Bell Canada 'Holds Rural People Hostage' In Dispute With Regulator

Bell Canada says it will cut roughly 200,000 households from a rural internet expansion program after a federal regulator lowered wholesale broadband prices it can charge to smaller internet providers.The Montreal-based company said Monday that the final rates set last week by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission will cost it more than $100 million, with the bulk of the sum going to cover the retroactively lower rates.“Putting this kind of unexpected and retroact