AFX throws in the towel on competitive payphone service

By Denis Carmel GATINEAU – Operating a competitive pay telephone service provider (CPTSP) is difficult since it is, after all, a nickel-and-dime business. AFX Communications is, or rather, was, such a company, providing competitive payphone services in certain regions in Quebec. In May 2019, it filed an application with the CRTC claiming Bell stopped, since March 2019, paying the required $0.80 a call when the payphone was connected to a Bell business line. Bell said the tariff only applies to calls made over a pay telephone access line (PAL) and not to calls made on phones connected to business lines....