The House of Commons Industry Committee is continuing its clause-by-clause study of Bill C-27, the Digital Charter Act. Wednesday evening it made haste in getting through many facets of the legislation. The panel picked up where it left off, with a sub-amendment from...
Canadian broadcasters are encouraging the CRTC to make sure the bargaining framework between news businesses and online platforms, mandated by the Online News Act, prioritizes...
A group of public interest broadcasters is getting more money from the...
As it reported further declines in revenue for the...
BCE Inc. did not give the federal government...
Cogeco Inc. reported strong internet subscriber growth for the second quarter of the 2024 fiscal year, it...
The House of Commons industry committee continued its clause-by-clause study of Bill C-27, the Digital Charter Act, Wednesday. The MPs were looking at the preface of the legislation. The afternoon session began with Liberal MP Ryan Turnbull, the parliamentary secretary to...
Major broadcasters are opposed to Accessible Media Inc.’s (AMI) request...
A member of the Progressive Senators Group is calling on the federal...
Advertising on foreign digital media like Meta...
The CRTC has ordered Cogeco Inc. to maintain TekSavvy Solutions Inc.’s...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Sunday that next week’s federal budget will include $2.4...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. are...
In the wake of recent controversy surrounding BCE Inc.’s restructuring...
Bethlehem Housing and Support Services denies...
The federal government is loaning $2.14 billion to support Telesat Corp.’s development of its low-earth orbit (LEO) global broadband satellite constellation. The company...
Four Ontario school boards have launched a lawsuit against three social...
BCE Inc. asked the CRTC to lighten licensing requirements for ExpressVu,...
The CRTC has issued a call for comments as part of Phase 2 of the...
After months of consultations, the CRTC has issued its Broadcasting Fees Regulations for all broadcasting...
The recent history of Rogers Communications Inc. has had more drama than anything broadcast on its CityTV network. The company poached its CEO Joe Natale from Telus Corp. only to ultimately dismiss him. It battled the Competition Bureau in order to be allowed to take over Shaw Communications. Then there was the internecine squabble between chair Edward Rogers and his...
Unifor, Canada’s largest private sector union, called on BCE Inc. to answer for its recent layoff...
The presidents of the Big Three telecoms told the House of Commons Industry...
The CRTC is issuing a call for applications from interested parties wishing...
The CRTC is delaying transition of next-generation 911 (NG911) services in...
The CRTC launched its first public consultation on the Online News Act’s regulatory framework to gain...
The CRTC has dismissed BCE Inc.’s application challenging the...
BCE Inc. is the subject of a Part 1 application before the CRTC over access...
A trio of Quebecers has been granted leave to launch a class action suit against Rogers Communications Inc. and two subsidiaries over a service disruption in April 2021. The filing was submitted last...
The Superior Court of Quebec has authorized a class action lawsuit against several major telecom companies for allegedly abusive fees charged to customers to unlock their mobile phones. Consumers living in Quebec who paid an unlocking fee between Aug. 14, 2014 and Dec. 1,...
Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) submitted an application to the CRTC for an...
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The Superior Court of Quebec has dismissed a request from RNC Media Inc. to...
The Montreal-based company behind Pornhub and...
Neighbourhood Connect (NHC), operating under 2621159 Ontario Inc. DBA Neighbourhood Connect, has lodged an application with the CRTC seeking relief in accessing multi-dwelling...
The House of Commons committee on Industry met Wednesday to discuss...
This story has been updated to reflect changes to deadlines made by the CRTC on Monday. The CRTC is issuing a consultation on its proposal to make its voluntary call traceback process mandatory for...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron and its subsidiary VMedia have lodged two formal complaints with the Competition Bureau, urging an investigation into BCE Inc.'s alleged abuse of...
The CRTC has approved Execulink Telecom Inc.’s request for access to three multi-dwelling units (MDUs) owned by JLC Homes Ltd. in western Ontario. The buildings, located in Tillsonburg, Ont. at...
Witnesses before the House of Commons committee on Canadian Heritage all agreed Tuesday that a forum on the future of the media is required. Whether government has a role was...
BCE Inc. is disputing the CRTC’s preliminary...
Revenues were robust in the telecommunications sector, a new CRTC study has...
The government of Canada has unveiled its long-awaited Online Harms Act...
With the heads of Canada’s big three telecoms threatening to boycott a House of Commons session, the House of Commons industry committee is prepared to force them to testify. Monday the panel held a hearing on accessibility and affordability of wireless and broadband. The...
By Paul Park at ppark@thewirereport.ca Technology is changing the family...
Quebecor Inc. reported a successful fourth-quarter as it closed out the 2023 fiscal year, which it said...
Corus Entertainment Inc., Stingray Radio Inc., and...
The crisis in competition when it comes to internet connectivity is...
Representatives from Cogeco Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. told the CRTC that Telus Corp.’s proposals for Canada’s wholesale framework are misleading and hypocritical, while Quebecor Inc. took aim at BCE Inc.’s “outrageous” push against the regime. ...
Two large incumbent telecoms told the CRTC that broadband resellers are not...
To bring affordable internet and consumer choice to rural communities, the...
Cogeco Inc. is adamantly defending its right to upgrade infrastructure for...
If Canada is to have a viable wholesale market, high speed access needs to...
Organizations representing Canada’s creative industries are calling on...
The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed BCE Inc.’s motion for a stay against the CRTC’s decision to...
Representatives from major tech companies warned...
Reaction has been swift and condemnatory to the announcement Thursday by...
The CRTC has forensic investigative tools but deploys them rarely, the House of Commons Committee on Access to Information, Ethics and Privacy was told Thursday. The panel is continuing its investigation into the use of tools that can extract data from personal devices. ...
BCE Inc. announced Thursday that it will be...
Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron and Freedom Mobile divisions have been granted a...
CIK Telecom is arguing to the CRTC that the...
BCE Inc., filed a petition to cabinet Friday urging it to reverse a ruling...
Federal departments have forensic diagnostic tools that can be used for surveillance but they are only lawfully applied and never used outside the ministry staff, a...
The government must regulate artificial intelligence (AI) quickly to...
The CRTC has issued a call for comments on the attachment of wireless...
OTTAWA–While artificial intelligence (AI) may seem daunting to people in...
OTTAWA–Foreign streamers will be a prickly problem for mainstream...
The CRTC is implementing thousand-block pooling (TBP) as a proactive...
The Bloc Québécois is continuing to protest the job cuts at CBC/Radio-Canada announced last year. For...
OTTAWA–Demographic reporting is essential if we...
Rogers Communications Inc., in partnership with Ericsson AB, announced it...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge said there will be no public consultations on CBC/Radio-Canada’s new mandate. The minister made the remarks Thursday at the...
OTTAWA, Ont. – No public institution, including Canada’s public...
Quebecor Inc.’s request for the CRTC to set new...
CBC-Radio Canada CEO Catherine Tait won’t say if she, or the public...
The CRTC has initiated a special consultation...
Stakeholders have sent their final replies on telecom service in the Far North to the CRTC. The incumbent telecoms are at odds with most other applicants when it comes to the remedy for competition in the region. BCE Inc. subsidiary Northwestel and Telus Corp. are the ILECs in the area. They quarrel with many of the proposed solutions to competitiveness in the district. Low earth orbit [LEO] carriers like Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) division Starlink...
Quebecor Inc.'s Part 1 application to the CRTC for...
The CRTC has sent letters on Jan. 22 to interested parties to try to get to the bottom of two incidents...
A coalition of nine advocacy groups and community...
Melinda Rogers-Hixon and Martha Rogers are retiring from the telecom...
Rogers Communications Inc. has become Canada’s most complained-about service provider, according to the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services’ (CCTS) annual report released on...
The Commission for Complaints for...
After almost two hours of deliberation last Thursday, the House industry and technology committee failed...
BCE Inc. filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC seeking clarity on three...
The lingering effects of the pandemic and the labour disputes in Hollywood combined to depress the figures as Corus Entertainment Inc. issued its results for the first quarter of 2023-24. Consolidated revenue was down by 14 per cent for the period ending Nov. 30, 2023 while...
The owner of a multi-dwelling unit (MDU) in Kitchener, Ontario denies BCE...
Revenue and profits declined at Cogeco Inc. as the Quebec firm released...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. lodged a formal Part 1 complaint with the CRTC against Cogeco Inc., to address...
Misuse of 911 continues to be a problem for emergency service providers...
A consortium working toward the successful implementation of next-generation 911 (NG911) services in British Columbia submitted a joint application to the CRTC seeking...
This story has been updated with comment from BCE Inc. Quebecor Inc., representing Videotron and Freedom Mobile, has lodged a formal complaint with the CRTC against BCE Inc., alleging...
Bragg Communications Inc.'s Eastlink is...
The CRTC has denied a BCE Inc. application to...
BCE Inc.’s Northwestel announced to the CRTC...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and the...
Canada must revise its election rules and the use of artificial...
The federal government released the details of the implementation of the...
Rogers Communications Inc. and satellite-to-phone telecom provider Lynk...
CBC/Radio-Canada continued to come under fire in Parliament Tuesday with the direction of the crown corporation being raised in both the House of Commons and the Senate. During the Commons Question Period, Bloc Québécois heritage critic Martin Champoux pointed out that...