{"id":99948,"date":"2025-08-29T02:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/99948\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T02:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:39:12","slug":"eastlink-warns-of-possible-service-cuts-in-nl-due-to-crtc-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/99948\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastlink Warns of Possible Service Cuts in NL Due to CRTC Regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Photo via Eastlink)<\/p>\n

Eastlink, which provides cable and internet services to many rural communities\u00a0across the province, says it may have to cut some of its services in Newfoundland and Labrador because of CRTC regulations surrounding wholesale internet prices.<\/p>\n

Executive Vice-Chair of Eastlink, Lee Bragg, says the CRTC is forcing his company to sell internet services on their infrastructure to companies like Telus at rates well below cost.<\/p>\n

A frustrated Bragg says\u00a0the cost\u00a0is too great\u00a0in many rural and underperforming areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cNewfoundland and Labrador, in particular, are challenging for us because we don\u2019t own any of the major urban markets. Rogers services those. We have all the rural areas,\u201d he says in an interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t afford that risk, so we have to minimize the risk and end up looking at some of these areas to shut down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bragg says the move could affect\u00a0coverage in just about any smaller\u00a0region\u00a0of the province, the largest municipality being Happy Valley-Goose Bay.<\/p>\n

\u201cI sell high-speed internet for $80 a month. My costs are $50. My wholesale rate is $25.They only cover half my costs,\u201d he told VOCM News.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo that gives them a $25 advantage in the marketplace over me, which I need to recover on all my other customers. Why should I have to be forced to raise prices to my other customers in order to give a benefit to Telus shareholders?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Photo via Eastlink) Eastlink, which provides cable and internet services to many rural communities\u00a0across the province, says…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1638,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-99948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}