Quebecor Inc. announced that it is suspending the launch of its "data-rich" mobile plans in Manitoba after the CRTC decided it must agree to Telus Corp.’s mobile virtual...
The CRTC has ordered Cogeco Inc. to maintain TekSavvy Solutions Inc.’s access to internet facilities scheduled to be decommissioned and upgraded to fibre technologies at two...
Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) submitted an application to the CRTC for an...
Representatives from Cogeco Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. told the...
To bring affordable internet and consumer choice to rural communities, the...
The CRTC has declined an application from BCE...
Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron and Freedom Mobile divisions have been granted a final offer arbitration (FOA) process by the CRTC. The company is in a dispute with Telus Corp. over...
BCE Inc., filed a petition to cabinet Friday urging it to reverse a ruling...
Quebecor Inc.’s request for the CRTC to set new...
Quebecor Inc. submitted an application to the CRTC...
Quebecor Inc. president and CEO Pierre Karl...
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri...
In a Thursday quarterly earnings conference call, BCE Inc.'s president and...
The debate over what the future of the wholesale high-speed-access (HSA)...
Both BCE Inc. and Quebecor Inc. have reacted to the CRTC’s decision that Bell Mobility's offer on...
BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. reiterated their concerns around the CRTC’s ongoing review of the wholesale high-speed access framework, warning regulators of the delicate balance...
The CRTC has opted to keep its cost-based rate setting approach for...
According to the CEO of one of Canada's largest regional internet service providers, the recent state of...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and the...
City Wide Communications Inc. is asking the...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) says the government’s proposed new policy direction for the CRTC is “severely out of touch” with the competition issues...
The CRTC had decided to allow BCE Inc. to keep...
The federal government is seeking to issue a new policy direction to the...
Distributel Ltd.’s request to revise interim...
Shaw Communications Inc. was given approval by the CRTC Friday for a new...
With a shift to a disaggregated access model anticipated by the Competitive...
The CRTC wants BCE Inc. to clarify why the company wants to make payments...
The Federal Court of Appeal will take up TekSavvy Solutions Inc.'s...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is hiking fees for some customers of its residential internet service by a few...
An Ottawa-area internet service provider has added its voice to those asking the government to overturn the CRTC's decision to revert rates for wholesale-based internet service providers (ISPs) to 2016 interim levels. In a petition to the Governor in Council filed Wednesday, National Capital FreeNet Inc. argues the decision "does not promote competition, affordability, or consumer interests, as ordered in the 2019 Policy Direction, but instead actively inhibits these goals, while...
The CRTC has said it will consider a procedural request from Iristel Inc....
Fed up with the CRTC's May decision to overturn its 2019 decision on wholesale internet access rates, the...
The House of Commons Industry committee is recommending that the government...
Independent internet service provider (ISP) CIK Telecom announced Friday that it would dial back a planned $300 million fibre network development, blaming the CRTC's decision to revert wholesale...
In what the company says is a direct response to the CRTC's reversal on wholesale high-speed internet access rates, BCE Inc. announced Monday that it is increasing the amount...
As reaction continues to pour in following the CRTC's Thursday decision to...
The CRTC Thursday announced that it is setting permanent rates for...
The request from the Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) for the...
Frustrated with what it said is the deteriorating state of competition in...
Northern broadband provider SSi Canada is asking...
The Supreme Court appeal incumbent telecoms filed in November amounts to...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) and advocacy group...
On the heels of the incumbent appeal of a Federal Court of Appeal decision...
A day after CRTC chairman Ian Scott addressed the Competitive Network Operators of Canada's ISP Summit and gave no more details about when the regulator would give some finality to the issue of wholesale internet access rates, frustrations with the regulator's timelines and process seemed to boil over Wednesday. In remarks delivered by CNOC president Matt Stein, and in a later panel discussion on regulatory affairs, discontent with the slow speed of key CRTC proceedings seemed to be the order of the day. "We need to counterbalance the incumbents’ ability to drag things out,"...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is asking the Federal Court of Appeal to review the CRTC's Sept. 28 decision to grant a request from incumbents for a fresh stay on the implementation of the lower wholesale...
The CRTC said Monday it has approved a stay request from incumbent telecoms asking the regulator not to enforce the wholesale rates it lowered in August 2019. That means the lower rates won’t be...
Beginning with its next invoice, TekSavvy Solutions Inc. will not be paying its wholesale fees to BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. as invoiced, instead "setting off...
After the Federal Court of Appeal dismissed the incumbent telecom companies’ challenge of the CRTC's wholesale internet rates Thursday, independent internet service providers are now asking the...
The Federal Court of Appeal dismissed Thursday the large telecom companies’ appeal of the CRTC’s Aug. 2019 decision lowering wholesale rates. The appeal is part of a long-running dispute between incumbent telecoms including BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., Shaw...
BCE Inc. and a coalition of cable companies have submitted letters to the...
Lawyers representing BCE Inc. have asked a Federal Court of Appeal judge to...
The Liberal government has sided with Canada’s largest telecoms in their...
BCE Inc.'s argument that retroactive payments mandated by the CRTC in its August wholesale rate decision are an unconstitutional tax is a "disguised attack" on the "entire rate setting regime" laid...
The CRTC's wholesale rates ruling from last August ignored the intentions of a 2006 Maxime Bernier-era policy directive, and the decision to slash wholesale rates for third-party internet service...
Distributel Communications Ltd. will charge a “very small” number of customers a $5 temporary surcharge on each internet bill, due to a legal challenge against last year’s wholesale rates...
The performance of networks in other countries during the COVID-19 crisis...
Opposition parties that normally hold differing views on any given issue...
In a Tuesday filing with the Federal Court of Appeal, the Canadian Network Operators Consortium (CNOC) said that the appeal of the CRTC's August wholesale rate decision by some six companies should be thrown out, because the CRTC's order meets policy directives established by the federal government. Furthermore, CNOC argues in the filing, BCE Inc.'s argument in its original appeal that the slashed retroactive rates applied by the regulator amount to an unconstitutional tax has "no merit," and the telecom companies’ appeal falls outside of the scope of the Telecommunications Act, because...
The CRTC has responded to a letter from The Canadian Network Operators...
The ongoing appeal by incumbent telecoms of the CRTC's wholesale internet rates decision from August should be dismissed because the appeal argues that the regulator made errors in fact, rather than...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is joining a call made last week by Conservative...
The Federal Court appeal of the CRTC’s lowered wholesale internet rates could still include a hearing in June as originally scheduled, despite the COVID-19 pandemic that has ground most of the country to a halt. A notice...
Teksavvy Solutions Inc. has laid off 130 staff and will implement a flat $5 bill increase for its residential internet customers as of May, saying a legal challenge against last year’s wholesale rate reduction, combined with the COVID-19 pandemic, left the company with no...
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...
The Competition Bureau has been asked to investigate a “pattern of anti-competitive activities” in wholesale and retail internet markets by BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications, in a complaint filed...
CloudWifi Inc.’s application for small internet service providers to be able to access fibre...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has launched a public campaign urging the federal government to reject petitions filed by the major telecommunications providers, calling on it to reverse a CRTC decision that...
In yet another appeal of the CRTC’s decision lowering wholesale internet rates, BCE Inc. filed a fresh review-and-vary application to the regulator the week before Christmas, arguing that that the...
Quebecor Inc.’s cancellation of its gigabit internet service is akin to a soccer player diving, or feigning injury to draw a penalty, TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is arguing in an intervention to the...
The CRTC’s decision to lower wholesale rates for its aggregated regime...
Quebecor Inc. executives confirmed on Thursday that its previously...
TORONTO — The aggressive way incumbent telecom companies reacted to the CRTC’s lowering of wholesale rates in August was a message that they plan to fight any moves to...
The Canadian Network Operators Consortium has filed its arguments in Federal Court against Telus Corp.’s appeal of a CRTC decision that would temporarily suspend a speed cap affecting wholesale-based service providers. The...
The temporary nature of the decision by the Federal Court of Appeal to...
After an urgent plea by BCE Inc. requesting the Federal Court hold an oral hearing on the deadline of a CRTC order to implement new wholesale internet rates that it is protesting, Bell and other...
In their Friday appeal of the CRTC decision on wholesale internet rates, the affected cable companies are asking the Federal Court of Appeal to defer to a 2006 Harper-era directive that advised the...
In a widely anticipated move, several of the country’s biggest telecom companies have filed for leave to appeal a CRTC decision establishing a new rate regime for wholesale internet broadband. The decision, issued August 15 after a three-year review, substantially reduced the rates that incumbent telecom companies are allowed to charge internet resellers, and also requires incumbents to make retroactive payments to the resellers, totalling some $350 million across the industry. In two separate filings -- one from BCE Inc. and the other jointly filed by Bragg Communications Inc.,...
As analysts predict the CRTC’s decision on wholesale internet rates is likely to be appealed, they are divided on what impact the new rates would have on the industry as a whole. In a note released Monday morning,...
The NDP is already throwing cold water on reports that the Liberals are considering a price cap and mandated access for mobile virtual network operators as part of the incumbent party’s campaign plank. In a Tuesday evening...
Analyst notes published this week confirm much of what was already known about the impact of new CRTC wholesale broadband rates on incumbent carriers. Namely, the new wholesale rates will hit the...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron and Shaw Communications Inc. added their voices...
Cogeco Inc. said Monday that the new wholesale broadband rates set by the CRTC will cost the company $25 million in retroactive payments, while Rogers Communications Inc. said it "expects to record a...
BCE Inc. has responded to lower wholesale rates for internet service...
The new wholesale tariffs for internet service announced by the CRTC Thursday are unlikely to have a large impact on the big publicly traded telecoms, though their profits will be affected marginally,...
Wholesale-based ISPs are praising a decision by the CRTC to lower the rates...