BCE Inc. and National Indigenous Connectivity Inc. (NICI) have signed a reconciliation agreement aiming to increase broadband rollout in Indigenous communities in Canada....
In a Wednesday, May 14 ruling, the CRTC told incumbent telephone companies (ILECs) they must offer their competitors (CLECs) access to their support structures. CLECs can...
With a trade war launched against Canada by U.S. President Donald Trump’s...
The CRTC announced late Friday, Feb. 28 that it is delaying the timeline for transitioning to next...
BCE Inc. is hoping the CRTC will overturn its...
The CRTC’s recent decision on interim wholesale fibre rates is supposed...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. continues to roll out its 5G network across the province. The latest communities to receive the service are Lloydminster and Meadow Lake. Deployment began on Friday and should be completed by the end of the year.
“We’re...
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...
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 customers. It’s the first internet service provider to confirm its suspension of data overage charges will end. A Cogeco spokesperson told The Wire Report that its suspension of data overage charges — introduced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on Mar. 20 — would end on Thursday as it prioritized other temporary measures. “We have decided to focus...
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...
OTTAWA — A Federal Court judge has granted an interim ban on what the big telecom companies are calling a “pirate” IPTV provider, which operates under the names GoldTV.ca and GoldTV.biz.
The injunction granted by the court on Wednesday ordered the sites to be shut...
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....
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 release outlined Rogers Communications Inc., BCE Inc., Shaw Communications Inc., and Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. are amongst the providers which will offer live broadcasts of the football games included in the NFL Sunday Ticket lineup. It also said Telus Corp. will sublicence the rights from Bell, and the service will also be available through other unnamed providers. That's...
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....
