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CCTS: Complaints against telecoms down; PIAC calls for more accessible ombudsman

Complaints accepted by the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS) were down 25 per cent this year from last year, while the majority of those complaints had to do with wireless services, according to the CCTS annual report released Wednesday morning. 

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CRTC officially releases its third call for Broadband Fund applications

The CRTC is now accepting applications for eligible transport infrastructure projects, mobile wireless infrastructure projects that provide or upgrade connectivity along major roads, and projects that increase satellite transport capacity in satellite-dependent communities.

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CRTC must hold public hearings for interim exemption orders in Online News Act

The House of Commons Heritage committee passed an amendment to the Government’s Online News Act Tuesday that would limit the CRTC’s ability to grant interim exemption orders to digital news intermediaries (DNIs) to a single year, as well as requiring the regulator to hold public hearings into the exemption orders. 

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Affordability landscape ‘bleak’: Internet Society conference panel

OTTAWA – Internet affordability is a looming issue, as great as housing, food and other rising costs, an Ottawa conference was told on Tuesday.

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Videotron more effective owner of Freedom than Shaw, expert testifies

An expert witness for Shaw Communications Inc. took issue Monday with earlier testimony from Competition Bureau experts over the proposed takeover of the western telecom by Rogers Communications Inc. The Competition Tribunal is hearing from respondents’ witnesses this week. 

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Senate votes against including financial, subscriber, thresholds in scope of Bill C-11

The Senate committee currently engaged in a clause-by-clause review of the Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11, opted not to include a financial or subscriber threshold in the act, Bill C-11, which many critics of the bill suggested in order to ease concerns that smaller players and individual content creators would be scoped into the bill.

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CRTC imposes AMPs on Net2Web and its director

The CRTC is fining telecommunications service provider Net2Web Inc. an administrative monetary penalty (AMP) of $50,000 for failing to become a participant in the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services Inc. (CCTS).

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Consultation will be held for exemption under Bill C-18, committee votes down amendment to force negotiation with all outlets

The committee studying the Online News Act unanimously voted to include a clause in Bill C-18 that would ensure that the CRTC can hold public consultations regarding exemptions from mandatory bargaining and other regulations under the bill, for digital news intermediaries (such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google) and that an exemption order can only be in effect for a period of not more than maximum five years with the possibility of renewal.

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On 5G, Canadians eager in theory and slow in practice: Ericsson survey

Canadians are eager to upgrade to 5G services in theory, but are slow to put it into practice, according to a new national survey released by Ericsson AB. The polling was done between April and July of this year. A total of 1,200 consumers were interviewed with the results being extrapolated to cover 24 million users.

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Rogers-Shaw integration should be completed within three years, Tribunal told

The integration of Shaw Communications Inc. properties into the network of Rogers Communications Inc. should be completed rather quickly, Rogers president of integration told the Competition Tribunal on Thursday.

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