Supreme Court will hear case of whether CRTC has domain over wireless access to municipal structures

By Ahmad Hathout The country’s highest court has granted Thursday Telus’s request to hear its case that the CRTC has jurisdiction over wireless access to municipal infrastructure. The Vancouver-based telecom is appealing from the Federal Court of Appeal’s decision that determined that Parliament did not intend for “transmission line” under section 43 of the CRTC-administered Telecommunications Act to include wireless technologies. Telus has argued that the wireless signals must route back to hard wires anyway. “By focusing on the point that small cell antennas send and receive wireless signals, the court below failed to appreciate the importance of the physical...