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ISED issues rules for 3800 MHz spectrum auction
telecom | 06/30/2022 5:55 pm EDT
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) issued the rules for its next spectrum auction Thursday. The auction will begin on Oct. 24, 2023 and will feature spectrum in the 3800 MHz band.
A large section of the framework is aimed at promoting...
City Wide appeals Eastlink POI decision at CRTC
telecom | 06/30/2022 5:51 pm EDT
City Wide Communications Inc. is appealing the CRTC's decision not to force Bragg Communications Inc. to move its third-party internet access to downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia.
In a review and vary application filed with the regulator on June 23, City Wide argued that...
CRTC yearly telecom fees increase by 24 per cent
telecom | 06/29/2022 5:38 pm EDT
The CRTC is estimating that its telecommunications fees for the 2022-2023 fiscal year will total just...
Corus revenue up, profit down
Media | 06/29/2022 5:18 pm EDT
For the three months that ended on May 31, Corus Entertainment Inc.'s overall revenue was up to $433.5...
Feds, Quebec, announce funding for rural high-speed internet
telecom | 06/29/2022 5:02 pm EDT
The federal government and Quebec announced $8.2 million in joint funding...
CSE discovers more than 2000 cyber security incidents last year
telecom | 06/29/2022 5:01 pm EDT
There were nearly half a dozen cyber security incidents targeting federal...
NorthwesTel details NWT outage
telecom | 06/28/2022 5:10 pm EDT
In response to a CRTC request for information from BCE Inc.-subsidiary NorthwesTel, the company detailed a brief territory-wide outage, followed by substantially longer localized outages around the Fort Liard area.
The trouble began, according to NorthwesTel’s filings with the CRTC, on June 11 when a construction crew working in Fort Liard severed a fibre cable in the area, though the filing redacts information about who the construction crew was working for.
“We do not have a record that the construction crew...
CRTC approves claims for broadband rollout in North
telecom | 06/27/2022 4:18 pm EDT
Monday the CRTC approved claim forms for four projects under the Broadband Fund. The payment orders went...
CNOC back regional carriers’ call for roaming rates review
telecom | 06/24/2022 5:00 pm EDT
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada has filed an intervention in...
PIAC looking at legal options after Heritage says GIC has no jurisdiction in Rogers-Shaw petition
Media | 06/23/2022 6:56 pm EDT
In a letter from the Deputy Minister of Canadian...
CRTC outlines framework to block botnets from internet traffic
telecom | 06/23/2022 5:48 pm EDT
In a Thursday decision, the CRTC announced it was implementing regulations...
ISED launches Phase 2 of Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy
telecom | 06/22/2022 3:52 pm EDT
Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne...
Cell phone border search bill, with higher search threshold, passes Senate
telecom | 06/21/2022 5:24 pm EDT
Late Monday night the Senate passed a reformed version of a bill that seeks...
Lack of network sharing arrangement “notable” in Quebecor Freedom deal: analyst
telecom | 06/20/2022 5:34 pm EDT
The biggest piece of Friday night's blockbuster...
Feds invest $500,000 in broadband rollout in Alberta
telecom | 06/20/2022 4:50 pm EDT
The federal government is putting nearly $500,000 into broadband infrastructure in West Bragg Creek,...
Tory MP takes second stab at bill mandating ISPs publicize service quality metrics
telecom | 06/17/2022 3:46 pm EDT
Conservative MP Dan Mazier introduced a private members bill to the House of Commons Thursday, to amend the Telecommunications Act to provide people with “access to...
Gov. tables three-headed private sector privacy reform bill
Media | 06/16/2022 5:45 pm EDT
Touting it as a "historic day" at an afternoon press conference, Innovation...
Telus Health buys LifeWorks in $2.3B deal, analysts upbeat
telecom | 06/16/2022 4:02 pm EDT
Telus Corp. announced Thursday it is purchasing digital health company...
Mendicino and Champagne say cyber security bill protects infrastructure; NDP wants more reporting requirements
telecom | 06/15/2022 6:03 pm EDT
The two ministers responsible for the Act...
CRTC fines Bell for delaying access to support structures
telecom | 06/15/2022 4:03 pm EDT
The CRTC has imposed an administrative monetary penalty (AMP) of $7.5...
Government introduces two-part cybersecurity bill
telecom | 06/14/2022 6:45 pm EDT
The government’s new cybersecurity bill, introduced on Tuesday, is taking a two-pronged approach. One component will concentrate on telecommunications while the other focuses on telecom, transport, energy and finance. The legislation is called An Act Respecting Cyber...
Proposed mmWave deployment requirements “radical change;” shorter licence terms biggest positive: Professor
telecom | 06/14/2022 11:26 am EDT
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic...
Senate committee rejects Gov. threshold for border cell phone search bill
Media | 06/13/2022 5:56 pm EDT
The Senate's National Security and Defence Committee has pushed back...
Dufresne pledges to continue Therrien’s work as Privacy Commissioner
Media | 06/13/2022 3:54 pm EDT
Incoming Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne vowed to stay the course,...
CRTC issues notice on 2022-2023 estimated telemarketing regulatory costs
telecom | 06/13/2022 2:32 pm EDT
The CRTC is estimating that its telemarketing regulatory costs for the...
ILECs and CLECs spar over telecom fees amendments
telecom | 06/10/2022 4:33 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. and Cogeco Inc. are among competitors protesting proposed changes to the...
Philippe Dufresne appointed Privacy Commissioner
telecom | 06/09/2022 2:19 pm EDT
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed Philippe Dufresne as Privacy Commissioner Wednesday. ...
CRTC denies Bell’s review and vary on toll-trunk tariff language
telecom | 06/09/2022 12:58 pm EDT
The CRTC has denied a request from BCE Inc. to stay a 2021 commission order...
The border is a “perfect storm” for discrimination in cell phone search bill: Citizen Lab fellow
Media | 06/08/2022 4:55 pm EDT
The government's effort to convince...
CRTC looks at improving telecom services in Far North
Media | 06/08/2022 4:21 pm EDT
The CRTC announced it was initiating a proceeding to improve telecommunications services in Canada’s north.
The area covered includes the three territories, northern British Columbia and northern Alberta, it announced in a Wednesday press release.
The commission...
Building owner ordered to give Rogers access to Toronto facility
telecom | 06/08/2022 2:53 pm EDT
The CRTC gave Rogers Communications Inc. permission Wednesday to access a...
Rodriguez slams Tories for misinformation on Online Streaming Act
Media | 06/07/2022 3:45 pm EDT
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez attacked the opposition for...
ISED launches mmWave consultation
Media | 06/06/2022 5:21 pm EDT
The Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development has launched its consultation on the...
Appeal court strikes Iristel application for judicial review on tax audit
telecom | 06/06/2022 5:16 pm EDT
The Federal Court of Appeal has sided with the attorney general of Canada...
OPC calls for higher threshold on border cell phone search bill
telecom | 06/06/2022 5:01 pm EDT
When it comes to the government's plan to lower the threshold governing the search of personal digital devices at Canadian border crossings, lawyers from the federal privacy watchdog are reiterating a call they made some three years ago.
The standard for the search of...
Rogers, Telus, want CRTC to deny TekSavvy TPIA tariff changes
telecom | 06/03/2022 5:34 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. are asking the CRTC to deny a...
OPC needs budget doubled, Therrien says in swan song
telecom | 06/03/2022 5:19 pm EDT
If the government reintroduces its online privacy bill, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) will...
Tim Hortons app violated privacy laws: privacy watchdogs
Media | 06/01/2022 5:48 pm EDT
Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons violated national privacy law because...
Searches of cell phones should meet same threshold as mail: civil liberties advocates
telecom | 06/01/2022 5:35 pm EDT
Given that the data contained on personal digital...
Videotron still actively pursuing Freedom Wireless, Péladeau says
telecom | 06/01/2022 4:06 pm EDT
OTTAWA–Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron service is still eager to buy Freedom...
Next CRTC chair must be bilingual: Rodriguez
Media | 05/31/2022 6:42 pm EDT
The Minister of Canadian Heritage has assured the House of Commons that the next chair of the CRTC will...
Lower, legally novel threshold in Bill S-7 needed for “unique situation”: minister
telecom | 05/31/2022 6:04 pm EDT
The government's attempt to create a brand new...
Rogers-Shaw deal on hold until Competition Tribunal proceeding
Media | 05/30/2022 5:20 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. have reached an...
Stakeholder reaction to CRTC policy direction mixed
telecom | 05/27/2022 5:33 pm EDT
Amongst those independent internet service providers (ISPs) who had been pleading with the federal government to overturn the CRTC's 2021 reversal of a 2019 decision that drastically lowered the rates those ISPs paid for access to incumbent networks, reaction to Thursday's...
CRTC denies Bell application on Videotron roaming
telecom | 05/27/2022 3:52 pm EDT
BCE Inc.’s Bell Mobility Inc. has lost an application before the CRTC about Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron...
Canada and Quebec invest $200K each in broadband rollout
telecom | 05/26/2022 5:27 pm EDT
The governments of Canada and of Quebec are each investing $199,305 in...
New legislation needed to cover growing privacy issues: Therrien
Media | 05/26/2022 4:07 pm EDT
Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien is calling for new legislation that...
Gov. issues new CRTC policy direction with guidance for wholesale regime
telecom | 05/26/2022 4:02 pm EDT
The federal government is seeking to issue a new policy direction to the...
ITPA wants national NG911 rate; incumbents tell CRTC not to use, or to limit, funding
telecom | 05/25/2022 6:27 pm EDT
The Independent Telecommunications Providers Association (ITPA) is suggesting to the CRTC that it establish a single low national next-generation 911 (NG911) rate for all...
On Rogers-Shaw, focus shifts to network sharing agreements
Media | 05/25/2022 6:12 pm EDT
As the Competition Bureau takes Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...
Regional wireless carriers seek review of incumbents’ roaming rates
telecom | 05/24/2022 5:43 pm EDT
A consortium of regional wireless competitors have filed an application...
Network sharing deal with Telus strengthens Globalive bid for Freedom: analysts
telecom | 05/20/2022 4:28 pm EDT
The reported network sharing deal inked between Freedom Mobile-hopeful...
Bill C-11 could be fully implemented within two years of receiving Royal Assent: CRTC chair
Media | 05/19/2022 5:19 pm EDT
The CRTC will take at least two years to fully...
BREAKING: Feds ban Huawei from 5G networks
telecom | 05/19/2022 5:12 pm EDT
The federal government Thursday announced that it would be banning equipment from "high risk vendors",...
Telus backs Rogers paper billing cost complaint against Bell
telecom | 05/19/2022 4:11 pm EDT
After Rogers Communications Inc. complained to the CRTC that it had...
Heritage committee calls for rejection of Rogers-Shaw deal
Media | 05/18/2022 4:34 pm EDT
The House of Commons Heritage committee is arguing against the merger of...
Court dismisses Telus challenge to Quebecor set-aside acquisitions in 3,500 MHz auction
Media | 05/18/2022 3:27 pm EDT
A federal court judge has dismissed a challenge...
Site-blocking can be used for online harms legislation: Rogers
telecom | 05/17/2022 5:04 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. believes that the site-blocking remedy the company – along with BCE Inc. and Quebecor Inc. – won through the federal courts in recent months can be used in the future application of the government's planned legislation aimed at combating online...
Comp. laws are too focused on price: Lawson Hunter
Media | 05/16/2022 7:21 pm EDT
Canada's competition laws have become too sensitive to price, particularly in mergers, and should instead...
Canadian LEOs challenge SpaceX’s offering, Gov. subsidy
telecom | 05/16/2022 7:04 pm EDT
Players in the low-earth orbit satellite (LEOs) space are casting doubt...
Rogers seeks review and vary of paper bills costs decision
telecom | 05/16/2022 5:37 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. is asking the CRTC to review and vary a costs...
Tories demand action on 988, Liberals say outreach is ongoing
telecom | 05/13/2022 3:02 pm EDT
The Conservatives kept up their pressure on the government to implement a...
Péladeau says Quebecor will stick to facilities-based model long-term
telecom | 05/13/2022 2:46 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau said “there's no reason at this stage” that the company will change its business model from a facilities-based to an MVNO-based...
“A very strong opening” to Shaw-Rogers Competition Tribunal proceeding: former Competition Bureau advisor
Media | 05/12/2022 5:49 pm EDT
The recent move by Canada's competition watchdog...
Email spam and lack of consent top list for biggest spam complaints: report
Media | 05/11/2022 6:02 pm EDT
Canadians are sending approximately 6,459 complaints per week to the Spam...
BREAKING: Freedom Mobile divestiture not good enough in Rogers-Shaw merger: Comp. Bureau
telecom | 05/10/2022 6:50 pm EDT
The Competition Bureau has presented its case to the Competition Bureau that any divestiture of Shaw Communications Inc.'s wireless assets will not be an adequate remedy for...
Telus and IBG row in behind NPF-PIAC petition against Rogers-Shaw CRTC approval
Media | 05/10/2022 4:53 pm EDT
A joint petition to cabinet from the National Pensioners Federation and the...
CMPA enters fight for passage of Online Streaming Act
Media | 05/10/2022 3:13 pm EDT
The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) has entered the battle to pass Bill C-11, the Online...
Telus’s application to reclassify small ILECs for NG911 service 5 years too late, harms public: ITPA
telecom | 05/10/2022 2:48 pm EDT
The Independent Telecommunications Providers...
ISED unveils spectrum licensing and fee updates
telecom | 05/09/2022 4:57 pm EDT
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) will replace radio licences with...
Comp. Bureau moves to block Rogers-Shaw merger; Quebecor “has apparently entered the process”: analyst
Media | 05/09/2022 4:32 pm EDT
The Competition Bureau has filed an application...
Telus sees strong quarterly results for subscribers, says smarter spectrum policies needed
telecom | 05/06/2022 5:16 pm EDT
According to Telus Corp. executive vice-president and chief operations officer, if there was smarter public policy on spectrum, the company could “actually deploy...
CRTC approves Telus NG911 Local Government Service Agreement
telecom | 05/05/2022 5:43 pm EDT
The CRTC has approved Telus Corp.’s revisions to next-generation 911...
Distributel’s claims for revised interim rates for disagg regime are unfounded: Rogers, Quebecor
telecom | 05/05/2022 5:35 pm EDT
Distributel Ltd.’s request to revise interim...
CRTC issues accessibility reporting timetables
Media | 05/05/2022 4:57 pm EDT
Thursday the CRTC released the schedule for broadcasters and telecommunications companies to report under...
Rogers-Shaw merger benefiting wireless industry as a whole in 2022: Bell CEO
Media | 05/05/2022 4:35 pm EDT
When it comes to Canada's wireless market this year, there are a number of...
Integrity Commissioner refers TekSavvy’s Scott complaint to Ethics Commissioner
Media | 05/05/2022 3:20 pm EDT
Public Sector Integrity Commissioner Joe Friday has declined to open his own investigation into the conduct of CRTC chair Ian Scott following a complaint by TekSavvy Solutions...
Liberal, Conservative MPs call for 988 service
telecom | 05/04/2022 4:10 pm EDT
The fight for a dedicated three-digit emergency number for suicide prevention continued to gather steam...
Bill S-7 would “weaponize the Customs Act”: Senator
telecom | 05/04/2022 4:06 pm EDT
A Government bill in the Senate that seeks to codify the legal threshold...
Therrien endorses Ethics report on data dive, makes further recommendations
telecom | 05/04/2022 3:58 pm EDT
Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien has welcomed the report on collection...
TekSavvy calls for TPIA tariff changes to stop delayed access to new offerings
telecom | 05/03/2022 5:13 pm EDT
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is asking the CRTC to speed up the regulatory...
Quebec union 911 committee request CRTC suspend NG911 funding consultation
telecom | 05/03/2022 5:05 pm EDT
The 911 committee for the Syndicat canadien de la fonction publique au...
Iristel petitions cabinet to overturn CRTC traffic simulation findings
telecom | 05/02/2022 4:47 pm EDT
Iristel Inc. filed a petition to the governor in council to vary a decision...
Privacy watchdogs call for legal framework governing facial recognition
telecom | 05/02/2022 4:24 pm EDT
Along with counterparts from the provinces, the federal privacy watchdog...
Telus hasn’t completely lived up to its broadcast license obligations: CRTC
Media | 04/29/2022 4:19 pm EDT
The CRTC has admonished Telus Corp. for not entirely fulfilling its...
Senator calls for greater broadband access to First Nations
Media | 04/29/2022 3:29 pm EDT
A Saskatchewan senator called on the government to do more to ensure internet connectivity is extended to First Nations reserves. Senator Marty Klyne pointed out that current standards are for 50 megabits per second (Mbps) download and 10 Mbps upload.
“Those upload...
Toronto Police Service, RCMP disagree with moratorium on facial recognition technology
telecom | 04/28/2022 8:00 pm EDT
The Toronto Police Service’s chief information officer said the department is not planning to put a moratorium on its use of facial recognition technology despite calls by...
Hydro Ottawa reenters telecom market with Hiboo Networks
telecom | 04/28/2022 6:11 pm EDT
Hydro Ottawa is returning to the telecom market with the launch of Hiboo...
Telus wants CRTC to reclassify small ILECs for NG911 service, asks for suspension of funding consult
telecom | 04/28/2022 5:16 pm EDT
Telus Corp. is asking the CRTC to reclassify small incumbent local exchange carriers (SILECs)
as originating...
CanOps argues for broader standard adoption for NG911
telecom | 04/28/2022 5:07 pm EDT
As the CRTC is considering the funding structures for the planned rollout of so-called next generation...
Singh calls for halt of Rogers-Shaw merger, PIAC appeals to cabinet
Media | 04/27/2022 4:38 pm EDT
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh called once again for the government to disallow the Rogers Communications Inc. takeover of Shaw Communications Inc., saying it is not in the public...
Facebook doesn’t rule out blocking news content if C-18 passes, docs reveal telecom opposition to online harms framework
Media | 04/26/2022 5:43 pm EDT
Representatives of Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms...
Doherty introduces private member’s bill on suicide helpline
telecom | 04/26/2022 4:47 pm EDT
Conservative MP Todd Doherty carried on the fight for implementation of a...
Bell, Amazon announce launch of mobile edge computing retail business
telecom | 04/26/2022 1:14 pm EDT
BCE Inc. announced the launch of its partnership with Amazon Inc. to deploy...
Doherty renews calls for 988 suicide helpline, Bennett say urban may be served first
telecom | 04/25/2022 3:46 pm EDT
Conservative MP Todd Doherty issued a news release on Monday marking the...
Government announces more internet connectivity projects funded in Ontario
telecom | 04/22/2022 5:14 pm EDT
Friday, the governments of Canada and Ontario announced which projects will...
Big 3 oppose Wireless Code CRTC intervention for cancellation fees, PIAC supports it
telecom | 04/22/2022 4:23 pm EDT
Incumbent telecoms are reacting strongly to a...
Rogers boss won’t confirm Xplornet ‘rumours’
Media | 04/20/2022 4:59 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri declined to comment on what...
Beanfield wants CRTC to expand scope in Toronto MDU proceeding
telecom | 04/19/2022 4:41 pm EDT
In replies to one of a number of disputes before the CRTC about access to...
Canada and Ontario governments pledge $56 million for broadband rollout
telecom | 04/19/2022 3:29 pm EDT
The governments of Canada and Ontario are jointly investing $56 million for six projects that will enhance internet connectivity in northern and southwestern parts of the...