The CRTC’s commissioner for British Columbia and Yukon disagrees with her colleagues on providing a subsidy for internet users in the far north.
All households in the...
BCE Inc. subsidiary Northwestel announced that it has completed the Canada North Fibre Loop (CNFL), a 3,857-kilometre fibre network in the Yukon and Northwest Territories. ...
Iristel Inc. wants the CRTC to penalize BCE Inc.’s Northwestel for...
Northwestel has been given permission by the CRTC...
A group of Indigenous communities from the Yukon, Northwest Territories,...
BCE Inc. subsidiary Northwestel has been told by the CRTC to stop charging...
The Government of Canada announced Friday that it is investing $2.3 million from its Universal Broadband Fund to bolster connectivity in remote and underserved regions in the...
The CRTC has denied a BCE Inc. application to...
BCE Inc.’s Northwestel announced to the CRTC...
BCE Inc.’s Bell Canada and Northwestel have...
The CRTC has given the green light to BCE Inc. subsidiary Northwestel Inc....
The CRTC presented its public opinion research...
There is a consensus forming that the CRTC should...
The CRTC approved an application by BCE Inc.’s...
Telus Corp. told the CRTC that it is not charging more for the services it...
There’s no need for BCE Inc.’s Northwestel to introduce wholesale high-speed access (HSA) services in Canada’s Far North because the imminent entry and competitive...
Iristel Inc. filed a petition to the governor in council to vary a decision...
The CRTC is setting new deadlines for the implementation of next-generation 911 networks and services after delaying due to the pandemic. The regulator said in a decision Monday next-gen or NG911 providers will have until...
Northern broadband provider SSi Canada is asking...
The CRTC has given interim approval to BCE Inc.’s Northwestel application for urgent relief that will allow to it waive data overage charges for its cable and fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) internet...
The CRTC has ordered BCE Inc.’s Northwestel to resubmit its “urgent” application for temporary relief in order to waive overage fees in response to the COVID-19 pandemic because the application presupposes the regulator will determine to reinstate a subsidy for landlines. Northwestel submitted a Part 1 application and a tariff notice to the regulator on March 18 requesting the financial relief, stating in a press release that it could not take the consumer-friendly measures without it. Northwestel stressed the importance of supporting consumers during the COVID-19 “crisis”,...
CRTC chairman Ian Scott said the new internet code will address many of the...
BCE Inc.’s Northwestel says it will begin providing internet service at speeds three times as fast as...
The CRTC’s order to BCE Inc. subsidiary Northwestel Inc. to file new cost studies last week “might finally bring effective telecoms competition to...
BCE Inc. subsidiary Northwestel Inc. can stop offering “destandardized” wireline Internet packages, the CRTC has ruled. In a decision posted Monday, the regulator approved...
Broadband infrastructure improvements have been completed in the remote community of Nahanni Butte, N.W.T., the federal government said in a Wednesday press release. The project to replace a...
Among the arguments from BCE Inc. and those supporting its appeal to federal cabinet of the CRTC decision mandating wholesale access to fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks is that the ruling will slow...
When Channel Zero Inc. announced the launch of its Bloomberg TV Canada channel this week, it listed every TV-service provider that was carrying it and absent from that list was Canada's biggest provider of TV service. Channel...
The CRTC said Wednesday it will, in spring 2016, release a preliminary report on the results of an ongoing study of the broadband performance of various Canadian Internet service providers (ISPs). The regulator said in a press...
Northwestel Inc. has been given permission to dismantle its "manual mobile service" sites in the last six locations where it still offers the service, effective October 31. The CRTC approved the request to end the service, which allows users to make telephone calls on fixed or mobile radio equipment through an operator, on Friday. The decision follows a similar approval last year, when Northwestel asked to withdraw service in 19 out of 25 areas. The company said use of the service had significantly declined over the past 10 years, that “the equipment used to provide MMS was...
Northwestel Inc. is asking the CRTC to reconsider its move in March to eliminate a $20 surcharge the company charges some customers. The CRTC had ruled that Northwestel was no longer allowed to...
The CRTC announced Thursday that it will re-examine the definition and role of so-called basic services, paving the way for potential changes to the offerings telecom companies are mandated to make...
The Yukon government has cancelled an interim 911 service that would have allowed residents to dial 911, instead of a seven-digit phone number used by some responders, to reach all emergency personnel. The CRTC approved the...
The CRTC on Wednesday ordered BCE Inc.’s Northwestel Inc. to lower its Internet prices for new and existing customers to address the “disparity” between the cost of Internet in the...
Newly released results from a Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) survey show the availability of online video content is a factor for four in 10 Canadian Internet users who do not subscribe to cable TV. The data, released in CIRA's annual .CA Factbook, found 39 per cent of survey respondents who don't have cable said the proliferation of online video was a factor for why they don't, and this was true for 56 per cent of those aged 18 to 34. While "cable" subscriptions were specifically mentioned in this survey conducted in March last year, CIRA spokesman...
BCE Inc.'s online TV-everywhere service, CTV Go, is now available to customers of Rogers Communications Inc. and four other TV service providers, CTV said Thursday. The network said in a press release that other broadcast...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) on Friday asked the CRTC to prohibit Rogers Communications Inc., Shaw Communications Inc. and BCE Inc. from restricting the availability of their streaming...
MONTREAL — Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron hopes that producing original content exclusively for its Club Illico streaming service will help the company attract and keep subscribers, said...
BCE Inc. said Monday it has launched 4G satellite wireless service in four Northwest Territories communities. The company said the upgrade in Gameti, Nahanni Butte, Paulatuk and Ulukhaktok was part of Northwestel...
BCE Inc. has launched 4G wireless service in Pelly Crossing and Burwash Landing, Yukon, the company said in a press release Monday. Bell spokeswoman Jacqueline Michelis clarified in an email that the service is delivered...
The CRTC on Wednesday said it was awarding the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) almost $20,000 in costs for expenses incurred in three different proceedings, to be covered by various telecommunications companies. One of the...
The CRTC this year has ordered telecommunications companies to pay more than $230,000 to various organizations participating in different telecommunications proceedings, of which BCE Inc. and its...
Northwestel Inc. has been given permission to dismantle most of its "manual mobile service" sites in the North due to declining usage and increasing difficulty in maintaining the infrastructure. The CRTC said Wednesday...
The Yukon government is working with Northwestel Inc. to expand the 911 emergency call service to include every community in the territory, according to a Part 1 application sent to the CRTC on July 28. Currently 911 service is only offered in the territorial capital, Whitehorse, while those outside that region have to dial separate local 7-digit numbers to access police, fire, and paramedics. The Yukon government said in a letter accompanying the CRTC application that it intends to institute an interim solution featuring an automated interactive voice-response menu before a territory-wide...
The CRTC said Monday it has granted Northwestel Inc. permission to charge extra to customers who subscribe to its Internet service without its landline phone service. The commission added that it has...
As the CRTC is set to reconsider what constitutes a basic telecommunications service, some voices are saying that it’s about time to include broadband Internet in that definition. Under current rules, basic service includes...
The CRTC said Monday it has allowed an exception to its rule that telecommunications service providers' affiliates must charge identical rates to the incumbent phone company that controls them when reselling its services that...
GATINEAU, Que. — The reviews the CRTC will be holding over the coming year, which include proceedings covering wholesale access to wireless and fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks, the future of...
The federal government’s new rural broadband funding program should help reduce the cost of connecting rural locations’ Internet services with the rest of the country and not just focus on expanding existing telecom networks, rural Internet providers said. “The bigger issue for adoption of broadband isn’t availability, it’s affordability,” Tom Copeland, chair of the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP), said in a phone interview Wednesday.” “We have seen speeds go up, now we’re seeing broadband capacity go up, but we’re...
The CRTC has ordered Northwestel Inc. to tweak its plan to modernize the North’s lagging telecom infrastructure with a renewed emphasis on fibre investments and will also launch proceedings next year to consider the high cost of Internet backhaul and how best to fund northern telecom infrastructure, the commission said. In a decision released...
Ice Wireless, a subsidiary of Iristel Inc., launched a high-speed wireless service that’s well suited to accommodating the latest in smartphones and tablets, in the Nunavut capital of Iqaluit. It said in a press release Friday that its service provides an alternative to the “spotty, overpriced cellular coverage” that for years had...
Northwestel Inc.’s new modernization plan contains an “unhealthy emphasis” on delaying potential competitors from offering services in the North, competitor SSi Micro Ltd. told a panel of CRTC commissioners. “The latest iteration of the modernization plan still contains inadequate commitments,” Dean Proctor, SSi’s...
Northwestel Inc.’s revised modernization plan fails to meet northerners’ telecom needs, representatives from the Yukon and Northwest Territories governments told a panel of CRTC commissioners Monday. “The problem is that Northwestel still has no plan to deal with the current unmet needs for broadband and...
The CRTC should require Northwestel Inc. to improve the availability and cost of its Internet backhaul infrastructure, not its last-mile wireless services, the company’s smaller competitors said in regulatory documents this week. In an intervention filed with the commission Wednesday, SSi Micro Ltd. said the CRTC...
The CRTC denied an Iristel Inc. and Ice Wireless Inc. request that it order Northwestel Inc. to stop launching new telecom services—and to stop reducing the rates of its existing services—until after a “holistic” review of Northwestel’s regulatory framework, the commission said. In a complaint filed with the commission in...
