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Indie internet providers warned for months CRTC decision would kill them — now they’re beginning to disappear
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A letter to the federal cabinet late last summer was blunt about the fate of small internet providers: “This chapter … rings the death knell on competition.”
EBOX, which billed itself as the largest independent internet service provider (ISP) in Quebec, with almost 100,000 customers, was arguing that Canada’s telecom regulator went seriously wrong in a decision on broadband rates last year.
So wrong, the company said, that it was virtually impossible for EBOX to keep offering high-speed internet service at good prices.
“(The ruling) essentially put the nail in the coffin after fighting for years in order to obtain just and reasonable rates.”
