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Court dismisses Telus request for injunction against Quebecor’s 3500 MHz licenses
telecom | 10/23/2021 11:40 am EDT
The Federal Court has rejected a Telus Corp. request to stop the department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) from issuing licenses for set-aside...
Quebecor’s spectrum winnings an ‘unfair cost advantage,’ Telus tells Federal Court
Media | 10/19/2021 7:16 pm EDT
A Federal Court injunction stopping the Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) from issuing licenses for set-aside spectrum won by Quebecor Inc. in...
Court grants CIPPIC, Beanfield intervenor status in dynamic site-blocking case
Media | 10/14/2021 5:39 pm EDT
A Federal Court judge has granted intervenor status to the...
CRTC to allow CPAC to participate in Rogers-Shaw hearing
Media | 10/13/2021 6:28 pm EDT
The CRTC has granted Cable Public Affairs Channel Inc. -- more widely known...
Court order blocking Quebecor 3500 MHz acquisition would harm competition: ISED
Media | 10/06/2021 6:33 pm EDT
The Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) has...
Man fined $40,000 for selling set-top boxes
Media | 09/30/2021 4:49 pm EDT
A federal court judge has fined a pre-loaded set top box seller $40,000 for being in contempt of an...
Shaw-Rogers deal would decrease competition, even with Freedom divestiture to Quebecor: analyst
telecom | 09/28/2021 6:19 pm EDT
Even if the Competition Bureau forces Shaw Communications Inc. to spin off its wireless Freedom Mobile brand as part of the bureau's approval of the deal with Rogers...
New ‘dynamic’ site-blocking needs new safeguards: CIPPIC
Media | 09/22/2021 5:56 pm EDT
The site-blocking order that will block a rolling list of pirate streaming...
Telecom regulation more ‘benign’: analyst
telecom | 09/09/2021 6:00 pm EDT
Telecoms shares have continued to track higher thanks to a regulatory backdrop which “has turned much more benign,” according to an industry analyst. Thursday National Bank of Canada analyst Adam Shine issued a note that...
Lower your prices or else, Trudeau tells big telecom at debate
telecom | 09/09/2021 11:22 am EDT
GATINEAU, Que. -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is giving Canada’s...
Broadband blues: the UBF and its discontents
telecom | 09/03/2021 5:50 pm EDT
With a federal election called for Sept. 20, parties have pledged to make Canadians’ lives better in a...
Telecoms say no need for additional accessibility requirements; advocates disagree
telecom | 09/03/2021 5:28 pm EDT
Canada’s telecommunications companies are recommending that the CRTC...
Telecom unions want govt. action on jobs outsourcing
telecom | 09/03/2021 4:33 pm EDT
Two telecommunication workers’ unions, Unifor and the Canadian Union for Public Employees (CUPE), have partnered up to demand the federal government step in to minimize the outsourcing of Canadian jobs overseas in the telecom...
Telus joins Bell’s call for rollback on Quebecor spectrum acquisition
telecom | 08/30/2021 4:51 pm EDT
Telus Corp. has joined BCE Inc. in seeking to block Quebecor Inc. from...
Bell seeks to block Quebecor set-aside 3,500 MHz purchases
telecom | 08/27/2021 2:26 pm EDT
BCE Inc. is going to court to stop Quebecor Inc. from purchasing valuable...
TekSavvy takes GoldTV site-blocking fight to Supreme Court
Media | 08/26/2021 6:11 pm EDT
After Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order survived an appeal from TekSavvy Solutions Inc. in May, the internet service provider (ISP) has decided to take the case to the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC).
In an application for leave to appeal filed with the...
Bell misunderstands CRTC toll-trunk order: Telus
telecom | 08/26/2021 6:01 pm EDT
Three companies are disputing claims from BCE Inc. that it would be unduly harmed by the CRTC’s...
CRTC sending Cogeco and Wildbrain to mediation over channel drop dispute
telecom | 08/18/2021 5:03 pm EDT
A dispute over Cogeco Inc. dropping children’s television content creator...
Videotron waives long-distance fees to Haiti, Afghanistan in response to international crises
telecom | 08/18/2021 4:01 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron is suspending its long-distance charges for all calls from Canada to Haiti, where a recent earthquake has left many residents homeless, and to...
CRTC orders some incumbent disclosure to CNOC in disaggregated regime consultation
Media | 08/13/2021 11:13 am EDT
In a dispute between a trade organization representing wholesale-based...
Federal Court orders content pirates to pay millions to Bell, Rogers, Videotron
Media | 08/11/2021 5:14 pm EDT
A Federal Court judge ordered three pirate TV services to pay more than $29 million in damages to major broadcasters which claimed the sellers were cutting into their business...
Quebecor calls for swift news media compensation legislation
Media | 08/05/2021 6:14 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc.’s president and CEO is renewing calls for the federal...
CRTC dismisses Quebecor complaint of CBC undue preference
Media | 08/03/2021 5:22 pm EDT
The CRTC has ruled that the CBC/Radio-Canada is not giving itself an...
Court of appeal dismisses Quebecor challenge in TVA Sports fight with Bell
telecom | 07/30/2021 10:49 am EDT
The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed an attempt by Quebecor Inc. to...
BREAKING: 3500 MHz auction nets $8.9B, $7.3B from incumbents
telecom | 07/29/2021 6:04 pm EDT
Canadian telecom companies -- and wireless service hopefuls -- have spent...
Comp. Bureau asks court for info from Bell, Telus, Quebecor, Xplornet in its review of Rogers-Shaw deal
telecom | 07/26/2021 6:22 pm EDT
The Competition Bureau is asking the Federal Court...
Federal Court of Appeal dismisses BDUs’ appeal of distant signal tariffs
telecom | 07/23/2021 6:34 pm EDT
The Federal Court of Appeal ruled Friday partially in favour of a group...
CRTC seeks more info on how companies comply with Internet Code for people with disabilities
telecom | 07/22/2021 5:25 pm EDT
The CRTC is seeking further information from...
High spectrum costs could be driven by competition for set aside: analyst
telecom | 07/15/2021 6:32 pm EDT
Industry analysts are declining to speculate too much on what caused the...
PIAC disappointed with CRTC SIM swap disclosure
telecom | 07/09/2021 4:59 pm EDT
Six months after it received a request to release the data it collects on a fraud process known as "SIM swapping," the CRTC yesterday sent a letter to parties involved in a proceeding on the matter saying that instances of the fraud had fallen by 95 per cent between October 2020 and May of this year. The CRTC did not disclose how many instances of the fraud the 95 per cent drop represented, either at the beginning or the end of the monitoring period. SIM swapping involves a fraudster convincing a wireless provider to transfer the victim’s phone number to a new SIM card in the...
Bell, Rogers, and Quebecor seek first-ever ‘dynamic’ site-blocking order
Media | 07/08/2021 6:22 pm EDT
Nearly six weeks after a Federal Court of Appeal upheld Canada's first-ever...
PIAC says no to permanent roaming test, Telus wants new definition
telecom | 07/05/2021 5:37 pm EDT
Telus Corp. wants the CRTC to set an industry-wide definition of...
Hockey broadcasters seek injunction against pirate streamers
Media | 06/17/2021 6:11 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc., BCE Inc., and Quebecor Inc. are asking a...
CRTC upping Independent Local News Fund limit
Media | 06/15/2021 6:40 pm EDT
The CRTC has approved an application from the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) to increase the amount of proceeds from the “Independent Local News Fund” (ILNF) that can be given to any one station or group operated...
Cogeco getting millions more in high-speed funding
telecom | 06/08/2021 5:53 pm EDT
Cogeco Inc. is getting more than $40 million in funding for high-speed internet projects in Quebec.
As part of the federal-provincial fund Canada-Quebec Operation High Speed, Cogeco will connect more than 6,000 households in the Monteregie and Montmagny regions by...
CRTC orders Bell subsidiary to upgrade routers in Quebec
Media | 06/01/2021 5:52 pm EDT
BCE Inc. subsidiary Cablevision du Nord has to finish upgrading its routers...
Bell renews request for CRTC to intervene on Videotron permanent roaming claims
telecom | 05/28/2021 5:57 pm EDT
Bell Mobility Inc. is asking the CRTC to put in place new measures for...
GoldTV blocking order survives TekSavvy appeal
Media | 05/26/2021 6:41 pm EDT
The Federal Court of Appeal has allowed Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order to stand,...
ISED approves Freedom spectrum licence subordination in British Columbia
telecom | 05/21/2021 4:42 pm EDT
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) has approved the subordination of two spectrum licences held by Freedom Mobile. In its decision released Thursday,...
CRTC chair asserts personal preference for facilities-based competition
telecom | 05/20/2021 5:59 pm EDT
CRTC chair Ian Scott said he believes the commission’s pick of a...
Interventions filed in favour of Bell penalty for delays to support structure access
telecom | 05/19/2021 6:04 pm EDT
BCE Inc. rival Rogers Communications Inc. and a number of other groups are...
ISED triples spectrum available for Wi-Fi
telecom | 05/19/2021 5:59 pm EDT
The federal government is making more spectrum available to increase competition, rural connectivity and the effective deployment of Wi-Fi and 5G technologies. On Wednesday, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry...
Telus appeals seamless roaming in CRTC’s wireless review decision
telecom | 05/14/2021 6:54 pm EDT
Telus Corp. is seeking permission to appeal two provisions of the CRTC's April decision flowing from the commission's wireless review. While Telus is not seeking to appeal the central decision of...
Quebecor “pleased” with CRTC MVNO decision
telecom | 05/13/2021 6:10 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau added his voice to a chorus of telecom CEOs who have praised the CRTC's April decision which mandated access for a limited number of facilities-based regional mobile virtual network operators.
"We're pleased with the CRTC decision...
Bell suing Videotron over permanent roaming claims
telecom | 05/05/2021 6:37 pm EDT
BCE Inc. is suing Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron, escalating their battle over wireless customers allegedly...
Majority of Canadian mobile wireless prices second-highest internationally: ISED report
telecom | 05/04/2021 8:10 pm EDT
The average Canadian mobile wireless prices rank the second highest internationally in four of seven service “baskets,” and remains in the middle-high range for the...
Quebecor’s Pruneau steps down
Media | 04/27/2021 12:51 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc. executive Jean-François Pruneau announced Tuesday morning that he would be stepping down from his position as president and CEO of Videotron in order to "leave active professional life and devote himself to personal...
Supreme Court to hear making available right dispute
Media | 04/26/2021 5:55 pm EDT
The Supreme Court of Canada has decided it will hear an appeal from Music Canada and the Society of...
Feds considering site-blocking proposal
Media | 04/14/2021 6:20 pm EDT
The federal government has launched a consultation document to solicit feedback on whether or not it should allow internet service providers to unilaterally block certain websites from users in order to protect copyright holders.
In a Wednesday release, Heritage...
Large telecoms not in favour of sharing data for NG911
telecom | 04/08/2021 5:22 pm EDT
Several large telecom companies have argued that the CRTC shouldn’t...
CRTC rejects incumbent request to expand Internet Code
telecom | 04/08/2021 5:05 pm EDT
The CRTC has rejected a request from a number of large facilities-based...
Efficiencies defense is a ‘serious’ exercise of discretion: competition comish
telecom | 04/07/2021 7:28 pm EDT
Allowing a merger to proceed on the basis of the...
Videotron buys Cablovision Warwick
telecom | 04/01/2021 3:04 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc.'s Videtron has acquired wireless, TV, home phone, and cellular company Cablovision Warwick Inc., which has been operating in the Centre-du-Quebec region for almost 50 years. Videotron CEO Jean-François Pruneau...
Quebecor would buy Freedom, but only with spectrum: PKP
telecom | 03/31/2021 6:21 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc. has indicated that, should the Competition Bureau force...
GoldTV site-blocking order runs “roughshod” over parliament’s authority: TekSavvy
Media | 03/25/2021 7:57 pm EDT
Is a Nov. 2019 court order mandating a number of...
Bell not sweating over Rogers-Shaw deal: CFO
telecom | 03/24/2021 5:41 pm EDT
Despite the uncertainty surrounding the potential impacts of Rogers Communications Inc. acquiring Shaw...
ShavaTV piracy pair found in contempt of Ontario court
Media | 03/23/2021 5:57 pm EDT
Two people who had been allegedly selling subscriptions to pirated content...
Federal court dismisses telecom carriers attempt to get SOCAN royalties back
Media | 03/22/2021 7:03 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc., BCE Inc., and Quebecor Inc.’s collective bid to get back millions in royalties they say they paid to the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) for ringtones downloaded onto customers’ phones over 10 years has been dismissed by a federal court. The March 5 decision is part of a fight that goes back to 2012, when the companies, along with Telus Corp. at the time, filed the suit. In 2015, a federal court issued a decision saying...
C-10 regulations ‘Kafkaesque’: Quebecor’s PKP
Media | 03/12/2021 5:42 pm EST
Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau told MPs at a Friday meeting of the House of Commons Heritage committee that the government initiative to overhaul the Broadcasting Act, known as Bill C-10, should focus more on deregulating existing traditional Canadian media. "For traditional broadcasters -- those that showcase...
Telesat needs proceeds from 3800 MHz to compete: CEO
telecom | 03/11/2021 6:11 pm EST
If Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada doesn't approve Telesat Holdings Inc.'s proposal...
ITPA asks CRTC to compel release of limited customer data for NG911
telecom | 03/05/2021 5:15 pm EST
The Independent Telecommunications Providers Association (ITPA) is asking the CRTC to force large telecom service providers to give the association a list of the wireless service numbers with...
Telecoms split on ISED’s proposed approach to opening 6 GHz band
telecom | 03/02/2021 5:20 pm EST
The federal government’s proposal to open up the 6 GHz spectrum band for WiFi use has received broad support in an Industry, Science and Economic Development Canada consultation. Every...
Focus turns back to CRTC as SCC rejects incumbent wholesale challenge
telecom | 02/25/2021 5:46 pm EST
As the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed an incumbent challenge to an 18-month old CRTC decision to slash wholesale access rates for independent internet service providers...
Helped by Fizz, Quebecor reports strong Q4 earnings
Media | 02/25/2021 5:42 pm EST
Quebecor Inc. has continued to grow its revenues in spite of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, according to...
CRTC should release data on fraud calls: PIAC
telecom | 02/09/2021 5:58 pm EST
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) has asked the CRTC to publicly disclose the information it...
Include resellers in STIR/SHAKEN: ISCC
telecom | 02/08/2021 3:25 pm EST
The Internet Society’s Canada Chapter (ISCC) has endorsed a call from Mitel Networks Corp. for the CRTC to instruct the agency in charge of implementing the anti-fraud-call protocol known as STIR/SHAKEN to allow resellers to...
Court certifies TVA Sports class action
Media | 01/14/2021 5:54 pm EST
Quebec’s Superior Court has certified a class action lawsuit on behalf of BCE Inc. TV subscribers who lost access to Quebecor Inc.’s TVA Sports after Quebecor cut the signal in the spring of 2019. La Presse reported...
2021 will see wireless boost: analyst
telecom | 01/07/2021 5:57 pm EST
The wireless sector will be buoyed in 2021 by the likely end of the competitive skirmishes brought about by the introduction of unlimited data across the industry, according to Canaccord Genuity analyst Aravinda Galappatthige. ...
Mitel wants resellers in on STIR/SHAKEN framework
telecom | 01/06/2021 6:50 pm EST
Mitel Networks Corp. has filed a Part 1 application requesting that the CRTC instruct the agency in charge of implementing the anti-call-spoofing protocol known as STIR/SHAKEN to allow all resellers to participate in the...
ISED proposal to displace spectrum for fixed wireless divides ISPs
telecom | 12/11/2020 11:37 am EST
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....
Rogers, Shaw get cableco support in demand for relocation payments
telecom | 12/04/2020 3:36 pm EST
Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. have the support of...
Incumbents appeal CRTC wholesale rates at Supreme Court
telecom | 11/12/2020 4:56 pm EST
Both BCE Inc. and large cable companies have turned to the Supreme Court of Canada to fight the lower internet wholesale rates the CRTC established in 2019, The Wire Report has learned.
Both Bell and the cablecos -- Rogers Communications Inc., Quebecor Inc., Shaw...
Telecoms object to Telesat’s proposal to auction 3800 MHz spectrum
telecom | 11/10/2020 5:48 pm EST
A number of Canadian wireless providers have objected to a proposal that...
Broadcast Act updates not comprehensive enough: NDP, Conservatives
Media | 11/03/2020 6:44 pm EST
The Liberal government’s proposed updates to the Broadcasting Act have...
CRTC consulting on how to improve access to poles
telecom | 10/30/2020 5:17 pm EDT
The CRTC has launched a consultation on improving access to poles owned by Canadian telecom companies. It said it heard during its proceeding on barriers to rural broadband rollouts that “untimely and costly access to poles...
Don’t force release of disaggregated configurations, incumbents tell CRTC
telecom | 10/26/2020 6:22 pm EDT
Incumbent telecoms are asking the CRTC to deny a request from the Competitive Network Operators of Canada to require the large telecoms to release more detailed information about the structures of...
CCSA backs Videotron’s Competition Bureau complaint over Bell structures
telecom | 10/02/2020 4:38 pm EDT
The Canadian Communication Systems Alliance has endorsed a complaint from Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron to the Competition Bureau over delays to accessing BCE Inc. infrastructure in Quebec, writing in a Friday release that "the ability to attach high-speed fiber to such poles in an affordable and timely manner is critical to extending broadband to currently unserved or underserved Canadians." Videotron filed the complaint -- as well as a simultaneous lawsuit -- on Wednesday this week, after...
Quebecor turns to Competition Bureau, court over Bell structure access
telecom | 09/30/2020 5:38 pm EDT
An ongoing dispute between BCE Inc. and Quebecor Inc. has escalated as the...
Secret shoppers with disabilities less satisfied with telecom options
telecom | 09/29/2020 6:23 pm EDT
One in five potential customers for telecommunications services "perceived...
Cablevision offer to increase wholesale capacity not good enough: Videotron
telecom | 09/29/2020 5:16 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron told the CRTC that a proposal by BCE Inc. subsidiary Cablevision du Nord in response to Videotron’s request to increase the wholesale capacity it buys from Cablevision is...
Bell says TPIA delays are Videotron’s fault
telecom | 09/24/2020 5:34 pm EDT
In response to a complaint to the CRTC from Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron that BCE Inc. was unduly delaying Videotron's arrival in the Abitibi region, Bell subsidiary Cablevision du Nord says the delay is Videotron's fault. In a...
Videotron launches physical distancing wristband
telecom | 09/24/2020 2:34 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc. has launched a wristband that lights up and vibrates when individuals come too close to...
Federal Court dismisses incumbents’ wholesale rates appeal
telecom | 09/10/2020 10:55 am EDT
The Federal Court of Appeal dismissed Thursday the large telecom...
CRTC presses pause on measures to combat phone porting
telecom | 09/08/2020 6:10 pm EDT
The CRTC has asked telecoms to indefinitely refrain from starting or relaunching any measures to block unauthorized SIM swapping or porting, after Quebecor Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. reported...
Canadian internet users almost universally getting ISP’s advertised speeds
telecom | 09/08/2020 5:11 pm EDT
In almost all cases, Canadian internet consumers are receiving service at...
Videotron accuses Bell subsidiary of delaying access to infrastructure
telecom | 09/04/2020 2:24 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron has filed another complaint with the CRTC over wholesale access in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Que., this time accusing BCE Inc. subsidiary Cablevision du Nord de Québec of “manoeuvring for months to unduly delay Videotron's arrival in Abitibi.” Videotron said in a press release that “Cablevision has done everything in its power to stall initial access to its infrastructure and slow the interconnection process.” In December, the CRTC told Cablevision that...
Bell tells court cabinet decision on wholesale ‘vindicates’ its concerns
telecom | 08/20/2020 5:52 pm EDT
BCE Inc. and a coalition of cable companies have submitted letters to the...
Bell rebranding V as Noovo
Media | 08/19/2020 1:36 pm EDT
The French-language conventional TV network BCE Inc. acquired this year will be rebranded as “Noovo,” to coordinate with an existing digital platform.
“Viewers will...
Cabinet says CRTC wholesale rates too low, may harm investment
telecom | 08/15/2020 9:06 am EDT
The Liberal government has sided with Canada’s largest telecoms in their...
Quebecor must hand over documents to Competition Bureau: court
telecom | 08/07/2020 10:32 am EDT
A Federal Court of Appeal judge has ruled that Quebecor Inc. must turn over documents to the Competition Bureau, which the bureau argues it needs access to to determine if Videotron has violated...
CRTC tells Bell it is still giving undue preference to RDS over TVA Sport
telecom | 08/07/2020 10:23 am EDT
The CRTC has sent a letter to BCE Inc. informing the company that its submission of a new sports package to the regulator was still giving undue preference to its own RDS...
Quebecor Q2 stable, with strong wireless adds
telecom | 08/06/2020 6:40 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc. posted second quarter returns Thursday that beat analyst expectations, primarily on the back of strong wireless and home internet additions, despite the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic across the sector.
In...
Two new CTI projects announced in Quebec
telecom | 08/04/2020 5:25 pm EDT
Innovation, Science and Economic Development on Tuesday announced that it would be funding two separate projects in rural Quebec under its $585 million Connect to Innovate program. In a release, ISED said it was giving just...
CIRA, CIPPIC, BCCLA intervene in site-blocking case
telecom | 08/04/2020 5:07 pm EDT
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...
Peggy Tabet named VP of regulatory at Quebecor
Media | 07/24/2020 1:37 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc. has promoted Peggy Tabet, previously vice-president of broadcasting regulatory affairs, to the job of vice-president of regulatory and public affairs. In the new position, Tabet will oversee regulatory matters for...
Telecoms back Quebecor over Bell support structure access
telecom | 07/23/2020 5:42 pm EDT
Small telecommunications providers, the Canadian Communications Systems...
Blockbuster Disney production lobbying over COVID-19 protocols
Media | 07/21/2020 6:34 pm EDT
The production company creating a remake of 1940s noir film Nightmare Alley...
Competition Bureau investigating Videotron ‘astroturfing’
telecom | 07/17/2020 7:29 pm EDT
The Competition Bureau is asking Federal Court to compel Quebecor Inc.'s...
Telecoms end overage fees suspension
telecom | 07/02/2020 4:52 pm EDT
Major Canadian telecoms have ended one of their major relief measures for Canadians who suddenly shifted...
Quebecor drops court case challenging Bell V acquisition
Media | 06/29/2020 3:39 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc. has informed the Federal Court of Appeal it won’t pursue its appeal of a CRTC decision allowing BCE Inc. to buy Groupe V Media Inc.’s conventional TV network V. Bell rival Quebecor has strongly opposed the deal, asking the Quebec government to block the purchase because if approved, it would give Bell too much market power, resulting in an “untenable” situation. The CRTC initially approved the deal in April but didn’t publish its reasoning until May. “We continue to believe that it was ill-advised for the CRTC to approve this transaction, which will only...