The Competitive Network Operators of Canada has rowed in behind a Part 1 application from TekSavvy Solutions Inc., which alleges that the array of off-tariff agreements (OTAs)...
The provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island were briefly without 911 service Tuesday. Authorities report service was restored after roughly an hour.
The outage occurred at 8 a.m. local time. BCE Inc. subsidiary Bell Aliant said the disruption only...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) has...
The CRTC is asking a number of incumbent telecom companies to report back to the regulator with an update about the ongoing mobile virtual network operator (MVNO)...
All eyes are on Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne, who is the last line of defense for...
Is last week's Part 1 application from TekSavvy Solutions Inc. a last minute, Hail Mary pass attempt at blocking the all-but assured blockbuster merger of Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...
Frustrated in its attempt to buy Freedom Mobile back from Shaw Communications Inc., Globalive Capital Corp. has announced it wants to acquire Manitoba spectrum licences from...
The CRTC is starting a fresh chapter with new...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding...
One of Canada’s largest wholesale-based internet...
The CRTC has lifted a prohibition on service to a Toronto multi-dwelling unit (MDU) owned by Lixo...
BCE Inc. filed an application with the commission to review and vary its...
BCE Inc. announced Friday that the company was partnering with Snap Inc....
Former CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein has been appointed a member of the Order of Canada. The honour...
The CRTC approved, on an interim basis, a monthly rate of $49.06 for Rogers...
The CRTC has denied Quebecor Inc.’s request to sanction Coopérative de câblodistribution Hill Valley, and to remove it from the list of exempted broadcasting distribution...
Canada’s Competition Tribunal is dismissing the Commissioner of...
The CRTC approved an application by BCE Inc.’s...
Telus Corp. told the CRTC that it is not charging more for the services it...
The House of Commons Committee on Canadian Heritage finished...
Despite concerns about CBC/Radio-Canada muscling private media out of competition for advertising dollars in the news sector, the House of Commons Heritage committee defeated a Conservative amendment and will keep the public broadcaster included in the Online News Act.
Under the act, also known as Bill C-18, CBC will still be able to bargain with tech platforms for remuneration after the Liberal MPs on the committee, with support from the Bloc Québécois, defeated the Conservative move to cut CBC out of the bill. ...
A retired Queen's University economics professor believes that the CRTC has...
BCE Inc. subsidiary Bell Canada is accusing Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron division of reneging on its...
An expert witness for Shaw Communications Inc. took issue Monday with...
The integration of Shaw Communications Inc. properties into the network of...
Supporters and opponents of the Online Streaming Act alike have their eyes...
MISSISSAUGA – When it comes to CRTC chair Ian Scott's Monday announcement of the regulator's upcoming proceeding on network outages, Rogers Communications Inc.’s chief regulatory officer Ted...
The start of another hockey season brings another federal court site-blocking order for a trio of telecom...
Freedom Mobile is less likely to be a strong national player under Quebecor...
In a series of rulings issued on Thursday morning, the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed appeals in three cases involving telecom companies.
In the first case, Marjorie Nelson sued Telus Corp. in a class action suit regarding wireless customers who cancelled their...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s profit fell 24 per cent for the three months...
Service and sales improved when Shaw Communications Inc. bought Wind Mobile...
Canada’s Online News Act could serve as a template for countries around...
BCE Inc. reported what it said were record subscriber additions in the third quarter of 2022, according...
The CRTC announced Thursday it was extending the deadline for interventions of its proceedings into the price of basic television service. The Public Interest Advocacy Centre...
WINNIPEG-One of Canada’s leading experts in spectrum policy says ISED is finally opening up good chunks of spectrum to be used for rural, remote and Indigenous connectivity...
Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne...
The emerging ad-hoc regime of site-blocking in...
Telus Corp. and BCE Inc. have accused Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...
BCE Inc. says it would be inappropriate and...
The CRTC determined that 911 governing authorities can designate...
The CRTC will not force BCE Inc. and Rogers...
There’s no need for BCE Inc.’s Northwestel to introduce wholesale...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre and Telus Corp. are calling on the CRTC to accept BCE Inc.’s request for a Part 1 review and vary on a May 22 letter over wholesale...
by Jenna Cocullo
At the frontier of the future...
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston wrote to...
Four telecom companies are asking the CRTC to increase the price of basic...
Hurricane Fiona wreaked havoc on Atlantic Canada and eastern Quebec last...
BCE Inc.’s Bell Canada has filed a Part 1 review and vary application over a CRTC decision imposing fines of $7.5 million for denying Quebecor Inc. subsidiary Videotron access to poles.
The commission ruling came down in June. Bell maintains there are several errors...
The Rouyn-Noranda market cannot support another...
BCE Inc. is introducing a new speed tier to its North American customers and subsequently filed a new...
BCE Inc. has once more gone to the federal court seeking an injunction against a number of unidentified, John Doe pirate streamers.
In a statement of claim filed with the court on Thursday, Bell...
BCE Inc. is planning to maintain recently acquired Distributel Ltd. as a standalone company, but will...
Rogers Communications Inc. is arguing to the CRTC...
The Federal Court of Appeal found that the CRTC was correct in allowing Québecor Inc. to bring forward an undue preference complaint against BCE Inc. over sports packaging,...
Wednesday Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe...
The CRTC has opened a Part 1 proceeding after BCE...
Friday the CRTC approved a report from the CRTC Interconnection Steering Committee (CISC) regarding handset-based location technology. The report itself came from CISC’s Emergency Services Working Group (ESWG).
Locating an emergency is a vital part of the data needed by...
In the latest in a series of acquisitions in the ISP sector this year, BCE Inc. is seeking to acquire one...
Following months of discussion, the CRTC has finally implemented the use of...
BCE Inc. has filed a review and vary application seeking to overturn a May...
The federal government announced two projects on Friday that will increase...
The CRTC has issued a request for information from the incumbent wireless carriers and their wholesale competitors on wholesale wireless and roaming access. The Aug. 19 letter poses eight questions to the ILECs and seven to the competitors.
The move comes over a year...
Television revenues are rebounding from the pandemic slump while revenues...
The CRTC is once again dealing with a service outage from a major carrier, in this case BCE Inc. property...
Thursday the CRTC renewed the licence of OUTtv Network Inc. for five years...
Canada should look to Britain and Australia for lessons on how to regulate...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has told the Competition...
BCE Inc. property Bell MTS had an outage on Monday that cut off internet and television services to...
Submissions to the Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic...
The National Pensioners Federation and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre...
BCE Inc. announced revenues of $5.86 billion for the second quarter of 2022 Thursday, a jump of 2.9 per cent over the figures for a year ago. Net earnings declined 10.9 per cent over the same period, to $654 million. Bell attributed the fall to higher expenses, higher...
Canadians will be able to participate in public consultations regarding the installation or modification of antenna systems in the official language of their choice, after the Department of...
A consortium of broadcasters and rights-holders have won an opening salvo of a fight against a television...
Thursday the CRTC added five interexchange private line (IXPL) routes to the list of routes it is...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) says...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) approved several subordination of spectrum licence applications between BCE Inc. and Telus Corp.
Bell will subordinate spectrum licences in the cellular band in southern Quebec to Telus and ...
Tuesday the CRTC issued approvals of several statements of work for...
BCE Inc. is claiming that “ongoing record...
Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne...
A Quebec-based hotel accused of copyright infringement is asking the CRTC...
The CRTC had decided to allow BCE Inc. to keep...
BCE Inc. is asking the CRTC to rescind its order to make seamless handoffs...
In 2021, consumer mobile wireless fell by as much...
A Federal Court judge has dismissed an attempt by BCE Inc. and Ericsson AB...
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...
The federal government and Quebec announced $8.2 million in joint funding...
In response to a CRTC request for information from BCE Inc.-subsidiary NorthwesTel, the company detailed...
The Federal Court dismissed a digital entertainment company’s lawsuit alleging that Quebecor Inc.’s...
In a Thursday decision, the CRTC announced it was implementing regulations...
The biggest piece of Friday night's blockbuster announcement of a deal that would see Quebecor Inc. emerge victorious as the buyer of Shaw Communications Inc.'s Freedom Mobile...
In a development that may pave the way for the merger of Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...
The CRTC has imposed an administrative monetary penalty (AMP) of $7.5...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Cogeco Inc. are among competitors protesting proposed changes to the...
The CRTC has denied a request from BCE Inc. to stay a 2021 commission order...
The CRTC announced it was initiating a proceeding to improve telecommunications services in Canada’s...
The CRTC gave Rogers Communications Inc. permission Wednesday to access a...
BCE Inc. is supporting a Quebecor Inc. application for the CRTC to revoke...
BCE Inc. wants the government to incentivize foreign-domestic partnerships through its Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11, arguing that the entire Canadian broadcasting ecosystem...