The agency responsible for administering the 988 mental health helpline finds itself at odds with telecoms who run the phone lines, in replies submitted to the CRTC’s proceeding on improving the service.
The 988 system was established in 2023 to provide a simple...
BCE Inc.’s Bell Canada and Telus Corp. have seen their current wholesale support structure rates for pole access set as interim rates by the CRTC. The interim rates become...
Canada’s broadcasting distribution undertakings (BDUs) are continuing their fight against a proposal by...
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 government-subsidized broadband projects – such as those meant to support Canada’s connectivity goals through the Universal...
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...
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 two companies for access to their networks as it looks to develop its wireless services in Canada.
Cogeco CEO Frédéric...
While some companies praised the CRTC’s long-awaited decision to mandate...
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 have access to aggregated wholesale high-speed access over fibre-to-the-premises (AWHSA-FTTP) facilities.
A diverse group of stakeholders filed their remarks this...
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...
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 competitor internet service providers (ISPs) and other independents backing up Beanfield Technologies Inc. in its claims against...
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink announced the purchase of a Northern Ontario telecom service...
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 partnership that will further modernize Eastlink’s mobile network."
According to the Wednesday announcement, the first site to use Nokia technology will go live later...
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...
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 BCE Inc., to delay the first deadlines in the regulator's new wholesale broadband and...
A working group composed of Canadian telecommunication service providers (CTSPs) and experts from the department of Innovation Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)...
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 (WSPs) to provide better service to people with disabilities. The companies must consult with those...
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...
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 presence of other third-party internet access (TPIA) competitors in the province, rather than...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) says...
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 to control botnets that threaten Canadians’ internet security. It established the guiding principles for the framework and required a detailed set of recommendations from the CRTC Interconnection...
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....
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 demand for Access Licensing, Canada’s telecoms companies and stakeholders told Innovation, Science and Economic...
The CRTC approved applications by Quebecor Media Inc.’s Videotron and...
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 as CPAC -- the right to appear at the regulator's hearings into the proposed merger between Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc., scheduled for Nov. 22.
In an Oct. 7 letter to...
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...
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 requirement from the Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC). In an April 26 letter to Rogers regulatory staff, the CRTC requests that the company to allow its TPIA customers to continue to activate DOCSIS 3.0 modems. Rogers had previously told its TPIA customers that it would be...
The CRTC has rejected a request from a number of large facilities-based...
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 receives in monthly reports from wireless telecom service providers about the fraudulent practice known as "SIM swapping."
In a letter sent to the CRTC Tuesday, PIAC...
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...
Canada's wireless service providers will send out text messages to their...
Mobile wireless prices are lower or have stayed the same across all service "baskets" compared to last year, but the higher data plan prices remain stubbornly higher than most other countries, a new...
GATINEAU, Que. — According to Lee Bragg, CEO of Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink, it is “really...
The Canadian Network Operators Consortium has asked the CRTC to prevent Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink from effectively requiring a number of its third-party internet access customers to remove a particular type of modem from customers’ premises and use modems from a different manufacturer. In a Part 1 application filed on Jan. 20 with the CRTC, CNOC says the decision by Eastlink to no longer support the modems is a “completely disproportionate response to minor issues” arising from manufacturer defects of the Technicolor TC4350 modem. According to CNOC’s filing with...
