The Government of Canada announced Friday that it is investing $2.3 million from its Universal Broadband Fund to bolster connectivity in remote and underserved regions in the...
The CRTC has denied a BCE Inc. application to review and amend its 2018 Broadband Fund framework and its set contribution rates and interim funding for 2023 set last year....
Telecoms and other stakeholders have had their say on proposed changes to...
The CRTC presented its public opinion research...
Monday the CRTC granted SSi Micro Ltd. an extension of the deadline for...
There is a consensus forming that the CRTC should...
The CRTC approved an application by BCE Inc.’s Northwestel to modify the tariff approval process for the company’s terrestrial retail residential internet services by...
The Independent Telecommunications Providers...
The CRTC approved two internet tariffs from BCE Inc.’s Northwestel Thursday, over objections from some stakeholders in the north.
In October 2020 the telecom filed tariff notice (TN) 1099 which would have introduced three new...
Tier 5 service areas are “too large” to meet...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) approved to subdivide and subordinate spectrum licences in northern Quebec from Rogers Communications Canada Inc. to SSi Micro Ltd. In a...
Canadian residents in the North want the CRTC to allow enhanced competition...
Northern broadband provider SSi Canada is asking...
The familiar argument over wholesale access has made its way to a CRTC consultation on how to remove barriers to rural broadband rollouts, with smaller providers arguing the regulator should mandate...
GATINEAU, Que. — The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic and Open Media have unveiled...
BCE Inc.’s push for the CRTC to remove a provision that would require wireless providers seeking funding under the $750-million Broadband Fund to make a pricing commitment has won the backing of Canada’s remaining Big Three providers.
Telus Corp. and Rogers...
The House of Commons industry committee has endorsed Xplornet Communications Inc.'s call that the ministry of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) should not claw back any of the 3.5...
BCE Inc. was among three prospective applicants who didn’t grab licenses for the coveted 600 MHz spectrum, widely considered to be the last chance to get valuable low-band frequencies. The...
BCE Inc., Shaw Communications Inc., and Quebecor Inc. are warning against a...
Cogeco Inc. isn’t among the list of participants in the 600 MHz auction, released by Innovation Canada...
The CRTC won’t be reviewing its decision that set rates for Northwestel’s Wholesale Connect service, it said in a Thursday decision responding to the BCE Inc. subsidiary’s application that opponents said was an attempt to “gam[e] the regulatory system.”
In...
The parliamentary secretary to the innovation minister was a popular target for lobbyists last month, as...
The arguments made by BCE Inc. subsidiary Northwestel in its request to the CRTC to review and vary a decision setting rates for Northwestel’s Wholesale Connect service have already...
The CRTC’s order to BCE Inc. subsidiary Northwestel Inc. to file new cost studies last week “might finally bring effective telecoms competition to...
GATINEAU, Que. — Setting a basic speed requirement doesn’t do the North any good when it comes to improving Internet access, unless there’s necessary backbone infrastructure in...
SSi Micro Ltd. announced Wednesday it is investing $75 million toward providing and improving Nunavut’s broadband infrastructure. It said in a press release that the investment will soon benefit consumers, business,...
Industry Canada has approved all six companies applying to take part in this month's residual spectrum auction, which deals with licences that went unsold in last year's 700 MHz sale and this year's AWS-3 auction. The...
Canada's three national wireless carriers and regional players have applied to be part of the next spectrum auction, one intended to deal with licences that went unsold in this year's AWS-3 auction and last year's sale...
Industry Canada said Tuesday it will spend $35 million to improve or expand Internet service for 8,400 homes in Nunavut, and in a separate announcement said $6 million would go toward doing the same...
Large wireless carriers are arguing for the elimination of set-asides and spectrum caps in the upcoming auction of unsold AWS-3 and 700 MHz spectrum, while smaller competitors say those measures should be kept in place. The government is set to auction off unsold portions of 700 MHz and AWS-3 spectrum this August. Companies will bid on one licence in the North, which went unsold in the 700 MHz auction last year, and on three licences that remained unallocated after the AWS-3 auction in March this year, in the North, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Reply comments were posted on Industry...
Quebecor Inc. is still publicly sitting on the fence when it comes to expanding its wireless service throughout Canada despite bidding $187 million on 2500 MHz spectrum, including for licences outside...
Canada's third wireless spectrum auction in a little more than a year is set to start Tuesday, and it is generally predicted to bring in far less money than the other two, though at least one...
Cisco Systems Inc. announced Wednesday it is investing $1.6 million in a video network to bring educational and health services to Canada’s North. The project is called Connected North, and uses high-definition, two-way video, along with other technology, Cisco said in a press release. Cisco said that a pilot project that began in September...
The federal government’s new rural broadband funding program should help reduce the cost of connecting rural locations’ Internet services with the rest of the country and not just focus on...
Northwestel Inc.’s new modernization plan contains an “unhealthy emphasis” on delaying potential competitors from offering services in the North, competitor SSi Micro Ltd. told a panel of CRTC commissioners. “The latest iteration of the modernization plan still contains inadequate commitments,” Dean Proctor, SSi’s chief development officer, said in Whitehorse Wednesday, during the second day of CRTC hearings into telecom services provided by Northwestel, a BCE Inc. subsidiary. “There is a continued unhealthy emphasis on thwarting competitors and it does not focus on the major limitation to development, which is affordable backhaul.” Proctor said Northwestel’s revised plan to modernize its aging telecom infrastructure, the most recent...
The CRTC should require Northwestel Inc. to improve the availability and cost of its Internet backhaul infrastructure, not its last-mile wireless services, the company’s smaller competitors said in regulatory documents this week. In an intervention filed with the commission Wednesday, SSi Micro Ltd. said the CRTC...
