The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) and TekSavvy Solutions Inc. have both rowed in behind Quebecor Inc. in a complaint the regional competitor filed against BCE...
The CRTC Wednesday made good on newly-minted chair Vicky Eatrides' January promise to reassess the wholesale broadband market, and launched a notice of consultation that will...
Shaw Communications Inc. has argued that the type of off-tariff-agreement...
All eyes are on Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne, who is the last line of defense for...
Is last week's Part 1 application from TekSavvy Solutions Inc. a last minute, Hail Mary pass attempt at blocking the all-but assured blockbuster merger of Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...
The CRTC is starting a fresh chapter with new...
One of Canada’s largest wholesale-based internet service providers (ISPs) is making a last ditch appeal to the CRTC to stop certain elements of the pending merger of Rogers...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is calling on the Minister of Innovation François-Philippe Champagne to block the proposed takeover of Shaw Communications Inc. by Rogers Communications Inc.
In a Tuesday...
In a Monday decision, the CRTC approved five new disaggregated Ethernet passive optical network...
The CRTC approved, on an interim basis, a monthly rate of $49.06 for Rogers...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez Monday morning announced the...
"Stringent" limitations proposed for the non-competitive licensing (NCL)...
The start of another hockey season brings another federal court site-blocking order for a trio of telecom...
The emerging ad-hoc regime of site-blocking in...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has told the Competition...
Submissions to the Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development’s (ISED) consultation on a new draft policy direction for the CRTC reveal some of the legal...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre has asked the CRTC to mandate that...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) says...
The CRTC had decided to allow BCE Inc. to keep...
In 2021, consumer mobile wireless fell by as much...
In a Thursday decision, the CRTC announced it was implementing regulations to control botnets that threaten Canadians’ internet security. It established the guiding principles for the framework and required a detailed set of recommendations from the CRTC Interconnection...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. are asking the CRTC to deny a...
Public Sector Integrity Commissioner Joe Friday...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is asking the CRTC to speed up the regulatory...
Tuesday the CRTC approved an application by Shaw Communications Inc. to...
The commission denied an application by City Wide Communications Inc....
Updated with TekSavvy reaction.
The Supreme Court of Canada Thursday...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has asked the Office of...
The CRTC has decided that it will not consider a request from the Competitive Network Operators of Canada...
The CRTC has determined that all communications service providers (CSPs), including telecommunications service providers (TSPs), Canadian carriers, and broadcasting distribution undertakings (BDUs), must provide certain market segments with free paper billing, in an effort...
Shaw Communications Inc. was given approval by the CRTC Friday for a new...
The CRTC approved on an interim basis a proposal...
A test-case for Canada's first-ever "dynamic" site-blocking order is headed...
A trio of Canada's biggest broadcasters has asked the Federal Court for a...
A Federal Court judge has granted intervenor status to the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic at the University of Ottawa (CIPPIC), and...
Days after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won another minority government...
The site-blocking order that will block a rolling list of pirate streaming...
The Federal Court of Appeal will take up TekSavvy Solutions Inc.'s...
After Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order survived an appeal from...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is hiking fees for some customers of its residential internet service by a few...
An Ottawa-area internet service provider has added its voice to those asking the government to overturn the CRTC's decision to revert rates for wholesale-based internet service providers (ISPs) to...
After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally called Sunday for a...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc.'s arguments in its June challenge to the CRTC's...
Companies using BCE’s Inc.’s fibre in-building wire (IBW) must now reach a commercially negotiated agreement for access after the CRTC determined access to fibre IBW in...
BCE Inc. is urging the CRTC to give it permanent...
Fed up with the CRTC's May decision to overturn its 2019 decision on wholesale internet access rates, the...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is recommending that the...
Nearly six weeks after a Federal Court of Appeal upheld Canada's first-ever...
The Federal Court of Appeal has allowed Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order to stand, dismissing an appeal of the order from TekSavvy Solutions Inc.
In a Wednesday decision, Justice George Locke, writing on behalf of the three-judge panel, said that he was not...
Quebec’s Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal from the province’s attorney general over its desire to have telecoms block access to illegal gambling sites. In July...
Canada’s big-three telecoms are doubling down on their assertions that...
The federal government has launched a consultation document to solicit feedback on whether or not it...
The CRTC has rejected a request from a number of large facilities-based...
BCE Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. are taking issue with TekSavvy...
Quebecor Inc. has indicated that, should the Competition Bureau force...
As news of Roger’s Communications Inc.’s deal to acquire Shaw Communications Inc. sparks discussions on what it may mean for the wireless market in Canada, advocates say competition and other...
As the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed an incumbent challenge to an...
The request from the Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) for the CRTC to implement a “retail Internet service resale” (RISR) framework for fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) services is premature and circumvents an ongoing CRTC consultation, according to several...
The CRTC should move quickly to set wholesale prices in the North for SSi Canada's access to BCE Inc.’s Northwestel, according to an intervention by TekSavvy Solutions Inc. In an intervention...
There is insufficient evidence Rogers Communications Inc.'s pandemic-driven internet traffic management policy (ITMP) disproportionally affects wholesale end users, but at the same time the company...
The CRTC is giving incumbent telecom companies that provide wholesale high speed internet access a year...
The Supreme Court appeal incumbent telecoms filed in November amounts to...
A CRTC consultation on paper billing practices in the telecommunications and broadcasting sectors is continuing, with the commission requesting that all major companies respond to a series of questions about their provision of paper bills to customers. The CRTC launched the consultation in March, with interventions and replies from most telecom and broadcast providers urging the commission not to intervene in their billing practices. However, a letter from the commission this week states...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is asking the Federal Court of Appeal to review the CRTC's Sept. 28 decision to grant a request from incumbents for a fresh stay on the implementation of the lower wholesale...
In order to make its disaggregated wholesale regime work, the CRTC should...
In an ongoing dispute between Rogers Communications Inc. and some of its third party internet access (TPIA) wholesale customers over COVID-19-related internet traffic management practices (ITMPs),...
Beginning with its next invoice, TekSavvy Solutions Inc. will not be paying its wholesale fees to BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. as invoiced, instead "setting off...
In response to a complaint to the CRTC from Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron that BCE Inc. was unduly delaying Videotron's arrival in the Abitibi region, Bell subsidiary Cablevision du Nord says the delay is Videotron's fault. In a...
BCE Inc. has asked a Federal Court of Appeal judge to throw out an appeal of Canada's first ever site-blocking court order, saying that TekSavvy Solutions Inc.'s appeal of the order is grounded in...
BCE Inc.'s submission to the Federal Court of Appeal -- in which it argued the federal Cabinet's decision that the wholesale internet rates set by the CRTC were low enough to stifle network investment...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has asked the Federal Court of Appeal to ignore the language of a recent cabinet decision declaring that the CRTC's wholesale rates were too low to encourage network...
BCE Inc. and a coalition of cable companies have submitted letters to the Federal Court of Appeal arguing that the Aug. 15 statement from Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains...
Lawyers representing BCE Inc. have asked a Federal Court of Appeal judge to...
A network outage left wireless, internet and TV customers in Ontario and Quebec without service for about 45 minutes on Thursday. Consumers, mostly with BCE Inc., began reporting the outage on social media soon after 12 p.m. A...
In a much-watched appeal of Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order, three separate opponents of the order have filed two interventions asking the Federal Court of Appeal to strike down the order. In the first of the...
Telecoms and broadcasters have overwhelmingly urged the CRTC not to intervene in billing practices, arguing billing formats act as “competitive differentiators,” while the majority of public submissions call for the CRTC to...
Major Canadian telecoms have ended one of their major relief measures for Canadians who suddenly shifted to working from home due to COVID-19, with the usage of home internet customers on capped data plans again being tracked as of July 1.
Rogers Communications Inc., BCE...
BCE Inc.'s argument that retroactive payments mandated by the CRTC in its August wholesale rate decision are an unconstitutional tax is a "disguised attack" on the "entire rate setting regime" laid...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has asked the CRTC to force Rogers Communications Inc. to stop applying an...
Distributel Communications Ltd. will charge a “very small” number of customers a $5 temporary surcharge on each internet bill, due to a legal challenge against last year’s wholesale rates...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. will become the second Canadian telecom to resume charging overage fees to home internet customers who go over their data caps, with the company announcing it will end the COVID-19...
A Federal Court of Appeal judge has rejected the argument made by the incumbent telecom companies last week that their appeal of the CRTC's wholesale broadband rates decision is too complicated to be...
In an ongoing appeal of Canada's first-ever site-blocking order, BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., and Quebecor Inc. are asking a judge to either throw out or limit the scope of submissions from a...
Incumbent cable companies have asked a Federal Court of Appeal judge to delay their appeal of the CRTC's wholesale rates decision until the proceeding can be conducted in person. In a letter...
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...
A consortium of rights holders — including the top tier of English soccer, the Premier League, sports streaming service Dazn and industry trade groups for book publishers — wants the Federal Court of Appeal to uphold Canada's first ever site blocking order. In their application to intervene in the proceeding, filed late last week, the collection of right holders argue that the precedent-setting site-blocking order strengthens the rule of law by bringing Canada into an emerging global consensus on the protection of copyright online. "The important values of freedom of expression...
Opposition parties that normally hold differing views on any given issue...
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...
In a Tuesday filing with the Federal Court of Appeal, the Canadian Network Operators Consortium (CNOC) said that the appeal of the CRTC's August wholesale rate decision by some six companies should be...
The CRTC has responded to a letter from The Canadian Network Operators...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is joining a call made last week by Conservative Industry critic Michelle Rempel Garner that the CRTC intervene to lower its wholesale rates to the level determined in its August 2019 decision, on an emergency basis.
On Monday TekSavvy said in a...
The Canadian Network Operators Consortium (CNOC) and TekSavvy Solutions Inc. are alleging that the incumbent telecoms from whom they purchase wholesale high-speed internet access are making changes to...
Conservative industry critic Michelle Rempel Garner has called on...
Teksavvy Solutions Inc. has laid off 130 staff and will implement a flat $5 bill increase for its...
Multiple Canadian internet providers have suspended caps on data usage as they prepare for a huge...
BCE Inc., Quebecor Inc.'s Groupe TVA, and Rogers Communications Inc. — the trio of companies behind Canada's first ever website-blocking order — have submitted a draft order adding new domains to the Federal Court. In a...
GATINEAU, Que. — According to Lee Bragg, CEO of Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink, it is “really...
The Competition Bureau has been asked to investigate a “pattern of anti-competitive activities” in wholesale and retail internet markets by BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications, in a complaint filed...
Both the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) and the Canadian...
VMedia Inc. says a recommendation from the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review panel’s report that stipulates a primary reliance on “market forces” could stifle competition in Canada’s telecommunications industry, if enacted.
Recommendation 28...