More sports leagues have been added to the list of game live streams protected from pirate streamers through a site-blocking order issued by the Federal Court earlier this...
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) denounced a wave of recent legal challenges filed by Apple Inc., Amazon.com, Inc., and the Motion Picture Association-Canada...
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 production fund on Nov. 8, closed out day three of the ongoing CRTC hearings with calls for continued...
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...
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 both big and small, told Senators studying the government’s efforts to update the Broadcasting Act that they would like to...
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 encountered trouble with the graphics on some MacBook laptops due to hardware problems.
In a May 11 decision, Superior Court Justice Pierre Gagnon approved a...
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...
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 article 8 of the [The World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty], asserted its view of that article’s meaning without any supporting reasoning,” and then interpreted 2.4(1.1) of the Copyright Act to “conform to its view.” “This is not a legally acceptable methodology. This...
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 broadcasting market to absorb virtual broadcasting distribution undertakings (vBDUs).
Those services sit in-between a traditional BDU and an over-the-top (OTT) service like Netflix Inc.: it’s...
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...
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 of a strategy — in the form of a sub base that pays more — that focused its efforts on making data-related issues a thing of the past.
Freedom president Paul McAleese said on a conference call...
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 of users consuming ever-higher amounts of data, especially as video streaming services and gaming become mainstays in the household.
“The digital generation [is]...
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...
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 Commons about a Canadian citizen who had returned to the country after participating in the ongoing...
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, Shaw Communication Inc.’s Freedom is on a path to steady growth, its president said on a conference...
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...
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 slowed down older devices. In a press release Tuesday, Masse said the committee passed his motion and “is set to invite Apple and other stakeholders to Ottawa to discuss the impacts of this on Canadian consumers.” Those appearances will take place in the “coming weeks,” the release added....
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 Parliamentary committee about an unpopular change to its mobile operating system that slowed down older devices, but holding the tech giant accountable might not be straightforward, according to an expert....
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...
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. Wireless revenue saw a 6.1 per cent increase over last year’s Q3 to $1.95 billion, whereas wireline stayed relatively flat with one per cent increase to $1.48 billion, Telus said in the results for the three-month period ended Sept. 30. Net new wireless subscribers also continued to grow with 44,000 more over 2016’s third quarter, a net 124,000 new pre- and...
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 be willing to impose its provincial sales tax on subscriptions to Netflix Inc.’s service, the newspaper said in a report Friday. A coalition of more than 30 cultural groups praised Fortin’s comments in a press release the same day, writing that it “shares the Minister's position that nations must apply a consistent regulatory framework for all parties,...
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...
Apple Inc.’s new iPhone X, iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, announced Tuesday, are compatible with spectrum bands...
Canadians’ awareness of the National Film Board (NFB) as an organization that produces documentary or...
The Copyright Board has ruled that the making available right under the...
Worldwide sales of wearable devices are forecast to grow 16.7 per cent this year compared to 2016,...
Following a quarter in which Canada’s telecoms all reported strong...
Blackberry Ltd. will now be able to provide its mobile device...
The popularity of music streaming platforms among anglophone Canadians has grown over the past year, with 32 per cent reporting using a music streaming service in the past month when surveyed in the spring of 2017. That’s compared to 28 per cent in the fall of 2016 and up from 21 per cent in the spring of 2015, according to a report released Thursday by Media Technology Monitor (MTM), a project of CBC/Radio-Canada. The report noted that “one potential reason for this growth is a heavier focus on promotions and discounts” by providers. The most popular service was Spotify...