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Quebecor accused of abusing process, flip-flopping on disaggregated regime

Execulink said rate reduction would improve business case for disaggregated adoption By Ahmad Hathout Bell and Rogers are accusing Quebecor of trying to relitigate issues on the disaggregated regime outside of the CRTC’s existing proceeding in the matter, adding the parent company of Videotron and Freedom is flip-flopping on a regime it previously thought should have been abandoned. Quebecor filed a Part 1 application in December asking the regulator to align the access rates to large last mile fibre networks for both disaggregated and aggregated regimes in order to remain competitive. Quebecor pointed to the costs of the disaggregated packages...