'Foolish' to think CRTC won't mandate fibre access: Bell CEO

By Ahmad Hathout Bell CEO Mirko Bibic said Tuesday that the telco is anticipating that the CRTC will mandate access to incumbents' fibre facilities, and the outstanding questions about that access will determine what types of difficult business decisions it will have to make. Bibic was speaking at Scotiabank's TMT conference when he was asked about regulatory assumptions the telco makes that affect how it approaches business decisions. In response, Bibic targeted the regulator's November decision to temporarily provide competitors access to the bundled middle and last mile fibre facilities of Bell and Telus in Ontario and Quebec until it...