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Indigenous economic reconciliation needs path toward spectrum sovereignty: experts

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While the Canadian government is busy collecting $8.9 billion dollars from its recent 3500 MHz spectrum auction, Nunavut is still 100 per cent dependent on satellites for its telecommunications, posing challenges with respect to services that are not reliable, stable, secure, nor affordable. 

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Man fined $40,000 for selling set-top boxes

A federal court judge has fined a pre-loaded set top box seller $40,000 for being in contempt of an injunction by continuing to sell the boxes to people to pirate television content. 

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Rogers CFO leaving the company

Rogers Communications Inc. announced Wednesday evening that CFO Tony Staffieri has left his post after about a decade with the company. 

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Disaggregated wholesale regime not ‘doom and gloom’: CNOC chair

With a shift to a disaggregated access model anticipated by the Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC), Distributel Communications Ltd. CEO and CNOC chair Matt Stein, said Wednesday it is focused on determining how that model will play out. 

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Google seeks to appeal court decision on PIPEDA application 

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is appealing a July court decision that determined that federal privacy law did in fact apply to the company after the matter was brought forward in a reference case by the federal privacy watchdog. 

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Shaw-Rogers deal would decrease competition, even with Freedom divestiture to Quebecor: analyst 

Even if the Competition Bureau forces Shaw Communications Inc. to spin off its wireless Freedom Mobile brand as part of the bureau’s approval of the deal with Rogers Communications Inc., the level of competition will still diminish in the Canadian wireless market, according to one analyst. 

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CRTC wants more info from Bell on certain retroactive wholesale payments

The CRTC wants BCE Inc. to clarify why the company wants to make payments related to the removal of a markup on a certain service retroactive only to last month, instead of covering the five-year period stipulated by the regulator through its May decision to make permanent the 2016 rates for third-party aggregated wholesale access.

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Telus expands networks in five B.C. communities 

Telus Corp. is expanding its 5G network in four British Columbia communities as part of its $13 billion infrastructure and operations investment in the province through 2024, 

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CCSA elects new board members, announces new chair

The Canadian Communication Systems Alliance (CCSA) Friday announced four new members have been elected to its board of directors. Hearst Connect general manager Tania Cossette, Novus Entertainment Inc. co-president and chief financial officer Chris Marett, Cooptel executive director Marie-Eve Rocheleau, and Total TV president Matt Stein have joined the board for a two-year term. 

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Class members defined in suit against Bell over prison phone contract

A would-be class-action lawsuit filed against BCE Inc. and the province of Ontario over “unconscionable” telephone rates for prisoners has been updated to make clearer who could be eligible class members and suggests neither Bell nor the province should benefit from the profits. 

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