DHX rebranding as WildBrain

Three weeks after announcing a new CEO with a background in developing family-based entertainment products, DHX Media Ltd. announced Monday — alongside its 2019 fourth quarter results — that it would rebrand as WildBrain and reorganize itself around family-entertainment. 

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Liberals promise access for ‘qualified’ MVNOs, spectrum auction changes

In this fall’s election campaign, the Liberal Party is setting the goal of lowering cellphone prices by 25 per cent within four years and they plan to make that happen by mandating access by some MVNOs to incumbent networks and changing auction rules.

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Investors too focused on Rogers wireless division: analyst

Investors are overly preoccupied with the wireless divisions of telecom companies, and as such have been overly punitive toward Rogers Communications Inc. this summer, according to a look in on the telecom industry published Thursday by National Bank Financial Markets analyst Adam Shine.

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Distributel asks court for ability to challenge future site-blocking

In the event Federal Court allows a site-blocking application brought by three of the country’s largest broadcasters, Distributel Communications Ltd. wants to ensure internet service providers (ISPs) can challenge subsequent orders brought to their doorstep and be compensated for any legal action taken against them for complying. 

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CRTC tells Federal Court TVA info request akin to ‘fishing’

The CRTC is objecting to a document-collection request Quebecor Inc. is making in Federal Court as part of its appeal of a decision by the regulator to force the company to continue to allow BCE Inc. to broadcast its sports channel. 

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Telecoms say CRTC wholesale decision violates Harper-era directive

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 regulator to base its decisions to the “maximum extent feasible” on market forces.

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Telecoms ‘caught off guard’ by allegations piracy promoted at retailers: Super Channel

Allarco Entertainment 2008 Inc.’s Super Channel held meetings with “totally surprised” representatives of Canadian telecoms in the weeks before it filed a Federal Court lawsuit against four major retailers, whose employees allegedly peddled the piracy benefits of media boxes they sold in stores. 

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Green Party platform: no anonymous social media, 5G rollout on hold

The Green Party election platform includes promises to ensure only individuals whose identities have been verified can set up social media accounts and indicates a Green government would require Parliamentary approval to continue the rollout of 5G.

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Big telecoms go to court over wholesale rates

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. 

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WSP customer service reps lacking accessibility knowledge: CRTC

The country’s largest wireless service providers have “significant room for improvement” when it comes to providing important and timely information to customers who are elderly or live with disabilities, a new CRTC-commissioned report said.

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