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Péladeau says Quebecor will stick to facilities-based model long-term
telecom | 05/13/2022 2:46 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau said “there's no reason at this stage” that the company will change its business model from a facilities-based to an MVNO-based...
“A very strong opening” to Shaw-Rogers Competition Tribunal proceeding: former Competition Bureau advisor
Media | 05/12/2022 5:49 pm EDT
The recent move by Canada's competition watchdog to block the pending acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc by Rogers Communications Inc. shows that the bureau is "aiming...
Comp. Bureau moves to block Rogers-Shaw merger; Quebecor “has apparently entered the process”: analyst
Media | 05/09/2022 4:32 pm EDT
The Competition Bureau has filed an application...
Quebecor asks CRTC to punish hotel broadcasters
Media | 05/06/2022 2:53 pm EDT
In the wake of a Federal Court ruling that determined a trio of companies that had established a private...
Distributel’s claims for revised interim rates for disagg regime are unfounded: Rogers, Quebecor
telecom | 05/05/2022 5:35 pm EDT
Distributel Ltd.’s request to revise interim...
Facebook doesn’t rule out blocking news content if C-18 passes, docs reveal telecom opposition to online harms framework
Media | 04/26/2022 5:43 pm EDT
Representatives of Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms...
Big 3 oppose Wireless Code CRTC intervention for cancellation fees, PIAC supports it
telecom | 04/22/2022 4:23 pm EDT
Incumbent telecoms are reacting strongly to a preliminary finding by the CRTC that the regulator will peg the early cancellation fees (ECFs) on certain mobile devices to the...
Little support for CRTC forbearance policy review following Part 1 application
telecom | 04/12/2022 3:53 pm EDT
The Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (FRPC) is the only...
CRTC sides with regional wireless carriers in roaming decision
telecom | 04/06/2022 6:24 pm EDT
The CRTC mostly accepted the arguments of small wireless carriers against...
CRTC seeks to clarify Wireless Code after Quebecor files cancellation fee complaint against big 3
telecom | 04/05/2022 5:11 pm EDT
The CRTC issued a show cause proceeding and call...
CRTC approves aggregated and disaggregated Giga service from Quebecor
telecom | 04/05/2022 4:42 pm EDT
Tuesday Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron was granted approval by the CRTC for...
Feds rollout $20 a month internet for low-income families and seniors
telecom | 04/04/2022 1:22 pm EDT
The federal government is providing low-income families and seniors with...
Distributel seeks revised interim rates for disagg regime
telecom | 03/30/2022 6:57 pm EDT
Distributel Ltd. is asking the CRTC to revise the interim rates for...
Supreme Court dismisses TekSavvy appeal of GoldTV site-blocking order
Media | 03/24/2022 1:28 pm EDT
Updated with TekSavvy reaction.
The Supreme Court of Canada Thursday...
Quebecor cautions regulators on Globalive bid for Freedom
telecom | 03/16/2022 4:55 pm EDT
Asked if the odds of Quebecor Inc. purchasing Shaw Communications Inc.'s...
Rogers still expects Shaw deal to close in Q2
Media | 03/08/2022 5:44 pm EST
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri has said that last week's announcement from Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne, in which he said he would not allow the 'wholesale' transfer of Shaw Communications Inc.'s spectrum assets to Rogers as part of the...
INDU ‘frustrated’ with CRTC’s wholesale rates; recommends revamped rate-setting process
telecom | 03/04/2022 6:52 pm EST
The Industry committee – from the last...
Telecom companies waive fees for calls to the Ukraine
telecom | 02/25/2022 5:29 pm EST
Several Canadian telecom companies have responded to the Russian invasion of Ukraine by temporarily...
Quebecor provides no justification or rationale in Vrai pricing dispute: Bell
Media | 02/24/2022 2:58 pm EST
BCE Inc. is arguing to the CRTC that Quebecor Inc. provided no...
ISED failed to show reasons for Quebecor’s set-aside eligibility in 3500 auction: Telus
telecom | 02/23/2022 2:41 pm EST
When it assessed Quebecor Inc. as eligible to bid...
Don’t leave local news in the hands of megacorporations, Heritage committee hears
Media | 02/16/2022 8:45 pm EST
Not-for-profit community news associations are sounding the alarm over the Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. merger, with one stakeholder saying "democracy dies in the dark without reliable and accurate local news and information", while Quebecor Inc.’s CEO is saying the CRTC has to loosen its regulatory burdens on Canadian companies if it wants to...
Videotron giving itself undue preference, but unnecessary to suspend BDU Vrai service: PIAC
Media | 02/15/2022 5:24 pm EST
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) is...
Quebecor calls Bell’s Vrai complaint “desperate” and “devoid of any merit”
Media | 02/11/2022 6:10 pm EST
Quebecor Inc. wants BCE Inc.’s request to mandate that Videotron...
CRTC poses questions on three-digit suicide number
telecom | 02/11/2022 2:57 pm EST
The CRTC has released a dozen questions it wants stakeholders to answer regarding the establishment of a...
Paper billing for vulnerable customers, not universally: CRTC
telecom | 02/10/2022 5:42 pm EST
The CRTC has determined that all communications service providers (CSPs),...
PIAC, Quebecor, music sector, all oppose Stingray financial relief proposal
Media | 02/01/2022 5:08 pm EST
Quebecor Inc., organizations supporting Canada music and radio sector, as...
Quebecor’s Vrai VOD service violates CRTC regs: Bell
Media | 02/01/2022 5:04 pm EST
The CRTC has opened a proceeding in response to a BCE Inc. November...
Class-action will not shrink despite Videotron arbitration clause, court rules
telecom | 01/31/2022 6:20 pm EST
The Superior Court of Quebec denied an application by Quebecor Inc.’s...
Quebec Ag. Commission to reconsider decision to reject Quebecor build
telecom | 01/21/2022 6:15 pm EST
The Commission for the Protection of Quebec’s Agricultural Territory will...
5G and aviation: the Canadian context
telecom | 01/18/2022 5:28 pm EST
On Monday, executives of several U.S. airlines wrote to leadership of the Federal Aviation Administration, the Department of Transportation, and the Federal Communications Commission to warn that commercial flights would be disrupted by the deployment of 5G services by U.S....
Commission approves POI removal, declines to mandate aggregated regime for Quebec-based Bell subsidiary
telecom | 01/12/2022 5:21 pm EST
The CRTC Wednesday approved a request from BCE...
Intervenors take issue with ISED’s proposed Tier 5 service areas in rural spectrum consultation
telecom | 01/11/2022 5:00 pm EST
Tier 5 service areas are “too large” to meet...
Canada avoids American confusion of 5G impact on airports
telecom | 01/05/2022 4:29 pm EST
Early consultations on regulations to 5G rollout affecting air traffic...
ISED proposes to keep 3500 Mhz set-aside rules in 3800 Mhz auction consultation doc
telecom | 12/20/2021 4:33 pm EST
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) is...
Rogers, Quebecor, Cogeco lag behind in pandemic pick up: analyst
telecom | 12/02/2021 5:48 pm EST
Of Canada’s big three telecom companies, Rogers Communications Inc. is the one most affected by the COVID-19 Delta wave and the looming Omicron variant. However, with the Shaw Communications Inc. merger on the horizon, things should be picking up for the incumbent,...
Dépatie in as new Rogers home COO
Media | 12/02/2021 5:22 pm EST
Rogers Communications Inc. announced Thursday afternoon that Robert Dépatie is joining the company as...
Quebecor sells its westward expansion
telecom | 11/16/2021 2:30 pm EST
MISSISSAUGA - On the second day of the Canadian Telecom Summit, Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau...
Telus winding down copper network as it releases Q3 results
Media | 11/05/2021 3:41 pm EDT
Telus Corp. expects to have its legacy copper network out of commission...
CRTC lifts local expression conditions for Quebecor, Bragg on-demand services
Media | 11/04/2021 5:40 pm EDT
The CRTC approved applications by Quebecor Media Inc.’s Videotron and...
CRTC rejects EBox undue preference complaint against Oxio
Media | 11/04/2021 5:33 pm EDT
The CRTC found that a Quebec-based independent broadcasting company is in compliance with its broadcasting exemption order despite taking several months to distribute some required local channels and...
Quebecor to rollout wireless despite challenges
Media | 11/04/2021 4:40 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc. will move ahead with its rollout of wireless service in western Canada despite challenges...
Bell posts quarterly profits driven by wireless growth
Media | 11/04/2021 4:25 pm EDT
Bell reported a slight increase in overall revenue of $49 million or 0.8...
Dynamic site-blocking case gets Nov. 23 hearing date
Media | 11/03/2021 5:51 pm EDT
A test-case for Canada's first-ever "dynamic" site-blocking order is headed...
Delay Rogers-Shaw CRTC hearing until its clear who controls Rogers: PIAC
Media | 11/01/2021 5:35 pm EDT
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre has asked the CRTC to delay a hearing on the proposed Shaw Communications Inc. merger with Rogers Communications Inc. until it becomes...
Rural, Indigenous, connectivity won’t improve by 2030 if Gov. keeps current goals in place : Report
telecom | 10/29/2021 5:48 pm EDT
Canada’s targets of reaching connectivity speeds...
Bell, Rogers, and Quebecor seek larger damages from set-top box seller
Media | 10/27/2021 5:13 pm EDT
BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., and Quebecor Inc. have turned to...
CNOC files review and vary application on CRTC in-building wire access decision
telecom | 10/26/2021 6:17 pm EDT
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) has filed a review and...
Bell, Rogers, Quebecor apply for extended site-blocking in GoldTV
Media | 10/26/2021 9:30 am EDT
A trio of Canada's biggest broadcasters has asked the Federal Court for a...
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...
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...
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 telecommunications companies an ultimatum: drive down your prices or face much more competition in the marketplace.
His comments come after the second French-language leader’s debate held Wednesday,...
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 5G-friendly spectrum in the 3,500 MHz band in British Columbia, Alberta, and Manitoba -- spectrum that is a crucial part of Quebecor's plan to take its wireless business national.
In an...
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...
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...
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 overturn a CRTC decision that ordered the company to continue to provide its TVA Sports broadcast 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 Canadian telecom sector to have so far spent $8 billion on the 3500 MHz auction, more than double what...
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...
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. ...
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, dismissing an appeal of the order from TekSavvy Solutions Inc.
In a Wednesday decision, Justice George Locke, writing on behalf of the three-judge panel, said that he was not...
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 the regulator mandating wireless network access for a limited number of mobile virtual network operators, in a Friday afternoon filing with the Federal Court of Appeal the company said it wants the court to strike down provisions of the decision concerning access to public infrastructure for...
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...
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...
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 so-called "efficiencies defense" is "a very, very serious exercise of enforcement discretion to approve an otherwise...