CRTC Rethinks Wholesale Broadband Access Policy

Wholesale policies historically have had huge implications for smaller contestants in the telecommunications business. One might rightly point to wholesale policies as the single most-important determinant of competitive local exchange carrier success in the U.S. market, for example.

Something similar seems to have been happening in Canada, where the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has moved to change wholesale access pricing policies relating to wholesale Internet access.

After concluding that wholesalers could charge their ISP customers on a metered basis, it now is taking another look at the policy.

CRTC to review billing practices for wholesale Internet services