TekSavvy calls for Competition Bureau to act against “rampant anti-competitive activity”

CHATHAM, Ont. – TekSavvy is calling on the Competition Bureau to “address rampant anti-competitive activity in Canada’s telecommunications industry,” according to a letter from the independent service provider to the bureau yesterday. “Canada is suffering through a cost-of-living crisis,” the letter says. “Consumers should not continue to pay increasing, artificially inflated prices for an essential service while heavily subsidized large incumbent carriers reap record profits.” TekSavvy’s letter references a February 2020 complaint it submitted to the bureau asking it to investigate what TekSavvy said was a pattern of anti-competitive activity in Canada’s wholesale and retail Internet markets. As detailed in...