Ottawa upholds CRTC’s wholesale internet rules, says they will foster competition

Ottawa says it will uphold a ruling by Canada’s telecommunications regulator allowing the country’s largest internet companies to provide service to customers using fibre networks built by their rivals – as long as they do so outside their core regions.

Industry Minister Mélanie Joly says in a statement the CRTC’s ruling “will immediately allow for more competition on existing networks for high-speed internet services across the country.”