Bell says it will cut back on a rural internet program it committed to last year by some 20 per cent, or 200,000 households to compensate for the lower rates.The regulator requires that large telecom companies sell access their infrastructure to smaller internet providers as a way to improve competition and lower prices.
After years of review, the CRTC set final rates last week of what the smaller providers would have to pay that were up to 77 per cent lower than the interim rates set in 2016. The major telecom companies have long threatened that infrastructure investments could be impacted by lower broadband access rates.
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globebusiness Who pays and builds the infrastructure?
globebusiness Bullshit Bell. You make a fortune, along with the other Canadian Telecom companies, off of Canadians, offer subpar plans as compared to even the smallest of companies in America, Europe or elsewhere.
globebusiness Gotta love monopolies
globebusiness It's time to let american companies come here and offer competition/service.
globebusiness Another effort to deny conservatives information by the 2019 Canadian government.
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