Cable / Telecom News

It’s not a $2 million comma after all


OTTAWA – It’s only a $700,000 piece of punctuation. That's the assessment that came Monday after the CRTC sided with Rogers Cable over its unusual row with Aliant over a pole attachment contract that turned sour over the placement of a single comma. Over a year ago, Aliant ended a five-year pole attachment contract early, saying that one clause of the contract, with a poorly placed comma, actually said the company could end its contract with Rogers any time it wished, with a year's notice. The contract called for Rogers to pay the CRTC-mandated rate of $9.60 per pole per...