OTTAWA – The CRTC has ordered Rogers Communications to allow TekSavvy Solutions to provide Internet access services to its customers at a Toronto townhouse complex.
The Commission said Wednesday that Rogers must continue to provide TekSavvy with access to its existing and new retail end-users in the complex by way of aggregated wholesale high-speed access (HSA) service provisioned over Rogers’ fibre-to-the-premises access facilities, subject to the conditions set out in its decision. Furthermore, Rogers must provide other ISP competitors with access to their existing and new customers at that complex through the same service, and subject to the same conditions set out for TekSavvy.
The decision comes as a result of a dispute between the two companies at that location which began last December, as Cartt.ca reported.
“The Commission’s determinations in this decision will allow for more consumer choice and competition in the Bayview Mills complex, as well as enhance competitors’ ability to acquire sufficient end-user demand to migrate to a disaggregated wholesale HSA service in the future”, reads the decision.
“TekSavvy welcomes the CRTC’s commitment to making sure that consumers, and competition, don’t get lost in the transition between wholesale network access architectures”, said Tekavvy’s chief legal and regulatory officer Bram Abramson, in an email to Cartt.ca.
