GATINEAU — In two separate decisions issued today, the CRTC concluded it doesn’t need to take any enforcement action against several telecommunications service providers who at one point had failed to become participants in the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS), because either they are now CCTS participants or they have stopped providing services.
In Telecom Decision CRTC 2021-2, the Commission says it determined Rafiki Technologies committed a violation of the Telecommunications Act by failing to become a participant in the CCTS, but since it became a CCTS participant in August 2020 (almost two years after the CCTS informed the Commission in October 2018 the company was in non-compliance), the Commission says it won’t take any compliance or enforcement action against Rafiki or its director.
In the same decision, the Commission found SkyNet Data Networks (also operating as SkyNet Wireless Networks and SkyNet Canada) was officially dissolved before a complaint was filed with the CCTS in May 2018, and as such, SkyNet did not commit a violation of the Act and no further enforcement action is required, the Commission says.
In a separate decision, Telecom Decision CRTC 2021-4, the Commission determined it will not take any compliance and enforcement action against Golden Rural High Speed, Redbox Solutions, Total Cable Service and WISP Internet Services (which previously had been non-compliant with the CCTS participation requirement), because all four providers are now participants in the CCTS. A fifth telecommunications service provider, Pure Channel Communications, is no longer providing services within the scope of the CCTS’s mandate, and so the Commission says it won’t take further action against the company, although Pure Channel did violate the CCTS participation requirement prior to ceasing its services.
The Commission’s determinations regarding a sixth provider, MySignal.ca Solutions, who was investigated in the same proceeding, will be addressed in a separate decision, the Commission says.
