On the same day the Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne approved the transfer of Freedom Mobile's spectrum assets from Shaw Communications Inc. to Quebecor Inc.,...
The Quebec Superior Court has rejected a request from BCE Inc. to throw out a complaint from Quebecor Inc. in a long-running dispute between the two companies on pole...
OTTAWA–Innovation, Science and Industry Minister...
The new regime at the CRTC met with general approval Wednesday from...
Canadian carriers that offer fixed broadband...
Public broadcasting advocacy group Friends is “frustrated” that the...
The CRTC has denied a request from a number of incumbents, chief among them BCE Inc., to delay the first deadlines in the regulator's new wholesale broadband and...
Execulink Telecom Inc. has withdrawn a Part 1 application before the CRTC...
Auditor General Karen Hogan released a quartet of reports on the...
BCE Inc. division Bell Canada is filing a Part 1 application with the CRTC seeking to align 911 fees in territories serviced by Bell affiliates that are not the dominant carrier. The three carriers...
The CRTC is looking for feedback on how it can improve its Broadband Fund,...
The CRTC said Thursday it was going to look into recently-announced hikes...
The CRTC is worried about telephone number depletion and is suggesting that number pools be reduced to...
Rogers Communications Inc. has given an undue preference to itself by...
A working group composed of Canadian telecommunication service providers (CTSPs) and experts from the department of Innovation Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)...
The CRTC Wednesday approved a proposal by TBayTel Inc. that it be permitted to delay the implementation of 10-digit dialing in its area. The regional telecom had made the application late last year.
Telecoms across the country must migrate to 10-digit dialing to...
Conservative MP Dan Mazier’s private member’s bill on internet service...
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) will hear Iristel Inc.’s appeal over millions of dollars in denied tax credits the company wants restored.
Last Thursday the SCC accepted Iristel’s application for leave to appeal over...
The government of Canada announced Friday that it is spending $37 million to roll out broadband service in Saskatchewan. Over 5,000 homes will see their internet service improve in areas like Prince...
The governments of Canada and Ontario have announced two projects that will...
The 2022 edition of the department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development's annual report on pricing in the telecommunications sector shows that in the last year...
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) is seeking comments on the...
Monday the CRTC granted SSi Micro Ltd. an extension of the deadline for...
Monday the CRTC approved a review and vary application from Rogers Communications Inc. over a series of...
Telecom experts say that a Senate bill that would...
The CRTC Wednesday made good on newly-minted chair...
Ericsson Canada announced Tuesday that Jeanette Irekvist has been appointed president of the telecom manufacturer. The appointment is effective immediately.
She will remain as VP and head of customer unit Canada. She succeeds...
BCE Inc. subsidiary Télébec is asking the CRTC for permission to...
For the second time this week, Execulink Telecom Inc. has filed an...
Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s office has denounced plans by BCE Inc.’s Bell Mobility and Telus Corp. to hike roaming charges...
British Columbia’s Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI)...
The CRTC Wednesday issued a notice of consultation about a telecom service provider (TSP) it says has not...
The CRTC is asking Canadians and interested parties to weigh in on whether...
Ten-digit dialing is coming to a number of...
Yet another competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) is filing a Part 1 application with the CRTC to gain access to multi-dwelling units (MDUs). This time the CLEC is Execulink Telecom Inc., a company operating in Ontario.
The firm alleges that JLC Homes Ltd. of...
Competitive local exchange carrier CIK Telecom Inc. has once again filed a...
Xplore Inc. has announced that the company's CEO Allison Lenehan will be...
BCE Inc. is implementing a temporary embargo for next-generation 911 (NG911) onboarding and go-live...
Competitive local exchange carrier CIK Telecom Inc. has once again appealed...
The CRTC has granted BCE Inc.'s Northwestel a "disaster waiver" that would allow the company to suspend services, waive charges, provide services at a reduced rate or free of charge, or "provide other...
Quebecor Inc.’s efforts to reach all wholesale and MVNO access agreements...
Thursday the CRTC issued a decision directing wireless service providers...
Shaw Communications Inc. has argued that the type of off-tariff-agreement...
Two U.S. senators are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to free up spectrum in the 5.9 GHz band for connected automobiles. This will reduce accidents, the pair...
The CRTC is inviting telecom stakeholders and Canadians to participate in a consultation for the development of a...
Cogeco Inc. announced it is acquiring independent internet service provider (ISP) Oxio.
In a Tuesday...
The CRTC has denied an application by Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron unit...
There is a consensus forming that the CRTC should...
For the fourth time, the deadline for the proposed merger of Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. and the corresponding sale of Freedom Mobile by Shaw to Quebecor Inc. has been extended. Most recently set for Feb. 17, the new deadline is Mar. 31.
The...
CRTC chair Vicky Eatrides announced in a Wednesday press release that the...
The CRTC set expedited timelines for large telephone companies to provide...
Indigenous leadership is once again pushing the...
Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne says...
Monday the federal government outlined new policy directions for the CRTC, with an emphasis on...
Telus Corp. and Cogeco Inc. are rowing in behind...
In a Friday decision, the CRTC approved with modifications three tariff notifications submitted by Telus...
Telus Corp. reported a 60 per cent drop in net income for its last quarter...
Telecommunications companies across Canada are waiving fees for texts and long distance calls in the wake of the earthquake which struck Syria and Turkey. The waiver will last...
Public interest lobby group Democracy Watch is urging the establishment of...
While the letter from Heritage Minister Pablo...
Lobby group OpenMedia is in the corner of TekSavvy Solutions Inc. over...
The CRTC Friday rejected a review and vary appeal from the Competitive Network Operators of Canada, which...
Rogers Communications Inc. will not need more financing from the capital markets in order to close its deal to acquire Shaw Communications Inc., according to Rogers' chief...
BCE Inc. released its fourth quarter results Thursday, reporting 330,743...
CIK Telecom Inc. has settled a dispute with a landlord in Richmond, BC over access to a group of...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada has...
The provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island were briefly without 911 service...
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez Monday announced the appointment of...
The three companies at the center of one of the biggest mergers in Canadian...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Monday that it is expanding its 5G footprint into...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) has...
The CRTC is asking a number of incumbent telecom companies to report back to the regulator with an update about the ongoing mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) negotiations.
In a letter sent to the incumbents on Wednesday, the CRTC wants to know: what regional carriers have made requests to begin...
All eyes are on Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne, who is the last line of defense for...
Commissioner of Competition Matthew Boswell said Tuesday his agency will not take the fight against the takeover of Shaw Communications Inc. by Rogers Communications Inc. to the Supreme Court. The...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) will...
Tuesday afternoon the Federal Court of Appeal dismissed with costs the...
Is last week's Part 1 application from TekSavvy Solutions Inc. a last minute, Hail Mary pass attempt at blocking the all-but assured blockbuster merger of Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc.? Or is it a significant intervention that heralds a shift in Canadian telecom regulatory policy?
This is the million – or $26.2 billion – dollar question...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. has rapidly changed its mind...
Frustrated in its attempt to buy Freedom Mobile back from Shaw...
The CRTC is starting a fresh chapter with new...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding...
One of Canada’s largest wholesale-based internet...
Tuesday, the CRTC gave Sogetel Inc. the okay to begin offering its services...
All eyes in the telecom world will be focused on the Federal Court of...
Starting Friday, callers across New Brunswick will have to begin using 10-digit dialing, and will have to...
Rogers Communications Inc. announced late-Monday night the passing of company executive and board of directors member Alan Horn.
“Alan was one of the most devoted and astute leaders I have ever worked with,” Rogers chairman Edward Rogers stated in a press release....
The CRTC has lifted a prohibition on service to a Toronto multi-dwelling unit (MDU) owned by Lixo...
While Cogeco Inc. says it currently sees "less risk and greater clarity"...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is calling on the Minister of Innovation François-Philippe Champagne to block the proposed takeover of Shaw Communications Inc. by Rogers Communications Inc.
In a Tuesday...
A wireless internet service provider serving Outaouais, Que., was found to have contravened the Telecommunications Act...
BCE Inc. filed an application with the commission to review and vary its decision to make $150 million available for its Broadband Fund in 2022, and in 2023 on an interim...
In a Monday decision, the CRTC approved five new disaggregated Ethernet passive optical network...
BCE Inc. announced Friday that the company was partnering with Snap Inc....
E-Comm, the agency which administers British Columbia’s 911 service has issued its top 10 unnecessary calls for 2022. It handled over two million calls last year, an increase of 1.8 per cent from the year before.
“Nuisance...
Former CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein has been appointed a member of the Order of Canada. The honour...
The CRTC approved, on an interim basis, a monthly rate of $49.06 for Rogers...
Ian Scott's tenure as chair of the CRTC comes to a close Thursday. The Wire Report sat down with Scott to...
The CRTC has denied Quebecor Inc.’s request to sanction Coopérative de...
Canada’s Competition Tribunal is dismissing the Commissioner of...
The Superior Court of Quebec has ordered Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron to connect a number of different multi-dwelling units (MDUs) in which had been at the center of a dispute between the telecom service provider and another company, Wifiplex Inc.
Wifiplex installs...