TPIA: Supreme Court will not hear wholesale rate appeal

By Ahmad Hathout OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear a big telecom appeal about the alleged incorrectness of the CRTC’s decision to reduce the rate for internet capacity purchased by smaller service providers. The decision, announced Thursday morning, exhausts the legal route for a challenge of the August 2019 rates that dramatically reduced the amount that smaller providers would need to spend to purchase network capacity from the larger players. The rates were never implemented because it almost instantly was appealed to the CRTC, the federal government, and the courts. The SCC does not give reasons...