The Globe and Mail reports in its Saturday edition that TekSavvy is asking the CRTC to lower the rates that small carriers pay large companies to resell Internet over their fibre networks, arguing competition is "impossible" under the current rules. A Canadian Press dispatch to The Globe says TekSavvy is part of a coalition of independent Internet providers and industry associations that submitted an application to the broadcast regulator on Thursday urging it to reconsider the decision it made in April. At the time, the regulator said those rates would allow dozens of competitors to "continue offering new choices to Canadians while also ensuring companies are compensated fairly for the investments they make to connect Canadians to fibre." But the group said the CRTC approved "severely inflated" wholesale rates that are higher than the retail fibre Internet prices charged by the large carriers. That hinders the ability of independent providers to compete because they must either sell service at a loss or set retail prices higher than the large carriers, they told the regulator. "Canadians were promised greater competition for fibre Internet services, but these rates make competition impossible," TekSavvy said.