City Wide asks CRTC to reconsider decision on location of Eastlink TPIA POI

GATINEAU – City Wide Communications, a Dartmouth, N.S.-based independent telecommunications service provider, has asked the CRTC to review and vary its recent decision to deny City Wide’s 2020 application asking the Commission to order Bragg Communications (Eastlink) to move its third-party Internet access (TPIA) point of interconnection (POI) in Nova Scotia from its current location in the rural community of Pennant Point to a location in the core of Halifax. In a decision issued on March 25, 2022, the Commission noted it found “that while Eastlink is subjecting City Wide to a disadvantage and providing itself with a corresponding advantage...