The broadcasting landscape is slanted in favour of the big players, a regional company told the CRTC on Wednesday June 25, as the commission held another day of hearings on...
TORONTO–Several streaming companies kicked off a hearing at the Federal Court of Appeal on Monday, June 9 as they attempt to overturn the requirement that they make...
As the CRTC works on revising how it defines Canadian and Indigenous audio...
Groups representing music labels and creators have...
The CRTC has received a joint application from the Foundation Assisting...
The CRTC is undertaking proceedings to consider the Canadian content...
Xplore Inc. has hired Brent Johnston as its new CEO effective immediately, the company announced Monday.
Johnston’s appointment comes several months after the departure of former CEO Rizwan Jamal earlier this year, after which Geoff Lowe had served as interim CEO. Lowe...
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...
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 go easy on virtual broadcasting distribution undertakings (vBDUs) during the commission’s hearings regarding contributions...
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...
Streaming platforms are saying it is too early to be discussing contribution requirements at this stage of the new regulatory framework’s development given that the CRTC is...
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...
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 Ministers, fearing it will let the biggest corporations in the world off the hook.
On Tuesday, Canadians for Tax Fairness, a non-profit and non-partisan organization, issued...
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...
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 telecommunications company to respond to the consultation supported ISED’s proposal to some degree, on the basis that it would facilitate the rollout of high-speed broadband across Canada. According to a submission from Shaw Communications Inc., opening this spectrum would streamline Canadians’ internet...
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...
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 OECD Wednesday ahead of the planned consultations outlines skeletal plans for a new approach to tax in the digital economy that would have a significant impact on the web giants, often referred to by the acronym FAANG: Facebook Inc, Apple Inc., Amazon Inc., Netflix Inc., and Alphabet Inc.’s Google. The proposal, which flows out of a series of meetings amongst G20...
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...
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 yesterday by Convergence Research Group. The Victoria, B.C.-based research group also estimates that OTT subscription revenue grew by 33 per cent in 2018 to $1.12 billion, and forecasts that it will grow to $1.51 billion in 2019. The 2018 OTT access revenue superseded Convergence’s growth expectations from two years ago, when the 2017 version of the report predicted access revenues of $972...
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...
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 rollover unused data from the previous month, the company announced Monday as it prepares to launch its 4G LTE network in the province next week.
The roughly 24,000 existing...
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...
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 be available on the new iPhone Xs and iPhone Xs Max.
It said on its website that will allow customers to use two cellular plans with one phone -- having separate numbers for business and personal use, adding a local data plan when travelling internationally, or having separate voice and data plans, for example.
BCE Inc. is the only Canadian...
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...
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. doubled down in its war against personal data tracking for online display advertising.
In the future, the Safari browser will block a technique called fingerprinting, executives said. Users will...
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...
OTTAWA — Experts praised the idea of stricter standards for imported insecure Internet of Things (IoT) devices at a cybersecurity conference Friday, though they weren’t so sure about whether the government is prepared for such a move or how the logistics would pan out....
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...
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 Home Wi-Fi by the telecom, the kit is a set of four WiFi extenders called “pods,” which plug straight into normal electrical sockets. It also combined with Bell’s...
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...
After a rollicking December, analysts say Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile has potential to continue its 2017 momentum, though the full impact of its aggressive wireless offers may not be apparent in this week’s quarterly results.
Freedom announced overhauled...
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...
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 Amazon Music app in some countries.
The integration means “customers can ask for music based on genre, decade, mood, tempo, activity or even the lyrics if they can’t remember the name of a song,” Amazon said in a Tuesday press release.
The service is available in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Austria, it said.
Apple Inc.’s assistant, Siri, is already available on the company’s...
