This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Canada’s biggest cable companies are heading to court to seek an appeal of last month’s CRTC ruling on wholesale internet rates.
Last month’s ruling set lower final rates for certain wholesale services and also ordered the large providers to make retroactive payments to the third-party operators to account for the higher prices charged since the CRTC set interim rates in 2016. Parties to a CRTC ruling have 30 days from the decision to seek leave to appeal in the Federal Court of Appeal. Friday is the last business day before that deadline.
They state that the CRTC engaged in “results-oriented” reasoning and methodologies and failed to take into account a policy direction from the federal government that requires the regulator to encourage companies to invest in their own networks.
globebusiness the communication system in Canada is wholly owned and priced by 3 company's who have governed prices for a long time. and that is why service in Canada is one of the most expensive places on the planet to have a cell phone or internet. Shaw, or Rogers bought Look and closed it.