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Monopolies are holding your access to lightning-fast fibre Internet HOSTAGE. NO independent provider can give you what you NEED - good service at a fair price!

Canadians deserve an affordable, competitive telecom market, and fair fibre wholesale rates are how we’ll get it. Email the CRTC and demand they fix our broken wholesale rates TODAY!

To: The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)

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Chairperson

Vicky

Eatrides

CRTC

Dear {contact_data~firstName} {contact_data~lastName},

I’m writing to ask you to provide reasonable, affordable rates for fibre Internet access everywhere in Canada.

I support your recent decision that access to fibre networks is necessary everywhere in Canada; now I’m asking you to make a strongly pro-consumer decision and set low rates to access that network, too.

Any time Canadians have only one or two choices for fast Internet, we’re price gouged by the companies that provide it. But we’ll only have more companies and real competition if you set access rates low enough to make being a small ISP viable.

Most small independent ISPs in Canada have now been bought out by Big Telecom. Things have only reached this point because of the unfairly expensive wholesale rates indie ISPs have been forced to pay.

Canada doesn’t have to be a country held captive by telecom monopolies. In a time when competition shrinking and Canadians are struggling to afford basic needs, you have the power to change this. I am calling on you to take the last, most important step to fix our broken wholesale system by setting affordable prices TODAY.

Sincerely,
{user_data~First Name} {user_data~Last Name}

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For YEARS we’ve been at the mercy of Big Telecom for high-speed internet. They’ve been gobbling up small ISPs left and right, dropping real competition all across Canada. Now a HUGE decision is hanging in the balance that will decide whether we FINALLY get competitive Internet options everywhere - or lock just one or two monopoly choices in for GOOD. Let’s explain, real quick!

In 2015, the CRTC ruled that you should have access to fibre internet from any choice of provider you want.¹ But then, they dawdled, leaving rules in place at the time so restrictive, small ISPs couldn’t actually do it, and were forced to sell us low-speed Internet scraps. That CRTC inaction means Big Telecom has maintained a complete monopoly on fibre Internet access to your home, ever since.^2,3

In August 2024, the CRTC finally decided that anyone who will sell you Internet service in your community should be able to access the local fibre network at a fair price. Sounds good, right?

Here's the catch: they haven't decided what that 'fair' price will be yet. And if the access rate is too high, no one new will enter the market and NOTHING will change!

We've seen it happen time after time: the CRTC starts to do the right thing, then Big Telecom convinces them to subvert their own system and make sure it can't possibly work.

Enough is enough; we’re sick and tired of a broken system! It’s time the CRTC brings TRULY affordable fibre access from any provider, anywhere in Canada that infrastructure exists. ^4,5,6 Email the CRTC to ask to guarantee LOW fibre rates and LOTS of competition, right NOW!

Sources

Our crowdsourced policy became government policy. The CRTC heard your call, Canada - OpenMedia
Wholesale and fibre explained - OpenMedia
What is fibre internet - Whistle Out
Telecom Notice of Consultation CRTC 2023-56 - Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
Your voice, DELIVERED: OpenMedia’s submission to Cabinet on the CRTC’s wholesale rates decision is in! - OpenMedia
OpenMedia is calling on the CRTC to hold major ISPs accountable for high-speed Internet rollout - OpenMedia

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