April 24, 2026—Gatineau—Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)

Today, the CRTC is finalizing its approach to help ensure that Canadians benefit from new choices and greater affordability of high-speed Internet services.

In February 2025, the CRTC began allowing competitors across Canada to use the largest telephone companies’ fibre networks to sell a wide range of communications services, including home Internet, television, telephone, and smart home services. Competitive providers have responded by announcing plans to deliver new competitive choices for up to 8.5 million Canadian households.

Today’s decision sets final rates that competitors will pay for access to these fibre networks. These rates were calculated using the CRTC’s long-standing approach, which carefully considers the costs that incumbents have incurred to build networks. They are based on a thorough, objective, and highly technical analysis of actual costs.

The final rates replace existing interim rates for access to large telephone companies’ fibre networks. The rates set in today’s decision are similar to those interim rates, which dozens of competitors have successfully been using to bring new offers to market. Finalizing these rates provides certainty for the industry and will allow competitors to continue offering new choices to Canadians while also ensuring companies are compensated fairly for the investments they make to connect Canadians to fibre.