Telecom giant Rogers is trying to block customers of Sugar Mobile, an affordable new provider, from roaming on its network.7

Why? They want to paralyze the startup, which is selling innovative mobile phone service for $19 a month across Canada.8

The giants are abusing legal loopholes in the CRTC’s pro-customer wireless rules to reduce choice, harm innovation, and keep low-income Canadians offline.

The rules say telecom giants like Rogers have to give Sugar Mobile fair access. But because Sugars uses an innovative hybrid WiFi/cellular network, Rogers is saying the rules don’t apply. This is unfair, and harms innovation.

The CRTC’s rules were designed to promote innovation, lower costs, and increase choice.9 Siding with Big Telecom now would undo this momentum.

With the recently-completed sale of WIND – Canada’s last affordable wireless provider – to telecom giant Shaw,10 this case will serve as a litmus test for the CRTC.

OpenMedia will be putting a hard-hitting, expert submission on the public record to stop Big Telecom’s blocking tactics at the CRTC on March 17. But we need you to add your voice.

Sign this petition to let decision-makers know where Canadians stand before it’s too late.

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