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Regulator: Wireless start-up must stop using Rogers network

Mar. 01, 2017 4:51 PM ETRogers Communications Inc. (RCI) Stock, RCI.B:CA StockRCIBy: Jason Aycock, SA News Editor
  • A wireless start-up must stop using Rogers Communications' (NYSE:RCI) network to serve its customers, Canada's telecom regulator has decided.
  • Ice Wireless raised the issue on behalf of its affiliate Sugar Mobile, an MVNO that re-sold service on Rogers' network through a reciprocal agreement allowing for use while roaming.
  • Rogers' plan to end that deal spurred Ice into action before the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission last year.
  • The CRTC has ruled that Ice allowed Sugar users to get "permanent rather than incidental" access to the cell network, despite Ice's claims that its service came primarily through Wi-Fi.
  • Critics expect the decision to keep wireless prices high as power stays concentrated with Rogers and rivals BCE and Telus.

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