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Bains says he’s in ‘constant contact’ with telecoms over network capacity

Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains says the strength of Canada’s telecommunications networks has been on “full display” during the COVID-19 pandemic, as they have coped with large increases in residential internet consumption. 

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CRTC postpones CBC licence renewal, sets new deadlines in other proceedings

The CRTC said Wednesday that, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it is postponing CBC/Radio-Canada’s licence renewal hearing to an undetermined later date.

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Huawei’s COVID-19 donation won’t affect decisions: Trudeau

A decision to accept masks and respirators from Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. won’t affect decisions on whether the company can be involved in Canada’s 5G rollout or whether chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou is extradited to the U.S, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says. 

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CNOC calls for gov’t funding to keep Canadians connected

The federal government should guarantee internet service providers payments for “basic residential connectivity needs” so Canadians can remain connected during the COVID-19 pandemic, Canadian Network Operators Consortium (CNOC) president Matt Stein says.

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Canadian wireless sub adds down slightly from 2018

Canada’s publicly-traded wireless service providers added just under 1.29 million wireless subscribers in 2019, a year many executives described as one of the most intensely competitive in recent memory. 

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Quebec City police used location data to track infected individual

In March, Quebec City police used cellphone location data to track and then arrest a woman infected with COVID-19 who refused to self-isolate.

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Watchdog Friends calls for emergency media fund

Friends of Canadian Broadcasting has urged the federal government to help prominent media outlets facing “imminent failure” due to falling revenues driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, pointing to a survey that shows a majority of Canadians somewhat support treating media collapses as an emergency and funding struggling outlets.

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CRTC approves Bell acquisition of V

The CRTC has said BCE Inc. can go ahead and buy Groupe V Media Inc.’s conventional TV network V.

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Wholesale rate appeal could go ahead as scheduled

The Federal Court appeal of the CRTC’s lowered wholesale internet rates could still include a hearing in June as originally scheduled, despite the COVID-19 pandemic that has ground most of the country to a halt.

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TVA news staff to return to Sherbrooke following positive COVID-19 tests

Quebecor Inc.’s TVA news team in Sherbrooke, Que. will return to the station on Friday after receiving the all clear from Quebec Public Health, the company says.

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