Cloudwifi should get its full CLEC status soon

By Denis Carmel GATINEAU - In the ongoing Bell vs Cloudwifi skirmish, last Thursday, the CRTC rendered a decision that gets Cloudwifi, a Kitchener and Toronto reseller of telecom services, closer to getting CLEC status, which would allow it to offer its services while riding on larger providers fibre networks. One criterion to fulfil its obligations in order to get CLEC status requires a company to have signed a Special Master Agreement for Local Interconnection (MALI) with all LECs that operate in the exchanges in which it wishes to operate. Bell Canada was refusing to sign such an agreement and...