BCE Inc. is hoping the CRTC will overturn its decision to continue to allow other incumbents to access its fibre-to-the-home broadband networks.
On Monday the commission...
The CRTC’s recent decision on interim wholesale fibre rates is supposed to open up competition in the market. Some smaller competitors aren’t seeing it that way.
The...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. continues to roll out its 5G...
The debate over what the future of the wholesale high-speed-access (HSA)...
Canada’s incumbent telecoms made another plea for deferral of the application of the STIR/SHAKEN...
The CRTC has said it will consider a procedural request from Iristel Inc....
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 fraud had fallen by 95 per cent between October 2020 and May of this year. The CRTC did not disclose how many instances of the fraud the 95 per cent drop represented, either at the beginning or the end of the monitoring period. SIM swapping involves a fraudster convincing a wireless provider to transfer the victim’s phone number to a new SIM card in the...
New Brunswick is looking for answers as to whether or not independent local exchange carriers (ILECs) delivering next-generation 911 (NG911) services may connect those networks to demarcation points...
BH Telecom Corp. claims that it is local residents who will lose if Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. gets the stay it wants on millions in funding awarded to the company to connect more...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. is requesting a stay in the distribution of $9.5 million in funding the CRTC awarded to BH Telecom Corp. for a Saskatchewan project that BH Telecom says that would connect more than 26...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. has asked the CRTC to overturn its decision to award $9.5 million in funding to BH Telecom Corp. for a project in Saskatchewan that would connect some 26...
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...
GATINEAU, Que. — If you’re going to mandate mobile virtual network operators in Saskatchewan, require...
A few months ahead of the introduction of the CRTC’s Internet Code, scheduled for Jan. 31,, a grouping of the largest telecom companies in the country are asking the regulator to make the code apply...
The objection to the new phone financing plans from the likes of the Competition Bureau is based on an incorrect understanding of device financing arrangements, according to Rogers Communications Inc.’s reply in the CRTC’s...
As the Liberals head back to Parliament following the Oct. 21 federal election, they’ll be returning to a number of key files that were left unaddressed before the writ dropped — including deciding what security approach the government will take with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. equipment and Canada’s 5G networks.
Of course, some things have changed since the House of Commons rose for the summer — not only will the Liberals need the support of another party to pass legislation now that they no longer have a...
OTTAWA — A Federal Court judge has granted an interim ban on what the big telecom companies are...
The CRTC has asked several telecoms to explain how their throttling of wireless speeds once customers exceed their data allotments doesn’t violate the commission’s regulatory policy on internet...
The CRTC has ruled that Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron must continue to participate in an industry-wide working group charged with creating a set-top box (STB) data measurement system. In April, Videotron walked away from the group, saying it didn’t want to provide any of its data to the STB working group. In an April letter to the CRTC, Shaw...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) says it doesn’t plan to reallocate...
A government program intended to connect low-income families with affordable internet launched Friday.
In June, Innovation Canada announced it is investing $13.2 million over five years into the Connecting Families program to “help bridge the digital divide for...
TORONTO — The idea of cross-subsidization of industries did not find...
GATINEAU — Telecom providers who appeared before the CRTC Thursday said...
BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. have each proposed a set of new-and-improved low-cost wireless data plans to the CRTC that would be available through their flanker brands and...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. (SaskTel) announced the launch of a new TV service using Ericsson AB’s MediaFirst-powered IPTV platform in a press release on Wednesday. Dubbed the maxTV Stream, according to the...
Perform Group’s Dazn sports streaming service will licence the NFL Sunday Ticket service to most of the major traditional television providers in Canada, according to a release on Tuesday. The...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) has approved the leasing of wireless spectrum from Telus Corp. to crown corporation Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. The sharing of the AWS-1 spectrum will...
In May, Canada’s smartphone users relied on an average of 2.7 GB in mobile data, but ended up using an average 8.4 GB of WiFi data, according to new results from Tutela Technologies Inc. network...
The federal government and Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding...
The CRTC is asking telecoms to provide information about demand for high-speed internet as the next step toward implementing the disaggregated wholesale regime in regions outside Ontario and Quebec. The regulator said in a letter dated March 5 that it has requested Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink, Shaw Communications Inc., Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holdings Corp., BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. provide demand-related information in all provinces they serve by April 4. The latter two will provide information outside Ontario and Quebec, as they already provide...