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December 21, 2016 04:21 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/igodT3MFGx4/canadas-telcoms-regulator-de.html
Canada's telcoms regulator declares internet an "essential service"
After decades of allowing anti-competitive mergers in the TV, radio, phone and internet sectors, Canada's telcoms regulator, the CRTC, has taken an important step to address the underperformance of Canada's monopolistic, bumbling phone companies and cable operators, declaring internet access to be an "essential service" and thus something that operators must offer in all territories in which they operate. (more…)
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