Canada’s major telecom companies have been given the go-ahead by the Federal Court of Appeal to challenge part of the CRTC’s new wireless code of conduct that would affect three-year cellphone contracts retroactively.
Rogers, Bell, Telus, SaskTel, Manitoba Telecom Services and others say a new CRTC code mandating that contracts run no more than two years would prematurely apply to three-year contracts signed before the new code comes into effect on Dec. 2.
As a result, the wireless companies plan to challenge the ruling in court. They were granted permission to do so recently, but the ruling only came to light Thursday. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has said its wireless code should apply to all contracts, no matter when they were entered into, by no later than June 3, 2015.
LuAnn LaSalle – Canadian Press – October 3, 2013.
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