Bell’s Cablevision du Nord must provide third party access to Vidéotron

Vidéotron wins a dispute against Bell! By Denis Carmel GATINEAU – The CRTC has ordered Cablevision du Nord, a Bell Canada subsidiary serving certain communities in Northwestern Quebec, to resume negotiations to allow Videotron to serve customers in the region as a third party internet access provider. The Commission told Cablevision to file a Tarif Notice before February3, 2020 and to be ready to implement interconnection in Val d’Or and Rouyn-Noranda before April 3rd. In a different decision issued the same day, the CRTC denied Cablevision’s request to withdraw its third-party Internet access (TPIA) tariff noting: “Although Cablevision was not...