Let’s say you have a long term lease on an apartment and the landlord decides he wants to demolish your building. You might think that the landlord would need to share the costs of you relocating. At the very least, you would want the landlord to waive the “move-in” fees – your key money – for the new place.
Well, in the world of telecommunications, that isn’t how it works.
TELUS is redeveloping a city block in Vancouver as part of its $750M TELUS Gardens headquarters project. About 6 months later, TELUS advised Allstream that it had 5 months to relocate its equipment colocated in a TELUS building at 720 Seymour Street to an adjacent building at 768 Seymour.
Allstream went to the CRTC saying that the 5 months wasn’t enough time and asking in any case for TELUS to be ordered not to charge one-time fees for the new installation.
The CRTC told the parties that the co-location agreement would govern the issues of timing of notice and responsibilities for costs. The outcome is not what you might expect.