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Updated: PIAC-CAC’s CraveTV complaint “frivolous” says Bell — and Telus agrees

OTTAWA — Bell Media has asked the CRTC to dismiss a complaint filed last week by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and Consumers’ Association of Canada (CAC) that called into question the tied selling of Bell’s CraveTV streaming service to existing TV subscription services.And in a separate procedural request submitted to the CRTC today, Telus (one of CraveTV’s distributors) asked the Commission “to either return the CraveTV application to PIAC-CAC in order for deficiencies to be remedied or to close the file.”As reported last week, in one of two applications submitted to the CRTC on February 6, PIAC-CAC challenged...