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CRTC must implement a reasonable test for FTTP rates: Péladeau
telecom | 05/11/2023 5:44 pm EDT
The CRTC “must implement a reasonable test” for fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) rates to prevent situations where providers offer prices significantly below approved wholesale rates, according to Quebecor Inc.’s CEO.
Pierre Karl Péladeau made the comments Thursday...
Government announces new licencing policy for 5G
Internet and Governance | 05/03/2023 5:03 pm EDT
Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced Wednesday that the government is adopting a new licencing policy for 5G spectrum that should provide easier local access for internet service providers and small communities.
“Whether...
CRTC rejects incumbent delay requests for FTTP and HSA proceedings
telecom | 03/28/2023 5:10 pm EDT
The CRTC has denied a request from a number of incumbents, chief among them...
Amid CRTC review, Quebecor complains of Bell ‘abuse’ of wholesale rates for fibre
telecom | 03/10/2023 4:20 pm EST
Days before the CRTC announced that it would open...
UPDATED: CRTC cuts wholesale broadband rates by 10 per cent, launches new rates proceeding, and will expedite review of FTTH access; competitors pleased
Internet and Governance | 03/08/2023 4:24 pm EST
The CRTC Wednesday made good on newly-minted chair...
Bell introduces gigabit 8.0 in areas of Toronto
telecom | 09/20/2022 3:02 pm EDT
BCE Inc. is introducing a new speed tier to its North American customers and subsequently filed a new...
Xplornet rebranding to Xplore as it plans to expand rural footprint
telecom | 09/13/2022 5:11 pm EDT
Xplornet Communications Inc. is rebranding to Xplore Inc. “to better reflect its identity, vision, and future,” the company stated in a Tuesday release.
The company's...
Bell MTS continues to experience outages in Manitoba
telecom | 08/16/2022 4:59 pm EDT
BCE Inc. property Bell MTS had an outage on Monday that cut off internet and television services to...
Big 3 fight back against ISED’s efforts to protect wholesale regime
telecom | 08/11/2022 5:50 pm EDT
Submissions to the Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic...
Beanfield acquires Urbanfibre
telecom | 07/28/2022 3:52 pm EDT
Toronto network operator Beanfield Technologies Inc. has acquired another internet service provider, this...
Bell says record precipitation in Winnipeg causing outages and delaying repairs for landlines
telecom | 07/13/2022 4:52 pm EDT
BCE Inc. is claiming that “ongoing record...
Feds, Quebec, announce funding for rural high-speed internet
telecom | 06/29/2022 5:02 pm EDT
The federal government and Quebec announced $8.2 million in joint funding...
Tory MP takes second stab at bill mandating ISPs publicize service quality metrics
telecom | 06/17/2022 3:46 pm EDT
Conservative MP Dan Mazier introduced a private members bill to the House...
SaskTel announces $337M investment in province
telecom | 04/13/2022 4:29 pm EDT
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. is investing approximately $337 million of capital in...
Distributel seeks revised interim rates for disagg regime
telecom | 03/30/2022 6:57 pm EDT
Distributel Ltd. is asking the CRTC to revise the interim rates for...
Consortium to run fibre network from Europe to Asia through Northwest Passage
telecom | 03/11/2022 4:51 pm EST
An Alaskan company has unveiled a billion-dollar project to run fibre from Europe to Asia. By doing so, it will increase internet connectivity in Canada’s Arctic.
Far...
Gov. allocates $6.6 million in UBF to Saskatchewan
telecom | 02/17/2022 2:11 pm EST
The Canadian government is investing nearly $6.6 million in rural Saskatchewan in its effort to connect...
CRTC approves Rogers new wholesale high-speed access service tier, ignores TekSavvy wholesale customer concerns
telecom | 11/24/2021 3:58 pm EST
The CRTC approved on an interim basis a proposal...
Masse moves from TekSavvy to CNOC on regulatory file
telecom | 11/01/2021 5:49 pm EDT
Bryson Masse is the new Regulatory and Communications Advisor at Competitive Network Operators of...
CNOC files review and vary application on CRTC in-building wire access decision
telecom | 10/26/2021 6:17 pm EDT
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) has filed a review and...
Xplornet connects Haldimand County to fibre-to-the-home broadband
telecom | 10/07/2021 5:31 pm EDT
Xplornet Communications Inc.’s newly acquired fibre-based service provider Ocdotus Inc. — which operates as Metro Loop — has connected approximately 6,500 homes and...
CRTC orders some incumbent disclosure to CNOC in disaggregated regime consultation
Media | 08/13/2021 11:13 am EDT
In a dispute between a trade organization representing wholesale-based...
CRTC hears differing pitches to fix lagging disaggregated regime
telecom | 10/13/2020 6:04 pm EDT
In order to make its disaggregated wholesale regime work, the CRTC should...
CRTC considering changes to disaggregated wholesale regime
telecom | 06/11/2020 5:47 pm EDT
Five years after it announced a move to a new system for wholesale internet...
CRTC orders Bell to sign agreement with CloudWifi
telecom | 03/26/2020 5:22 pm EDT
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...
Telecoms deadlocked ahead of 5G rollout: analyst
telecom | 01/10/2020 5:32 pm EST
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 says other small ISPs need access to in-building fibre
telecom | 01/09/2020 1:49 pm EST
CloudWifi Inc. has gone to bat for other small internet service providers...
CloudWifi decision stands, but other ISPs must wait for access
telecom | 12/17/2019 1:54 pm EST
In an ongoing dispute between BCE Inc. and CloudWifi Inc. over whether...
Incumbent reaction to wholesale rates warning shot for fibre, conference hears
telecom | 11/06/2019 9:13 pm EST
TORONTO — The aggressive way incumbent telecom companies reacted to the...
Bell turns to Federal Court of Appeal over CloudWiFi decision
telecom | 07/23/2019 5:12 pm EDT
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 service providers (ISPs) access to Bell’s wires — copper or fibre — for a “reasonable fee.” The CRTC also started a separate process asking for comment on why other providers shouldn’t be subject to the same rules. Bell then asked the CRTC to review that decision in a Part 1 application. The CRTC responded by launching an expedited process to consider Bell’s request for interim...
Telus appealing CRTC speed cap relief
telecom | 04/18/2019 5:00 pm EDT
Telus Corp. is going to court over the CRTC’s decision last month to grant smaller internet providers a...
‘Many’ ISPs could shut down due to wholesale regime: CNOC
telecom | 01/17/2019 4:34 pm EST
Small, wholesale-based internet service providers could be forced out of...
Bell posts subscriber gains, but wireless ARPU dips
telecom | 11/01/2018 5:42 pm EDT
BCE Inc. reported its wireless average revenue per user (ARPU) dipped in its third quarter results...
Shaw proposes banning third-party door-to-door sales
telecom | 10/26/2018 12:10 pm EDT
Shaw Communications Inc. is proposing a ban on third-party door-to-door sales to curb aggressive and...
Alberta court rules city bylaw lacks jurisdiction over telecom builds
telecom | 10/22/2018 5:00 pm EDT
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, the relationship between Canada’s four major telecoms -- BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., Shaw Communications Inc., and Telus Corp. -- and the city of Calgary was governed by a municipal access agreement. When they failed to get another agreement, the city proposed its own model, which intended...
Bandwidth pressures a concern for indigenous ISPs
telecom | 10/11/2018 5:43 pm EDT
Internet service providers (ISPs) in rural and remote communities are trying to keep up with the appetite...
Telecom execs praise ‘healthier,’ ‘balanced’ regulatory environment
telecom | 09/26/2018 5:51 pm EDT
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 FTTP facilities construction underway
telecom | 07/24/2018 5:26 pm EDT
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. will invest up to $26 million over a year and a half to build out an open access...
Bell fibre build moves to Oshawa, Ont.
telecom | 04/24/2018 2:29 pm EDT
Oshawa, Ont. will be the next target for BCE Inc.’s fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network buildout, the...
Bell celebrates Toronto FTTH build, eyes higher speeds
telecom | 04/05/2018 6:59 pm EDT
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...
CNOC denied ‘transitional’ access to FTTP under disaggregated regime
telecom | 02/02/2018 5:01 pm EST
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...
TekSavvy offering near 1 GB speeds
telecom | 01/29/2018 2:25 pm EST
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has become the “first independent Canadian telecom service provider” to offer...
Distributel teams up with Eeyou network on northern Quebec service
telecom | 01/17/2018 4:01 pm EST
A Cree-owned non-profit will partner with Distributel Communications Ltd....
Bell buys regional telecom Maskatel
telecom | 01/15/2018 12:38 pm EST
BCE Inc. kicked off the new year by acquiring Quebec telecom Groupe Maskatel LP, furthering its fibre expansion in the province.
The combination “brings together Maskatel’s deep local knowledge with Bell’s scope and scale as Canada’s growth leader in broadband...
Disaggregated regime to spark new wholesale models, agreements: CNOC
telecom | 11/07/2017 6:12 pm EST
TORONTO — The CRTC’s new disaggregated wholesale regime will bring with...
Facilities ownership key to competition, ISP conference hears
telecom | 11/06/2017 7:37 pm EST
TORONTO — Owning fibre facilities is the primary way to drive...
Bell needs to do more with ad tech, CEO says
Media | 11/02/2017 3:43 pm EDT
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...
Bell ‘heartened’ by CRTC chair statements, CEO says
telecom | 09/27/2017 5:09 pm EDT
BCE Inc.’s top man George Cope said the company likes new CRTC head Ian Scott’s approach to balancing consumer and business interests....
Axia rolling out gigabit service in rural Alberta
telecom | 09/06/2017 11:39 am EDT
Rural Albertans will have access to gigabit internet following an upgrade by Axia NetMedia Corp., the company said Wednesday.
In a press release, the Calgary-based provider said “customers with 50 and 100 Mbps service are being cranked up to a level of service that...
High interim tariffs, logistics still mire disaggregated system
telecom | 08/31/2017 5:13 pm EDT
The CRTC's goal of fuelling wireline competition by jumpstarting the...
Small ISPs welcome rollout of disaggregated wholesale regime
telecom | 08/29/2017 6:17 pm EDT
The CRTC kickstarted the industry’s move to a disaggregated wholesale...
Bell subs feel impact of ‘aggressive’ cable competition in Q2
telecom | 08/03/2017 2:22 pm EDT
BCE Inc. is hoping the second half of the year results in a boost for its...
Cogeco expands U.S. biz with MetroCast buy
telecom | 07/10/2017 1:08 pm EDT
Cogeco Inc. is again expanding its U.S. footprint, with the announcement Monday that it would purchase...
Canadian fibre connections grow to 10 per cent: OECD
telecom | 07/07/2017 1:54 pm EDT
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...
Eastlink expanding gigabit Internet service
telecom | 06/19/2017 5:13 pm EDT
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...
Telus injecting $8.9B in B.C., Alta. through 2020
telecom | 06/09/2017 4:47 pm EDT
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...
Quebecor has tools to combat Bell fibre push: Pruneau
telecom | 05/25/2017 5:32 pm EDT
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...
Former Videotron customers returning from Bell: Brouillette
Media | 05/12/2017 9:53 am EDT
Manon Brouillette, president of Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron, downplayed the effect that BCE Inc.’s recent move to deploy fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) to all of Montreal’s homes and businesses would have on the company Thursday.
She said in a conference call with analysts following the release of...
Cable sufficient alternative in wholesale service area gaps: incumbents
telecom | 05/05/2017 5:59 pm EDT
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 investing $80 million in Quebec fibre network
Media | 04/24/2017 8:50 pm EDT
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...
CNOC asks for CRTC action on growing wholesale wireline ‘service gaps’
telecom | 03/30/2017 8:54 pm EDT
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...
Bell accelerates FTTH deployment with $854M plan for Montreal
telecom | 03/27/2017 8:45 pm EDT
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....
Bell’s scale advantage widening after MTS deal: Barclays
Media | 03/21/2017 4:18 pm EDT
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,” according to Barclays Capital. “We believe consensus has overlooked BCE’s unique position in Canada and the scale advantage management has quietly established over the years,” analyst Phillip Huang said in a Tuesday research note, which follows the company’s acquisition of MTS. He added that Bell now owns a fixed line network covering 73 per cent of Canada’s households...
Are provinces filling the federal broadband strategy gap?
telecom | 03/17/2017 6:57 pm EDT
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...
OpenMedia platform to help Canadians advocate for community-owned Internet service
telecom | 01/23/2017 7:00 pm EST
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...
Cogeco shifting data centre strategy due to Amazon, Microsoft: Audet
Media | 01/12/2017 9:56 pm EST
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...
Rural broadband program aims to bring 300 communities up to speed
telecom | 12/15/2016 10:01 pm EST
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...
‘Too early’ to tell what impact 5G could have on FTTH rollout: Bell CFO
Media | 11/30/2016 12:43 am EST
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...
CRTC chair OK with being ‘disruptive showman’
Media | 11/16/2016 11:21 pm EST
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...
More competitive markets could be at FTTH disadvantage, conference hears
telecom | 11/08/2016 11:54 pm EST
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...
U.S. operations boost Q4 for Cogeco
Media | 11/03/2016 7:43 pm EDT
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...
Canadians’ data usage increased 40% last year, CRTC says
telecom | 10/26/2016 8:39 pm EDT
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 in the second part of its Communications Monitoring Report, released Wednesday. “Data usage increased by 44 [per cent] for wireless and approximately 40 [per cent] for residential Internet services from 2014 to 2015,” the commission said in a press release. In contrast to the broadcasting sector, which saw a decline of 1.6 per cent between 2014 and 2015,...
Telcos unlikely to fully deploy FTTH: Desjardins
telecom | 10/25/2016 10:08 pm EDT
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 gigabit Internet rollout mostly completed
telecom | 10/04/2016 8:55 pm EDT
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...
Court says Cogeco can’t claim ‘best Internet’
telecom | 10/04/2016 8:45 pm EDT
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 best-positioned carrier, regardless of Liberal policy: Barclays
telecom | 09/26/2016 6:47 pm EDT
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,...
FTTH decision should improve competition: Desjardins
telecom | 09/21/2016 5:57 pm EDT
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 their cost structure, leading to improved competition.” The CRTC issued its decision Tuesday, which sets out an implementation plan for mandated wholesale access by smaller Internet service providers (ISPs) to incumbents’ FTTH networks. Yaghi noted that “we are still in a wait-and-see mode on this issue until we see the final CRTC...
FTTH access plan ‘consistent’ but ‘disappointing’: indie ISPs
telecom | 09/20/2016 9:52 pm EDT
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...
G.fast tech to give Canadian telcos’ Internet speeds a boost
telecom | 08/25/2016 5:52 pm EDT
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...
Eastlink expanding rural N.S. broadband access
telecom | 08/25/2016 2:51 pm EDT
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...
FTTH rollout crucial for affordability in long-term: report
telecom | 08/16/2016 5:13 pm EDT
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 Internet tier upgrades due to bandwidth, not speed: Cope
telecom | 08/04/2016 10:08 pm EDT
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,...
7.4% of Canadian Internet connections are FTTP or similar: OECD
telecom | 08/03/2016 5:53 pm EDT
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....
SaskTel connects Estevan to FTTH
telecom | 07/28/2016 7:04 pm EDT
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...
Ontario fibre project gets federal-provincial boost
telecom | 07/26/2016 8:29 pm EDT
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 boosting Montreal FTTP network
telecom | 07/12/2016 7:25 pm EDT
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 significant investment to extend the reach of this technology – the world’s fastest – paves the way for connected businesses, innovative health technologies and even the anticipated introduction of fifth-generation wireless networks,” Francois Gratton, Telus executive vice-president and president of business solutions east and Telus Quebec, said...
SaskTel flipping switch on FTTH in Weyburn
telecom | 07/04/2016 6:53 pm EDT
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 looks south for fibre expansion
telecom | 06/21/2016 5:36 pm EDT
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...
Videotron’s Brouillette asks Liberals to keep 4th player policy for 600 MHz
telecom | 06/08/2016 6:20 pm EDT
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 Connexion brings FTTH to Laurentides
telecom | 06/08/2016 12:13 am EDT
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...
5G key to future wireless profitability, Ericsson’s CTO says
telecom | 06/06/2016 6:03 pm EDT
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 Canada’s Dragan Nerandzic said at the Canadian Telecom Summit Monday. “We believe our industry is at an inflection point. The reason why … is that revenue in the industry globally is not growing on an exponential curve, as the data consumption is. And of course, industry wants to stay profitable,” Nerandzic, the chief technology officer at Ericsson...
VMedia sets sights on incumbents as it expands outside Ont.
telecom | 06/01/2016 10:11 pm EDT
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...
Small ISPs laud government denial of Bell’s FTTH appeal
telecom | 05/11/2016 1:23 pm EDT
Independent Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and advocacy groups said Wednesday they’re encouraged by the federal government’s rejection of BCE Inc.’s appeal of the CRTC...
Small telecoms lobby for access to federal broadband funding
telecom | 05/10/2016 6:13 pm EDT
OTTAWA — Representatives from smaller telecommunications companies descended on Parliament Hill Tuesday, pushing for lawmakers to consult with them in the design of the new federal rural...
Cogeco Connexion expanding FTTH network in Quebec
telecom | 05/10/2016 3:54 pm EDT
Cogeco Inc. said Friday it is investing about $250,000 to expand its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network to residents in Quebec’s Orford Township. The expansion will serve “several homes in the...
Telus to invest $4.5 billion in Alberta
telecom | 04/04/2016 8:49 pm EDT
Telus Corp. announced Monday it will invest $4.5 billion towards new communications infrastructure across Alberta over the next three years. This year it will invest more than $900 million in order to extend its...
Telus to invest $2 billion in Quebec
telecom | 03/21/2016 8:00 pm EDT
Telus Corp. announced Monday in a press release it is investing $2 billion towards new infrastructure in Quebec over the next five years. This year, Telus will invest $340 million in extending its fibre-to-the-home...
Telus expanding FTTH network in northern B.C.
telecom | 03/11/2016 4:30 pm EST
UPDATED — Telus Corp. is expanding its fibre-to-the-home rollout to the northeastern B.C. communities of Dawson Creek, Fort St. John and Charlie Lake, the company announced in a pair of press releases. Telus will spend $10...
With no network infrastructure, towns opting to build their own
telecom | 03/02/2016 9:19 pm EST
Among the arguments from BCE Inc. and those supporting its appeal to federal cabinet of the CRTC decision mandating wholesale access to fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks is that the ruling will slow...
CRTC won’t change course despite appeals, criticism: Blais
Media | 02/17/2016 11:05 pm EST
CRTC Chairman Jean-Pierre Blais said Wednesday the CRTC will stick to the course of action it has set despite disapproval by those who feel the CRTC’s direction “upsets their entitlements and threatens their livelihoods.” According to a copy of his remarks at a speech delivered to the Canadian Club of Toronto, Blais said that while “many Canadians and companies approve of the course we at the CRTC are setting… [others] are just complaining. They’re forecasting doom and gloom: job cuts, revenue losses, station closures. They run off to court, they run off...