CRTC moves more deadlines in Covid-19 crisis wake

Broadband fund application deadline delayed a month GATINEAU – While the CRTC had earlier said it was suspending all deadlines for open proceedings due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it confirmed two specific, important ones today. Final submissions to the Commission’s near-complete wireless policy review proceeding were due March 23rd, but it announced Friday that deadline has been suspended until further notice. Also, the second call for applications to the CRTC’s rural Broadband Fund said they were due in by March 27 but it said Friday the new deadline for those applications is now April 30th.