BCE Inc. Rotten Score Breakdown

On June 15, 2022, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission imposed $7.5 million in penalties on Bell Canada, a BCE Inc. subsidiary. The CRTC found that Bell denied Videotron access to poles and delayed permit applications, slowing a competitor's network deployment while Bell expanded its own network. This record attributes the violations to Bell Canada as the regulated subsidiary. Primary source: https://www.canada.ca/en/radio-television-telecommunications/news/2022/06/crtc-imposes-75-million-in-penalties-on-bell-canada-for-violations-of-canadas-telecommunications-act.html

In June 2011, Bell Canada, a BCE Inc. subsidiary, entered an agreement with the Competition Bureau and agreed to pay a $10 million administrative monetary penalty. The Bureau said Bell had advertised prices for services since December 2007 that consumers could not actually obtain because mandatory additional fees were disclosed only in fine print. The agreement resolved the Bureau's concerns and was not a trial judgment. Primary source, Competition Bureau annual report: https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2013/ic/Iu50-2012-eng.pdf