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...
The Independent Telecommunications Providers Association (ITPA) has filed its reply to interventions by major players over its request for lighter regulations for its...
In a Wednesday, May 14 ruling, the CRTC told incumbent telephone companies...
While many wireless internet service providers...
The agency responsible for administering the 988 mental health helpline...
BCE Inc.’s Bell Canada and Telus Corp. have seen their current wholesale...
Canada’s broadcasting distribution undertakings (BDUs) are continuing their fight against a proposal by OUTtv Network Inc. that would see them forced to carry the LGBTQ+ channel. The CRTC proceeding has been going on since last fall.
Currently, OUTtv has...
The reasons behind a Federal Court justice’s December decision to grant a...
A group of academics is warning that Starlink could be a trojan horse,...
Telus Corp. appears to be fighting a solo battle...
BCE Inc. says it will not participate in future...
Telus Corp. is challenging the federal...
Stakeholders have responded to the CRTC’s call for comments on providing...
Some major broadcast distribution undertakings (BDUs) are against an...
Multiple telecom companies -- including Rogers, Cogeco, Eastlink, and...
BCE Inc. has moved into the Pacific Northwest of the United States with the purchase of Ziply Fiber of Kirkland, Washington. Bell will pay C$5 billion and assume a further C$2 billion of Ziply’s debt. The American firm has operations in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and...
The CRTC is making moves to lower roaming rates, issuing two separate calls...
Cogeco Inc. has appointed Mike Henry as its chief commercial officer, the...
While providing closed captioning on all programming for the deaf and hard...
Cogeco Communications Inc. has signed deals with...
While some companies praised the CRTC’s long-awaited decision to mandate aggregated wholesale access to fibre networks across Canada, they are hesitant to celebrate just...
Cable Public Affairs Channel Inc., also known as...
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink announced Thursday it would offer...
Friday the CRTC denied an application by several stakeholders for an...
A wealth of intervenors have told the CRTC that the large established telecoms should not be allowed to...
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink announced Tuesday that it is introducing a video streaming...
The CRTC has dismissed BCE Inc.’s application challenging the...
To bring affordable internet and consumer choice to rural communities, the...
The CRTC announced Monday an expansion in forbearance from regulating...
Bragg Communications Inc.'s Eastlink is vehemently disputing allegations of negligence during its July service outage and calls for the dismissal of the claims made by...
The CRTC has denied a BCE Inc. application to...
Canada’s telecom industry have spent some $2.16 billion on the 3,800 MHz band of spectrum, according to...
City Wide Communications Inc., Frontier Networks...
Interventions coming in from the CRTC show...
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink announced the purchase of a Northern Ontario telecom service provider NeoTech in a Thursday press release.
"We are delighted to welcome NeoTech customers to the Eastlink family," said Eastlink CEO Jeff Gillham. "This purchase is a...
APTN says its proposal to shift the terms of its licence will be good for...
As the CRTC’s review of its broadband fund...
In a press release on Thursday, Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink announced the launch of mobile...
Bragg Communication Inc.'s Eastlink and Nokia Corp. announced "a multi-year strategic, access network...
Telecoms and other stakeholders have had their say on proposed changes to...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) told the CRTC that...
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...
Social media companies are asking the CRTC to be added to the list of exempt services under the updated Broadcasting Act despite the government expliciting directing the...
Incumbent carriers are opposed to the expedited review of the CRTC’s...
Swedish telecom manufacturer Ericsson AB and Bragg Communications Inc.’s...
According to the analytics firm Opensignal, when it comes to fixed...
The CRTC has denied a request from a number of incumbents, chief among them...
A working group composed of Canadian telecommunication service providers (CTSPs) and experts from the department of Innovation Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) is asking the government to expand the CRTC’s authority over passive infrastructure and provincially regulated support structures.
Earlier this month the Canadian Telecommunications Network...
The 2022 edition of the department of Innovation,...
BCE Inc. is arguing to the CRTC that it is...
British Columbia’s Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI)...
Thursday the CRTC issued a decision directing wireless service providers...
The CRTC is reopening its proceeding into whether or not BCE Inc., Cogeco Inc., Bragg Communications...
The start of another hockey season brings another federal court site-blocking order for a trio of telecom...
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 weekend and service for cell and internet customers has still not fully recovered. Authorities could...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and the...
Wednesday Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe...
City Wide Communications Inc. is asking the...
City Wide Communications Inc.'s lack of growth in Nova Scotia is due to the...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) says the government’s proposed new policy direction for the CRTC is “severely out of touch” with the competition issues...
In 2021, consumer mobile wireless fell by as much...
City Wide Communications Inc. is appealing the CRTC's decision not to force Bragg Communications Inc. to...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada has filed an intervention in...
In a Thursday decision, the CRTC announced it was implementing regulations...
A consortium of regional wireless competitors have filed an application...
The CRTC mostly accepted the arguments of small wireless carriers against...
Distributel Ltd. is asking the CRTC to revise the interim rates for...
The CRTC has added a dozen additional routes to its list of interexchange...
The commission denied an application by City Wide Communications Inc. requesting it order Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink to move its Nova Scotia third-party Internet...
Updated with TekSavvy reaction.
The Supreme Court of Canada Thursday...
The CRTC has determined that all communications service providers (CSPs),...
The CRTC has requested that several telecoms companies send it more...
Tier 5 service areas are “too large” to meet...
The CRTC approved applications by Quebecor Media Inc.’s Videotron and Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink, to amend their on-demand broadcasting licences after the...
A test-case for Canada's first-ever "dynamic" site-blocking order is headed...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre has asked the CRTC to delay a hearing...
A trio of Canada's biggest broadcasters has asked the Federal Court for a...
The CRTC has granted Cable Public Affairs Channel Inc. -- more widely known...
The site-blocking order that will block a rolling list of pirate streaming...
Rogers Communications Inc. has told the CRTC the pandemic has slowed work down after it was asked by the...
In a dispute between a trade organization representing wholesale-based...
The CRTC is seeking further information from...
Six months after it received a request to release the data it collects on a fraud process known as "SIM swapping," the CRTC yesterday sent a letter to parties involved in a proceeding on the matter saying that instances of the fraud had fallen by 95 per cent between October 2020 and May of this year. The CRTC did not disclose how many instances of the fraud the 95 per cent drop represented, either at the beginning or the end of the monitoring period. SIM swapping involves a fraudster convincing a wireless provider to transfer the victim’s phone number to a new SIM card in the...
Nearly six weeks after a Federal Court of Appeal upheld Canada's first-ever...
The CRTC has rejected a request from Xplornet Communications Inc. to repeal certain language from the regulator's Internet Code that raised the barrier for cutting off...
The average Canadian mobile wireless prices rank the second highest internationally in four of seven service “baskets,” and remains in the middle-high range for the...
The CRTC has asked Rogers Communications Inc. to stop requiring its third-party internet access customers to use a particular kind of modem until the regulator makes a decision on a complaint about...
The CRTC has rejected a request from a number of large facilities-based internet service providers for the regulator to extend the Internet Code to smaller ISPs and resellers.
In a decision released Thursday, the CRTC wrote that, in its determination, the large ISPs had...
The Federal Court of Appeals handed a small win to Bragg Communications Inc. in a dispute with trade union Unifor, in which the union was seeking to enlarge a collective bargaining unit of Eastlink...
If Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada doesn't approve Telesat Holdings Inc.'s proposal...
As the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed an incumbent challenge to an...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) has asked the CRTC to publicly disclose the information it...
Both BCE Inc. and large cable companies have turned to the Supreme Court...
A number of Canadian wireless providers have objected to a proposal that...
Major Canadian telecoms have ended one of their major relief measures for Canadians who suddenly shifted...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. will become the second Canadian telecom to resume charging overage fees to home internet customers who go over their data caps, with the company announcing it will end the COVID-19...
Cogeco Inc. will again start charging overage fees to its home internet customers who exceed their data limits as of Friday, with the company instead focusing on other measures it considers to “be more essential” to its customers. It’s the first internet service provider to confirm its suspension of data overage charges will end. A Cogeco spokesperson told The Wire Report that its suspension of data overage charges — introduced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on Mar. 20 — would end on Thursday as it prioritized other temporary measures. “We have decided to focus...
