CRTC Allows Deregulation of Thunder Bay Telecom Market

12:26 pm on September 28, 2009 | Category: Regulation, Telecom Services, Telephone

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TBayTel, the incumbent telecom operator in Thunder Bay, Ontario, has successfully applied for regulatory “forbearance,” meaning that the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) will no longer regulate the rates it charges for residential telephone service.

The CRTC noted that other companies were active in the Thunder Bay telecom market and concluded that TBayTel was “subject to a level of competition … sufficient to protect the interests of users of [its] services.”

Forbearance has been available to Canadian telecom carriers since 2007 when the federal government announced that it would deregulate local telephone markets where sufficient cable and wireless phone services were also available.

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