The CRTC has once again refused to mandate the big telcos sell wholesale access to their wireless networks to fledgling rivals without towers of their own, a decision critics call a blow for competition and for Canadians fed up with big cellphone bills.
At the request of Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains, the regulator spent months reviewing its ruling from last March that threatened to put Sugar Mobile out of business. On Thursday, the CRTC reaffirmed its decision that the discount Wi-Fi-based provider has no right to resell access to Rogers’s network to keep its customers connected.
Sugar Mobile CEO Samer Bishay called the decision “a big blow for Canadians once again.”
“It just shows that we have a broken system,” he said. “Something is broken and it needs fixing fast.”
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