OTTAWA – Industry Minister Mélanie Joly has upheld the CRTC’s wholesale regulatory framework for high-speed Internet services, giving Telus Corp. a victory after a long battle. But other telecom operators are furious.

In a landmark decision announced late Wednesday evening, Joly sided with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s (CRTC) after it decided to allow for greater competition on existing networks for high-speed Internet services across the country.

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The CRTC authorized Canada’s three major telecommunications companies to resell fibre optics to Internet service providers (ISPs) on their respective networks.

This decision means, for example, that Telus, which is strong in Western Canada, can use other providers’ networks to attract tho

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