In a public version of its complaint to the Canadian Competition
Commissioner (see below), Internet re-seller TekSavvy says that
Bell Canada and Rogers Communications Canada have been abusing
their dominant position in wholesale and retail markets for
wireline Internet services in Ontario and Quebec. They do this,
TekSavvy alleges, by increasing the wholesale prices charged to
TekSavvy and others to use the Bell/Rogers Internet infrastructure
while at the same time reducing prices for their own Internet
services that compete directly against TekSavvy.
Margin Squeezing
In 2016, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications
Commission (CRTC) ordered Bell and Rogers on an interim basis to
stop increasing prices being charged to TekSavvy, which between
2016 and 2019 had been significant. In 2019, the CRTC issued a
final order against Bell and Rogers and determined that, on the
basis of Bell and Rogers' own evidence, all of Bell and
Rogers' wholesale rates were
