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CIPPIC training AI to highlight patterns in regulatory, court docs

The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) is teaming up with an artificial intelligence platform that it hopes will produce insights, which would otherwise be missed, from a trove of telecom- and broadcast-related documents. 

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Voltage defendants file appeal for release of $75,000 in defense costs

Defendants in a failed reverse class action certification motion brought by Voltage Pictures LLC are filing an appeal against part of the decision by the Federal Court to withhold legal fees they say are owed to them after the movie studio lost its case. 

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CRTC asks telecoms to implement new anti-spam call protocol

The CRTC Monday announced that it will ask telecom companies to implement a particular anti-call spoofing protocol, called STIR/SHAKEN, by September 30, 2020, and they will have to develop their own technology to do so.  

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Rempel claims Liberals lobbied most by wireless industry in first QP as industry critic

Michelle Rempel Garner, Conservative MP for Calgary Nose Hill and her party’s newly minted critic for industry, said Friday that Canada’s wireless rates are “non-competitive,” with consumers paying for more data than both Americans and Europeans.

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Rovi’s STB suit an attempt to extract royalties, Videotron says

Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron will argue in Federal Court later this month that a years-long legal battle over patent infringement levelled against its set-top box products is not directed at the proper parties, including itself, according to court documents. 

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Usual fault lines emerging ahead of 3.5 GHz auction

A cap on the amount of 3.5 GHz spectrum any one company can hold in the upcoming auction is not, on its own, “sufficient” for smaller rural-based wireless internet service providers to compete, according to the trade group CanWISP.

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BTLR chair twice as busy as expected

The work of the chairwoman heading the review of the broadcasting and telecom acts turned out to be more time-consuming and complicated than the government initially planned for, according to a memo obtained through Access to Information. 

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Throne speech reiterates Liberal promise to cut wireless bills 25%

The new Liberal minority government repeated its promise to lower wireless prices in the speech from the throne that kicked off the new Parliamentary session Thursday.

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Telus International to go public after $1.3B acquisition

Telus Corp.’s outsourcing and call centre operation Telus International is buying Competence Call Center for $1.3 billion, the company has announced.

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CRTC surveying Canadians on wireless service

As part of its review of Canada’s wireless market, the CRTC has launched a survey to find out how Canadians feel about their service providers.

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