CRTC denies Iristel complaint regarding interconnection dispute with Bell, Northwestel

The CRTC has denied a July 2024 application by far north provider Iristel to review and vary the commission’s June 2024 decision that found Iristel had failed to provide sufficient evidence to show it was wronged in an interconnection dispute with Bell and its subsidiary Northwestel. In a majority decision posted Monday on the CRTC’s website, the commission stated the record does not establish substantial doubt as to the correctness of the CRTC’s Telecom Decision 2024-141, and therefore the commission denies Iristel’s review-and-vary application. In its analysis of Iristel’s original Part 1 application of October 2023, the CRTC said it had not found that Bell or Northwestel...