Supreme Court denies request to hear wholesale rate methodology complaint

By Ahmad Hathout The country’s highest court ruled Thursday that it will not examine questions related to the CRTC’s decision to reverse a 2019 order that proposed lower wholesale internet access rates for competitors. The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) rejected TekSavvy’s October application that requested a review of a lower court’s decision to deny that the CRTC had to follow established costing methodology when, in 2021, it “arbitrarily” decided to maintain higher wholesale rates that competitors pay to access the larger provider’s networks. The regulator said it quashed the 2019 decision due to methodological errors. TekSavvy wanted the SCC...