
telecom | 09/30/2019 12:13 pm EDT
The temporary nature of the decision by the Federal Court of Appeal to...
Telecoms say oral hearing on wholesale rate not necessary
telecom | 09/26/2019 3:21 pm EDT
After an urgent plea by BCE Inc. requesting the Federal Court hold an oral hearing on the deadline of a CRTC order to implement new wholesale internet rates that it is protesting, Bell and other...
Telecoms say CRTC wholesale decision violates Harper-era directive
telecom | 09/17/2019 5:13 pm EDT
In their Friday appeal of the CRTC decision on wholesale internet rates, the affected cable companies are asking the Federal Court of Appeal to defer to a 2006 Harper-era directive that advised the...
Big telecoms go to court over wholesale rates
telecom | 09/13/2019 5:26 pm EDT
In a widely anticipated move, several of the country’s biggest telecom companies have filed for leave to appeal a CRTC decision establishing a new rate regime for wholesale internet broadband. The decision, issued August 15...
Analysts divided on wholesale rate appeal outcome
telecom | 09/09/2019 6:10 pm EDT
As analysts predict the CRTC’s decision on wholesale internet rates is likely to be appealed, they are divided on what impact the new rates would have on the industry as a whole. In a note released Monday morning,...
NDP skeptical about Liberal campaign telecom plans
telecom | 08/28/2019 2:50 pm EDT
The NDP is already throwing cold water on reports that the Liberals are considering a price cap and mandated access for mobile virtual network operators as part of the incumbent party’s campaign plank. In a Tuesday evening...
Telecom reaction to CRTC wholesale decision was expected: analyst
telecom | 08/27/2019 4:44 pm EDT
Analyst notes published this week confirm much of what was already known about the impact of new CRTC wholesale broadband rates on incumbent carriers. Namely, the new wholesale rates will hit the...
On wholesale rates, companies cry foul, but analysts aren’t convinced
telecom | 08/21/2019 5:07 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron and Shaw Communications Inc. added their voices...
New wholesale rates to cost Rogers $140M, Cogeco $25M, companies say
telecom | 08/19/2019 7:29 pm EDT
Cogeco Inc. said Monday that the new wholesale broadband rates set by the CRTC will cost the company $25 million in retroactive payments, while Rogers Communications Inc. said it "expects to record a charge of approximately $140 million in the current quarter to account for the retroactive impact of the lower rates." Rogers said the "final rates do not recognize the true cost of building and expanding Canada’s world-class broadband networks and will certainly impact Rogers future network...
Bell cuts rural broadband investment in response to new wholesale rates
telecom | 08/19/2019 1:32 pm EDT
BCE Inc. has responded to lower wholesale rates for internet service...
New rates to have marginal impact on big telecom bottom lines: analyst
telecom | 08/16/2019 3:18 pm EDT
The new wholesale tariffs for internet service announced by the CRTC Thursday are unlikely to have a large impact on the big publicly traded telecoms, though their profits will be affected marginally,...
New aggregated wholesale rates ‘fair,’ ‘reasonable’: smaller ISPs
telecom | 08/15/2019 6:16 pm EDT
Wholesale-based ISPs are praising a decision by the CRTC to lower the rates...