The Globe and Mail reports in its Thursday edition that Eastlink, Cogeco and SaskTel complained to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on Tuesday that Rogers Communications' Sportsnet shouldn't be allowed to charge customers an extra $13 a month to get NHL games on Monday nights. The Globe's Simon Houpt writes that the three cable companies allege Rogers acted anti-competitively by imposing a surcharge this season on customers who didn't subscribe through Rogers Cable. In their filing, the cable companies asked the CRTC to act swiftly because of what they characterize as "the severe and ongoing harm Rogers' anti-competitive practices are inflicting across the Canadian broadcasting market." Actions such as these, known as undue preference proceedings because a company is alleged to be giving preferential treatment to its own services, can take months or sometimes years to resolve. Sportsnet is in talks with some of the other TV providers to offer their customers the NHL games as part of their service. So far, Rogers Cable, a corporate cousin of Sportsnet, is the only company to strike such a deal. It has created three new digital channels on its Xfinity service to carry the NHL programming.