MARKHAM, ON – Iristel has not only denied Rogers’ allegations of traffic pumping, it says that the claims are “at best a result of recklessly poor due diligence and at worst, a vexatious fiction intended to injure Iristel’s business reputation”.
Rogers’ November 18 application accused Iristel of “being unjustly enriched by gaming the regulatory framework for local competition” by profiting from the higher local termination charges applicable in the Northwest Territories. In its December 2 response, Iristel said that excessive calling by a group of customers leading to correspondingly high call termination charges stem from Rogers’ own business decision to provide a Canada wide unlimited calling plan, and that Rogers could solve the problem itself by enforcing its own acceptable use policy with those customers.
“…Rogers should not be allowed to escape the consequences of its own business decisions and worse, impose those consequences on other innocent carriers”, continues Iristel’s reply.
Iristel called on the CRTC to dismiss the application in its entirety and to “explicitly express its disapproval at the abuse of process resulting from the filing, by Rogers… and at Rogers’ lack of bona fide effort to engage in a dialogue with Iristel prior to the filing of the Application”.
