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Where’s the rural broadband Bell? – CRTC wants answers for delays


OTTAWA - Bell is falling far behind schedule in rolling out broadband services to rural communities using public funds and will only have 12 Commission-approved communities completed by year’s end, not the 49 communities it forecast says the CRTC. The regulator is now demanding that Bell Canada and Bell Aliant submit quarterly reports on the status of their deferral account project to ensure it gets back on schedule in order to be completed as agreed by August, 2014. In an August, 2010 decision regarding how Bell should dispose of the funds remaining in its deferral account the Commission directed the Bell...