CRTC "fooled," price war likely coming in Montreal

OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Look for a local telephony price battle in Montreal. The CRTC took a first step towards local telephony deregulation on Thursday when it granted – on an interim basis – Bell Canada’s request to price its voice over IP service differently in different regions. Until now, if telcos wanted to drop prices, it had to drop prices across its entire footprint and could not target certain markets. However, in Quebec, MSO Videotron is offering local telephony for as little as $16 a month and Bell is losing thousands of customers per week. Bell doesn’t face similar pricing pressures...