Vidéotron accuses SaskTel of undue preference regarding wholesale roaming tariffs

| 06/16/2026 2:30 pm EDT

Québecor Inc.’s Vidéotron is accusing Saskatchewan Telecommunications...

Bell signs agreement with Indigenous group for broadband, wireless rollout

| 06/02/2025 6:07 pm EDT

BCE Inc. and National Indigenous Connectivity Inc. (NICI) have signed a...

CRTC confirms ILECs must offer small cell pole access to competitors

| 05/14/2025 3:53 pm EDT

In a Wednesday, May 14 ruling, the CRTC told incumbent telephone companies...

Uncertainty over US tariffs persists for Canadian telecoms, broadcasters

| 03/18/2025 3:31 pm EDT

With a trade war launched against Canada by U.S. President Donald Trump’s...

CRTC delays migration to next generation 911

| 02/28/2025 5:29 pm EST

The CRTC announced late Friday, Feb. 28 that it is delaying the timeline for transitioning to next generation 911 (NG911). The new regime was scheduled to take effect on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. Instead it will be delayed until March 31, 2027. The commission said that most...

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

| 02/06/2025 6:01 pm EST

BCE Inc. is hoping the CRTC will overturn its...

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

| 10/28/2024 5:27 pm EDT

The CRTC’s recent decision on interim wholesale fibre rates is supposed...

SaskTel rolls out 5G coverage in Lloydminster and Meadow Lake 

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

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

The 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

Canada’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

The 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...

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 than 26 communities to high-speed internet. The CRTC previously awarded BH Telecom, which does business as FlexNetworks, $9.5 million through its $750 million broadband funding program in order to connect the almost 30 communities -- but SaskTel argued in a March 18 Part 1 application that the...

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

GATINEAU, 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 to smaller internet service providers as well.  In the filing to the CRTC dated Oct. 29, a battery of facilities-based internet providers --  BCE Inc, Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink, Cogeco  Inc., Quebecor Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., Shaw Communications Inc., Saskatchewan...

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

As the Liberals head back to Parliament following the Oct. 21 federal election, they’ll be returning to...

Federal Court grants injunction against GoldTV 

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

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

Innovation, 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

A government program intended to connect low-income families with affordable internet launched Friday....

Former CRTC commissioners criticize Harnessing Change report

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

TORONTO —  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

GATINEAU — Telecom providers who appeared before the CRTC Thursday said the whole industry shouldn't face more regulation — which could cost them millions — because of a few bad actors, with some pointing fingers at Canada's biggest telecom companies....

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 testing released on Monday. That makes for the second-lowest mobile data to WiFi ratio among ten countries, with Brazil using the same amount of mobile data on average, but more WiFi than Canada. Tom Luke, Tutela’s vice-president of sales, marketing and partnerships said in a phone call with The Wire Report that likely comes down to pricing. He said Canada is known for high data charges...

$26.4 million in rural internet funding announced for Sask.

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

The 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....