The Globe and Mail reports in its Thursday edition that BCE is urging the CRTC to implement conditions such as caps on eligible speeds and initial access restrictions if the regulator allows smaller Internet providers to use rivals' fibre networks to offer their services to customers. A Canadian Press dispatch to The Globe says that representatives of Bell Canada's parent company appeared before the CRTC on Wednesday as part of the commission's consultation on Internet competition. The appearance comes less than a week after Bell pinned a hefty amount of blame on the CRTC when it announced it would slash 9 per cent of its work force. Bell's top lobbyist, Robert Malcolmson, told commissioners their previous calculation that granting temporary wholesale Internet access would not lead to spending cuts was "dead wrong," adding, "The question is whether the commission will double down or pause and consider how investment incentives can be restored while maintaining the vigorous price competition that is so clearly occurring in the marketplace." The CRTC's interim decision last November required Bell and Telus to provide competitors with access to their fibre-to-the-home networks in Ontario and Quebec within six months.