The agency responsible for administering the 988 mental health helpline finds itself at odds with telecoms who run the phone lines, in replies submitted to the CRTC’s proceeding on improving the service.
The 988 system was established in 2023 to provide a simple...
Lana Payne has a perspective on broadcasting and telecommunications few do. As the president of the Unifor union, she represents 26,000 telecom workers and 10,000 employees in...
Rogers Communications Inc. has filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC asking the commission to review...
Telus Corp. has been denied the extension it wanted before it has to give...
Telus Corp. appears to be fighting a solo battle...
BCE Inc. says it will not participate in future...
Telus Corp. is challenging the federal government’s order that the CRTC review whether the regulator should block three of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies...
Telus Corp. has asked for an additional four months until it has to provide...
The CRTC has announced the interim rates competitors will pay three of Canada’s largest telephone...
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...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. is challenging the CRTC’s...
Charlene Gavel could be considered a lifer at Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. After serving as CFO of SaskTel International, she moved over to the main company,...
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 doling out cash from the Universal Broadband Fund. Wednesday saw her in Thompson, Man. handing out $7.5 million for internet and mobile connectivity.
The money will allow Broadband Communications...
To bring affordable internet and consumer choice to rural communities, the...
The CRTC announced Monday an expansion in forbearance from regulating...
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...
The major telecommunications companies in Canada oppose suggestions that they pay for pre-production...
BCE Inc. and Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. have enhanced high-speed internet connectivity in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, respectively.
Bell MTS has launched what it touts to be the fastest internet in Manitoba with symmetrical download and upload speeds of...
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 lead-sheathed copper wiring is deployed in their networks. The amount of copper wire left is very small and is...
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 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...
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 manner as retail mobile wireless services, Canada’s incumbent telecommunications...
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 Albert, Saskatoon, Regina and Yorkton-Melville. About 2,700 of those households will be in indigenous regions. Mobile connectivity will be augmented along 500 km of highway in the province.
“Today’s announcement in Meadow Lake marks a significant milestone for...
The 2022 edition of the department of Innovation,...
Telecommunications companies across Canada are waiving fees for texts and...
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...
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 television service from $25 a month to $28 per month with a yearly indexing mechanism being added to...
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 to control botnets that threaten Canadians’ internet security. It established the guiding principles for the framework and required a detailed set of recommendations from the CRTC Interconnection...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Cogeco Inc. are among competitors protesting proposed changes to the...
The Independent Telecommunications Providers...
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...
The CRTC has added a dozen additional routes to its list of interexchange...
Updated with TekSavvy reaction.
The Supreme Court of Canada Thursday morning dismissed a last effort by TekSavvy Solutions Inc. to challenge Canada's first-ever...
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 Tuesday release, Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced its new brand Lüm Mobile, a fully digital mobile model “that will support a self-serve wireless...
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...
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...
Canada’s big telecommunications companies are in favour of making access...
In a dispute between a trade organization representing wholesale-based internet service providers (ISPs) and facilities-based ISPs over the amount of information the latter...
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 remaining three, according to the latest pricing report issued by Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada (ISED). On Tuesday, ISED released the 2020 edition of its annual telecommunications price comparison study, prepared by Wall Communications Inc. Its purpose is to provide a comparative price analysis between...
Incumbent telecom companies will be required to...
The Communications Security Establishment (CSE) has argued that the average Canadian’s cybersecurity...
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...
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 relief measure on June 8. SaskTel announced in a Friday press release that it had extended the suspension of overage fees -- scheduled to end on May 31 -- a further eight days, but customers would again be charged for exceeding their caps as of June 9. SaskTel president and CEO Doug Burnett said in the release that the company understood the importance of...
