Bell cutting fibre buildout target again after CRTC refusal to ban Big 3 from last-mile access

By Ahmad Hathout Bell CEO Mirko Bibic announced Thursday the telco is again cutting its fibre buildout target after the CRTC earlier this week refused to ban the largest internet service providers from using its last-mile fibre network in Ontario and Quebec. Bibic said the company is now targeting less than 8.3 million homes for direct fibre by the end of this year. “This decrease in our fibre buildout is a direct result of the CRTC’s refusal to ban Telus and other large carriers from reselling the FTTP network we’ve built,” Bibic said in a fourth-quarter earnings call Thursday. “We...