Entwistle reminds feds that facilities-based competition remains the best way to go; says Telus could stop fibre builds

VANCOUVER – For a guy who has supposedly moved to the boardroom from the CEO’s chair, Darren Entwistle still did a lot of talking during the Telus Q2 conference call with financial analysts.The Telus executive chairman primarily spoke to a pair of important regulatory files which have the potential to dent the big wireless and wireline carrier’s performance (along with Rogers and Bell, for that matter): wholesale wireless roaming rates, and wholesale wireline broadband access.Entwistle hammered home his point that facilities-based competition (where operators are required or incented to build their own networks) has served Canada very well and that...