In a Friday decision, the CRTC approved with modifications three tariff notifications submitted by Telus Corp. The trio of applications were filed in January 2022.
Two of the applications sought to change digital network access and inter-exchange digital channels. The...
Distributel Communications Ltd. attempted to become the divestiture partner for Shaw Communication Inc.’s Freedom Mobile, but it was never in a position to replicate its...
Canada should look to Britain and Australia for lessons on how to regulate...
In 2021, consumer mobile wireless fell by as much...
In a Thursday decision, the CRTC announced it was implementing regulations...
The CRTC gave Rogers Communications Inc. permission Wednesday to access a...
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...
Distributel Communications Ltd.'s Primus Communications is expanding its offering in Quebec, and is now covering an additional 71 per cent of the region, according to a...
With a shift to a disaggregated access model anticipated by the Competitive...
The site-blocking order that will block a rolling list of pirate streaming...
On the heels of Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron announcement Wednesday, Distributel Communications Ltd. said Friday that -- along with its recently acquired Primus subsidiary -- it would be suspending...
Nearly six weeks after a Federal Court of Appeal upheld Canada's first-ever...
Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne has rejected a call by the...
Incumbent telecom companies will be required to...
The CRTC has rejected a request from a number of large facilities-based...
Without a regime for mandated access for mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs), the regulatory authorities in charge of reviewing the proposed merger between Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. should force the companies to spin off the Freedom Mobile...
Monday’s announcement of a deal for Rogers Communications Inc. to acquire...
Distributel Communications Ltd. has acquired telecom service provider Primus from Fusion Connect Inc. in what Distributel CEO Matt Stein said Tuesday was a “major acquisition” for the company. ...
BCE Inc. and a coalition of cable companies have submitted letters to the...
Lawyers representing BCE Inc. have asked a Federal Court of Appeal judge to...
In a much-watched appeal of Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order, three separate opponents of the order have filed two interventions asking the Federal Court of Appeal to strike down the order. In the first of the two interventions, the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic at the University of Ottawa (CIPPIC) and the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) jointly argue that the orders disrupt a balance between rights-holders and the free dissemination of information grounded in the Copyright Act, and that the order supersedes...
Major Canadian telecoms have ended one of their major relief measures for Canadians who suddenly shifted...
Distributel Communications Ltd. will charge a “very small” number of customers a $5 temporary surcharge on each internet bill, due to a legal challenge against last year’s wholesale rates...
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...
A Federal Court of Appeal judge has rejected the argument made by the incumbent telecom companies last week that their appeal of the CRTC's wholesale broadband rates decision is too complicated to be...
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...
Experts say Canada’s telecommunications networks are currently handling a...
GATINEAU, Que. — Toward the tail end of nearly three hours of testimony...
Both the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) and the Canadian...
In yet another appeal of the CRTC’s decision lowering wholesale internet rates, BCE Inc. filed a fresh review-and-vary application to the regulator the week before Christmas, arguing that that the CRTC relied on an “irrevocably broken” underlying costing process and framework. The CRTC’s methodology, Bell argues in the Dec. 20 filing, delivered rates that were below cost for Bell, and “failed to follow proper costing principles or prior Commission directives in developing the...
NORTH BAY, Ont. — President of the Canadian Network Operators Consortium...
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...
TORONTO — Smaller, wholesale-based internet service providers may be...
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...
Wholesale-based ISPs are praising a decision by the CRTC to lower the rates they pay for wholesale access under the aggregated regime, though whether the regulator will issue...
Despite being “impressed” by the competitive presence of...
Telus Corp. is going to court over the CRTC’s decision last month to grant smaller internet providers a...
The CRTC’s new, consumer-focused policy direction doesn’t go far...
The CRTC has quietly informed wholesale-based internet service providers...
The new policy direction for the CRTC announced by the federal government...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has filed a complaint with the CRTC flagging a concern that the regulator’s latest data report doesn’t provide a clear picture of the industry, which could make it more...
The CRTC has sided with a small telecom that was reselling wholesale...
Distributel Communications Ltd. is partnering with MobiTV Inc. to deliver its IPTV service, it said...
The Canadian Network Operators’ Consortium (CNOC) has named its spokesman and vice-chair Matt Stein the new president and chairman of the organization, CNOC said in a press release Monday.
Stein, who is also the CEO of Distributel Communications Ltd., replaces Michael Garbe, who was named president in 2016.
Garbe will stay on with the organization as a board member, the release said.
Peter Rocca, CEO of Start Communications, is the new vice-chairman of the board, while Execulink Telecom president and CEO Ian Stevens will become treasurer.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this story stated Michael Garbe was named president last year....
TORONTO — Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains announced Wednesday the...
A dispute between two internet service providers (ISPs) over the...
TNW Wireless Inc. is still hopeful the CRTC will rule in its favour in a...
A Cree-owned non-profit will partner with Distributel Communications Ltd....
TORONTO — The CRTC’s new disaggregated wholesale regime will bring with it enormous costs to connect customers to fibre and will give birth to new wholesale models,...
Distributel Communications Ltd. is acquiring “selected assets” of a...
Mandating wholesale roaming access to Wi-Fi-based mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) will encourage innovation and competition by providing...
The CRTC's goal of fuelling wireline competition by jumpstarting the...
The CRTC kickstarted the industry’s move to a disaggregated wholesale...
On Wednesday, major internet and tech companies teamed up to rally against...
As the CRTC banned most forms of differential pricing practices Thursday — including declaring that telecoms can’t pick and chose Internet content to zero-rate and...
The CRTC should deny a proposal by BCE Inc. for a new regime governing traffic pumping that would allow telecoms to unilaterally put in place penalties that “inflict substantial...
A new report from OpenMedia says that when it comes to residential wireline Internet service, small Internet Service Providers (ISPs) “have less restrictive data caps and more regions with...
New regulations that would require telecom companies to tell the CRTC if they’re going to disconnect another company from their network are unnecessary, according to the majority of interveners who submitted feedback to the CRTC’s call for comments on disconnection practices. Most contracts between carriers or between carriers and resellers already have a notification period built in, eliminating the need for further oversight by the CRTC, said many of those who filed comments before the Sept. 19 deadline. The commission launched the consultation as a result of a January dispute that left 27,000 telephone customers without service. The CRTC asked for comment on whether there should be a minimum time frame for giving notice of intent to disconnect, if the CRTC needs...
The CRTC has missed an opportunity to foster innovation among telecom competitors as it moves forward in the implementation of mandated wholesale access by smaller Internet service providers (ISPs) to...
Investment company Globalive Capital has sold small telecom Yak Communications to Distributel Communications Ltd., Globalive said in a press release Wednesday. In separate deals, it also sold business telecom services...
A new technology that allows telecoms to get speeds of hundreds of gigabits through existing copper loops is making headway in Canada, where companies are testing it out and deployment is likely to...
Michael Garbe is taking over as chairman and CEO of the Canadian Network Operators Consortium (CNOC), while former president and chairman Bill Sandiford and former treasurer Kevin Blumberg will stay with the organization in...
Independent Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and advocacy groups said Wednesday they’re encouraged by the federal government’s rejection of BCE Inc.’s appeal of the CRTC decision mandating wholesale access to fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks, which could be the first glimpse into the new Liberal government’s telecom policy. The denial of the appeal to cabinet petition is a “very positive signal for consumers to let them know that this new government is serious about both maintaining telecom competition, but also about respecting the CRTC’s role and...
In recent weeks, BCE Inc. and HBO have begun using copyright infringement notices to steer recipients toward legal sources of TV content — but some of the Internet service providers...
Distributel Communications Ltd. on Thursday announced that it has hired Gerry Vanderpost as its chief financial officer. Vanderpost had been vice-president of financial at Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc., and joined...
Distributel Communications Ltd. is expanding its high-speed cable Internet services to 29 more markets throughout Quebec. Some of new communities covered include Asbestos, Baie Comeau, Chelsea, Drummondville, Trois...
After "significant" investments in time and money to prepare for the notice-and-notice regime that went into effect this month, independent Internet service providers Teksavvy Solutions Inc....
Small Internet service providers looking to provide TV service should hold off on investment because of the uncertain future of the broadcast television market, according to 3Macs analyst Troy Crandall. At the recent CRTC...
