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BCE Inc (2)
Symbol BCE
Shares Issued 869,698,468
Close 2016-09-19 C$ 60.05
Market Cap C$ 52,225,393,003
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Post says BCE to be told how to share by CRTC this week

2016-09-19 06:43 ET - In the News

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The Financial Post reports in its Monday edition that Canada's telco regulator will announce this week implementation plans for its decision to require big players to sell wholesale access to their new, ultrafast fibre networks. The Post's Emily Jackson writes that the CRTC introduced the new rules last summer, but implementation was delayed after Bell Canada petitioned the federal government to quash the policy as soon as the Liberals came into power. Bell is not keen to share. The Liberal cabinet rejected its petition in May, citing a desire to increase higher-speed broadband coverage and support retail competition. Since then, both small Internet providers that want access, such as TekSavvy and VMedia, and the incumbents have been waiting on guidelines dictating how the wholesale regime will work. The new rules require a switch from aggregated wholesale access to an entire network to disaggregated wholesale access. The CRTC plans to roll out the new regime first in Quebec and Ontario where demand is strongest. Bell threatened to lower its annual investment in fibre-to-the-home, but it is not clear how much it has changed investment tactics since its petition fell through this spring.

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