A new statement from Mélanie Joly, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for economic development in Quebec, clarifies that the government supports the recent CRTC decision that allows carriers to share network infrastructure for fibre internet .

This all started last summer when the CRTC piloted this sharing initiative in parts of Ontario and Quebec . The goal was to allow smaller internet providers to use the bigger players’ fibre infrastructure so that Canadians would have more choices regarding their home internet. The key hangup for some, but a major plus for most, was that this ruling also allowed big players to resell on each other’s infrastructure, most notably resulting in Telus launching fibre internet services in Ontario and Quebec using Bell’s infrastructure.

This has

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