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,...
In a Thursday quarterly earnings conference call, BCE Inc.'s president and CEO, Mirko Bibic, shared his enthusiasm for the company's performance in the third quarter while...
The CRTC has denied an application brought forward...
The CRTC has given the green light to BCE Inc. subsidiary Northwestel Inc....
Both BCE Inc. and Quebecor Inc. have reacted to the CRTC’s decision that Bell Mobility's offer on...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) told the CRTC that...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC)’s executive director said it is “no surprise” TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has gone up for sale. “As we have been...
Incumbent carriers are opposed to the expedited review of the CRTC’s...
The CRTC “must implement a reasonable test” for fibre-to-the-premise...
Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced Wednesday that the...
The CRTC has denied a request from a number of incumbents, chief among them...
Days before the CRTC announced that it would open...
The CRTC Wednesday made good on newly-minted chair...
BCE Inc. is introducing a new speed tier to its North American customers and subsequently filed a new...
Xplornet Communications Inc. is rebranding to Xplore Inc. “to better...
BCE Inc. property Bell MTS had an outage on Monday that cut off internet and television services to customers. The incident was centered around Winnipeg and surrounding areas and lasted about two hours. In an email to The Wire Report, the western telecom reported that...
Submissions to the Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic...
Toronto network operator Beanfield Technologies Inc. has acquired another internet service provider, this...
BCE Inc. is claiming that “ongoing record...
The federal government and Quebec announced $8.2 million in joint funding...
Conservative MP Dan Mazier introduced a private members bill to the House of Commons Thursday, to amend the Telecommunications Act to provide people with “access to...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. is investing approximately $337 million of capital in...
Distributel Ltd. is asking the CRTC to revise the interim rates for...
An Alaskan company has unveiled a billion-dollar project to run fibre from...
The Canadian government is investing nearly $6.6 million in rural Saskatchewan in its effort to connect...
The CRTC approved on an interim basis a proposal...
Bryson Masse is the new Regulatory and Communications Advisor at Competitive Network Operators of...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) has filed a review and...
Xplornet Communications Inc.’s newly acquired fibre-based service...
In a dispute between a trade organization representing wholesale-based internet service providers (ISPs) and facilities-based ISPs over the amount of information the latter...
In order to make its disaggregated wholesale regime work, the CRTC should...
Five years after it announced a move to a new system for wholesale internet...
The CRTC has ordered BCE Inc. to sign an agreement that would allow CloudWifi Inc. to progress its application to become a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC), finding Bell’s continued refusal to do so is “unnecessarily...
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...
CloudWifi Inc. has gone to bat for other small internet service providers as it continues to fight with BCE Inc. over access to in-building fibre wiring, arguing companies should be allowed to access it in buildings where there is no other infrastructure. In its latest...
In an ongoing dispute between BCE Inc. and CloudWifi Inc. over whether...
TORONTO — The aggressive way incumbent telecom companies reacted to the...
BCE Inc. is asking for leave to appeal the CRTC’s June decision granting CloudWifi Inc. competitor access to Bell’s service wires in multi-dwelling units (MDUs). That decision allowed internet...
Telus Corp. is going to court over the CRTC’s decision last month to grant smaller internet providers a...
Small, wholesale-based internet service providers could be forced out of...
BCE Inc. reported its wireless average revenue per user (ARPU) dipped in its third quarter results...
Shaw Communications Inc. is proposing a ban on third-party door-to-door sales to curb aggressive and...
Canada’s major telecoms have succeeded in getting an Alberta court to rule that a municipal access bylaw in Calgary can’t regulate the building of telecommunications networks. Until 2014,...
Internet service providers (ISPs) in rural and remote communities are trying to keep up with the appetite of users consuming ever-higher amounts of data, especially as video streaming services and gaming become mainstays in the household. “The digital generation [is]...
Representatives from BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. described a favourable relationship with regulators at a CIBC investors conference Wednesday, where they also addressed competition between...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. will invest up to $26 million over a year and a half to build out an open access...
Oshawa, Ont. will be the next target for BCE Inc.’s fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network buildout, the...
As BCE Inc. celebrates the completion of the majority of its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) build out in Toronto on Thursday, it’s already making plans to exceed the network speeds officially unveiled...
In a decision on Friday, the CRTC ruled that the Canadian Network Operators Consortium’s (CNOC) application for transitional access to fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) facilities belonging to large telecoms under the old aggregated wholesale regime should be denied. When the CRTC mandated wholesale access to FTTP facilities in July 2015, it decided that it would only take effect once its new disaggregated wholesale regime is implemented. Under the existing aggregated wholesale regime, which...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has become the “first independent Canadian telecom service provider” to offer...
A Cree-owned non-profit will partner with Distributel Communications Ltd....
BCE Inc. kicked off the new year by acquiring Quebec telecom Groupe Maskatel LP, furthering its fibre...
TORONTO — The CRTC’s new disaggregated wholesale regime will bring with...
TORONTO — Owning fibre facilities is the primary way to drive...
BCE Inc. CEO George Cope said the company needs to do a better job of finding opportunities in emerging advertising technology, as the company seeks additional revenue growth...
BCE Inc.’s top man George Cope said the company likes new CRTC head Ian Scott’s approach to balancing consumer and business interests....
Rural Albertans will have access to gigabit internet following an upgrade by Axia NetMedia Corp., the...
The CRTC's goal of fuelling wireline competition by jumpstarting the industry’s rollout of the disaggregated wholesale regime Tuesday will be constrained if interim access fees remain high and if the issue of how small providers will connect to fibre facilities is not...
The CRTC kickstarted the industry’s move to a disaggregated wholesale...
BCE Inc. is hoping the second half of the year results in a boost for its...
Cogeco Inc. is again expanding its U.S. footprint, with the announcement Monday that it would purchase...
The increase in Canadian fibre broadband subscriptions slowed in 2016, slipping to ninth in growth among 35 Organization for Co-operation and Economic Development (OECD) countries. According to December 2016 numbers released...
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink is making 1 GB Internet speeds more widely available and will target the consumer market. "For years, we have been providing Gigabit speeds and higher to our larger business customers through our advanced business network," Lee Bragg, Eastlink’s CEO, said in a Monday press release. "With real-time entertainment like video streaming, music, gaming and emerging connected home technologies driving exponential Internet growth, it's time to bring this kind of Internet service to a wider range of customers, including residential customers." It said...
Telus Corp. is building new fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) infrastructure across British Columbia and Alberta through 2020. The company announced in a press release Monday that Alberta will receive a capital injection of $4.2...
Jean-Francois Pruneau, Quebecor Inc.’s senior vice-president and chief financial officer, told an investor’s conference Thursday that his company’s quad-play strategy in Quebec will limit the impact of BCE Inc.’s...
Manon Brouillette, president of Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron, downplayed the effect that BCE Inc.’s recent move to deploy fibre-to-the-home...
There is little evidence to suggest there is a lack of competition in so-called wholesale wireline service area gaps, given that cable facilities already exist in those areas, incumbents argued in...
Telus Corp. announced Monday a new investment of $80 million in its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network in Quebec. It said in a French-language press release that the investment would affect almost 20 communities in...
As large Internet Service Providers (ISPs) push on with the build of fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks, small providers say they are encountering an increasing number of areas where they have no...
MONTREAL — BCE Inc. will invest $854 million to bring fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) to all of Montreal’s homes and businesses within five years, the company said Monday....
The acquisition of Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. expands the scale at which BCE Inc. operates, which is “becoming one of its most important competitive advantages,”...
Nova Scotia may not be formulating its provincial broadband plan as a direct response to federal inaction, but that doesn’t mean the provincial government isn’t acting out of a need to fill a void affecting its residents. “It’s like a lot of things in that the provincial government is closer to the people than the federal government is, in certain respects,” David MacNeil, senior advisor in the Nova Scotia department of business, said in a phone interview. “There’s no federal, provincial, municipal responsibility for making sure people have good...
OpenMedia has built a platform to make it easier for Canadians to connect with elected representatives in order to encourage more community-controlled broadband projects that are independent of big...
MONTREAL — Moves by Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. into the Canadian data centre business won’t compete directly with Cogeco Inc., which is changing its data...
WAKEFIELD, Que. — The federal government’s new rural broadband program will focus on making high-speed connections, as opposed to simply forging Internet connections for rural and remote...
Glen LeBlanc, BCE Inc.’s executive vice-president and chief financial officer, told an investor’s conference hosted by RBC Tuesday that the company is on track to have its...
OTTAWA — With more than six months left in his term as CRTC chairman, Jean-Pierre Blais isn’t ready to start using the word “legacy” in relation to his term as head of the Canadian regulator, but in a speech to a communications conference Wednesday, he gave a glimpse into a self-awareness of his own CRTC epitaph. During a keynote at the Canadian branch of the International Institute of Communications’ (IIC) annual conference in Ottawa, Blais outlined what he called creative and innovative ways the CRTC has tried to reach out to Canadians on issues, including...
TORONTO — Trying to build fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) in very competitive markets makes little economic sense for Internet service providers (ISPs), meaning markets with more competition could...
Cogeco Inc. saw a 3.2-per-cent increase in revenue to hit $572 million for the final quarter of fiscal 2016, the company reported Wednesday. In a press release, Cogeco said the growth was driven by its communications...
Data usage by Canadians on both wireline and wireless networks rose significantly last year, hitting 104 GB per month for residential Internet and almost 1 GB for wireless subscribers, the CRTC said...
High fibre costs and advancements in technology are among the reasons Canadian telcos are unlikely to expand their fibre-to-the-home [FTTH] footprint beyond 60 per cent coverage, according to Desjardins Capital Markets. In...
Rogers Communications Inc. said Tuesday its gigabit Internet service is now available in St. John’s, N.L. The move follows a similar expansion in New Brunswick this summer. Rogers added in a press...
An Ontario Superior Court judge has granted an injunction requested by BCE Inc. forbidding Cogeco Inc. from claiming that it has the “best Internet experience in your neighbourhood.” In a Sept. 26...
Shaw Communications Inc. is “the one player in the industry who is very well positioned” regardless of the direction the Liberal government takes on wireless policy,...
Desjardins Capital Markets analyst Maher Yaghi said that the CRTC’s plan for wholesale access to fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks should theoretically “create an environment in which ISPs have better control over...
The CRTC has missed an opportunity to foster innovation among telecom competitors as it moves forward in the implementation of mandated wholesale access by smaller Internet service providers (ISPs) to incumbents’ fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks, according to independent ISPs and consumer advocates. In a decision posted to its website Tuesday, the regulator said the new regime is supposed to be phased in by BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., Quebecor Inc.’s...
A new technology that allows telecoms to get speeds of hundreds of gigabits through existing copper loops is making headway in Canada, where companies are testing it out and deployment is likely to...
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink is investing $6.5 million to expand high-speed Internet services to rural Nova Scotia, the company announced Thursday. “We appreciate that when it comes to Internet in rural Nova...
The deployment of fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) and fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks will be an important step for improving affordability of communications services in the long-term, according to a...
Some subscribers are climbing Internet service tiers not necessarily for increased speed, but to obtain unlimited bandwidth, George Cope, BCE Inc.’s president and chief executive officer,...
Canada is still at the bottom of the Organization for Co-operation and Economic Development (OECD) countries with fibre connections, but among those making the greatest strides to close the gap. December 2015 numbers released Tuesday show that the percentage of such connections in total broadband subscriptions in Canada grew to 7.4 per cent from 4.7 per cent in the same period a year earlier. The numbers for "fibre" connections are the combined totals for fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP), fibre-to-the-home (FTTH), and fibre-to-the-building (FTTB) connections. The almost...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Thursday its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) service is now available in some residential areas of the southeastern city of Estevan. The new connections will give...
The federal and Ontario governments are investing up to $180 million into a new fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network designed to connect about 300 southwestern Ontario communities to high-speed Internet, officials announced Tuesday,...
Telus Corp. said it is investing $111 million in infrastructure in the greater Montreal area to expand its fibre-to-the-premise network to more than 4,000 kilometres of fibre optic cable by the end of the year. “Our...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. said Monday is ready to start connecting customers to its InfiNet fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network in Weyburn. Some residential areas of the city, located south of...
Axia NetMedia Corp. said it is looking to see if there is enough interest in the United States to extend its fibre network south. The Calgary-based company said in a Monday press release that it’s gathering...
TORONTO — The Liberal government should continue the previous Conservative government’s push for more competition in the wireless market in the upcoming 600 MHz auction, Manon Brouillette,...
Cogeco Inc. announced it is making a $1.4-million investment in the Laurentides region of Quebec to expand its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network. In a Monday press release, Cogeco Connexion said the expansion would...
TORONTO — With customers’ usage of data increasing exponentially, and carriers limited in how much they can charge for that data, telecoms will have to turn to 5G networks, Ericsson...
Ontario Internet service and television provider VMedia Inc. will expand to Quebec, British Columbia, Manitoba and Alberta in the next two weeks — a move the company says will see its services become available to about 75 per cent of Canadian households as it aims to compete with Canada’s largest telecom companies. “It’s a very substantial effort for us, because … we’re still largely a start-up company in many respects,” VMedia co-founder George Burger said in a phone interview Wednesday. “We are primarily focusing on the urban markets,...