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UPDATED: Bell wants CRTC to reverse Big Three wholesale ruling, as it issues quarterly results

| 02/06/2025 6:01 pm EST

UPDATED: Bell wants CRTC to reverse Big Three wholesale ruling, as it issues quarterly resultsBCE 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...

Competitors unhappy, incumbents closed-lipped about CRTC’s interim wholesale rates

| 10/28/2024 5:27 pm EDT

CRTC logo graphic The Wire ReportThe 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...

SaskTel rolls out 5G coverage in Lloydminster and Meadow Lake 

telecom | 11/17/2023 4:45 pm EST

SaskTel head office (screenshot via Google Maps).Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. continues to roll out its 5G...

Competitors oppose incumbents’ stance in second phase of FTTP access review

telecom | 10/19/2023 5:15 pm EDT

Competitors oppose incumbents’ stance in second phase of FTTP access reviewThe debate over what the future of the wholesale high-speed-access (HSA)...

Telecoms renew call for delay of STIR/SHAKEN

telecom | 11/11/2021 3:43 pm EST

Telecoms renew call for delay of STIR/SHAKENCanada’s incumbent telecoms made another plea for deferral of the application of the STIR/SHAKEN...

Iristel asks CRTC for incumbents’ MVNO template agreements

telecom | 08/24/2021 5:55 pm EDT

Freedom cites ‘suspicious patterns’ in Iristel traffic pumping caseThe CRTC has said it will consider a procedural request from Iristel Inc....

PIAC disappointed with CRTC SIM swap disclosure

telecom | 07/09/2021 4:59 pm EDT

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 seeks clarification from CRTC regarding NG911 PSAPs

telecom | 06/16/2021 4:50 pm EDT

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 objects to SaskTel’s request for stay in funding

telecom | 04/27/2021 3:33 pm EDT

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...

SaskTel wants stay on BH Telecom funding

telecom | 04/20/2021 2:52 pm EDT

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...

SaskTel objects to CRTC funding for BH Telecom, says project is duplicative

telecom | 04/12/2021 6:06 pm EDT

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 to bring back overage fees as of May 1

telecom | 04/30/2020 2:10 pm EDT

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...

Mandate access for Rogers, and spare us: SaskTel

telecom | 02/28/2020 1:32 pm EST

Mandate access for Rogers, and spare us: SaskTelGATINEAU, Que. — If you’re going to mandate mobile virtual network operators in Saskatchewan, require...

Large telecoms say small ISPs should be subject to Internet Code too

telecom | 11/08/2019 5:20 pm EST

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...

Rogers further defends 36-month financing

telecom | 11/01/2019 5:19 pm EDT

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...

5G & Huawei: An explainer

telecom | 10/29/2019 6:42 pm EDT

5G & Huawei: An explainerAs 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...

Federal Court grants injunction against GoldTV 

telecom | 08/07/2019 6:51 pm EDT

Federal Court grants injunction against GoldTV OTTAWA — A Federal Court judge has granted an interim ban on what the big telecom companies are...

CRTC asks wireless providers to justify post-data cap throttling

telecom | 07/04/2019 4:52 pm EDT

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...

Videotron must give data to STB working group: CRTC

Media | 07/02/2019 5:13 pm EDT

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...

ISED won’t free up airline spectrum for mobile use

telecom | 12/14/2018 9:55 am EST

Repurpose spectrum used for plane connectivity for mobile: RogersInnovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) says it doesn’t plan to reallocate...

ISED’s low-income internet program launches

telecom | 11/16/2018 1:20 pm EST

ISED’s low-income internet program launchesA 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...

Former CRTC commissioners criticize Harnessing Change report

Media | 11/07/2018 7:15 pm EST

Former CRTC commissioners criticize Harnessing Change reportTORONTO —  The idea of cross-subsidization of industries did not find...

Quebecor blames bigger providers for sales practices hearings

telecom | 10/25/2018 6:26 pm EDT

Quebecor blames bigger providers for sales practices hearingsGATINEAU — Telecom providers who appeared before the CRTC Thursday said...

Big 3 offer twice the data in new low-cost plan proposals

telecom | 09/11/2018 5:41 pm EDT

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...

SaskTel now offers IPTV service

Media | 08/22/2018 5:58 pm EDT

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...

Dazn will license NFL Sunday Ticket rights to broadcasters

Media | 08/09/2018 6:04 pm EDT

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...

ISED approves AWS-1 spectrum lease to Sasktel

telecom | 07/20/2018 4:08 pm EDT

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...

Canadians more likely to turn to WiFi on smartphones: report

telecom | 07/03/2018 6:03 pm EDT

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...

$26.4 million in rural internet funding announced for Sask.

telecom | 06/08/2018 6:26 pm EDT

SaskTel to boost Internet speeds in indigenous communitiesThe federal government and Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding...

CRTC starts next steps on disaggregated regime expansion

Media | 03/12/2018 4:47 pm EDT

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...