Pole access: CRTC rules in favour of Videotron and rebukes Bell
b'MONTRAL, April 16, 2021 /CNW Telbec/ -The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) issued a decision this morning in response to Videotron\'s representations concerning the unscrupulous tactics Bell is using to block access to its support structures.
- b'MONTRAL, April 16, 2021 /CNW Telbec/ -The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) issued a decision this morning in response to Videotron\'s representations concerning the unscrupulous tactics Bell is using to block access to its support structures.
- https://crtc.gc.ca/fra/archive/2021/2021-131.htm The federal regulator\'s response is unequivocal: Bell has contravened numerous regulations and deliberately violated the Telecommunications Act.
- The CRTC directed Bell to complete, at its own cost, the make-ready work required under applications for access permits.\nThe CRTC found that the preference Bell Canada has granted itself and the disadvantage it has imposed on Videotron are undue and unreasonable.
- 85)\n"The Commission finds that Bell Canada failed to demonstrate that the preference it granted itself is not unjust or undue."(par.