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‘I wouldn’t fight the speed war’: Independent ISPs strategize on how to compete with big telcos at CanWISP

| 03/31/2026 1:02 pm EDT

‘I wouldn’t fight the speed war’: Independent ISPs strategize on how to compete with big telcos at CanWISPMARKHAM—Canada’s smaller wireless carriers are hoping reliability and community connections will help them take on the big incumbents in the struggle for...

Canadian internet companies say their livelihood is dependent on changes to the Copyright Act — but Ottawa hasn’t taken action

| 03/26/2026 3:15 pm EDT

Pirate button on computer keyboard.On its surface, the ISP Coalition is an unusual lobbying group. It is a team effort composed of telecom giants that are more comfortable as sparring partners — Rogers...

Bell internet comes out on top in Canadian survey by international researchers

| 03/19/2026 2:49 pm EDT

Bell internet comes out on top in Canadian survey by international researchersA new study by a French research firm has placed BCE Inc. property Bell...

Industry committee calls on Liberals to review competition policy for telecoms

| 03/16/2026 2:55 pm EDT

Parliament HillThe House industry committee has called for a federal review of Canada’s...

ISED eyes ‘subscriber’ approach to spectrum access for drones, as Canada’s telcos worry about liability

| 03/09/2026 5:21 pm EDT

ISED eyes ‘subscriber’ approach to spectrum access for drones, as Canada’s telcos worry about liabilityIt is a question garnering lots of attention from the country’s leading telecommunications companies — who should be responsible for monitoring and regulating drone...

Ex-Competition Bureau head Matthew Boswell joins Norton Rose Fulbright

| 03/02/2026 12:22 pm EST

Holistic approach is needed to fix Canada’s telecom troubles: 2023 Competition SummitCanada’s longest-serving Competition Bureau commissioner has joined the...

CRTC raises revenue threshold for telecom contribution fund, despite Big Three opposition

| 02/19/2026 4:47 pm EST

CRTC logo graphic The Wire ReportScore one for the little guys. The CRTC has...

Edward Rogers listed among Order of Ontario recipients

| 02/17/2026 5:01 pm EST

Edward Rogers listed among Order of Ontario recipientsRogers Communications Inc. executive chairman Edward Rogers was among the...

Unions flesh out details of Canadian Telecom Workers Alliance

| 02/11/2026 3:22 pm EST

Unions flesh out details of Canadian Telecom Workers AllianceOTTAWA–Three union leaders framed the founding of the Canadian...

Canada’s largest unions form alliance to protect telecom jobs

| 02/10/2026 4:57 pm EST

Canada’s largest unions form alliance to protect telecom jobsThree of Canada’s largest unions are joining forces to create a new organization — the Canadian Telecommunications Workers Alliance — that will advocate against the outsourcing of jobs in Canada’s telecom sector. On Wednesday, leaders from Unifor, the United...

Government rakes in over $415M from Big Three carriers in residual spectrum auction

| 02/10/2026 5:59 am EST

ISED hears further efforts needed in consultation on Indigenous Priority Window for spectrumThe federal government announced the provisional results of its latest...

Rogers posts strong Q4 numbers, buoyed by Blue Jays’ World Series run

| 01/29/2026 1:04 pm EST

Rogers posts strong Q4 numbers, buoyed by Blue Jays’ World Series runAn electric postseason for the Toronto Blue Jays helped Rogers...

Telecom executives among highest paid CEOs in Canada

| 01/20/2026 4:54 pm EST

Telecom executives among highest paid CEOs in CanadaLife at the top of a large corporation is more financially rewarding than ever, a new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) has found. Telecom moguls take their place among the handsomely-compensated. The study, Living the High Life, was released on...

Rogers remains most-complained-about service provider in CCTS annual report

| 01/14/2026 6:00 am EST

Rogers remains most-complained-about service provider in CCTS annual reportFor the third consecutive year, Rogers Communications Inc. is the...

Bell seeks forbearance of local exchanges across national footprint

| 01/12/2026 5:01 pm EST

The front entrance of the Bell Canada building on Albert Street in Ottawa on Nov. 2, 2021 (photo by Andrew Meade)BCE Inc. has applied to the CRTC for forbearance on regulation of local...

A look at what’s to come in 2026 for telecoms, broadcasting, digital policy

| 01/08/2026 3:30 am EST

A look at what’s to come in 2026 for telecoms, broadcasting, digital policyThe year ahead is going to look different for everyone, so we asked several...

Rogers v. Rogers a tour de force for Toronto actor Tom Rooney

| 01/02/2026 3:30 am EST

Rogers v. Rogers a tour de force for Toronto actor Tom RooneyYou can be forgiven for thinking Tom Rooney does not know who he is. The...

Popular Wire Report stories of 2025

| 12/29/2025 3:30 am EST

Popular Wire Report stories of 2025  [caption id="attachment_54115" align="aligncenter" width="645"] (Graphic by Naomi...

Ericsson seeks to overturn certification of Steelworkers union to represent workers

| 12/18/2025 5:33 pm EST

Ericsson seeks to overturn certification of Steelworkers union to represent workersEricsson AB has filed an application with the Federal Court of Appeal...

OUTtv wins undue preference dispute with Rogers, denied mandatory carriage

telecom | 11/28/2025 6:04 pm EST

OUTtv wins undue preference dispute with Rogers, denied mandatory carriageIt was win one, lose one for OUTtv Network Inc. when the CRTC issued two decisions on Friday, Nov. 28. The LGBTQ+-focused channel triumphed in a dispute with Rogers...

CRTC directs working group to issue 988 routing plan by next May

telecom | 11/27/2025 4:59 pm EST

Popular Wire Report stories of 2025The CRTC has rejected a 988 service routing plan proposed by the Centre for...

CRTC dismisses Rogers complaint over MVNO decision

telecom | 11/19/2025 6:03 pm EST

CRTC logo graphic The Wire ReportThe CRTC has rejected an appeal by Rogers Communications Inc. seeking to overturn a ruling over mobile...

CRTC suspends deadlines in CCTS customer awareness proceeding

telecom | 11/12/2025 5:04 pm EST

Popular Wire Report stories of 2025The CRTC is suspending the deadlines in a proceeding reviewing customer awareness of the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS), just days away from the due date for interventions.  Requests to suspend the CCTS hearing entirely were filed by BCE...

Bell seeks withdrawal of voice services due to competitor funding

telecom | 11/11/2025 2:54 pm EST

Bell seeks withdrawal of voice services due to competitor fundingBCE Inc. has filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC asking the commission...

Ericsson and union fight battle over worker jurisdiction as jobs offshore to India

telecom | 11/03/2025 5:34 pm EST

Ericsson and union fight battle over worker jurisdiction as jobs offshore to IndiaEricsson AB and the United Steelworkers (USW) Local 1944 are locked in a...

Steelworkers end strike in Abbotsford against Rogers

telecom | 10/31/2025 6:41 pm EDT

Steelworkers end strike in Abbotsford against RogersThe United Steelworkers Local 1944 has ended a four-and-a-half month strike against Rogers Communications...

Rogers customers get notified of 2021 service outage class action

telecom | 10/27/2025 4:31 pm EDT

Rogers reports growth in Q2 revenue, profitThe class action lawsuit against Rogers Communications Inc. and its Fido...

Rogers revenue lifts up, adjusted profit down in Q3

telecom | 10/23/2025 5:44 pm EDT

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise divisionRogers Communications Inc.’s total revenues were up slightly, by four per cent, from nearly $5.2...

Telecoms want CRTC to adjust service outage reporting, notification requirements

telecom | 10/10/2025 6:55 pm EDT

Telecoms want CRTC to adjust service outage reporting, notification requirementsNew requirements changing how telecom companies must notify the CRTC about...

Cogeco, Eastlink get court hearing in appeal of CRTC wholesale access decision

telecom | 10/10/2025 11:09 am EDT

Cogeco, Eastlink get court hearing in appeal of CRTC wholesale access decisionA three-judge panel has voted unanimously to hear arguments from Cogeco...

Former Rogers CEO Nadir Mohamed dies

telecom | 09/22/2025 2:31 pm EDT

Former Rogers CEO Nadir Mohamed diesRogers Communications Inc. is mourning the death of its former CEO Nadir Mohamed. He joined the Toronto telecom in August 2000, serving as president of the wireless division from 2001 to 2005. Mohamed was president and COO from 2005 to 2009, when he took up the CEO duties...

Telus accuses Rogers of anticompetitive motivation in blocking its ads

telecom | 09/10/2025 5:51 pm EDT

Roaming revenue not expected to fully recover until 2022: Telus CFOTelus Corp. is accusing Rogers Communications Inc. of blocking it from...

UPDATED: WildBrain dropping TV broadcast business 

telecom | 08/25/2025 12:04 pm EDT

UPDATED: WildBrain dropping TV broadcast business Children’s and family entertainment company DHX Television Ltd. (WildBrain) is shutting down its...

Federal judge orders jail time for pair accused of running pirated streaming site

telecom | 08/19/2025 6:02 pm EDT

Judge gavel on computer.Federal Court Chief Justice Paul Crampton has ordered jail time for two people found to have disobeyed requests from the court for financial and computer login information...

Bell and Rogers fighting over TPIA disconnection charges

telecom | 08/15/2025 5:03 pm EDT

Bell and Rogers fighting over TPIA disconnection chargesBCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. are in a dispute over end-user...

Telecoms push back on CRTC’s proposed botnet blocking expansion

telecom | 08/15/2025 4:54 pm EDT

Telecoms push back on CRTC's proposed botnet blocking expansionMajor telecommunications companies across Canada voiced strong opposition...

Rogers sells data centres to InfraRed Capital Partners

telecom | 08/14/2025 11:42 am EDT

Rogers sells data centres to InfraRed Capital PartnersRogers Communications Inc. announced Thursday, Aug. 14 that it is selling...

CRTC considering raising telecom contribution threshold

Internet and Governance | 08/13/2025 2:31 pm EDT

Popular Wire Report stories of 2025The CRTC is seeking input on a proposed increase of the revenue threshold...

Toronto seniors without Bell service for seven weeks following fire

Media | 08/05/2025 5:25 pm EDT

Toronto seniors without Bell service for seven weeks following fireA fire at a Toronto seniors residence left residents without telephone or internet service for seven weeks. Mixed signals between the owner and BCE Inc. meant service was not...

WildBrain undue preference complaint against Rogers dismissed

Media | 07/31/2025 2:17 pm EDT

WildBrain undue preference complaint against Rogers dismissedToronto-based DHX Television Ltd.’s WildBrain has not been disadvantaged...

Bell, Rogers come to agreement for distribution of specialty channels

Media | 07/29/2025 4:20 pm EDT

Bell, Rogers come to agreement for distribution of specialty channelsBCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. have come to an agreement to...

CRTC upholds undue preference finding against Rogers in sports programming carriage dispute 

Media | 07/28/2025 4:55 pm EDT

Accusations fly between Rogers, sports programmer Timeless Inc. in carriage disputeThe CRTC does have jurisdiction in a dispute between Rogers Communications Inc. and an independent programming company over TV carriage in Canada, the regulator has found. ...

UPDATED: CUPE approves deal with Videotron; Rogers B.C. strike continues

Media | 07/24/2025 6:19 pm EDT

UPDATED: CUPE approves deal with Videotron; Rogers B.C. strike continuesVideotron, a division of Quebecor Inc., has reached a new agreement with...

Rogers revenue up, profit down in second quarter of 2025

Media | 07/23/2025 4:55 pm EDT

Rogers reports growth in Q2 revenue, profitRogers Communications Inc. saw revenues rise slightly in the second quarter...

Cogeco and Eastlink file joint court appeal of wholesale fibre access decision 

Media | 07/21/2025 5:47 pm EDT

Cogeco and Eastlink file joint court appeal of wholesale fibre access decision Cogeco Communications Inc. and Bragg Communications Inc., parent company of...

Fans jeer as Rogers’ Sportsnet boosts price of streaming services

Media | 07/17/2025 12:28 pm EDT

Fans jeer as Rogers' Sportsnet boosts price of streaming servicesRogers Communications Inc.'s Sportsnet is increasing the prices for...

Union alleges Rogers won’t return to bargaining table in Abbotsford, B.C. strike

telecom | 07/10/2025 5:01 pm EDT

Union alleges Rogers won't return to bargaining table in Abbotsford, B.C. strikeThe union representing striking workers at Rogers...

Greater penalties needed for copper theft, telecoms maintain

telecom | 07/09/2025 11:21 pm EDT

Greater penalties needed for copper theft, telecoms maintainThe co-chair of the Canadian telecom network resiliency working group at...

Amazon Prime ‘not anything like’ a BDU, CRTC panel told; union disagrees

telecom | 07/04/2025 3:45 pm EDT

Amazon Prime ‘not anything like’ a BDU, CRTC panel told; union disagreesAmazon.com, Inc. is looking to draw a clear line between how it does business with its Prime Video online streaming service and how traditional broadcast distribution...

APTN: From unlikely notion to cross-country broadcaster

telecom | 07/01/2025 9:55 am EDT

APTN: From unlikely notion to cross-country broadcasterIt seemed like a pipe dream when the idea was first broached, but...

Corus posts another quarter of revenue, profit loss; employee costs down 7%

Media | 06/26/2025 6:14 pm EDT

CRTC hears plea from Corus for stronger broadcasting rules as Rogers calls for deregulationCorus Entertainment Inc. reported losses in revenue and profit for the...

Big broadcasters should not dominate over smaller rivals, Eastlink tells CRTC

Media | 06/26/2025 10:58 am EDT

Marielle Wilson, vice president of regulatory at Eastlink, speaks at a CRTC hearing.The broadcasting landscape is slanted in favour of the big players, a...

Telecoms want federal cabinet to overturn CRTC decision on high-speed access

telecom | 06/20/2025 6:23 pm EDT

Federal and territorial governments invest in NWT fibre linkMost Canadian telecom players want the federal government to step in to overrule the CRTC on permitting large incumbents from selling wholesale high-speed internet service to...

UPDATED: Rogers workers in Abbotsford, B.C. to strike Thursday

telecom | 06/17/2025 6:22 pm EDT

UPDATED: Rogers workers in Abbotsford, B.C. to strike ThursdayTwenty five employees of Rogers Communications Inc. in Abbotsford, B.C. are...

ITPA says it’s in favour of broadband labels for larger players at CRTC hearing

telecom | 06/12/2025 10:58 pm EDT

ITPA says it's in favour of broadband labels for larger players at CRTC hearingA consortium of small internet service providers...

Rogers expects to close MLSE acquisition in July

telecom | 06/12/2025 10:25 pm EDT

Rogers and Bell logos in front of television screen.The CRTC has reached majority agreement that Rogers Communications Inc. can acquire BCE Inc.’s stake in...

UPDATED: Ztar Mobile seeks urgent CRTC order to stop Rogers service cut

telecom | 06/09/2025 1:22 pm EDT

UPDATED: Ztar Mobile seeks urgent CRTC order to stop Rogers service cutA reseller offering prepaid mobile services for retailers such as 7-Eleven...

Rogers gets league approvals to buy Bell’s stake in MLSE

telecom | 06/04/2025 5:44 pm EDT

Rogers and Bell logos in front of television screen.Rogers Communications Inc. revealed Wednesday, June 4 that it has received...

Changing CanCon rules might benefit from broader consultation, CRTC panel told

telecom | 05/27/2025 6:40 pm EDT

Changing CanCon rules might benefit from broader consultation, CRTC panel toldA media company appearing at the last day of a CRTC hearing on redefining...

Rogers dismisses Bell’s channel packaging complaint as ‘trivial,’ ‘gamesmanship’

Media | 05/27/2025 5:51 pm EDT

Rogers dismisses Bell’s channel packaging complaint as ‘trivial,’ ‘gamesmanship’Rogers Communications Inc. is urging the CRTC to dismiss a complaint filed by BCE Inc. regarding the packaging of certain Bell channels on its services, arguing the...

Telecoms want CRTC to review wireline voice service regulations

telecom | 05/15/2025 5:12 pm EDT

Cogeco maintains it will launch Canadian wireless service in coming monthsSeveral telecoms are asking the CRTC to launch a proceeding looking at how...

CRTC confirms ILECs must offer small cell pole access to competitors

telecom | 05/14/2025 3:53 pm EDT

Popular Wire Report stories of 2025In a Wednesday, May 14 ruling, the CRTC told incumbent telephone companies...

Court orders Copyright Board to issue new distant signal tariff following dispute

telecom | 05/09/2025 5:45 pm EDT

Court orders Copyright Board to issue new distant signal tariff following disputeThe Copyright Board of Canada has been ordered by the Federal Court of Appeal to issue a new distant signal tariff for broadcasters after the court found the board went too...

Bell creates U.S. fibre firm, cuts dividend in first quarter report

telecom | 05/08/2025 5:52 pm EDT

MVNO decision arrives at a ‘tipping point’: Bell CEOBCE Inc. has entered into a partnership with the Public Sector Pension...

Former Rogers CEO Joe Natale looking to join Shopify board

telecom | 04/30/2025 5:27 pm EDT

Edward Rogers out as board chair, as Natale seeks to reassure investors amid Rogers boardroom drama Former Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Joe Natale will seek election to...

Bell accuses Rogers of undue preference over Shaw Direct channel placements

telecom | 04/25/2025 6:52 pm EDT

Stingray, Rogers bolstering FAST channel optionsBCE Inc. is joining the roster of companies which have filed undue...

Rogers saga goes from the page to the stage in December debut

telecom | 04/22/2025 4:02 am EDT

Rogers saga goes from the page to the stage in December debutThe battle for control of the Rogers Communications Inc. empire was...

Rogers disputes OUTtv’s undue preference arguments, says it wants to negotiate

Media | 04/16/2025 4:48 pm EDT

OUTtvRogers Communications Inc. has responded to a Part 1 application filed with the CRTC by OUTtv, which argued the broadcaster has unfairly repackaged its LGBTQ+-focused channel....