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 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...
The CRTC is estimating that its telecommunications fees for the 2022-2023 fiscal year will total just...
For the three months that ended on May 31, Corus Entertainment Inc.'s overall revenue was up to $433.5...
The federal government and Quebec announced $8.2 million in joint funding...
There were nearly half a dozen cyber security incidents targeting federal...
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...
Monday the CRTC approved claim forms for four projects under the Broadband Fund. The payment orders went...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada has filed an intervention in...
In a letter from the Deputy Minister of Canadian...
In a Thursday decision, the CRTC announced it was implementing regulations...
Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne...
Late Monday night the Senate passed a reformed version of a bill that seeks...
The biggest piece of Friday night's blockbuster...
The federal government is putting nearly $500,000 into broadband infrastructure in West Bragg Creek,...
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...
Touting it as a "historic day" at an afternoon press conference, Innovation...
Telus Corp. announced Thursday it is purchasing digital health company...
The two ministers responsible for the Act...
The CRTC has imposed an administrative monetary penalty (AMP) of $7.5...
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...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic...
The Senate's National Security and Defence Committee has pushed back...
Incoming Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne vowed to stay the course,...
The CRTC is estimating that its telemarketing regulatory costs for the...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Cogeco Inc. are among competitors protesting proposed changes to the...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed Philippe Dufresne as Privacy Commissioner Wednesday. ...
The CRTC has denied a request from BCE Inc. to stay a 2021 commission order...
The government's effort to convince...
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...
The CRTC gave Rogers Communications Inc. permission Wednesday to access a...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez attacked the opposition for...
The Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development has launched its consultation on the...
The Federal Court of Appeal has sided with the attorney general of Canada...
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 Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. are asking the CRTC to deny a...
If the government reintroduces its online privacy bill, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) will...
Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons violated national privacy law because...
Given that the data contained on personal digital...
OTTAWA–Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron service is still eager to buy Freedom...
The Minister of Canadian Heritage has assured the House of Commons that the next chair of the CRTC will...
The government's attempt to create a brand new...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. have reached an...
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...
BCE Inc.’s Bell Mobility Inc. has lost an application before the CRTC about Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron...
The governments of Canada and of Quebec are each investing $199,305 in...
Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien is calling for new legislation that...
The federal government is seeking to issue a new policy direction to the...
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...
As the Competition Bureau takes Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...
A consortium of regional wireless competitors have filed an application...
The reported network sharing deal inked between Freedom Mobile-hopeful...
The CRTC will take at least two years to fully...
The federal government Thursday announced that it would be banning equipment from "high risk vendors",...
After Rogers Communications Inc. complained to the CRTC that it had...
The House of Commons Heritage committee is arguing against the merger of...
A federal court judge has dismissed a challenge...
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...
Canada's competition laws have become too sensitive to price, particularly in mergers, and should instead...
Players in the low-earth orbit satellite (LEOs) space are casting doubt...
Rogers Communications Inc. is asking the CRTC to review and vary a costs...
The Conservatives kept up their pressure on the government to implement a...
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...
The recent move by Canada's competition watchdog...
Canadians are sending approximately 6,459 complaints per week to the Spam...
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...
A joint petition to cabinet from the National Pensioners Federation and the...
The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) has entered the battle to pass Bill C-11, the Online...
The Independent Telecommunications Providers...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) will replace radio licences with...
The Competition Bureau has filed an application...
According to Telus Corp. executive vice-president and chief operations officer, if there was smarter public policy on spectrum, the company could “actually deploy...
The CRTC has approved Telus Corp.’s revisions to next-generation 911...
Distributel Ltd.’s request to revise interim...
Thursday the CRTC released the schedule for broadcasters and telecommunications companies to report under...
When it comes to Canada's wireless market this year, there are a number of...
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...
The fight for a dedicated three-digit emergency number for suicide prevention continued to gather steam...
A Government bill in the Senate that seeks to codify the legal threshold...
Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien has welcomed the report on collection...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is asking the CRTC to speed up the regulatory...
The 911 committee for the Syndicat canadien de la fonction publique au...
Iristel Inc. filed a petition to the governor in council to vary a decision...
Along with counterparts from the provinces, the federal privacy watchdog...
The CRTC has admonished Telus Corp. for not entirely fulfilling its...
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...
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 is returning to the telecom market with the launch of Hiboo...
Telus Corp. is asking the CRTC to reclassify small incumbent local exchange carriers (SILECs)
as originating...
As the CRTC is considering the funding structures for the planned rollout of so-called next generation...
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...
Representatives of Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms...
Conservative MP Todd Doherty carried on the fight for implementation of a...
BCE Inc. announced the launch of its partnership with Amazon Inc. to deploy...
Conservative MP Todd Doherty issued a news release on Monday marking the...
Friday, the governments of Canada and Ontario announced which projects will...
Incumbent telecoms are reacting strongly to a...
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri declined to comment on what...
In replies to one of a number of disputes before the CRTC about access to...
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...