TPIA: Cablecos tell cabinet they’ll have to lower network investment
GATINEAU – Canada’s major cable carriers (Eastlink, Cogeco, Rogers, Shaw and Videotron) Wednesday made the point to federal cabinet that all the CRTC decision on new third party internet access […]
TPIA: Bell files petition to Cabinet to overturn wholesale rates decision
GATINEAU – A day after getting a month delay to file its Review and Vary application to the CRTC on the final rates it set for aggregated wholesale high-speed access […]
TPIA: CRTC extends deadline, but saves Christmas for regulatory groups
GATINEAU – When the CRTC issued decision 2019-288 in August 2019, its decision on third party internet access wholesale rates, everyone grasped the complexity of the file but perhaps not […]
COMMENTARY: After two hearing days on compliance, there must be another way
“THE STATION APPEARS to be in non-compliance with its regulatory obligations relating to the filing of… If found in non-compliance, this would be the third consecutive licence term in which […]
TPIA: More to come from Québecor in response to CRTC wholesale decision
MONTREAL – During Quebecor’s third quarter conference call with financial analysts last week Videotron president and CEO Jean-François Pruneau shed some light on the company’s motivation behind its decision to […]
TPIA: Cablecos, Bell, want to cancel Christmas for their regulatory groups
Incumbents ask for two more months to file their R&V of the wholesale rates decision GATINEAU – Following the August CRTC decision on final rates for aggregated wholesale high-speed internet […]
Commission has hard questions for Super Channel
GATINEAU – When Allarco won a pay television licence back in 2006, some wondered whether the company had promised too much in order to win the licence during a very […]
Carriers stick to their guns on 36-month device plans
GATINEAU – "The Commission is of the preliminary view that certain device financing plans may create a new barrier for customers to take advantage of competitive offers in the market. […]
CRTC to hear Bell’s proposed $20M purchase of V Media February 12
GATINEAU – An acquisition which would see Bell Media pay $20 million to add five conventional French television stations in Québec, Montréal, Saguenay, Sherbrooke and Trois-Rivières from Groupe V Media […]
Videotron files renewed application to dump top speed tier
GATINEAU – After being told its first application was deficient, Videotron rewrote the CRTC to rectify the company’s application and request again the withdrawal for its unbundled up-to-1 Gbps download, […]