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> a regulatory body controlled by the companies that are setting the prices To be precise, the CRTC is theorically an independent public entity. In practice ho
by folkrav 4y ago
> a regulatory body controlled by the companies that are setting the prices
To be precise, the CRTC is theorically an independent public entity. In practice however, the chairman since 2017 is Ian Scott, an ex-lobbyist who worked for ISPs and telecommunications companies. He's been caught meeting with one of our major ISPs' (Bell) then-COO, now CEO Mirko Bibic, right before overturning their own 2019 order that would have forced large ISPs to lower their wholesale rates to smaller ISPs, rolling them back to previous (much higher) 2016 values.
The CRTC is a joke.