CRTC slaps new conditions on telcos | FP Tech Desk | Financial Post

Striking an unexpectedly interventionist tone, the federal broadcast regulator Wednesday slapped a host of new conditions on the country’s biggest telecommunications conglomerates.

In a bid to curb “anti-competitive” behaviour between BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., Shaw Communications Inc. and Quebecor Media Inc. — firms with considerable market power through their collective control of most of the country’s TV, Internet and wireless networks as well as the television content flowing over them — the regulator has enacted a new “code of conduct” and other provisions designed to guard the market place from disruptions, such as programming black outs.

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