Wireless Review: Competition Bureau gets its wish as wireless carriers must provide more data

OTTAWA – Wireless carriers will have to provide more granular data to the CRTC, after all.As part of its submission to the CRTC’s review of mobile wireless services, the Competition Bureau wants to, among other things, do a detailed study on what happened locally (not just in provinces and nationally) when new wireless competitors to the Big Three (Rogers, Bell and Telus) were introduced. To do that, the Bureau needs far more detailed data than the CRTC has asked for in its original requests for information upon the proceeding’s call.The wireless carriers and the CRTC have resisted those requests for...