CRTC must do more to spur independent ISP investment in transport, says Bell

By Perry Hoffman

GATINEAU - Without provisions explicitly requiring investment in transport facilities, independent ISPs simply won’t spend the money, contends Bell Canada in reply comments to its appeal of Telecom Regulatory Policy 2015-326.The company’s December 14 intervention maintains its original position that ISPs must bring their own transport facilities to central offices (COs) and cable head-ends and provide service to retail customers before being allowed to use disaggregated wholesale high speed access (HSA).The vertically integrated communications and broadcasting company argues that because transport is already highly competitive – 84 of the 100 Bell major COs in Ontario in Quebec already have multiple...