By Ahmad Hathout
Bell said it has reached an agreement with Telus that will allow the Vancouver-based telco to carry its broadcasting services over Bell’s fibre network in eastern Canada.
Bell confirmed the agreement but not the details after the CRTC said in a letter, dated Tuesday, that it was closing Telus’s Part 1 application filed last year that alleged Bell was unduly blocking its ability to carry content on the fibre network.
Telus, which requested closure of the Part 1, said in its original application that it wanted the CRTC to force Bell to allow it to carry its own programming services on the same terms and conditions while the parties negotiated a new affiliation agreement.
Telus did not respond to a request for comment.
The agreement follows the February resolution of another conflict where Bell accused Telus of disadvantaging some of its new channels by repackaging them. It also follows the recent conclusion of a wholesale internet row wherein both accused each other of stalling on adequate access to their fibre facilities to thwart competition in their home territories.
