Videotron needles Bell in latest chapter of Cablevision dispute

MONTREAL — In a press release on Wednesday, Quebecor’s Videotron couldn’t resist taking a jab at Bell subsidiary Cablevision du Nord de Quebec which was ordered by the CRTC the previous day to pay for router upgrades in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of western Quebec to add capacity to its third-party Internet access (TPIA) service which Videotron wants to use as it expands services in the region. On Tuesday, the Commission also denied Cablevision’s September 2020 application to withdraw its 50 Mbps downstream/5 Mbps upstream (50/5) service plan, because the Commission said it considered the application to be “premature”. “he Commission...