The CRTC has received a joint application from the Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent on Recordings (FACTOR) and the Community Radio Fund of Canada (CRFC) warning about...
The CRTC is undertaking proceedings to consider the Canadian content regulations for audio services. The updated rules will cover radio and streaming services and are part of the re-examination spurred by passage of the Online Streaming Act.
The commission is seeking...
Xplore Inc. has hired Brent Johnston as its new CEO effective immediately, the company announced Monday....
An audio streamers’ advocacy group is looking to the public for support...
Netflix Inc. is pulling its financial support of programs in the Canadian...
The CRTC has released the final conditions for contributions to be paid by online streamers to support...
While providing closed captioning on all programming for the deaf and hard of hearing is a laudable goal, it is not achievable, several streaming companies have told the CRTC....
More sports leagues have been added to the list of game live streams...
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB)...
Apple Inc., Amazon.com, Inc., and the Motion Picture Association-Canada...
Recent advancements in the satellite communications ecosystem have made...
Gatineau, Que. – Telus Corp. asked the CRTC to...
Gatineau, Que. - CBC/Radio-Canada's decision to slash 600 jobs and leave...
The Indigenous Screen Office (ISO), newly certified as an independent...
As the CRTC works out how it is going to wrangle streaming platforms and...
Colin McKay, head of Canada public policy and government relations at Alphabet Inc.’s Google, has left the company, announcing his departure in a LinkedIn post on...
Streaming platforms are saying it is too early to be discussing...
In an ongoing tug-of-war at the CRTC, tech giants are arguing that a level...
Several trade unions representing Canadian media...
Social media companies are asking the CRTC to be added to the list of...
The proposed financial threshold for exemption for online streaming undertakings in the new Broadcasting Act should be changed, several organizations have told the CRTC. How...
Service and sales improved when Shaw Communications Inc. bought Wind Mobile...
Canadian broadcasting executives, from companies...
Friday the CRTC approved a report from the CRTC Interconnection Steering...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez attacked the opposition for...
A Canadian tax lobby group is criticizing the global tax deal announced this weekend by G7 Finance...
The federal government is making more spectrum available to increase competition, rural connectivity and the effective deployment of Wi-Fi and 5G technologies. On Wednesday, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry...
A Quebec judge has approved a settlement agreement in a class action between Apple Inc. and consumers who...
The Supreme Court of Canada has decided it will hear an appeal from Music Canada and the Society of...
The CRTC needs to do away with restrictive regulations, argue multiple major broadcasters in response to the CRTC’s review on its commercial radio policy framework. ...
The federal government’s proposal to open up the 6 GHz spectrum band for WiFi use has received broad support in an Industry, Science and Economic Development Canada consultation. Every...
A new survey suggests that just over half of Canadians believe that...
The election of Erin O'Toole as federal opposition leader late Sunday night makes "the threat of CBC...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner has cleared up uncertainty about...
A quarter of anglophone Canadian over-the-top (OTT) service subscribers opted in to a new platform during the COVID-19 pandemic, while a majority of subscribers increased their usage, according to a new survey from Media Technology Monitor (MTM), a project of...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that in developing the federal...
The Copyright Board was wrong in extending the making available right to downloads in 2017, the Federal Court of Appeal has ruled. The court said the board, in making that decision, “went to...
The outdated state of Canadian privacy laws may harm efforts to launch a...
In order to make “progress” on the issue of access to encrypted...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development will host a public consultation next month on its proposed “unified approach” to the taxation of the world’s biggest tech companies. A document released by the...
During the first French-language debate of the federal election campaign,...
The CRTC wants to know more about the potential for the Canadian...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom is responding to the wireless...
Telus Corp. is making its once promotional “no overage” wireless data plan options a permanent fixture and is allowing customers to finance any device for no cost upfront, though the new financing models still appear to include device subsidies, conditional on the phone...
The number of Canadians who opt for over-the-top services is set to surpass the number of Canadians who subscribe to traditional television providers next year, according to a report released...
A trade association for Canadian-based television and content distribution...
The panel in charge of reviewing the broadcasting and telecom acts received...
Canada’s private radio broadcasters are fighting against a push to keep...
The federal government is organizing a working meeting next week in Ottawa involving a broad swath of stakeholders to devise strategies for promoting diversity of digital...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is now offering IPTV in Chatham, Ont., and the service will become available in...
Shaw Communications Inc. says its wireless business has reaped the fruits...
The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) is currently testing radio technology...
U.S. telecom Verizon Communications Inc. plans to have device manufacturer Samsung Electronics Co.’s 5G-compatible smartphones in the U.S. market within the first half of next year, the two companies announced Monday. That...
Manitoba customers of Xplornet Communications Inc.’s upcoming mobile service will be allowed to...
Shaw Communications Inc. reported wireline results for the fourth quarter that analysts characterized as...
Internet service providers (ISPs) in rural and remote communities are trying to keep up with the appetite...
Representatives from BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. described a favourable relationship with regulators at a CIBC investors conference Wednesday, where they also addressed competition between...
Facebook Inc. is facing another class action suit in Ontario over how it handles user privacy in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal – this time,...
Apple Inc.’s upcoming iPhones will have dual SIM capability, with a physical nano SIM and an embedded SIM, or eSIM.
The company announced Wednesday the features would...
Public Safety officials working on Canada’s public alert systems were...
In a blog post on Wednesday, Facebook Inc. announced the global launch of...
CBC/Radio-Canada has appointed Gave Lindo to lead the public broadcaster’s over-the-top (OTT) content...
The latest report from CBC/Radio-Canada’s Media Technology Monitor (MTM) project outlined 24 per cent of anglophone Canadians said they have listened to a podcast in the last month. Interest in podcasting has been on the rise this year. The downloadable audio shows available on services like Apple Inc.’s iTunes, Alphabet Inc.’s Google Play Music and TuneIn Inc. have re-emerged as a key format of on-demand content. Canadian media companies like Rogers Communications Inc., Quebecor Inc., Corus Entertainment Inc., and BCE Inc. are looking to increase their presence in the podcasting...
Eight per cent of Canadians own a smart speaker, which is about in line with adoption of other early...
In early May, the Liberal government faced questions in the House of...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile said more phones with Apple Inc.’s iOS and Alphabet...
BCE Inc. will launch two new ad-supported video-on-demand (AVOD) services, rebrand its entertainment...
During its Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on Monday, Apple Inc....
Virtual assistants are beginning to take hold in Canada, with almost 40 per...
On the heels of record wireless subscriber growth in its second quarter,...
OTTAWA — Members of the federal NDP introduced a sweeping motion...
Apple Inc. is acquiring the magazine app Texture, the company announced Monday.
Texture, which Rogers Communication Inc. launched in Canada five years ago, is a joint venture between Rogers and media and publishing companies Condé Nast, Hearst Communications Inc.,...
OTTAWA — Experts praised the idea of stricter standards for imported...
OTTAWA — Representatives from Apple Inc. faced down members of the House committee on industry, science...
Canada’s major telecoms are among the leading players in the creation of...
Customers of Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron can now make free voice calls and ...
Global smartphones saw a year-over-year decline in sales for the first time in the fourth quarter due to a preference for quality feature phones and users holding onto their smartphones longer, according to Gartner Inc.
Unit sales of smartphones in the final quarter last...
Customers’ drive to track precise data will push specific kinds of...
The House of Commons standing committee on industry, science and technology has approved a motion to launch a study looking into the slowing down of Apple Inc.’s older mobile devices. NDP MP Brian Masse, who is the vice-chairman of the committee, asked it to look into a change to Apple’s mobile operating system that...
BCE Inc.’s Bell Media has officially launched a free, ad-supported mobile app featuring video content...
As part of its government-ordered proceeding on future content distribution models, the CRTC is asking a number of companies — including Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Netflix Inc. — for information...
In a release on Wednesday, BCE Inc. said it launched its residential mesh WiFi product.
Dubbed Whole...
Canada’s security agency is aware of the push for stronger encryption by...
The NDP says silicon valley giant Apple Inc. should speak to a...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will unlock FM chips in its newer smartphones, according to a press release...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s wireless brand may see its strongest quarter yet following the introduction of the iPhone to its roster, the impact of which, the company’s president Jay Mehr said on a conference call with analysts Thursday, has transformed the business....
After a rollicking December, analysts say Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile has potential to...
In a step towards its goal of upgrading Canada’s 911 network by 2020, the CRTC published a decision on Friday which recommended that wireless service providers default all 911 calls to the cellular networks whenever possible....
OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada said Friday that a sender of a text...
In a memo to its employees on Monday, CBC/Radio-Canada announced it has improved its over-the-top (OTT)...
A partnership between BCE Inc. and iHeartMedia Inc., iHeartRadio Canada announced Monday an update to its app that will allow listeners to access over 1,000 live North American radio stations and content like podcasts.
The app originally launched in 2016 with 105...
On Wednesday, Amazon.com Inc. made a move to introduce its intelligent personal assistant Alexa into this...
Telus Corp. reported revenue of $3.36 billion, up four per cent from the same quarter last year, in its third-quarter results released Thursday, while net income also increased 4.2 per cent to $370 million over that time....
Cell phone only households, meaning those that use only mobile phones and no landline, are growing across Canada and are a good indication of a series of modern habits, said a report published...
A new report from Gartner Inc. is predicting the Nov. 2017 release of Apple Inc.’s iPhone X combined with component shortages will cause a dip in ability to meet smartphone demand in 2017 and push...
Amazon.com Inc. is making its voice-controlled intelligent personal assistant Alexa available on its...
BCE Inc. issued a press release Friday to let customers with Apple Inc.’s new Apple Watch know that...
If the federal government isn’t willing to impose taxes on foreign over-the-top (OTT) services, Quebec is willing to do so itself, Le Devoir quoted Quebec culture minister Luc Fortin as saying Thursday. He said Quebec would...
Streaming service MHz Choice, which exclusively features international productions, is now available in...
Wearable use in Canada and around the world is trending up, but the numbers for smartwatches are still too low to suggest BCE Inc. can see any real gain as it prepares to be the first Canadian carrier to deliver Apple Inc.’s first cellular-enabled watch.
Apple...
