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 has dismissed BCE Inc.’s application challenging the regulator’s preliminary view that the attachment of wireless facilities to support structures owned or...
BCE Inc. is disputing the CRTC’s preliminary...
By Paul Park at ppark@thewirereport.ca Technology is changing the family...
The CRTC has issued a call for comments on the attachment of wireless...
Ericsson AB and Telus Corp. have linked up to roll out a 5G standalone network, it was announced Monday....
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Wednesday the deployment of 5G technology across more than 40 additional cell sites, extending its reach to rural...
Rogers Communications Inc. has activated three...
By Manish Singh, vice-president and key account manager, Google,...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. continues to roll out its 5G...
Rogers Communication Inc.’s 5G network is now available in all remaining...
Public safety networks in Canada need to be...
Digital transformation of Canadian businesses can play a fundamental role...
All passengers on the Toronto Transit Commission’s (TTC) subway system now have access to 5G services...
The governments of Canada and British Columbia have joined together to...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. has rolled out its 5G network to the SaskTel Centre in Saskatoon, the company announced Tuesday. “At SaskTel, we are committed to keeping our customers connected,” Charlene Gavel, president and CEO of the prairie telecom...
Bragg Communication Inc.'s Eastlink and Nokia Corp. announced "a multi-year strategic, access network...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. have been hurling verbal bombs...
Rogers Communications Inc. is asking the CRTC to mandate Telus Corp., BCE...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) has set up rules around fixed and...
The airline industry must do more to protect its flights from 5G interference, telecoms have told the department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED). The...
Swedish telecom manufacturer Ericsson AB and Bragg Communications Inc.’s...
The government of Canada announced Monday it was investing $470 million in...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Co. announced the retirement of its president and CEO Doug Burnett. Burnett will be leaving at the end of May to early June,...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Monday that it is expanding its 5G footprint into...
Canadians are eager to upgrade to 5G services in theory, but are slow to...
The federal government has granted EXFO Inc. $15.9 million for 5G...
OTTAWA–Nokia Corp. announced Monday that it is planning to expand its...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. is expanding its 5G services to the area around Moose Jaw in the province, the telecom announced Tuesday. The service will...
Telus Corp. unveiled a $23 billion investment in broadband and related technologies across Ontario Tuesday. The company estimates the move will create 9,500 jobs between now and 2026. The company intends to invest $70 billion nationally by 2026, according to a release. ...
The Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development has launched its consultation on the...
The federal government Thursday announced that it would be banning equipment from "high risk vendors",...
A federal court judge has dismissed a challenge...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. is rolling out 5G in the City...
Telus Corp. and the University of Ottawa have announced a new partnership aimed at turning the university's campus into a "5G-connected innovation hub … to accelerate cutting-edge research and innovation in the heart of our nation's capital," according to a Monday release...
On Monday, executives of several U.S. airlines wrote to leadership of the Federal Aviation...
Early consultations on regulations to 5G rollout affecting air traffic...
OTTAWA – Innovation, Science and Industry...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has opened a regional office in Regina to facilitate its work with...
Swedish telecom manufacturer Ericsson AB is buying Vonage Holdings Corp. for US$6.2 billion, the firms...
TeraGo Inc. has entered into a partnership with McMaster University to build and deploy a 5G millimeter...
Rogers Communications Inc. extended its 5G network in Quebec which now reaches more than 90 communities...
The Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) has...
While the Canadian government is busy collecting $8.9 billion dollars from its recent 3500 MHz spectrum auction, Nunavut is still 100 per cent dependent on satellites for its...
Telus Corp. is expanding its 5G network in four British Columbia communities as part of its $13 billion...
Rogers Communications Inc. has expanded its 5G network in the Halifax, N.S., region. Rogers said in...
New Brunswick-based rural broadband provider Xplornet Communications Inc. announced Wednesday it’s...
Telus Corp. Wednesday announced developments in a pair of projects aimed at rolling out higher speed wireless service. The company announced it has rolled out its 5G network to Lethbridge and Sylvan Lake, Alberta, as part of...
BCE Inc. is going to court to stop Quebecor Inc. from purchasing valuable 5G-friendly spectrum in the 3,500 MHz band in British Columbia, Alberta, and Manitoba -- spectrum that is a crucial part of Quebecor's plan to take its wireless business national. In an...
Canadian telecom companies -- and wireless service hopefuls -- have spent...
BCE Inc. has expanded its 5G network in Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec and...
Telus Corp. has expanded its 5G network into Quebec City as part of a $38 million investment in infrastructure. The company, which plans to spend $9 billion throughout the province through 2024, said Tuesday it will continue...
Industry analysts are declining to speculate too much on what caused the...
BCE Inc. is expanding its 5G network into Atlantic Canada, with service launching in Nova Scotia and...
Bidding opened Tuesday morning in what will be a...
Telus Corp. is planning to spend a combined $26 billion on network connectivity in Ontario and Quebec...
Through its newly acquired fibre-based service provider Ocdotus Inc. — which operates as Metro Loop — Xplornet Communications Inc. is expanding its fibre network in Haldimand County, Ontario. New Brunswick-based Xplornet...
A public-private partnership on 5G technology research in Ontario and Quebec is deploying a standalone (SA) end-to-end 5G network meaning it will no longer have to rely on 4G technology. ENCQOR 5G and Ericsson AB, one of its five anchor partners, made the announcement on Wednesday. The network is capable of serving edge-based applications with one-way latency (the delay between a user's action and the response to that action from the network, application or service) tolerances of less than five milliseconds. The network is, according to a press release, considered a "critical...
The federal government is investing $14 million in Redline Communications Group Inc. through its Strategic Innovation Fund for the company to produce “Industrial 5G” products for clients in the...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. will be using Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. as its primary supplier as the company builds out its own 5G network, the company announced Monday. Samsung will be SaskTel’s sole...
If Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada doesn't approve Telesat Holdings Inc.'s proposal...
Xplornet Communications Inc. will use technology from Ericsson AB in its next-generation network, the company said Tuesday. Xplornet will begin rolling out its 5G fixed-wireless network in rural areas this summer, it said in...
Telecom industry group Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) released a report Wednesday outlining how deployment of 5G will help Canada meet its climate goals, linking the issue with the government’s telecom policy. "While we know that 5G will create jobs and drive economic growth, this new study shows ... that 5G can achieve these results while also reducing Canada's carbon footprint across multiple critical industry sectors,” CWTA president Robert Ghiz said. “But delivering on the promise of a greener and more prosperous Canada requires policies that encourage...
Rogers Communications Inc. Tuesday announced a flurry of expansions to its 5G network, extending coverage to new cities and towns in British Columbia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Quebec. In January, Rogers announced it was...
Experts are unanimous in saying Canada’s 5G networks will eventually...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has again refused to put a timeframe on when...
Both Telus Corp. and BCE Inc. still won’t rule out partnering with Huawei...
Western University’s London campus will be transformed into a “living lab” as part of a partnership with BCE Inc. to test applications for the 5G network. Bell will spend $2.7 million on the...
The United States State Department said that if Canada doesn’t ban...
A day after announcing it would partner with Nokia Corp. and Ericsson AB on...
On Tuesday, BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. announced new partnerships with...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Quebecor Inc. have asked the CRTC to compel BCE Inc. to allow them to attach small cell technologies to Bell’s poles at rates set by the Support Structure Service Tariffs following years of unsuccessful negotiations. In a joint Part 1 application lodged with the CRTC on May 13, Quebecor and Rogers claim Bell’s refusal to grant access to its poles for small cell attachments, in accordance with the tariffs, is a “flagrant breach” of sections 24, 25 and 27...
Health Canada has responded to an MPs’ query about what steps it is...
A decision to accept masks and respirators from Huawei Technologies Co....
Telus Corp. will be using Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. equipment in its...
The Liberal government will “inevitably” follow the U.K. in banning Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. equipment from the core of Canada’s 5G network, according to National Bank of Canada financial...
No major wireless provider stands out as most likely to benefit from Canada’s looming 5G network rollout, despite two players’ extensive combined wireline footline placing them on the “front foot”, RBC Capital Markets analyst Drew McReynolds says. In an annual overview of the telecom sector, McReynolds said Telus Corp. and BCE Inc.’s intention to continue their network sharing agreement to 5G, as well as their extensive fibre-to-the-home networks, placed them at a relative advantage, but each major provider had their strengths and weaknesses as they jostle to benefit from the 5G...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron said Friday it has chosen Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. as its equipment supplier for the deployment of LTE-A and 5G networks. “This partnership is the result of an extensive selection process to...
A cap on the amount of 3.5 GHz spectrum any one company can hold in the upcoming auction is not, on its own, “sufficient” for smaller rural-based wireless internet service providers to compete, according to the trade group...
OTTAWA — New Public Safety Minister Bill Blair indicated Wednesday he is...
Wednesday saw a flurry of legal moves to overturn a CRTC decision that cut...
Rogers Communications Inc. and the University of British Columbia said they have powered the first fully-functional 5G “smart campus” to test applications for the next-generation network. The campus includes 5G towers and...
TORONTO — Smaller, wholesale-based internet service providers may be...
A company that says its privacy-focused software app can tell employers...
As the Liberals head back to Parliament following the Oct. 21 federal election, they’ll be returning to...
The public-private partnership known as ENCQOR 5G has now made mmWave spectrum available to participants. ENCQOR 5G was first announced in 2018 as a 5G laboratory of sorts, funded by $400 million from the federal government over five years, alongside contributions from some of the world’s largest communications companies, including Ericsson AB, Ciena Inc., and IBM Corp. The project’s first test bed got up and running in July, and Wednesday’s announcement adds the use of the mmWave spectrum -- spectrum in the 30 GHz to 100 GHz range that will be used for 5G -- to the mix. In...
The Green Party election platform includes promises to ensure only...
Even before the federal election campaign officially kicked off, telecom...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron is in talks with other telecom companies about...
Telus Corp. told the federal government that prohibiting Huawei...
Rogers Communications Inc. is lobbying the City of Montreal to be involved in the city’s 5G pilot project announced last month, according to provincial lobby records, adding to the acute increase in 5G activity in recent months. The telecom registered to communicate...
The launch of new plans from Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom will...
Rogers Communications Inc. Monday announced what it is calling a 5G “innovation lab” with the Waterloo-based Communitech. “Our partnership with Communitech is part of our work to bring...
Conservative and NDP MPs criticized the Liberal government Tuesday for what...
A wireless network announced last year that allows small- and medium-sized businesses to test 5G technology is now operational, according to a press release. The ENCQOR 5G test bed, part of a public-private partnership to...
The blue ribbon panel in charge of reviewing Canada’s communications legislation has released its...
In recent weeks, telecom issues haven’t escaped the increased rhetoric...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s launch of a wireless plan that won’t...
A new report by Ericsson AB suggests an accelerated timeline for the...
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Innovation Canada will give existing holders of 3.5 GHz spectrum an opportunity to apply for flexible use of the spectrum based on their proportional holdings of the frequencies, it said in a new document outlining how the band, said to be crucial for...