Federal Court dismisses appeal over CRTC’s Wireless Code

OTTAWA - The Federal Court of Appeal has rejected a complaint lodged by some of Canada’s biggest wireless service providers over a deadline date in the CRTC’s Wireless Code of Conduct.In a decision issued Tuesday, Justice Denis Pelletier dismissed a challenge filed by Bell, Rogers, Telus, MTS and SaskTel over the June 3, 2015 final implementation date of the Code, referred to as “the drop-dead date”, whereby all existing wireless contracts fall subject to the Code.Noting the high number of three-year wireless contracts that would not yet have matured by that date, the telcos claimed that they would be unable...