WHOLESALE WIRELESS: Commission has duty to forbear from wholesale roaming, despite new law imposing rate caps

By Perry Hoffman

GATINEAU – It doesn’t matter what the recently amended Telecommunications Act says regarding rate caps for wholesale roaming, the CRTC still has a duty to forbear from regulation if it determines there is sufficient competition to protect the interests of users, according to Bell Canada.The company argued in its appearance during the wholesale wireless services proceeding earlier this month and in its undertaking filed last week that the Telecom Act still gives the Commission the authority to forbear from regulation, and it can do so when there is evidence to support it. The Act was amended in the Conservative government’s...