Four Ontario school boards have launched a lawsuit against three social media giants for disrupting learning and the education system. The action was announced Thursday morning. The Toronto District School Board, the Peel District School Board, the Toronto Catholic...
BCE Inc. asked the CRTC to lighten licensing requirements for ExpressVu, the company’s satellite TV division, and called for all satellite relay distribution undertakings (SRDUs) to be exempt from regulation because of declines in the market. ExpressVu’s current...
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...
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 Committee that it is the government which is one of the biggest offenders in wireless prices....
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...
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...
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 all TSPs offering voice services in Canada to tackle the persistent issue of nuisance calls plaguing consumers. The call traceback process, initiated to curb spam calls,...
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...
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 was largely due to the continued impact from its Freedom Mobile acquisition. During a conference call with financial analysts on Thursday, the Montreal-based telecom...
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...
Two large incumbent telecoms told the CRTC that broadband resellers are not...
To bring affordable internet and consumer choice to rural communities, the CRTC must mandate aggregated wholesale fibre access to incumbents’ networks, stated several...
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...
BCE Inc. announced Thursday that it will be...
Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron and Freedom Mobile divisions have been granted a final offer arbitration (FOA) process by the CRTC. The company is in a dispute with Telus Corp. over...
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...
The government must regulate artificial intelligence (AI) quickly to...
The CRTC has issued a call for comments on the attachment of wireless facilities to support structures owned or controlled by incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) due to...
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...
OTTAWA, Ont. – No public institution, including Canada’s public...
Quebecor Inc.’s request for the CRTC to set new interim disaggregated high-speed access (HSA) rates equal to the interim aggregated rates is out of line, according to BCE...
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....
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 where people in distress could not get 911 service in French. The stories were first reported in the Montreal news outlet La Presse. “The Canadian public and the...
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...
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 its first quarter results on Thursday. The company said its guidance issued last November would remain in place. Revenue dropped by 1.9 per cent to $747 million. While Canadian operations were...
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...
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 vehemently disputing allegations of negligence during its July service outage and calls for the dismissal of the claims made by...
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...
Quebecor Inc. submitted an application to the CRTC...
Gatineau, Que. – Telus Corp. asked the CRTC to go easy on virtual broadcasting distribution undertakings (vBDUs) during the commission’s hearings regarding contributions...
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) will hear Telus...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge faced a barrage of questions...
Several proposals from deaf and hard of...
The Bloc Québécois is continuing its fight against cutbacks at CBC/Radio-Canada. Tuesday in Question...
Gatineau, Que. - CBC/Radio-Canada's decision to slash 600 jobs and leave 200 vacancies unfilled has ignited a heated discussion about the broadcaster's plea for access to base...
Rogers Communications Inc. is responding vehemently to the Competition...
Canada's public broadcaster is cutting 10 per cent of its workforce and slashing some programming to deal...
Foreign streamers must pay their fair share of contributions to the Canadian broadcasting system, but...
Netflix Services Canada ULC says it has invested large amounts of money...
Canada’s telecom industry have spent some $2.16 billion on the 3,800 MHz band of spectrum, according to...
Members of the NDP and the United Steelworkers (USW) Local 1944 union, representing over 225,000 Canadian workers, held a joint news conference on Wednesday urging the government to improve...
Those who stand to benefit from the Online...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google and the federal government have resolved their...
Major broadcasters think that there should be a flexible contribution regime for Canadian programming – just so long as they don’t have to pay into it. The CRTC is continuing its hearings into the ramifications of the Online Streaming Act. Tuesday’s session began...