Iristel Inc. wants the CRTC to penalize BCE Inc.’s Northwestel for disconnecting all of the voice telecommunications services it gets from the northern incumbent for nearly...
A municipally-owned small incumbent local exchange carrier (SILEC) in northwest British Columbia is requesting that the CRTC relieve it of its next-generation 911 (NG911)...
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...
SSi Micro Ltd. is claiming a BCE Inc. subsidiary is engaging in delay tactics with its recent request for the CRTC to revise a decision setting rates for its Wholesale Connect service,...
The simmering debate over Northern Canada’s telecommunications services heated up again this week as Northwestel Inc. asked the CRTC to re-examine parts of its most recent decision on the...
Northwestel Inc. is transferring its wireless customers to Bell Mobility, the BCE Inc. northern subsidiary said. In a notice to customers Monday, Northwestel said it was completing the transfer to allow Bell Mobility—also a BCE subsidiary—to take over development of BCE’s northern wireless infrastructure, allowing Northwestel to focus...
In Canada’s North, access to telecommunications and broadband infrastructure varies by location and “is often vulnerable to bottlenecks and service disruptions, and can be limited by price, income, and available technologies,” the Conference Board of Canada said in a new report. Northerners pay more for services than Canadians living in major cities, while in remote and rural areas, subsidies are necessary to make sure basic services like telephone and dial-up Internet remain affordable, said the report, released Thursday. A pricing basket covering a basic cellphone plan, home phone and high-speed Internet, costs the average northerner $139 a month, and the average...
Northwestel Inc.'s modernization plan is a “fair balance” between the needs of consumers, the company, and its competitors, Paul Flaherty, Northwestel's president and CEO, told a panel of commissioners Monday. “The modernization plan cannot be everything to everybody. The key is finding the...
Northwestel Inc. will roll out third-generation fixed wireless services to 41 northern Canadian communities over the next five years and seek partnership funding to reach 26 more, the company said in a revised modernization plan. In a $233 million plan filed with the CRTC Wednesday, BCE Inc.'s...
One of the top issues for the CRTC's upcoming review of Northwestel Inc. and telecom services in the North will be how to better support newer technologies like advanced mobile services, said Paul Flaherty, Northwestel’s president. “Lots of people are going to talk about the interest of having more wireless...
Price caps, subsidies and other regulations applying to Northwestel Inc. will be under review as the CRTC looks at the company's plan to “modernize” its telecommunications services at a public hearing in June, the commission said. In a notice of consultation issued Thursday, the CRTC said the...
