OTTAWA – Bell Mobility is asking the CRTC to review and vary its recent decision directing Bell, Rogers and Telus to make changes to the proposed terms and conditions outlined in their GSM-based wholesale mobile wireless roaming tariffs that incorporate seamless hand-off and 5G roaming.
Telecom Decision CRTC 2022-102 was issued April 6, 2022, in connection with the tariffs filed by Bell, Rogers and Telus in relation to a previous CRTC decision (TRP 2021-130) on implementing a regulated mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) system, which included determinations regarding seamless roaming.
Bell is arguing CRTC 2022-102 reaches beyond the scope of the proceedings leading into it.
“The scope of the tariff proceedings leading to Decision 2022-102 was limited to establishing “amended terms and conditions [for the wholesale roaming tariffs] reflecting the Commission’s determinations in TRP 2021-130,” Bell’s application reads.
“Instead, the Commission made directions that go beyond and contradict those determinations. As a result, the Commission’s decisions in this regard were made without proper notice to Bell or the other national wireless carriers of the case they had to meet and without a sufficient evidentiary basis.”
Bell wants the Commission to “rescind the direction to make seamless handoffs available for in-footprint coverage gaps” and “seek additional evidence from the parties to the ongoing tariff proceedings regarding the appropriate and feasible timelines for seamless handoff boundary change requests and vary its directions accordingly,” its application says.
The telecom also wants the CRTC to “allow the national carriers to file amended tariffs reflecting these changes, if desired, in the context of their ongoing tariff application process.”
Bell further asks the CRTC to refrain from finalizing the new wholesale roaming tariffs until it has considered the review and vary application and allowed for amended tariffs to be filed reflecting any resulting changes.
The deadline for interventions to be submitted on this matter is Aug. 5, 2022.
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