Every small internet service provider should get the discounted prices Rogers is offering Videotron for access to its network, TekSavvy argued in a complaint filed to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. The indie ISP alleged that the terms Videotron is getting, to ensure its viability as a fourth national telecom competitor, are “an undue or unreasonable preference” that violates the Telecommunications Act. TekSavvy also claims Bell is doing the same with Ebox, a subsidiary it bought last year. (The Logic)

Talking point: Rogers’s $26-billion buyout of Shaw got the nod from the Competition Tribunal last month partly on the expectation that Videotron, backed by special access to Rogers’s infrastructure, will become a fierce competitor once it gets hold of Shaw’s discount Freedom Mobile unit. TekSavvy’s complaint wouldn’t necessarily torpedo the Rogers-Shaw-Videotron deals even if it’s successful, as long as Rogers offered the same terms to TekSavvy and others. Just needing to have the argument is inconvenient, though, with the three parties’ having set Jan. 31 as a deadline to conclude the deals.