Telecommunications provider TekSavvy is asking the federal regulator to lower the rates that small carriers pay large companies to resell internet over their fibre networks, arguing competition is “impossible” under the current rules.
TekSavvy is part of a coalition of independent internet providers and industry associations that submitted an application to the CRTC on Thursday urging it to reconsider the decision it made in April.
At the time, the regulator said those rates would allow dozens of competitors to “continue offering new choices to Canadians while also ensuring companies are compensated fairly for the investments they make to connect Canadians to fibre.”…