OTTAWA – Distributel Communications has asked the CRTC to revise the interim access rates for disaggregated wholesale high-speed access (HSA) services to bring them in line with those of aggregated HSA services.
In a Part 1 application posted to the CRTC’s website today, Distributel asks the Commission to establish the revised rates “to ensure that disaggregated HSA access rates are not higher than the access rates for aggregated HSA services where the access components for each HSA service use the same underlying technology and are within the same tariffed speed band.”
Distributel says the revised rates will remove a barrier “that impedes the deployment of disaggregated HSA services and frustrates the Commission’s objective of incenting a transition to disaggregated HSA service so that Canadians can benefit from increased facilities-based competition,” its application reads.
The telecom argues unaddressed, the barrier it is seeking to remove “will continue to impede the Commission’s stated objective of transitioning to a disaggregated HSA framework in order to allow Canadians to enjoy the benefits of increased investment and facilities-based competition.”
Distributel specifies in its application that the relief it is seeking does not diminish the company’s concerns with regards to the aggregated HSA rates the CRTC decided on last year or the disaggregated HSA rates established by the CRTC in 2017.
The company asked the CRTC to make a decision on its application “in as expedited a manner as possible.”
The deadline to submit comments to this proceeding is April 29, 2022.
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