GATINEAU, Quebec, July 22 (Reuters) - Canada's
telecommunications regulator decided on Wednesday that the
country's biggest providers will have to share their fibre optic
network connections, a boost to smaller rivals that currently
get to use the larger companies' older infrastructure.
The decision will negatively affect major phone companies -
principally BCE Inc BCE.TO and Telus Corp T.TO - to a
greater degree than cable companies such as Rogers
Communications Inc RCIb.TO and Shaw Communications Inc
SJRb.TO because the former have invested much more to deploy
the technology.