CRTC Expands Ability for Internet Providers to Sell Service Over Telecoms’ Networks

CRTC Expands Ability for Internet Providers to Sell Service Over Telecoms’ Networks
A person navigates to the on-line social-media pages of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on a cell phone in Ottawa on May 17, 2021. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
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Canada’s telecommunications regulator is expanding a decision that allows smaller internet providers to use rivals’ fibre networks to offer their services to customers.

The CRTC says that starting next February, large telephone companies that own fibre internet networks, such as Bell Canada and Telus Corp., must give competitors access to their networks for a fee.