CRTC takes a scalpel to wholesale high speed access rates, policy

GATINEAU – The CRTC today pared back some of the rates which large internet service providers can charge independent ISP competitors for using their networks. This battle has raged on for a number of years as independent ISPs like Teksavvy, Telnet and others attempt to carve out a market for themselves as ISPs serving a small slice of the Canadian populace who’d rather not be subscribers of one of the big telcos or cablecos. In order to do that though, those small ISPs need access to the big networks owned and run by Bell, Telus, Rogers and others just the...