Telus Corp. has asked for an additional four months until it has to provide competitors with wholesale access to its fibre networks in Alberta and British Columbia.
Citing the “extensive development work” needed to set up a reliable, automated service, the company...
The CRTC has announced the interim rates competitors will pay three of Canada’s largest telephone companies for wholesale access to their existing fibre networks.
The CRTC in August released a decision ordering BCE Inc.’s Bell Canada, Bell Aliant, and Bell MTS, along...
The CRTC is holding firm on its decision to implement thousand-block pooling to manage the growing demand...
The CRTC has expanded the terms of its mobile virtual network operator...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre’s new...
In order to truly measure progress on closing the...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Thursday that it is deploying 5G service to more than 50 communities and highway corridors. This expands its 5G reach...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. is challenging the CRTC’s...
Charlene Gavel could be considered a lifer at Saskatchewan...
The head of the Canadian Telecommunications Association wants more...
While some companies praised the CRTC’s long-awaited decision to mandate...
Canadian broadcasters and telecoms reported experiencing mixed effects from...
A wireless outage across Europe seems to have had minimal impact on...
Minister of Rural Economic Development Gudie Hutchings continued her tour...
To bring affordable internet and consumer choice to rural communities, the...
The CRTC announced Monday an expansion in forbearance from regulating high-capacity digital data services interexchange private line (IXPL) services on additional routes. ...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Wednesday the...
The CRTC has denied a BCE Inc. application to...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Monday that it was providing state of the art WiFi across the prairie province. SaskTel is joining forces with Eero, a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc., to deliver...
Canada’s telecom industry have spent some $2.16 billion on the 3,800 MHz band of spectrum, according to...
Quebecor Inc.'s Fizz went live in Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton, the company announced Monday morning. Fizz is currently in beta testing.
The flanker brand is...
The major telecommunications companies in Canada oppose suggestions that they pay for pre-production...
BCE Inc. and Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. have enhanced...
The debate over what the future of the wholesale high-speed-access (HSA)...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. has rolled out its 5G network to the SaskTel Centre in...
The CRTC denied Quebecor Inc.’s request for...
The CRTC added Natyf Inc., a Francophone station...
Incumbent Canadian telecoms say there is no cause for alarm that...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Charlene Gavel as its new president and CEO who...
Telecoms and other stakeholders have had their say on proposed changes to the CRTC’s Broadband Fund. The commission posted the last of the interventions on Monday. The first batch of statements were uploaded last week.
BCE Inc. submitted a hefty intervention, a 62-page...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) told the CRTC that...
The federal and Ontario governments are together investing $54 million to roll out high-speed internet in the province. The project was announced Wednesday.
“Today’s announcement is a significant milestone for internet...
BCE Inc.’s takeover of MTS six years ago has not proved beneficial to the prairie province, a new study concludes. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives issued For Whom the Bell Tolls: The...
The CRTC received a raft of responses on its notice of consultation on 911...
The CRTC has issued its annual telecommunications survey for 2021. Coming out of the pandemic shutdown, the numbers are generally good.
The sector experienced a 3.4 per cent jump in total revenues that year, as opposed to the 1.4 per cent decline posted in 2020. That 2020 fall was the largest ever recorded in the Communications Market Reports (CMR). The only other decrease was in 2002 when the dot-com bubble burst.
The chief factor in the 2021 increase was the...
Incumbent carriers are opposed to the expedited review of the CRTC’s...
The commission should not regulate the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) markets in the same...
The CRTC has announced that it expects incumbents to have their mobile...
According to the analytics firm Opensignal, when it comes to fixed...
The CRTC has denied a request from a number of incumbents, chief among them...
A working group composed of Canadian telecommunication service providers (CTSPs) and experts from the department of Innovation Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)...
The government of Canada announced Friday that it is spending $37 million to roll out broadband service in Saskatchewan. Over 5,000 homes will see their internet service improve in areas like Prince...
The 2022 edition of the department of Innovation,...
Telecommunications companies across Canada are waiving fees for texts and long distance calls in the wake of the earthquake which struck Syria and Turkey. The waiver will last...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Monday that it is expanding its 5G footprint into...
The CRTC is asking a number of incumbent telecom companies to report back to the regulator with an update about the ongoing mobile virtual network operator (MVNO)...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. has rapidly changed its mind...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding...
The start of another hockey season brings another federal court site-blocking order for a trio of telecom companies and sports broadcasters.
In a court order issued Monday, Justice Jocelyne Gagné granted BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., and Quebecor Inc. and...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. is expanding its 5G services to the area around Moose Jaw in the province, the telecom announced Tuesday.
The service will...
Four telecom companies are asking the CRTC to increase the price of basic...
Wednesday Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe...
Friday the CRTC approved a report from the CRTC Interconnection Steering...
Canadians will be able to participate in public consultations regarding the installation or modification of antenna systems in the official language of their choice, after the Department of...
In 2021, consumer mobile wireless fell by as much...
In a Thursday decision, the CRTC announced it was implementing regulations...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Cogeco Inc. are among competitors protesting proposed changes to the...
The Independent Telecommunications Providers Association (ITPA) is suggesting to the CRTC that it establish a single low national next-generation 911 (NG911) rate for all...
Cogeco Inc. is raising concern with the CRTC that...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. is investing approximately $337 million of capital in...
The CRTC mostly accepted the arguments of small wireless carriers against...
Distributel Ltd. is asking the CRTC to revise the interim rates for...
Monday Rogers Communications Inc. announced it was partnering with Ericsson AB on rolling out Canada’s first standalone 5G network. The Toronto-based telecom had earlier deployed the country’s first standalone 5G core and first standalone device certification.
“This milestone underscores our ongoing leadership in 5G and will bring immediate benefits to customers by increasing coverage, scalability and availability and improving network response times, enabling a...
The CRTC has added a dozen additional routes to its list of interexchange...
Updated with TekSavvy reaction.
The Supreme Court of Canada Thursday...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. is rolling out 5G in the City...
Rogers Communications Inc. and civil organizations...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. has a “simple”...
The CRTC has determined that all communications service providers (CSPs),...
A crown-owned Saskatchewan telecommunications firm is launching its new digital mobile service
In a...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has opened a regional office in Regina to facilitate its work with...
BH Telecom Corp. has had its proposed statement of work for a Saskatchewan fibre project approved by the CRTC. In a Friday order, the commission said it will provide the approval in confidence to the firm. The $9.5 million project, paid out of the Broadband Fund, caused controversy when Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. objected, saying BH’s project duplicated work SaskTel was already doing. It applied for a stay in the disbursement of broadband money. BH Telecom disputed that,...
The telecoms companies that supported Innovation,...
Shaw Communications Inc. has added its voice to those calling for deferral of the implementation of the...
Canada’s incumbent telecoms are asking the CRTC to delay the start date of an anti-call spoofing...
A trio of Canada's biggest broadcasters has asked the Federal Court for a...
BCE Inc. and Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. are not in favour of a proposal from Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) to adopt its 20-year 3500...
Canada’s big telecommunications companies are in favour of making access...
In a dispute between a trade organization representing wholesale-based...
The CRTC is seeking further information from...
BCE Inc. has filed an intervention with the CRTC saying New Brunswick’s plan for how it would like to adapt its next-generation 911 (NG911) services may not be the best approach. According to Bell’s intervention, the...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. (SaskTel) is throwing another...
Canada’s big-three telecoms are doubling down on their assertions that...
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...
Incumbent telecom companies will be required to...
The Communications Security Establishment (CSE) has argued that the average Canadian’s cybersecurity will benefit from telecom service providers blocking botnet traffic, a requirement currently being considered by the CRTC, and which has been opposed by several...
The CRTC has rejected a request from a number of large facilities-based...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. will be using Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. as its primary supplier as the company builds out its own 5G network, the company announced Monday. Samsung will be SaskTel’s sole...
Mitel Networks Corp. has delivered a blunt reply to incumbents over their approaches to implementing the STIR/SHAKEN anti-fraud-call technology, suggesting that larger companies are seeking...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and National Pensioners...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) has asked the CRTC to publicly disclose the information it receives in monthly reports from wireless telecom service providers about the fraudulent practice known as "SIM swapping."
In a letter sent to the CRTC Tuesday, PIAC...
Major Canadian telecoms have ended one of their major relief measures for Canadians who suddenly shifted...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. will become the second Canadian telecom to resume charging overage fees to home internet customers who go over their data caps, with the company announcing it will end the COVID-19...
As the federal government and individual companies work on accelerating...
Cogeco Inc. will again start charging overage fees to its home internet customers who exceed their data limits as of Friday, with the company instead focusing on other measures it considers to “be more essential” to its...
Canada's wireless service providers will send out text messages to their...
Telecommunication providers are closing retail stores, offering complimentary TV channels and continuing to waive overage fees on home internet plans as they respond to COVID-19. Xplornet...
Mobile wireless prices are lower or have stayed the same across all service "baskets" compared to last year, but the higher data plan prices remain stubbornly higher than most other countries, a new...
The temporary nature of the decision by the Federal Court of Appeal to...
The union representing employees at Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. has rejected the latest contract offer from the telecom and are in a legal strike position. That means Unifor can inform the crown corporation that its employees have an intention to walk off the job, starting a 72-hour clock for Sasktel to hammer out a deal. The latest offer from SaskTel -- which stipulated that employees would receive no increase in their salaries until 2021, when a one per cent increase would be triggered -- was rejected as “totally unacceptable” on Wednesday, according to a late...
