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GATINEAU, Que. — The country’s broadcast regulator is coming out with new rules Thursday that will require cable and satellite companies to offer customers a trimmed-down, basic channels package, sources have told The Canadian Press.

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It might have sounded like a simple solution to years of complaints by Canadian television viewers stuck with a bundle of channels that many didn’t want to watch, nor pay for.

But a proposal by the country’s broadcast regulator to allow customers to pick and choose their own programming — on top of a basic service of local channels with a cap of up to $30 a month — has drawn a wave of complaints from broadcast providers, as well as their subscribers.

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The cost of the so-called “skinny basic” package is to be capped at $25, said one source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is to announce details of its decision later today at 4 p.m. ET.