Canada’s telecommunications regulator says it is launching a review of the rates that small internet service providers must pay to operate through the networks of incumbents, and is lowering some of those rates immediately by 10 per cent.
The wholesale framework supports competition by enabling competitors to access the telecommunications facilities and network from incumbent carriers, and then offer their own services, often at a discounted rate. Currently, independent internet service providers are able to negotiate access to those networks, but say the prices are too high to allow them to be competitive.
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