The CRTC has rejected a 988 service routing plan proposed by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and has given the commission’s working group six months to come up with a better proposal.
The 988 number is a phone number used by people who are suicidal...
Beanfield Technologies Inc. is bullish on the Canadian telecom market despite that market reaching a maturity that could stymie some players, the firm’s CEO says. ...
New requirements changing how telecom companies must notify the CRTC about...
As Cogeco Communications Inc. and Bragg...
Major telecommunications companies across Canada voiced strong opposition...
The federal government has declined to overrule...
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...
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...
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 at the CRTC in support of the country’s largest telecom companies being allowed to resell internet services over each...
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 TekSavvy -- have filed requests with the CRTC asking it to revise its decision to mandate aggregated...
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...
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 expedited decision to block Canada's Big Three telecoms from aggregated wholesale access to...
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 high-capacity digital data services interexchange private line (IXPL) services on additional routes. ...
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...
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 services in the Acadian Peninsula of New Brunswick.
This is the latest development in the company’s efforts to expand and improve its mobile network, which has seen...
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 that year, as opposed to the 1.4 per cent decline posted in 2020. That 2020 fall was the largest ever recorded in the Communications Market Reports (CMR). The only other decrease was in 2002 when the dot-com bubble burst.
The chief factor in the 2021 increase was the...
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...
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) wants the CRTC to reverse its direction for the province to reimburse Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. for construction-forced relocation of transmission cables at rates...
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 television service from $25 a month to $28 per month with a yearly indexing mechanism being added to...
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...
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 support of a Part 1 request for the CRTC to review the methodology by which the regulator sets roaming tariffs.
In a June 23 intervention, CNOC argued that the original application from a...
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 private line (IXPL) services that it is forbearing from regulation.
In a decision released Friday,...
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...
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 renewal of Canada's first ever site-blocking order, two years after the original blocking order was...
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 internet service providers as it tries to determine if they are in compliance with the Internet Code, specifically when it comes...
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 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 18-month old CRTC decision to slash wholesale access rates for independent internet service providers...
