Iristel Inc.’s arguments that the CRTC was wrong to dismiss its allegations of tariff violations in the company’s dispute with BCE Inc. have once again been rejected by...
Iristel Inc. is fighting with BCE Inc. over a notice of disconnection of telecommunications services it got from the incumbent despite a payment plan the smaller player has proposed.
According to an application filed to the CRTC by Iristel on Feb. 28 and made public...
The CRTC’s commissioner for British Columbia and Yukon disagrees with her...
Samer Bishay was working for the Canadian Space Agency in Saint-Hubert,...
Iristel Inc. wants the CRTC to penalize BCE Inc.’s Northwestel for...
Iristel Inc.’s fight to get back millions of...
Iristel Inc. has been told to pay overdue fees to BCE Inc. properties in two disputes from last fall. Failing that, the competitive carrier could lose access to service in two...
BCE Inc.’s Bell Canada and Northwestel have...
Iristel Inc. and two BCE Inc. properties have reached separate agreements...
The CRTC has extended an olive branch to Iristel Inc. in its current...
Iristel Inc. has filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC against BCE Inc....
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) will hear Iristel Inc.’s appeal over millions of dollars in denied tax credits the company wants restored.
Last Thursday the SCC accepted Iristel’s application for leave to appeal over...
MISSISSAUGA – When it comes to CRTC chair Ian Scott's Monday announcement of the regulator's upcoming proceeding on network outages, Rogers Communications Inc.’s chief regulatory officer Ted...
The Federal Court of Appeal has sided with the attorney general of Canada...
Iristel Inc. filed a petition to the governor in council to vary a decision...
The CRTC mostly accepted the arguments of small wireless carriers against the big three in a ruling on seamless handoff and 5G roaming. In a lengthy decision issued Wednesday, the commission sought to make life easier for the regional players by finding in their favour in...
The Federal Court of Appeal rejected an application by Iristel Inc. to...
The Federal Court of Appeal dismissed an application by Iristel Inc. to...
On Friday the CRTC dismissed a complaint by Telus Corp. against TLN Media...
The CRTC cannot impose fines on either Iristel Inc. and Telus Corp. after...
A national non-profit consumer advocacy group is asking the CRTC not to fine Iristel Inc. and Telus Communications Inc. administrative monetary penalties (AMPs) for having breached the Telecommunications Act, arguing it would not serve any effective purpose, in a long-running dispute over calls to the 867 area code.
In an intervention dated...
Early consultations on regulations to 5G rollout affecting air traffic...
While it is asking the CRTC for guidelines on how to comply with a recent...
Iristel Inc. has asked for guidance from the CRTC in seeking to comply with...
The CRTC has rejected a pair of review and vary...
The telecoms companies that supported Innovation,...
BCE Inc. and Saskatchewan Telecommunications...
Iristel Inc. is launching a service that will allow Canadian phone numbers to be paired with less expensive plans offered by U.S. telecom companies. On Monday the company announced its $6 per month "Mobifi" service, which it...
The CRTC has denied an order requested by Iristel Inc. after it found that...
Incumbent telecom companies will be required to sell access to their mobile networks to some regional service providers, but only those that have some level of spectrum and...
Iristel Inc. is once again elevating its fight with the Canada Revenue...
A federal court has dismissed the Canada Revenue...
A federal court has ordered the Canada Revenue Agency to hand over to Iristel Inc. "all materials" in its possession related to the tax authority's decision not to release tens of millions of dollars worth of tax returns to the company. In an order released Monday, the court agreed with Iristel's September filing for the...
The government has signalled that it will file a motion to overturn last month's ruling from a federal judge which allowed Iristel Inc.'s judicial review into the conduct of the Canada Revenue Agency...
A Federal Court judge has rejected a request from the government to throw out an application for judicial review from Iristel Inc., in which the company sought a review of the Canada Revenue Agency’s conduct in a pair of audits into the company. In a Thursday decision judge Kevin Aalto wrote that he disagreed with the argument, put forward by the Attorney General on behalf of the CRA, that Iristel’s application for review was made in bad faith. Iristel’s application -- in which the...
Telus Inc.'s request for the CRTC to review its decision that the company "unjustly discriminated" against Iristel Inc. should be thrown out and the original ruling upheld, Iristel has told the...
A pair of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada proposals on changes to midband spectrum allocation that would affect fixed wireless service has drawn a mixed response from telecoms....
On the heels of the incumbent appeal of a Federal Court of Appeal decision...
The CRTC is putting on hold its proceeding on whether it should fine Iristel Inc. and Telus Corp. up to $1.25 million over a fight involving traffic stimulation. The regulator had proposed enforcing a financial penalty of...
Iristel Inc. says the CRTC wrongly determined it was stimulating traffic to...
Iristel Inc.'s complaint to the CRTC that it thought Rogers Communications Inc. might have been involved in a scheme where some Canadian customers have had their caller ID tweaked to make it seem like...
Iristel Inc.'s ongoing fight with the Canada Revenue Agency has become yet more complicated, as the company filed a new application for judicial review Friday, alleging that the CRA improperly...
The CRTC has proposed enforcing a financial penalty of between $750,000 and...
Iristel Inc.'s application for judicial review of the conduct of the Canadian Revenue Authority (CRA) during an audit of the telecom company's finances is an "attack" on the outcome of a tax assessment and circumvents the "comprehensive system of objections and appeals" that already exist within the tax statutes, according to a Federal Court filing from lawyers for the Attorney General’s office. The Aug. 7 filing, in support of the CRA, argues that the Tax Court, and not the Federal Court, is the only proper venue for what the Attorney General’s office argues is essentially Iristel's "challenge to the correctness of the assessments made by the Minister in assessing the applicant’s...
Iristel Inc. has asked the CRTC to issue an order explicitly prohibiting...
On Tuesday, BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. announced new partnerships with...
The Canadian chapter of the Internet Society is not satisfied with what it...
Telecom providers both big and small have unanimously rejected a...
BCE Inc. says it is willing to share information with critics of its plan to combat scam phone calls using artificial intelligence — as long as they don’t tell anyone else.
In its initial application to the CRTC, Bell kept most of the details of how it plans to...
OTTAWA — With the federal government’s decision on whether to ban...
Iristel Inc. hasn’t provided enough evidence in a dispute with BCE Inc. to compel the CRTC to re-regulate some transport services, the commission said Wednesday. Iristel had asked the CRTC to...
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...
The Ontario Superior Court has put a lawsuit launched by Iristel Inc. against Telus Corp. on hold while the CRTC settles a related dispute. The court granted a temporary stay in a decision Monday, stating that “the court has...
The CRTC’s new, consumer-focused policy direction doesn’t go far...
BCE Inc. was among three prospective applicants who didn’t grab licenses for the coveted 600 MHz spectrum, widely considered to be the last chance to get valuable low-band frequencies. The...
BCE Inc. doesn’t have to implement a freeze on rates it charges Iristel Inc. while the CRTC decides how to settle a dispute between the two regarding the rates, the regulator said Thursday.
In...
As the CRTC signals it’s ready to make an about-face on its approach to...
The majority of Canadian wireless providers who weighed in on a proposal to harmonize emergency alert tests told the CRTC that they shouldn’t be required to send text...
Iristel Inc. is becoming a provider of cybersecurity services, the company said in a press release...
The CRTC has no jurisdiction to determine the outcome of a disagreement over the rates BCE Inc. charges Iristel Inc. for wholesale access, because it chose to forebear from regulating legacy services,...
Iristel Inc. says BCE Inc. has put in place “massive and unprecedented rate increases” for access to some of its infrastructure and is asking the CRTC to intervene. According to a Part 1 application filed with the CRTC in...
As the new year begins, the months ahead promise a new spectrum auction, new CRTC announcements on...
Cogeco Inc. isn’t among the list of participants in the 600 MHz auction, released by Innovation Canada Thursday.
Companies that will be bidding in what is the last significant chance to snap up valuable low-band spectrum in the foreseeable future include the big three...
The CRTC ordered Friday both Telus Corp. and Iristel Inc. to make interim...
Iristel Inc. is suing Telus Corp. for $135 million in withheld payments it said is owed to the company for terminating Telus’ customer calls, escalating tensions between the two in an ongoing fight over alleged traffic...
The CRTC should set up a regime to allow internet service providers to use...
Iristel Inc. has acquired Télécommunications de l’Est (TDE), a small Quebec telecom that provides service to industries operating in remote areas with limited cellular service, such as forestry...
Rogers Communications Inc. is backing Telus Corp. in its traffic...
The CRTC have merged two Part 1 applications filed by Iristel Inc. and Telus Corp. earlier this month...
Iristel Inc. and Telus Corp. are sparring in a pair of Part 1 applications...
Iristel Inc. is suing Rogers Communications Inc. to the tune of nearly $150...
TORONTO — If there was a single point of agreement among panelists representing both small and big internet service providers (ISPs) on a panel discussing regulatory issues at the Telecom Summit in Toronto, it was on what they said is a redundancy in imposing net...
Ice Wireless, a subsidiary of Iristel Inc., is partnering with a regional...
Iristel Inc. has acquired a small wireless provider with spectrum in eastern Quebec and northern Ontario and plans to launch wireless service in those areas next month, the company said Monday....
Innovation Canada (ISED) released the results of its 2018 residual spectrum auction Friday, with Cogeco Inc. ending up as the big spender. The Montreal-based telecom picked up seven paired and 16 unpaired licenses in the 2300...
TNW Wireless Inc. is still hopeful the CRTC will rule in its favour in a...
Having facilities-based carriers offer low-cost data-only plans is a better way to fulfill the government’s goals of more affordable wireless options for consumers than mandating roaming access by WiFi-first mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs), CRTC chairman Ian Scott said Thursday. “The data-only plans fulfill the same objective, and [have] other attributes that make it a superior alternative in our view,” he said in a call with reporters. “It will be available nationally. It...
In separate decisions on Wednesday, the CRTC ordered Iristel Inc. to cease...
Several telecoms are backing Rogers Communications Inc.’s request for an extension to implement certain...
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...
Most of Canada’s major wireless providers were of the same mind on an application by TNW Wireless...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile says that its decision not to...
A group of American TV stations seems to be renewing its efforts to put compensation for signals...
The CRTC has launched a consultation on changing its wholesale wireless roaming rules, following a call...
Telecommunications service providers must give customers a heads up of at least four business days before disconnecting or suspending a service to end users or another service provider, the CRTC said in a Thursday decision, imposing new regulations following an inter-company dispute that left thousands without phone service last year. In its decision, the CRTC said while there are plenty of provisions regulating notifications between service providers with respect to discontinuation or suspension of service, none of them mandate that customers have to be informed. “Given the...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile is refusing to pay Iristel Inc. for some services in a move that relates to an ongoing proceeding in front of the CRTC over traffic stimulation, Iristel...
A Northern mobile wireless provider is asking the CRTC to compel a pair of incumbents to strike roaming...
TORONTO — Representatives from the big three were on the defense a day...
TORONTO — Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains is directing the CRTC to reconsider a March decision in...
Iristel Inc.’s Ice Wireless is now selling plans with unlimited data and roaming in the United States and Mexico, the company said in a press release Wednesday. The plans “include unlimited calls, texts and roaming throughout Canada, United States and Mexico starting from $59,” it said. The company is also offering an unlimited data plan for $89 per month, which is available on a promotional basis. Iristel CEO Samer Bishay declined to provide details about how long the promotion will be available and what the regular...
Iristel Inc. is partnering with satellite company Kepler Communications Inc. to help Internet of Things (IoT) devices seamlessly connect between cellular networks on the ground and satellites in the sky. The...
The arguments made by BCE Inc. subsidiary Northwestel in its request to the CRTC to review and vary a decision setting rates for Northwestel’s Wholesale Connect service have already...
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...
Rogers Communications Inc. doesn’t have to provide roaming services to Iristel Inc.’s mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) Sugar Mobile, the CRTC said Wednesday in a...
Iristel Inc. plans to launch Voice over LTE (VoLTE) service in about two months, Iristel president Samer Bishay said in an email. The company will use technology from software company Metaswitch Networks Ltd., Metaswitch said in a press release Wednesday. “The Ice Wireless...
The start of the new year was marked by new registrations for new and not-so-new companies and groups in the federal lobbyists’ registry. Iristel Inc. registered to lobby the federal government as of Jan....
BCE Inc. wants the CRTC to implement new rules governing traffic pumping, which would put the onus on any telecom accused of artificially inflating traffic to prove they’re not engaged in...
Iristel Inc. is asking the CRTC to “go beyond the ‘same old players’ to companies committed to competition and enhanced services for Canadians” when it comes to providing...
Investel Capital Corp.’s TNW Networks Corp. (TNW) will soon start deploying a Wi-Fi-based mobile technology as part of a nationally available wireless service that the company is claiming will be disruptive to the Canadian market, despite regulatory uncertainly caused by a CRTC complaint regarding a similar service. Last week, the company announced that it had acquired — subject to regulatory approval — RuralCom Capital Corp. and with it, its Tier-2 850 MHz mobile licences. Those licences will be used as part of TNW’s new service. According to TNW, its Internet Personal...
