VANCOUVER Public interest advocates say the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) should refuse to grant Shaw Cable’s application to deregulate basic monthly cable fees in Vancouver, Burnaby, Coquitlam/Maple Ridge, Mission (Fraser), Northwest Vancouver, Surrey/Abbotsford, and White Rock, BC.
Lawyers with the BC Public Interest Advocacy Centre (BC PIAC), representing a number of anti-poverty, seniors’, consumers’ and tenants’ organizations have written to the CRTC expressing serious concern over Shaw’s application, citing a lack of true competition in the cable television industry
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