Telecoms deviate on broadening Broadband Fund to operational costs

Large telecoms emphasize need for mobile wireless projects By Ahmad Hathout OTTAWA – Service providers are providing mixed responses to the CRTC’s proposal to use the Broadband Fund to subsidize the ongoing cost of operating networks it helps build, with responses ranging from not expanding its use beyond its current boundaries and allowing for its use for that purpose. The CRTC launched a proceeding in March to broaden the scope of the $750-million fund supported by telecom revenues, from which three rounds of funding had been opened. The commission – surveying the influx of other federal broadband programs since the...