Vancouver-based Telus said in a filing to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission that on Jan. 14, Bell abruptly and illegally lowered the quality of the internet service that Telus buys from it at wholesale prices, as “part of a pattern of behaviour designed to reduce Telus’s’ competitiveness” and undermine the CRTC. Bell didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment from The Logic, and has until Jan. 23 to file a formal response to the CRTC. (The Logic)

Talking point: Telus buys access to Bell’s wires in some parts of Canada under a CRTC order that many telcos opposed; its new filing said the alleged service degradation is part of a campaign to “harm Telus, and therefore competition and consumers,” as Telus uses that order to expand aggressively into Bell’s territories. Although many details are redacted from the public version of the document, it suggests the move followed a dispute that began in October, which the CRTC has already been involved in trying to resolve.