Canada’s telecommunications regulator has finalized rules specifying technical and business requirements for how large telecommunications companies will provide competitor companies with wholesale access to their high-speed data systems, including new fiber-based networks.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s Telecom Decision CRTC 2016-379, issued Sept. 20, is the next-to-final step in implementing the regulator’s 2015 policy decision, Telecom Regulatory Policy 2015-326, to impose wholesale access requirements on incumbent operators. Incumbents BCE Inc. (Bell Canada), Cogeco Cable Inc., Rogers Communications Canada Inc. and Videotron G.P. now must propose and the CRTC must approve wholesale access technical configurations, rates and terms. ...
Learn more about Bloomberg Law or Log In to keep reading:
See Breaking News in Context
Bloomberg Law provides trusted coverage of current events enhanced with legal analysis.
Already a subscriber?
Log in to keep reading or access research tools and resources.