TPIA: Cabinet verdict on wholesale rates decision due Monday

By Denis Carmel OTTAWA – On August 15, 2019, the Commission issued Telecom Order 2019-288 setting final rates for aggregated wholesale high-speed internet access services. That order set access rates the large incumbent providers (Canada's big cable and telecom firms), found too rich (capacity rates are 15% to 43% lower than the interim rates and the access rates are 3% to 77% lower) and they did not appreciate the fact that an estimated $328 million was to be paid retroactively to competitive third party internet access providers. So, the incumbent providers used the three appeal avenues available to them in...