OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC will release its decision on wholesale wireline services late Wednesday.
The Commission confirmed that it will stage a media “lock-up” from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM ET on July 22 at its Central Office to provide a technical briefing to explain the different elements of the decision. The decision itself will be released at 4:00 PM and Cartt.ca will be there.
When the hearing into wholesale wireline kicked off last November, CRTC chairm Jean-Pierre Blais directed that it focus on the themes of:
– Whether changes should be made to the CRTC’s framework for wholesale telecommunications services;
– What considerations the Commission should take into account when making its decision whether or not to: (a) require the provision of wholesale telecommunications services, including fibre-to-the-premises; (b) step back from regulating services; or (c) re-assert its jurisdiction to regulate services that have been deregulated; and
– Whether changes should be made to the CRTC’s approach for setting wholesale rates, the underlying principles, or the associated processes, in order to improve the timeliness, accuracy or consistency of the rate-setting exercise.
