CRTC denies consumer groups' call for affordability fund

OTTAWA – The CRTC has turned down a request from three consumer advocacy groups to review and vary its basic service objective decision over the affordability of telecommunications services.The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now Canada (ACORN), the National Pensioners Federation (NPF), and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), collectively known as ACORN-NPF-PIAC, filed a review and vary request last April over the decision, decrying its lack of an affordability funding mechanism for low-income telecommunications users.The Commission dismissed the request Thursday after determining that it did not err in fact or in law, and that there has not been a...