Northern Ontario is lagging behind the rest of the province when it comes to internet connectivity, a new report finds. Blue Sky Net's 2024 Northern Ontario Broadband Report, released on Monday, mirrors results from last year’s study. Federal statistics say 93.5 per...
The federal government is spending an additional $2.8 million to advance clean energy and roll out high-speed internet service in Nunavut. Northern Affairs Minister Dan Vandal made the announcement at the Arctic Energy and Resource Symposium in Calgary on Thursday....
Minister of Rural Economic Development Gudie Hutchings continued her tour...
The governments of Canada and Alberta announced Tuesday that they are...
The Government of Canada announced Friday that it...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Wednesday the...
BCE Inc.’s Northwestel announced to the CRTC that it has successfully transitioned telecommunications services in Atlin, B.C., from Telus Corp as of Nov. 23rd, following a...
As the Federal Communications Commission in the United States announced it...
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink announced the purchase of a Northern Ontario telecom service...
The governments of Canada and British Columbia have joined together to...
As the CRTC’s review of its broadband fund...
The federal government is spending $1.2 million for high-speed internet service in Cape Breton in Nova...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development has added a...
The CRTC has published some of the interventions for its proceeding into the Broadband Fund. Most of the...
The federal and Alberta governments announced a $96 million plan to roll...
The governments of Canada and Ontario have announced another shared investment towards deploying high-speed internet in the province, this time providing over $4 million in funding to Mornington Communications and its infrastructure projects in southern Ontario. On...
A town in Alberta is condemning Telus Corp. for slowing down the rollout of...
The CRTC presented its public opinion research...
Residents of northern Ontario are still underserved when it comes to internet rollout, a new study...
Friday the CRTC issued approvals for several claims under the Broadband Fund. Three companies will receive money to roll out infrastructure across the country. ATG Arrow...
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...
Canadian carriers that offer fixed broadband...
Auditor General Karen Hogan released a quartet of reports on the...
The CRTC is looking for feedback on how it can improve its Broadband Fund,...
Conservative MP Dan Mazier’s private member’s bill on internet service...
The governments of Canada and Ontario have announced two projects that will...
Telecom experts say that a Senate bill that would...
There is a consensus forming that the CRTC should...
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,...
The Canadian government announced Monday that it is investing up to $31 million in funding for the rollout of high-speed broadband in Pictou County, Nova Scotia. The program will bring high-speed internet to more than 4,700 homes in the region. “Connectivity is an...
The federal government’s Innovation Science and Economic Development...
Indigenous telecommunications stakeholders are calling on the government to...
"Stringent" limitations proposed for the non-competitive licensing (NCL)...
The CRTC is now accepting applications for eligible transport...
Thursday the federal government announced it was rolling out $2.6 million in broadband infrastructure in the Tsuut'ina indigenous community in Alberta. This will provide up to...
Xplore Inc.’s residential and business customers...
Thursday the Nova Scotia government tabled amendments to two laws which it...
There’s no need for BCE Inc.’s Northwestel to introduce wholesale...
Heads of Canada's major telecommunications companies met with federal...
by Jenna Cocullo At the frontier of the future...
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston wrote to...
Hurricane Fiona wreaked havoc on Atlantic Canada and eastern Quebec last...
Xplornet Communications Inc. is rebranding to Xplore Inc. “to better...
The Canadian government has partnered with the government of British Columbia to facilitate the rollout of $1.9 million in broadband infrastructure, it was announced Tuesday. There will be two projects, on Keats Island and in New Brighton, B.C. Approximately 663 households...
The federal government announced two projects on Friday that will increase...
Canada should look to Britain and Australia for lessons on how to regulate...
Tuesday the CRTC issued approvals of several statements of work for...
Telus Corp. unveiled a $23 billion investment in broadband and related technologies across Ontario...
Monday the CRTC approved claim forms for four projects under the Broadband Fund. The payment orders went to the Kativik Regional Government in northern Quebec and to three projects from BCE Inc.’s Northwestel Inc. Kativik was awarded over $36.2 million for fibre rollout...
The CRTC announced it was initiating a proceeding to improve telecommunications services in Canada’s...
The governments of Canada and of Quebec are each investing $199,305 in...
Players in the low-earth orbit satellite (LEOs) space are casting doubt...
A Saskatchewan senator called on the government to do more to ensure...
Friday, the governments of Canada and Ontario announced which projects will...
In an announcement Thursday, the department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) said...
The governments of Canada and Ontario are jointly investing $56 million for...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. is investing approximately $337 million of capital in...
The federal government is providing low-income families and seniors with broadband services at reduced rates. On Monday it unveiled the second leg of its Connecting Families...
The CRTC has issued $19.5 million from the regulator's Broadband Fund for...
The federal government is investing $41 million to deliver high-speed...
An Alaskan company has unveiled a billion-dollar project to run fibre from...
The federal government is earmarking $240 million in matching funds to...
The federal government has partnered with the government of British Columbia on the rollout of high-speed internet in rural, remote and Indigenous communities. The announcement was made Tuesday in Mission, British Columbia by Gudie Hutchings, federal Minister of Rural...
The province of Alberta will spend $390 million over four years to provide...
The federal government and the government of Newfoundland and Labrador are...
The federal government is investing $41 million to roll out broadband in...
The CRTC cannot impose fines on either Iristel Inc. and Telus Corp. after...
The Government has awarded a Toronto-based analytics company that uses...
The CRTC has granted Base Technology Ltd. up to $750,000 Wednesday to roll out broadband in rural British...
Telus Corp. Monday unveiled a program to connect Indigenous communities to...
The federal government’s Universal Broadband Fund (UBF), by having rural...
Indigenous stakeholders in Canadian telecoms are renewing their calls for the government to develop a spectrum priority window for Indigenous communities and a fund set aside...
Canada’s targets of reaching connectivity speeds...
Satellite operator, Telesat Corp. appointed an executive in the...
Two telecom companies can start work on their Broadband Fund projects now...
Quebec-based telecom company CoopTel wants the...
BCE Inc. and Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. are not in favour of a proposal from Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) to adopt its 20-year 3500...
Rural broadband provider Xplornet Communications...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) is extending the...
Xplornet Communications Inc. announced Dennis Steiger as its new chief technology officer in a Wednesday press release. Steiger will lead the architecture, planning,...
Telus Corp. is expanding its 5G network in four British Columbia communities as part of its $13 billion...
New Brunswick-based rural broadband provider Xplornet Communications Inc. announced Wednesday it’s...
In order to achieve better spectrum sovereignty for Indigenous communities in Canada, the government has...
Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole said during a press conference on...
With a federal election called for Sept. 20, parties have pledged to make Canadians’ lives better in a...
Rogers Communications Inc. has made a deal to acquire Seaside Communications, a long-time local internet service provider (ISP) in rural Nova Scotia serving ten northeastern counties of the province. Rogers announced Monday it signed a joint agreement with Seaside -- a...
After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally called Sunday for a...
Telesat Corporation, a newly-public satellite company with plans to connect...
The government has announced more than $17.3 million of funding for four high-speed internet projects in rural British Columbia in an effort to close the digital divide in...
Approximately 3,625 households will benefit from the CRTC’s Broadband Fund, after a Wednesday announcement of 10 projects selected to receive a total of $20.5 million....
BCE Inc. is objecting to proposed changes to the procedures for the operation of the National Contribution Fund, saying that a proposed system for payment forecasts does not allow contributors to the fund to plan properly. In an intervention filed April 19, Bell wrote that the proposal by the Canadian Telecommunications Contribution Consortium Inc. (CTCC), which is responsible for establishing the procedures necessary for the operation of the NCF, "does not provide sufficient time for each contributor to determine and arrange for the amount payable as part of their obligations." The CTCC...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. is requesting a stay in the distribution of $9.5 million in funding the CRTC awarded to BH Telecom Corp. for a Saskatchewan project that BH Telecom says that would connect more than 26...
Internet speeds for rural Canadians continue to remain “well below” the recommended CRTC speeds, even during the COVID-19 pandemic, when people “are counting more than ever on reliable broadband...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. has asked the CRTC to overturn its decision to award $9.5 million in funding to BH Telecom Corp. for a project in Saskatchewan that would connect some 26...
The federal government’s Universal Broadband Fund is in high demand, according to a speech from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) senior director David Willis Wednesday at...
The federal government’s Canada Infrastructure Bank and DIF Capital Partners have signed an agreement in principle to spend $130 million each to increase rural broadband connectivity through the...
The Eastern Ontario Regional Network (EORN), the Province of Ontario, the federal government, and Rogers Communications Inc. Friday announced a $300 million project with the goal of connecting 99 per...
The CRTC is handing out $57.7 million through its Broadband Fund for the construction of thousands of kilometres of network transport infrastructure. The commission announced Friday that seven...
Telus Corp. will receive more than $5 million in funding through the Rapid Response Stream of the federal government’s Universal Broadband Fund for projects bringing high-speed Internet to rural...
If Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada doesn't approve Telesat Holdings Inc.'s proposal to auction off spectrum it holds in the 3700-3900 MHz band, the company won't be able to compete with its competitors in the United States, the company's CEO told the...