Appeared in the Toronto Star on September 6, 2010 as Competition Concerns Drive CRTC Internet Provider Policy Recent data on Internet use in Canada suggests that most people reading this subscribe to broadband services and that virtually all those subscribers are with a major telecommunications or cable company. Indeed, the […]
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CRTC Mandates Wholesale Access for ISPs
The CRTC yesterday affirmed an earlier decision requiring incumbents to grant wholesale access to faster speeds to independent ISPs. The government could still overrule the decision within the next 90 days.

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