The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is looking for volunteers willing to place monitoring devices on their routers, which will assess whether their advertised internet speeds are being met. Bell, Rogers, Telus, Shaw, Cogeco, Northwestel and Vidéotron will be participating. (The Logic)

Talking point: The CRTC conducted a similar program in 2016 and found that a number of providers were offering internet speeds significantly below what they advertised. For example, Bell Aliant, Bell’s subsidiary in Atlantic Canada, had one offering that performed at 77 per cent its advertised download speed, and Bell Canada had a plan that performed at 60 per cent its upload speed. Those low results did not lead to enforcement or regulatory corrections. Rather, a few months after the tests concluded, the CRTC set a target download speed of 50 Mbps for basic download service. Three years later, the average download speed is 47 Mbps.