Quebecor says it must rethink pricing strategy after CRTC orders it to use Telus MVNO access rates

Quebecor said it will rethink pricing strategy as a result By Ahmad Hathout Quebecor will need to accept Telus’s rate to connect to its wireless network, the CRTC ruled Monday, eliciting a scathing response from the Montreal company that included a promise to reconsider its low-cost pricing and suspend the launch of certain plans in Manitoba. Telus and Quebecor could not come to an agreement on the price-per-gigabyte component of that access, so they each presented their respective prices and asked the CRTC to make that determination via final offer arbitration. While it said both offers would allow Quebecor’s mobile...