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Don’t mandate text message warning for emergency alerts: telecoms

The majority of Canadian wireless providers who weighed in on a proposal to harmonize emergency alert tests told the CRTC that they shouldn’t be required to send text messages to users warning them of upcoming tests.

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Bell grows fixed wireless plans by 400,000 homes

BCE Inc. says it will grow its rural fixed-wireless plans by 50 per cent, thanks to new tax measures the Liberal government announced last fall aimed at promoting investments in rural areas.

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Huawei ban wouldn’t delay BCE’s 5G rollout: Cope

The head of BCE Inc. says he doesn’t expect that a ban on Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.’s equipment from Canada’s 5G networks would hamper or delay Bell’s 5G rollout.

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Maxime Bernier supports Huawei 5G ban ‘as soon as possible’

OTTAWA — Maxime Bernier, the leader of the People’s Party of Canada and former industry minister in the Harper government, says Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government should listen to Canada’s allies and ban Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. from Canada’s next generation networks.

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Barbara Williams joins CBC

Corus Entertainment Inc.’s former chief operating officer, Barbara Williams, will be CBC/Radio-Canada’s new executive vice-president of CBC.

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Novus files another Part 1 for condo access in B.C.

Novus Entertainment Inc. has filed an application to the CRTC alleging a developer of a multi-dwelling unit in British Columbia is not responding to its telecom access proposal.

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Odds of Huawei ban have increased in recent months: analyst

The likelihood Canada will ban Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. equipment from the country’s 5G networks has gone up in recent months, and if that happens, the deployment of those networks will be delayed, National Bank analyst Adam Shine said in a research note.

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ISPs can already resell incumbent internet to other providers, cablecos say

Canada’s largest cable companies said they already have existing provisions that allow providers to buy and resell their services to other providers.

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Former CBC president Lacroix joins law firm

Former CBC/Radio-Canada president Hubert Lacroix has joined the business law firm Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP as strategic counsel in its Montreal office, according to a press release from Blakes Monday.

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Don’t exclude online services from Broadcasting Act: Private radio

Canada’s private radio broadcasters are fighting against a push to keep online services out of Canada’s broadcast laws, according to a submission sent to the Liberal government’s expert panel review of the future of Canada’s communications laws.

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