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CRTC told not to grant FTTP access to big telecoms
telecom | 04/22/2024 6:25 pm EDT
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...
Eastlink unveils video streaming app
Media | 03/26/2024 5:34 pm EDT
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink announced Tuesday that it is introducing a video streaming application for its mobile users. The TiVo Stream mobile app will permit customers to watch programming on the go.
"We're on a mission to do things differently," Eastlink CEO...
CRTC rejects Bell’s challenge against wireless attachment jurisdiction
telecom | 03/12/2024 5:06 pm EDT
The CRTC has dismissed BCE Inc.’s application challenging the...
Providers debate wholesale fibre access in rural areas at CRTC hearing
telecom | 02/14/2024 4:24 pm EST
To bring affordable internet and consumer choice to rural communities, the...
CRTC expands forbearance on regulation of high-capacity digital data services
telecom | 02/12/2024 4:13 pm EST
The CRTC announced Monday an expansion in forbearance from regulating...
Eastlink says competitors’ claims of reputational and economic harm caused by service outage response are unfounded
telecom | 12/21/2023 2:18 pm EST
Bragg Communications Inc.'s Eastlink is...
CRTC announces funds for Nunavut and rejects Bell’s bid to amend Broadband Fund contributions
telecom | 12/20/2023 4:47 pm EST
The CRTC has denied a BCE Inc. application to review and amend its 2018 Broadband Fund framework and its set contribution rates and interim funding for 2023 set last year....
3,800 MHz auction nets $2.2B in preliminary results
telecom | 11/30/2023 6:14 pm EST
Canada’s telecom industry have spent some $2.16 billion on the 3,800 MHz band of spectrum, according to...
Eastlink competitors seeking compensation for “negligence” during outage, ask for investigation similar to Rogers outage
Internet and Governance | 11/16/2023 6:39 pm EST
City Wide Communications Inc., Frontier Networks...
Competitors rally behind Beanfield in fight against Rogers’ exclusive MDU agreements
telecom | 10/27/2023 6:46 pm EDT
Interventions coming in from the CRTC show...
Eastlink announces purchase of Northern Ontario ISP
telecom | 10/05/2023 11:18 am EDT
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink announced the purchase of a Northern Ontario telecom service...
APTN defends new structure proposal from broadcaster criticism
Media | 10/03/2023 4:29 pm EDT
APTN says its proposal to shift the terms of its licence will be good for...
Telcos double down on assertion that CRTC needs to forgo further broadband fund collections
telecom | 09/25/2023 8:08 pm EDT
As the CRTC’s review of its broadband fund...
Eastlink expands service into Acadian Peninsula, N.B.
telecom | 08/31/2023 5:01 pm EDT
In a press release on Thursday, Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink announced the launch of mobile...
Eastlink and Nokia announce partnership
telecom | 08/18/2023 4:31 pm EDT
Bragg Communication Inc.'s Eastlink and Nokia Corp. announced "a multi-year strategic, access network...
CRTC urged to put a moratorium on broadband fund contributions
telecom | 07/24/2023 5:37 pm EDT
Telecoms and other stakeholders have had their say on proposed changes to the CRTC’s Broadband Fund. The commission posted the last of the interventions on Monday. The first batch of statements were uploaded last week.
BCE Inc. submitted a hefty intervention, a 62-page...
Proposed rates for wholesale HSA over FTTP are inflated: CNOC
telecom | 07/14/2023 5:00 pm EDT
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) told the CRTC that...
UPDATED: Several stakeholders tell CRTC about MLTS systems for 911/988
telecom | 06/23/2023 6:19 pm EDT
The CRTC received a raft of responses on its notice of consultation on 911...
Telecom sector seeing revenue increase: CRTC telecom report
telecom | 06/20/2023 5:24 pm EDT
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 platforms want total exclusion from new broadcasting regime
Internet and Governance | 06/16/2023 4:17 pm EDT
Social media companies are asking the CRTC to be added to the list of...
Incumbents oppose CRTC’s expedited review of FTTP access
telecom | 06/09/2023 9:55 am EDT
Incumbent carriers are opposed to the expedited review of the CRTC’s wholesale HSA framework, including its consideration to mandate temporary aggregated access to fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) facilities.
Interventions from BCE Inc., Telus Corp., Saskatchewan...
Ericsson and Eastlink extend 5G deal while Rogers slashes prices
telecom | 05/04/2023 5:16 pm EDT
Swedish telecom manufacturer Ericsson AB and Bragg Communications Inc.’s...
Bell and Telus fastest fibre providers: Opensignal report
telecom | 04/13/2023 12:33 pm EDT
According to the analytics firm Opensignal, when it comes to fixed...
CRTC rejects incumbent delay requests for FTTP and HSA proceedings
telecom | 03/28/2023 5:10 pm EDT
The CRTC has denied a request from a number of incumbents, chief among them...
Network resiliency working group wants to expand CRTC authority over municipal infrastructure, provincially-regulated utilities
telecom | 03/22/2023 5:07 pm EDT
A working group composed of Canadian telecommunication service providers (CTSPs) and experts from the department of Innovation Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)...
Broadband, mobile prices drop slightly; still high internationally in 2022: Wall report
telecom | 03/14/2023 4:38 pm EDT
The 2022 edition of the department of Innovation,...
BDUs raising TV rates for customers not covered by small basic rate is irrelevant: Bell
Media | 03/01/2023 6:12 pm EST
BCE Inc. is arguing to the CRTC that it is...
B.C. wants CRTC to reverse directives on relocation costs
telecom | 03/01/2023 5:54 pm EST
British Columbia’s Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI)...
CRTC wants telecoms to address Canadians with disabilities wireless services
telecom | 02/23/2023 3:29 pm EST
Thursday the CRTC issued a decision directing wireless service providers...
CRTC reopens basic television price hike proceeding
Media | 02/21/2023 5:25 pm EST
The CRTC is reopening its proceeding into whether or not BCE Inc., Cogeco Inc., Bragg Communications Inc., and Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Co. can increase the retail price of so-called "skinny basic" plans from $25 to $28 per month with a yearly indexing...
Hockey broadcasters win fresh site-blocking order
Media | 11/23/2022 7:43 am EST
The start of another hockey season brings another federal court site-blocking order for a trio of telecom...
Nova Scotia premier blasts hurricane response from Big 3 and Eastlink; calls on ISED to intervene
Media | 09/28/2022 5:37 pm EDT
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston wrote to...
Four telecoms seek increase in basic TV service price, CRTC seeks comments
telecom | 09/28/2022 5:19 pm EDT
Four telecom companies are asking the CRTC to increase the price of basic...
Cell phone, internet service still out in many parts of Atlantic Canada
telecom | 09/26/2022 5:27 pm EDT
Hurricane Fiona wreaked havoc on Atlantic Canada and eastern Quebec last...
Relocation of Eastlink’s TPIA point of interconnection chance for gov. to redeem itself: PIAC
telecom | 09/12/2022 3:58 pm EDT
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and the Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) want the federal government to “urgently” direct the CRTC to order Bragg...
Champagne announces network sharing agreement following Rogers outage
telecom | 09/07/2022 4:35 pm EDT
Wednesday Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe...
City Wide wants GiC to force relocation of Eastlink’s TPIA point of interconnection
telecom | 08/15/2022 3:39 pm EDT
City Wide Communications Inc. is asking the...
City Wide is the victim of competition, not anti-competitive practice: Eastlink
telecom | 07/29/2022 4:44 pm EDT
City Wide Communications Inc.'s lack of growth in Nova Scotia is due to the...
TekSavvy wants concrete actions in CRTC policy direction, PIAC argues for directive language
telecom | 07/20/2022 5:13 pm EDT
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) says...
Mobile prices down but high internationally, broadband prices up and still high internationally: ISED report
telecom | 07/06/2022 5:30 pm EDT
In 2021, consumer mobile wireless fell by as much...
City Wide appeals Eastlink POI decision at CRTC
telecom | 06/30/2022 5:51 pm EDT
City Wide Communications Inc. is appealing the CRTC's decision not to force Bragg Communications Inc. to...
CNOC back regional carriers’ call for roaming rates review
telecom | 06/24/2022 5:00 pm EDT
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada has filed an intervention in...
CRTC outlines framework to block botnets from internet traffic
telecom | 06/23/2022 5:48 pm EDT
In a Thursday decision, the CRTC announced it was implementing regulations...
Regional wireless carriers seek review of incumbents’ roaming rates
telecom | 05/24/2022 5:43 pm EDT
A consortium of regional wireless competitors have filed an application with the CRTC seeking a review of the wholesale roaming tariff rates of the big three national...
CRTC sides with regional wireless carriers in roaming decision
telecom | 04/06/2022 6:24 pm EDT
The CRTC mostly accepted the arguments of small wireless carriers against...
Distributel seeks revised interim rates for disagg regime
telecom | 03/30/2022 6:57 pm EDT
Distributel Ltd. is asking the CRTC to revise the interim rates for...
CRTC to forbear from regulating IXPL services on 12 additional routes
telecom | 03/25/2022 4:32 pm EDT
The CRTC has added a dozen additional routes to its list of interexchange...
CRTC won’t order Bragg to relocate its TPIA point of interconnection
telecom | 03/25/2022 4:17 pm EDT
The commission denied an application by City Wide Communications Inc....
Supreme Court dismisses TekSavvy appeal of GoldTV site-blocking order
Media | 03/24/2022 1:28 pm EDT
Updated with TekSavvy reaction.
The Supreme Court of Canada Thursday morning dismissed a last effort by TekSavvy Solutions Inc. to challenge Canada's first-ever...
Paper billing for vulnerable customers, not universally: CRTC
telecom | 02/10/2022 5:42 pm EST
The CRTC has determined that all communications service providers (CSPs),...
CRTC asks Eastlink to propose NG 911 rates and submit cost study
telecom | 01/17/2022 6:10 pm EST
The CRTC has requested that several telecoms companies send it more...
Intervenors take issue with ISED’s proposed Tier 5 service areas in rural spectrum consultation
telecom | 01/11/2022 5:00 pm EST
Tier 5 service areas are “too large” to meet...
CRTC lifts local expression conditions for Quebecor, Bragg on-demand services
Media | 11/04/2021 5:40 pm EDT
The CRTC approved applications by Quebecor Media Inc.’s Videotron and...
Dynamic site-blocking case gets Nov. 23 hearing date
Media | 11/03/2021 5:51 pm EDT
A test-case for Canada's first-ever "dynamic" site-blocking order is headed...
Delay Rogers-Shaw CRTC hearing until its clear who controls Rogers: PIAC
Media | 11/01/2021 5:35 pm EDT
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre has asked the CRTC to delay a hearing...
Bell, Rogers, Quebecor apply for extended site-blocking in GoldTV
Media | 10/26/2021 9:30 am EDT
A trio of Canada's biggest broadcasters has asked the Federal Court for a...
CRTC to allow CPAC to participate in Rogers-Shaw hearing
Media | 10/13/2021 6:28 pm EDT
The CRTC has granted Cable Public Affairs Channel Inc. -- more widely known...
New ‘dynamic’ site-blocking needs new safeguards: CIPPIC
Media | 09/22/2021 5:56 pm EDT
The site-blocking order that will block a rolling list of pirate streaming sites during NHL games sought by a trio of hockey broadcasters requires new legal safeguards, given...
Rogers extends modem migration deadline
telecom | 09/21/2021 4:20 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. has told the CRTC the pandemic has slowed work down after it was asked by the...
CRTC orders some incumbent disclosure to CNOC in disaggregated regime consultation
Media | 08/13/2021 11:13 am EDT
In a dispute between a trade organization representing wholesale-based...
CRTC seeks more info on how companies comply with Internet Code for people with disabilities
telecom | 07/22/2021 5:25 pm EDT
The CRTC is seeking further information from...
PIAC disappointed with CRTC SIM swap disclosure
telecom | 07/09/2021 4:59 pm EDT
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...
Bell, Rogers, and Quebecor seek first-ever ‘dynamic’ site-blocking order
Media | 07/08/2021 6:22 pm EDT
Nearly six weeks after a Federal Court of Appeal upheld Canada's first-ever site-blocking order against an anonymous so-called pirate IPTV service, the same trio of rights...
CRTC rejects Xplornet request to make non-payer disconnection easier under Internet Code
telecom | 05/19/2021 5:21 pm EDT
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...
Majority of Canadian mobile wireless prices second-highest internationally: ISED report
telecom | 05/04/2021 8:10 pm EDT
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...
CRTC requires Rogers to pause hardware migration for TPIA customers
telecom | 04/27/2021 5:22 pm EDT
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...
CRTC rejects incumbent request to expand Internet Code
telecom | 04/08/2021 5:05 pm EDT
The CRTC has rejected a request from a number of large facilities-based...
Federal court backs Eastlink in union expansion dispute
telecom | 03/24/2021 5:29 pm EDT
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...
Telesat needs proceeds from 3800 MHz to compete: CEO
telecom | 03/11/2021 6:11 pm EST
If Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada doesn't approve Telesat Holdings Inc.'s proposal...
Focus turns back to CRTC as SCC rejects incumbent wholesale challenge
telecom | 02/25/2021 5:46 pm EST
As the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed an incumbent challenge to an...
CRTC should release data on fraud calls: PIAC
telecom | 02/09/2021 5:58 pm EST
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) has asked the CRTC to publicly disclose the information it...
Incumbents appeal CRTC wholesale rates at Supreme Court
telecom | 11/12/2020 4:56 pm EST
Both BCE Inc. and large cable companies have turned to the Supreme Court of Canada to fight the lower internet wholesale rates the CRTC established in 2019, The Wire Report has learned.
Both Bell and the cablecos -- Rogers Communications Inc., Quebecor Inc., Shaw...
Telecoms object to Telesat’s proposal to auction 3800 MHz spectrum
telecom | 11/10/2020 5:48 pm EST
A number of Canadian wireless providers have objected to a proposal that...
Telecoms end overage fees suspension
telecom | 07/02/2020 4:52 pm EDT
Major Canadian telecoms have ended one of their major relief measures for Canadians who suddenly shifted...
SaskTel to resume charging overage fees on June 9
telecom | 05/29/2020 2:13 pm EDT
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 to bring back overage fees as of May 1
telecom | 04/30/2020 2:10 pm EDT
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...
Carriers to text consular information to Canadians abroad
telecom | 03/18/2020 5:30 pm EDT
Canada's wireless service providers will send out text messages to their customers overseas with information about consular support services for Canadians living or travelling abroad during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains and Foreign Affairs...
Wireless prices down in Canada in 2019, but still high internationally: ISED report
telecom | 03/05/2020 4:45 pm EST
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...
Canadian prices will ‘always be higher’: Bragg
telecom | 02/21/2020 7:40 pm EST
GATINEAU, Que. — According to Lee Bragg, CEO of Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink, it is “really...
CNOC asks CRTC to stop Eastlink from axing modems
telecom | 01/24/2020 4:42 pm EST
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...
Telecoms deadlocked ahead of 5G rollout: analyst
telecom | 01/10/2020 5:32 pm EST
No major wireless provider stands out as most likely to benefit from Canada’s looming 5G network rollout, despite two players’ extensive combined wireline footline placing them on the “front foot”, RBC Capital Markets...
Recent ‘expanded’ disclosure order shows ‘worrying’ trend: expert
telecom | 12/13/2019 5:11 pm EST
A recent Federal Court order for two internet service providers to disclose the personal information of alleged copyright infringers diverged from previous precedent by expanding the type of...
Large telecoms say small ISPs should be subject to Internet Code too
telecom | 11/08/2019 5:20 pm EST
A few months ahead of the introduction of the CRTC’s Internet Code, scheduled for Jan. 31,, a grouping of the largest telecom companies in the country are asking the regulator to make the code apply...
Rogers further defends 36-month financing
telecom | 11/01/2019 5:19 pm EDT
The objection to the new phone financing plans from the likes of the Competition Bureau is based on an incorrect understanding of device financing arrangements, according to Rogers Communications Inc.’s reply in the CRTC’s...
Telecoms say CRTC wholesale decision violates Harper-era directive
telecom | 09/17/2019 5:13 pm EDT
In their Friday appeal of the CRTC decision on wholesale internet rates, the affected cable companies are asking the Federal Court of Appeal to defer to a 2006 Harper-era directive that advised the...
Big telecoms go to court over wholesale rates
telecom | 09/13/2019 5:26 pm EDT
In a widely anticipated move, several of the country’s biggest telecom companies have filed for leave to appeal a CRTC decision establishing a new rate regime for wholesale internet broadband. The decision, issued August 15 after a three-year review, substantially reduced the rates that incumbent telecom companies are allowed to charge internet resellers, and also requires incumbents to make retroactive payments to the resellers, totalling some $350 million across the industry. In two separate filings -- one from BCE Inc. and the other jointly filed by Bragg Communications Inc.,...
Eastlink says it consulted community on opposed Moncton tower build
telecom | 08/22/2019 3:40 pm EDT
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink followed public consultation protocol when it advised New Brunswick residents that it was planning to build a cell tower in a residential area, according to...
Japanese comics publisher wants info on alleged infringer from ISPs
Media | 08/20/2019 5:17 pm EDT
Shueisha Inc., a Japanese publisher of comic books, has filed an...
Federal Court grants injunction against GoldTV
telecom | 08/07/2019 6:51 pm EDT
OTTAWA — A Federal Court judge has granted an interim ban on what the big telecom companies are...
Telecoms must hand over more detailed info to Comp Bureau
telecom | 08/06/2019 7:23 pm EDT
The CRTC has directed telecom companies to disclose an additional set of...
Telecoms say speed throttling doesn’t violate net neutrality
telecom | 08/06/2019 2:37 pm EDT
The big three telecoms are telling the CRTC that their practice of slowing data speeds down on the new "unlimited" plans after customers reach their data cap is not a violation of the regulator's policy on internet traffic management practices (ITMPs).
That ITMP...
CRTC reviewing 36-month device financing plans
telecom | 08/02/2019 4:33 pm EDT
The CRTC said Friday afternoon that it thinks the 36-month smartphone financing plans that have entered...
Three-year financing an ‘affront’ to Wireless Code, Shaw says
telecom | 08/01/2019 4:24 pm EDT
Shaw Communications Inc. is blasting the move by the wireless industry’s...
Internet code will indirectly tackle poor sales practices, CRTC chairman says
telecom | 07/31/2019 11:01 am EDT
CRTC chairman Ian Scott said the new internet code will address many of the...
CRTC asks wireless providers to justify post-data cap throttling
telecom | 07/04/2019 4:52 pm EDT
The CRTC has asked several telecoms to explain how their throttling of wireless speeds once customers exceed their data allotments doesn’t violate the commission’s regulatory policy on internet...
Videotron must give data to STB working group: CRTC
Media | 07/02/2019 5:13 pm EDT
The CRTC has ruled that Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron must continue to participate in an industry-wide working group charged with creating a set-top box (STB) data measurement system. In April, Videotron walked away from the group, saying it didn’t want to provide any of its data to the STB working group. In an April letter to the CRTC, Shaw...
Effect of 3.5 GHz clawback on rural broadband to vary across Canada
Media | 06/14/2019 5:03 pm EDT
In recent weeks, telecom issues haven’t escaped the increased rhetoric...
Shaw says patience, not regulation, required to see organic MVNO market
telecom | 05/17/2019 4:55 pm EDT
Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom, the country’s major fourth wireless player, says it is most susceptible to harm if the CRTC decides to mandate MVNO access to incumbent facilities, and that...
$10 fees on customer service tasks don’t violate Wireless Code: Bell, Telus
telecom | 05/03/2019 5:27 pm EDT
BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., Telus Corp., and Shaw Communications Inc. have responded to the CRTC’s questions about $10 fees they charge for some customer service tasks. Telecom...
Resistance to tower builds shows need to ‘rethink’ consultations: MP
telecom | 04/30/2019 4:35 pm EDT
Residents of a New Brunswick town are asking the Federal Court to review the government’s approval of a proposed telecommunications tower by Bragg Communications Inc.’s...