A wealth of intervenors have told the CRTC that the large established telecoms should not be allowed to have access to aggregated wholesale high-speed access over fibre-to-the-premises (AWHSA-FTTP) facilities. A diverse group of stakeholders filed their remarks this...
BCE Inc.’s appeal against the CRTC’s November decision to require the company to allow competitors wholesale aggregated access to its fibre network is underway in the Federal Court. The telecom’s official notice of appeal was filed April 8. Bell claims that the...
The House of Commons Industry Committee is continuing its clause-by-clause study of Bill C-27, the...
Canadian broadcasters are encouraging the CRTC to...
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 advance notice of its plans to cut 4,800 positions in February, despite being legally obligated to do so, according to statements...
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...
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 measures, the telecommunications giant has released a statement with its side of the story and...
Bethlehem Housing and Support Services denies...
The federal government is loaning $2.14 billion to...
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 co-development process for an Indigenous broadcasting policy to ensure that all online broadcasts, radio, and...
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...
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 to broadcasting for disabled Canadians. The matter has been transferred from an earlier filing with the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC). David Lepofsky has been a disability advocate for...
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...
The Wire Report, the leading news source covering telecom, digital communications and broadcast media in Canada, is searching for an editor to join our Ottawa office. The Wire Report is part of The Hill Times Canada’s leading...
The Superior Court of Quebec has dismissed a request from RNC Media Inc. to order Rogers Communications Inc. to share the identities of some of its subscribers, also known as...
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...
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 found. Tuesday the commission released its annual report on the telecom market for 2022....
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...
Corus Entertainment Inc., Stingray Radio Inc., and Pattison Media Ltd. filed a joint intervention with the CRTC opposing an application by Durham Radio Inc. to expand its...
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...
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 that the government bill aimed at regulating AI is too broad and risks hindering its development and use in Canada....
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...
CIK Telecom is arguing to the CRTC that the current interim rates set in its decision to access to last mile fibre facilities on an aggregated basis are prohibitively high,...
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...
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 are to promote diversity in film and television, the Canadian Media Producers Association was told Thursday. Its annual Prime...
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...
CBC-Radio Canada CEO Catherine Tait won’t say if she, or the public broadcaster’s top brass, will be getting their yearly bonuses at the end of March despite recently...
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...
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 to decide on a motion put forward by Conservative MP Rick Perkins to conduct a study into Rogers Communications Inc. and BCE Inc.’s recently announced price hikes....
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...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. lodged a formal Part 1 complaint with the CRTC against Cogeco Inc., to address its concerns about Cogeco's planned removal of facilities, potentially hindering competition and consumer choice in the telecommunications sector. “Should Cogeco’s...
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...
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 Online News Act Friday. It outlined how money from social media giants will be distributed to Canadian news organizations. Currently the rules apply only to Alphabet Inc.’s Google search engine,...