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TekSavvy raising Internet prices Oct. 1

“Left with no choice” due to CRTC’s wholesale rate reversal, the ISP says CHATHAM, Ont. — Independent ISP TekSavvy announced in a blog post yesterday it has no other option than to raise the price of its residential Internet packages as a result of the CRTC’s May 2021 reversal of its 2019 decision to lower wholesale Internet rates. “Starting with the Oct. 1 billing cycle, most existing TekSavvy residential Internet customers will see an increase of $3 a month on their service packages,” reads the post written by Peter Nowak, TekSavvy’s vice-president of insight and engagement. “To be clear, we...