Cable / Telecom News

Bell, Vidéotron, fight over wholesale roaming

OTTAWA – In another chapter of the ongoing saga between Bell and Quebecor, the CRTC has directed Bell to continue providing roaming services to Vidéotron, at least for now.A Part 1 application from Québecor Média on behalf of its Vidéotron subsidiary to the Commission earlier this month said that Vidéotron’s end-users have had access to Bell’s roaming service since May 2015, but that Bell had threatened to suspend that service after alleging that “ a significant number of Vidéotron’s users ...were using Bell Mobility’s roaming service …on an illegitimate, non-occasional and permanent basis” which it said contravened Bell Mobility’s tariff.Vidéotron...