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CIPPIC unveils most ambitious low cost wireless plan

GATINEAU, Que. — The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic and Open Media have unveiled the most ambitious low-cost wireless plan at the final day of the CRTC’s wireless hearings, asking the regulator to mandate a $20 monthly plan including four GBs of data.

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OPC investigating RCMP over facial recognition

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner today announced it is launching an investigation into the use of facial recognition software by the RCMP. 

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Mandate access for Rogers, and spare us: SaskTel

GATINEAU, Que. — If you’re going to mandate mobile virtual network operators in Saskatchewan, require access to Rogers Communications Inc.’s network and not ours, representatives of Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. told CRTC commissioners Thursday. 

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Xplornet confirms sale to U.S infrastructure firm

Xplornet Communications Inc. has confirmed it has signed an agreement for it to be purchased by U.S. based Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners. 

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Competition Bureau MVNO proposal ‘punts the problem’: Natale

GATINEAU, Que. — Rogers Communications Inc.’s Joe Natale was the last of the big three wireless provider CEOs to address the CRTC’s wireless hearing, telling commissioners on Wednesday that they shouldn’t mandate even a limited form of mandatory MVNO, or introduce a broad low-cost plan championed by consumer advocates.

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Rogers takes different tack on 25-per-cent price drop

GATINEAU, Que. — While BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. have made their opinion about the December 2019 starting date for the federal government’s promised 25 per cent wireless price drop clear in recent weeks, Rogers Communications Inc. is declining to do so. 

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Xplornet to be sold to U.S. company for $2B: report

Xplornet Communications Inc. will be bought for some $2 billion USD by a U.S.-based investment firm, according to a report from Bloomberg News. 

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Quebecor threatens legal action if MVNOs are mandated

GATINEAU, Que. — Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau says he would take legal action against both the federal government and the CRTC if the regulator mandates wholesale MVNO access, arguing such a decision would violate the agreement Quebecor signed when it purchased spectrum in 2008.

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There was never a Netflix deal: federal government

Former Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly’s much-touted 2017 deal with Netflix Inc. to spend $500 million in Canada should never have been referred to as an agreement, the federal government is arguing as part of its reasoning for why it shouldn’t have to publicly disclose the details involved.

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Former Freedom executives champion single MVNO model

GATINEAU, Que. — The CRTC should mandate a single provider to act as a certified MVNO throughout Canada, three former Freedom Mobile executives told the regulator on the fifth day  its wireless review hearing.

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