Should town telcos be able to get BDU licenses?

OTTAWA – There are just under 40 independent telephone companies left in Canada – little telcos that for one reason or another, were never swallowed up by Bell Canada. All of them, save one, are in Bell’s Ontario or Quebec territory. Of those, there are six which are owned by municipalities: Bruce Municipal Telephone System, Cochrane Public Utilities Commission, Dryden Municipal Telephone System, Kenora Municipal Telephone System, The Corporation of the City of Thunder Bay - Telephone Division, all in Ontario, and Prince Rupert City Telephone, in British Columbia. This week, the Department of Canadian Heritage closed a comments period...