Canada's public broadcaster is cutting 10 per cent of its workforce and slashing some programming to deal with a $125 million budget shortfall.
CBC/Radio-Canada made the announcement Monday in a press release, adding that 600 union and non-union positions will be cut, and 200 vacant positions will be left unfilled.
According to the CBC, its French and English-language services will cut 250 jobs, with the remaining cuts coming from the technology and...
BCE Inc. has responded to a commission staff letter regarding Rogers Communications Inc.’s 2019 Part 1 Application concerning Bell's Billed Number Screening (BNS) database...
Netflix Services Canada ULC says it has invested large amounts of money...
Canada’s telecom industry have spent some $2.16 billion on the 3,800 MHz band of spectrum, according to...
On a day in July, 2016, a man received eight long-distance collect calls...
BCE Inc. has asked the CRTC for urgent relief in a dispute with a building...
Canada’s news media are in crisis and the government is taking too long to respond, the House of Commons was told Tuesday. Those comments came from Bloc Québécois Heritage critic Martin Champoux.
Speaking in French, the MP said Quebecor Inc. subsidiary TVA and BCE...
BCE Inc. revealed more details on Tuesday on its proposal for how base contributions from online...
The long-awaited hearing on how the CRTC should...
Quebecor Inc.'s Fizz went live in Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton, the...
BCE Inc. is asking the Federal Court of...
The CRTC has reopened a Part 1 application originally submitted by Rogers...
The major telecommunications companies in Canada oppose suggestions that they pay for pre-production...
BCE Inc. announced Tuesday that in Q1 of 2024 it will be launching new data...
Service was restored Friday to customers of Northwestel following a six-hour outage. The BCE Inc. company...
Quebecor Inc. president and CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau is delighted with the CRTC for mandating wholesale access to incumbents’ FTTP networks in Ontario and Quebec., he said...
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri...
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BCE Inc. has announced its decision to cut capital expenditures and reduce...
MISSISSAUGA, Ont.— The CRTC is mandating large incumbent telephone...
In a Thursday quarterly earnings conference call, BCE Inc.'s president and CEO, Mirko Bibic, shared his enthusiasm for the company's performance in the third quarter while...
BCE Inc. and Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. have enhanced...
BCE Inc.’s Bell Canada and Northwestel have...
In an answer submitted to the CRTC last Thursday, Rogers Communications Inc. defended its multiple...
Interventions coming in from the CRTC show...
BCE Inc. and Fox Entertainment Global have unveiled a strategic licensing and distribution partnership,...
Iristel Inc. and two BCE Inc. properties have reached separate agreements...
The governments of Quebec and Canada are contributing more than $10 million in funding toward setting up non-profit organization Numana’s quantum communication test bed, which businesses and...
BCE Inc. is increasing its footprint in outdoor advertising by buying the...
The debate over what the future of the wholesale high-speed-access (HSA) framework should look like continues, after conflicting interventions from incumbent carriers and...
The CRTC has extended an olive branch to Iristel Inc. in its current...
BCE Inc. filed an application with the Federal Court of Appeal for leave to...
Iristel Inc. has filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC against BCE Inc....
Both BCE Inc. and Quebecor Inc. have reacted to the CRTC’s decision that Bell Mobility's offer on...
BCE Inc. came out the winner in a dispute with Quebecor Inc. over mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) access. In a decision released late Tuesday afternoon, the CRTC said it is adopting Bell Mobility’s offer in a final offer arbitration (FOA) ruling.
“Offers were...
The CRTC is sending out requests for information on a pair of Part 1 applications brought to it by CIK Telecom Inc. The competitive carrier alleges it has been shut out of multi dwelling units (MDUs) in Richmond B.C. The company claims that Strata Corp., through its property management firm Rancho Management Services Ltd., has denied it access to...
Sean Cohan will take over as head of BCE Inc.’s Bell Media on Nov. 1, the...
APTN says its proposal to shift the terms of its licence will be good for...
BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. reiterated their concerns around the CRTC’s...
As the CRTC’s review of its broadband fund...
BCE Inc. continues to be plagued by thefts of copper wiring from its telephone structures. The most...
The province of British Columbia has filed a Part 1 application with the...
The CRTC denied an application brought forward by TekSavvy Solutions Inc....
BCE Inc. is arguing to the CRTC that WildBrain Ltd. is “flooding” the subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) market with its programming and “diluting” the value of its...
The CRTC denied Quebecor Inc.’s request for...
All passengers on the Toronto Transit Commission’s (TTC) subway system...
The CRTC announced Friday it will be granting additional funds to ATG Arrow...
BCE Inc. is backing Rogers Communications Inc. in its appeal over a CRTC...
Cogeco Inc. is appointing Tim Dinesen, experienced tech executive and telecommunications consultant, as its senior vice president and CTO.
According to the company’s Thursday release, he will be taking up the new position at its head office in Montreal on Sept. 11.
"Tim's impressive track record, extensive experience in telecommunications, and passion for technology make him the ideal candidate for this highly strategic position at Cogeco as our business...
The CRTC denied an application by BCE Inc., Bragg Communication Inc.’s...
The CRTC said Tuesday that it was altering the rules for commercials on discretionary services. The...
The CRTC added Natyf Inc., a Francophone station...
Returning wildfires have once again knocked out service to BCE Inc. customers in the Northwest...
The Quebec Court of Appeal has denied an application for leave to appeal...
Rogers Communications Inc. has rolled out its 5G wireless service on some stations on the Toronto Transit...
BCE Inc. has announced it is closing its Vrak Channel and is laying the blame squarely at the feet of...
The CRTC has denied a request from Rogers Communications Inc. to delete the...
WildBrain Ltd. is accusing BCE Inc. of breaching its regulatory obligations regarding its English-language services Family Channel, Family Jr., and WildBrain TV, and its French-language service Télémagino and as a result has given Corus Entertainment Inc. an unfair...
Incumbent Canadian telecoms say there is no cause for alarm that...
Telus Corp. is cutting 6,000 jobs, the company announced Friday.
Telus...
Battles over money and how to allocate it are at the forefront as the CRTC...
Canadian public broadcasting advocacy group...
By John Lawford, executive eirector and general counsel of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre
I wish to address the recent opinion piece in The Wire Report from Robert...
Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced that he is...
Telecoms and other stakeholders have had their say on proposed changes to...
The CRTC has published some of the interventions for its proceeding into the Broadband Fund. Most of the...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s proposal to change...
Telus Inc. has lent its support to BCE Inc.’s complaint about Rogers Communications Inc.’s handling of connectivity in the Toronto Transit Commission’s (TTC) subway system, calling for the commission to approve Bell’s...
The Federal Court has issued a site-blocking order against several alleged...
The public broadcasting advocacy group Friends...
The CRTC should not intervene in an ongoing...
In an ongoing tug-of-war at the CRTC, tech giants are arguing that a level of consensus has emerged surrounding the applicable revenue threshold for registration under the...
Major telecommunications service providers were...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. have been hurling verbal bombs...
BCE Inc. told the CRTC that it is prepared to allow Rogers Communications...
Rogers Communications Inc. is asking the CRTC to mandate Telus Corp., BCE...
BCE Inc. subsidiary Bell MTS has responded to a report criticizing how the telecom has operated since it was privatized in 1996. The initial study came from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Bell bought the independent MTS six years ago.
“Since 2017, Bell MTS...
The Forum for Research and Policy in...
The CRTC is seeking comments on whether it should consolidate several...
Other governments and private sector companies are joining in the boycott of Meta Platforms Inc. after it announced plans to block Canadian news from Facebook and Instagram. Meta’s move came in...
BCE Inc.’s takeover of MTS six years ago has not proved beneficial to the prairie province, a new study concludes. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives issued For Whom the Bell Tolls: The...
The CRTC has now received reply comments in its ongoing proceeding into how to implement the Online Streaming Act. As with the original interventions, proposals vary depending on the group submitting...
As the advertising recession maintains its grip on Corus Entertainment Inc.’s revenue stream, the company said it will continue leaning into its Canadian and unscripted...
The CRTC rejected a request by BCE Inc. to...
Once again BCE Inc. has filed suit against a copper thief who vandalized...
BCE Inc. says in order for it to be competitive the CRTC must amend its conditions of licence (COL) to cut Canadian content obligations.
In a Part 1 application published...
The CRTC received a raft of responses on its notice of consultation on 911...
The CRTC has issued its annual telecommunications survey for 2021. Coming out of the pandemic shutdown, the numbers are generally good.
The sector experienced a 3.4 per cent jump in total revenues...
Rogers Communications Inc. says giving BCE Inc....
Quebecor Media Inc. is asking the CRTC to remove some of the conditions of...
BCE Inc. is asking the CRTC to prohibit Rogers Communications Inc. from providing access to its customers on the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) until it enables access for...
The CRTC has sent a letter to BCE Inc.’s Bell Canada demanding to know why the telecom imposed an...
Several trade unions representing Canadian media...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) is fighting with two...
The proposed financial threshold for exemption for online streaming...
Approximately 1,300 BCE Inc. employees will be...
The airline industry must do more to protect its flights from 5G...
Incumbent carriers are opposed to the expedited review of the CRTC’s...
The CRTC presented its public opinion research...
The commission should not regulate the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) markets in the same manner as retail mobile wireless services, Canada’s incumbent telecommunications...