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CRTC warns companies as rural broadband deadline looms

This week the CRTC warned three companies — Telus Corp., BCE Inc. and Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. — about missing a late-August deadline for expanding broadband service to rural communities.

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Canadian TV packages more flexible than in U.S.: study

A report appearing on the CRTC's website Friday indicated that Canadian television service providers are offering more choice and flexibility than ones in the United States in selected markets.

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Teksavvy data handover too expensive: Voltage

The Federal Court case Voltage Pictures LLC filed over illegal filesharing of some of its films was decided in February, but the courtroom back-and-forth is still ongoing.

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Vodafone says some countries tap into customer lines

British-based telecom-service provider Vodafone Group PLC said in a law enforcement disclosure report Friday that the governments of some countries in which it operates have direct access to its networks, allowing their agencies to monitor the communications of the company's customers.

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Videotron’s new TV app ‘sign of what’s to come’: analyst

MONTREAL —Videotron’s new iPad application, which allows users to access live TV, free and paid video-on-demand (VOD) content and programming stored on a personal video recorder (PVR), in addition to a recommendation function and integrated social networking, is a sign of where "TV-everywhere" strategies are heading, said Alan Breznick, a media, telecom and technology analyst at research group Heavy Reading.

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Rogers received over 170,000 sub-info requests in 2013

Rogers Communications Inc. said Thursday it received 174,917 requests for information on subscribers from government agencies last year, though it did not say with how many it complied.

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Hungarian channel approved by CRTC

Hungary’s public broadcaster may soon be available for satellite subscribers in Canada after the CRTC announced on Thursday that it has added Duna World, distributed by Ethnic Channels Group Ltd., to the list of non-Canadian channels approved for distribution.

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TV industry facing ‘significant pressure’ from OTT, unbundling: report

The growth of existing over-the-top (OTT) streaming services and the potential emergence of new ones, as well as a transition to an à la carte television distribution system, could place “significant pressure on the broadcast business model” in Canada, a new report from Cannacord Genuity says.

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Verizon says Netflix ‘misleading’ viewers on connection issues

In a blog post on its website Wednesday, Verizon Communications Inc. accused Netflix Inc. of "misleading" consumers about the source of buffering issues that viewers may have  experienced.

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Advocacy groups petition government on prepaid expirations

A pair of advocacy groups are asking to the government to overrule the CRTC's decision not to include a ban on expiration dates on prepaid wireless services in the wireless code that took effect late last year.

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