Wireless Review: Competition Bureau tells CRTC to disregard Bell, Telus

By Denis Carmel GATINEAU – In the lengthy CRTC process reviewing its wireless policies, one player played an unusually central role. Since it had no economic interest and because of its professed expertise, the Competition Bureau (which falls under the purview of the department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development) convinced the Commission to be allowed special access to confidential company data, despite strenuous objections, all of which we have reported on previously. So, when the Bureau admitted it made a mistake in its final comments and issued corrections, Bell Canada jumped on it and requested that the Bureau’s evidence,...