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CRTC releases funding for cellular coverage in central Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador

telecom | 08/28/2024 4:44 pm EDT

Telecoms work to restore service after tornado; 27% of Canadians experience major outage due to weather, report findsThe CRTC announced Wednesday four companies will get $17 million in funding to improve cell service along eight highways in Canada.  The commission released a series of...

CRTC amends deadlines for NG911 comments

telecom | 03/25/2022 4:41 pm EDT

As CRTC rejects FairPlay, proposal could move to legislative reviewsThe CRTC has pushed back deadlines for comments on next generation 911 (NG911) service following a request by the Independent Telecommunications Providers Association (ITPA). The proceeding will look at funding NG911 through the National Contribution Fund. On Mar. 14 the...

CRTC to forbear from regulating IXPL services on 12 additional routes

telecom | 03/25/2022 4:32 pm EDT

STB data measurement complex task, group saysThe CRTC has added a dozen additional routes to its list of interexchange...

Telus, Tbaytel, subordination of spectrum licences approved

telecom | 01/24/2022 4:24 pm EST

Resistance to tower builds shows need to ‘rethink’ consultations: MPThe department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED)...

ISP coalition stands up to proposed hydro pole price

telecom | 03/22/2018 5:53 pm EDT

A coalition of internet service providers (ISPs) is taking the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) to task over a proposal to significantly raise the cost of hydro pole installation across the province, which they say will inevitably lead...

Carriers ask CRTC to take powers from government

telecom | 10/02/2014 9:37 pm EDT

GATINEAU, Que. — Two of Canada's largest wireless carriers called on the CRTC to take some regulatory power from Industry Canada at the commission's week-long hearing into the wholesale wireless market. Both Rogers...

CRTC releases figures on wireless wholesale caps

telecom | 08/06/2014 8:54 pm EDT

On Wednesday the CRTC released average domestic retail prices for wireless carriers as part of its ongoing examination of the wholesale wireless market in Canada. The CRTC declined a request from Wind Mobile to make public the figures charged by each wireless company after the institution of the government’s rate cap in June, instead opting to release an average amount for voice, texting, and data. Under the government’s formula, the maximum amount wireless carriers can charge other Canadian carriers for roaming is what they make from retail usage, determined by their revenue...

Ontario communities look at repurposing broadcast towers for mobile services

telecom | 05/22/2013 5:53 pm EDT

Six Ontario communities are looking for partnerships with wireless carriers to launch or improve local mobile services using repurposed radio and TV broadcast towers, which could mean cellphone...