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...
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...
The Competition Bureau has filed an application...
In the wake of a Federal Court ruling that determined a trio of companies that had established a private...
Distributel Ltd.’s request to revise interim...
Representatives of Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms...
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...
The Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (FRPC) is the only...
The CRTC mostly accepted the arguments of small wireless carriers against...
The CRTC issued a show cause proceeding and call...
Tuesday Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron was granted approval by the CRTC for...
The federal government is providing low-income families and seniors with...
Distributel Ltd. is asking the CRTC to revise the interim rates for...
Updated with TekSavvy reaction.
The Supreme Court of Canada Thursday...
Asked if the odds of Quebecor Inc. purchasing Shaw Communications Inc.'s...
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...
The Industry committee – from the last...
Several Canadian telecom companies have responded to the Russian invasion of Ukraine by temporarily...
BCE Inc. is arguing to the CRTC that Quebecor Inc. provided no...
When it assessed Quebecor Inc. as eligible to bid...
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...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) is...
Quebecor Inc. wants BCE Inc.’s request to mandate that Videotron...
The CRTC has released a dozen questions it wants stakeholders to answer regarding the establishment of a...
The CRTC has determined that all communications service providers (CSPs),...
Quebecor Inc., organizations supporting Canada music and radio sector, as...
The CRTC has opened a proceeding in response to a BCE Inc. November...
The Superior Court of Quebec denied an application by Quebecor Inc.’s...
The Commission for the Protection of Quebec’s Agricultural Territory will...
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....
The CRTC Wednesday approved a request from BCE...
Tier 5 service areas are “too large” to meet...
Early consultations on regulations to 5G rollout affecting air traffic...
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) is...
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,...
Rogers Communications Inc. announced Thursday afternoon that Robert Dépatie is joining the company as...
MISSISSAUGA - On the second day of the Canadian Telecom Summit, Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau...
Telus Corp. expects to have its legacy copper network out of commission...
The CRTC approved applications by Quebecor Media Inc.’s Videotron and...
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 Inc. will move ahead with its rollout of wireless service in western Canada despite challenges...
Bell reported a slight increase in overall revenue of $49 million or 0.8...
A test-case for Canada's first-ever "dynamic" site-blocking order is headed...
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...
Canada’s targets of reaching connectivity speeds...
BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., and Quebecor Inc. have turned to...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) has filed a review and...
A trio of Canada's biggest broadcasters has asked the Federal Court for a...
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...
A Federal Court injunction stopping the Department...
A Federal Court judge has granted intervenor status to the...
The CRTC has granted Cable Public Affairs Channel Inc. -- more widely known...
The Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) has...
A federal court judge has fined a pre-loaded set top box seller $40,000 for being in contempt of an...
Even if the Competition Bureau forces Shaw...
The site-blocking order that will block a rolling list of pirate streaming...
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...
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,...
With a federal election called for Sept. 20, parties have pledged to make Canadians’ lives better in a...
Canada’s telecommunications companies are recommending that the CRTC...
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 Corp. has joined BCE Inc. in seeking to block Quebecor Inc. from...
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...
After Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order survived an appeal from...
Three companies are disputing claims from BCE Inc. that it would be unduly harmed by the CRTC’s...
A dispute over Cogeco Inc. dropping children’s television content creator...
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...
In a dispute between a trade organization representing wholesale-based...
A Federal Court judge ordered three pirate TV services to pay more than $29...
Quebecor Inc.’s president and CEO is renewing calls for the federal...
The CRTC has ruled that the CBC/Radio-Canada is not giving itself an...
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...
Canadian telecom companies -- and wireless service hopefuls -- have spent...
The Competition Bureau is asking the Federal Court...
The Federal Court of Appeal ruled Friday partially in favour of a group...
The CRTC is seeking further information from...
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...
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...
Nearly six weeks after a Federal Court of Appeal upheld Canada's first-ever...
Telus Corp. wants the CRTC to set an industry-wide definition of...
Rogers Communications Inc., BCE Inc., and Quebecor Inc. are asking a...
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 Inc. is getting more than $40 million in funding for high-speed internet projects in Quebec. ...
BCE Inc. subsidiary Cablevision du Nord has to finish upgrading its routers...
Bell Mobility Inc. is asking the CRTC to put in place new measures for...
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...
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 Ian Scott said he believes the commission’s pick of a...
BCE Inc. rival Rogers Communications Inc. and a number of other groups are...
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 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 Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau added his voice to a chorus of...
BCE Inc. is suing Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron, escalating their battle over wireless customers allegedly...
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 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...
The Supreme Court of Canada has decided it will hear an appeal from Music Canada and the Society of...
The federal government has launched a consultation document to solicit feedback on whether or not it...
Several large telecom companies have argued that the CRTC shouldn’t...
The CRTC has rejected a request from a number of large facilities-based...
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...