TPIA: More to come from Québecor in response to CRTC wholesale decision

By Denis Carmel

MONTREAL – During Quebecor’s third quarter conference call with financial analysts last week Videotron president and CEO Jean-François Pruneau shed some light on the company’s motivation behind its decision to stop offering its highest broadband speeds at retail and wholesale.Last month, as we reported, Videotron wrote the CRTC to remove its offered wholesale tariffs on its 1 Gig service, indicating it would stop offering it to wholesalers and therefore also had to stop offering it to their retail customers, too. At the time, Videotron refused to comment on its motivation although many speculated it was directly tied to the CRTC’s TPIA...