Appeal court grants Rogers hearing in MVNO arbitration decision

By Ahmad Hathout The Federal Court of Appeal has granted Rogers’s application to challenge the CRTC’s decision to pick, in final offer arbitration, Quebecor’s offer to ride on the cable giant’s mobile wireless network. The appeal court released its decision on August 16, almost exactly a year after Rogers filed an appeal disputing the July 2023 decision on the basis of an alleged lack of transparency by which the CRTC decided to select the Montreal-based company’s rate to lease wireless capacity. Rogers has always claimed that the rate selected by the CRTC is “materially lower than the rate” it proposed,...