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TPIA: Supreme Court to announce Thursday morning whether leave to appeal wholesale fees decision can go ahead

Whatever the SCC decides, all still await the CRTC's Review & Vary call By Denis Carmel OTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada will, on Thursday morning at 9:45, release a decision on whether it will hear an appeal of the August 2019 decision which the CRTC set new wholesale internet fees for incumbents, a decision which also forced the likes of Bell, Rogers and others to pay retroactive fees to independent resellers. Both Bell as well as the large traditional cable carriers sought leave to appeal the Federal Court of Appeal decision which upheld CRTC decision 2019-288—Final rates for...