This fight began last summer when the CRTC instated a ruling that forces Bell and Telus, Canada's largest fibre internet providers, to share their networks with smaller internet service providers (ISPs) to increase competition, and, ideally, lower prices. My sister lives in a rural area where the only actual high-speed internet providers she has access to are Starlink and Rogers fibre. In February, Bell CEO Mirko Bibic said, "We're not in the business of building fibre for Telus's benefit" and announced it would cut fibre investments. Not openly related to this specific CRTC ruling, but Bell has also withdrawn from its deal to bring high-speed internet to northern Labrador. Bell looks to U.S. fibreThere's also some irony in Bell arguing for Canadian fibre investment amid the company's own U.S. expansion.