Press Release – OpenMedia
CRTC sides firmly with Big Telecom, undermining any chance for choice, affordability, and the success of small providers Today the CRTC released its final decision on the wholesale rates that smaller providers pay to access Internet services from incumbent …
CRTC sides firmly with Big Telecom, undermining any chance for choice, affordability, and the success of small providers
Today the CRTC released its final decision on the wholesale rates that smaller providers pay to access Internet services from incumbent service providers like Bell, Telus and Rogers. In the decision, the CRTC rejected its own 2019 decision to lower the rates, which would have seen smaller providers reimbursed hundreds of millions of dollars they had been over charged. Instead, the CRTC has opted to return to the outdated 2016 rates, in a move that will inevitably see Internet prices rise, and small providers struggle to survive.