CNOC wants immediate access to incumbents' FTTP networks

OTTAWA — The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) on Friday submitted a Part 1 application to the CRTC asking for “an expedited and temporary resale remedy for competitive access to incumbent fibre-to-the-premises facilities.” CNOC says it’s making the application because it has been more than five years since the Commission’s last wholesale wireline review resulted in its CRTC 2015-326 decision in July 2015 that “promised service-based competition over Incumbent FTTP access facilities,” CNOC says — a promise it notes has yet to be fulfilled. “Without a viable wholesale FTTP option, competition in the provision of retail broadband services, which...