The Federal Court of Appeal has sided with the attorney general of Canada by striking an application by Iristel Inc. to the federal court in which the company alleged that it...
Iristel Inc. filed a petition to the governor in council to vary a decision by the CRTC in which it found that the commission did not err in fact or law by slashing the...
The CRTC mostly accepted the arguments of small wireless carriers against...
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 the regulator found the companies have violated the Telecommunications Act in a long-running dispute...
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...
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 Rogers Communications Inc. “did not grant itself an undue preference with respect to the...
Incumbent telecom companies will be required to...
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 during a pair of audits into the company. In a Friday filing with the Federal Court, Attorney General David Lametti -- on behalf of the CRA -- indicated that he plans to file a motion to set aside Judge Kevin Aalto's Jan 21 court order. Aalto struck down the CRA's argument that Iristel had made...
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...
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 $1.25 million on both Iristel Inc. and Telus Corp. after finding each company had breached the...
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...
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 Competition Bureau proposal to allow strictly-regulated mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) access to the Big Three’s networks for five years, but for vastly different reasons.
The bureau endorsed a...
BCE Inc. says it is willing to share information with critics of its plan...
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 mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) network access, prospective MVNOs are eyeing the regulator’s...
The majority of Canadian wireless providers who weighed in on a proposal to...
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 high-profile files like telecom sales practices, and even potentially a new federal government — to be determined in an election in which the danger of hacking and social...
Cogeco Inc. isn’t among the list of participants in the 600 MHz auction, released by Innovation Canada...
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 million for allegedly reneging on contract agreements governing telephone traffic exchange dating...
TORONTO — If there was a single point of agreement among panelists representing both small and big...
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 Part 1 complaint to force BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. to negotiate roaming plans so it can implement its proposed national WiFi-based wireless service, according to company president Lawry...
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...
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 by the government telling the regulator to reconsider how that policy affects WiFi-based mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs).
On Thursday, the CRTC asked for comment on whether it should have reached a different conclusion in its March decision involving Sugar Mobile, an MVNO from Iristel Inc. Sugar’s service was mostly WiFi-based, with 200 MB of non-WiFi data per month, supported by the Rogers...
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...
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 which it set rules for regulated wholesale roaming by wireless providers in a move that could change the landscape around mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) 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...
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 funding as part of its new $750-million program to improve Internet service in Canada. Announced as part of the commission’s basic service decision in late December, the fund will be focused on improving both wireline and wireless service in underserved communities. In a Dec. 22 press release, Iristel president Samer Bishay said that “it is critically important that the...
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...
Iristel Inc. has responded to a Part 1 application by Rogers Communications Inc. accusing it of “traffic stimulation,” stating that “the entire factual basis for...
Iristel Inc. said Tuesday it has acquired two small telecoms, Toronto’s Trutel Inc. and Montreal’s Exelia Inc. "Our culture is not one filled with 'old phone guys' and neither is Trutel's or...
Iristel Inc. has filed a complaint with the CRTC over what it says is a “refusal” of Bragg Communication Inc.’s Eastlink to “implement local competition”...
Rogers Communications Inc. is turning to the CRTC in another dispute with Iristel Inc., which it’s accusing of deliberately driving up the volume of phone calls to the Northwest Territories in order to benefit from a “windfall profit” due to the area’s high traffic termination rates. In a Part 1 application filed on Nov. 16, Rogers said Iristel was engaged in “traffic stimulation,” which it defined as “a mechanism for local exchange carriers to profit from increasing the volume of incoming traffic for termination of their local exchange...
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...
Ice Wireless, a subsidiary of Iristel Inc., said it is rolling out a HSPA/LTE network in 14 northern Quebec communities. A Tuesday press release from Tecore Networks, which supplies mobile network infrastructure,...
The CRTC is requesting comment on whether regulatory measures are required to prevent service interruptions after a dispute between two telecommunications providers in January. In a notice of consultation posted to its...
Sugar Mobile, an affiliate of Iristel Inc.-subsidiary Ice Wireless, can continue roaming on Rogers Communications Inc.’s network while the CRTC considers its final decision in a...
All wireless service providers must provide the same basic level of 911 service, the CRTC said Monday. In a policy decision posted to its website, the regulator set out new rules stating that...
The CRTC said it might consider preventative regulations after a dispute involving two phone service providers resulted in lost telephone service for 27,000 Canadian phone number holders. On Jan. 15,...
Despite the fact that large wireless carriers have been offering WiFi calling for months, the emergence of WiFi calling provider Sugar Mobile, and hinted-at-plans by Shaw Communications Inc. to integrate Wind with its...
Allowing Sugar Mobile to continue roaming on Rogers Communications Inc.’s network would be a “backdoor means” to mandated mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) access, and “a...
Interventions filed opposing Ice Wireless' request for interim relief in its roaming dispute with Rogers Communications Inc. failed to properly address the relevant issues, instead focusing on "absurd" interpretations of statements Sugar Mobile CEO Samer Bishay made in media reports, the company said in a response to comments filed with the CRTC. "None of them have credibly refuted Ice Wireless' submissions to the effect that a denial of interim relief will result in irreparable harm" to the company — a subsidiary of Iristel Inc. — and its affiliate...