CRTC denies Bell stay in Broadband Fund money collection

By Ahmad Hathout OTTAWA – The CRTC has denied Bell a request for the CRTC to temporarily suspend its collection of money for the $750-million Broadband Fund until it makes a decision on its review and vary application. Bell filed the Part 1 application in December – in response to a CRTC decision to collect $150 million this year – asking the regulator to immediately stop drawing money from the telecoms toward the fund until it has concluded its scheduled policy review of the fund, which it launched in March. It argued that the regulator will have collected and not...