Most Canadian telecom players want the federal government to step in to overrule the CRTC on permitting large incumbents from selling wholesale high-speed internet service to...
The Supreme Court of Canada has rejected TekSavvy Solutions Inc.’s request for leave to appeal the CRTC’s reversal of a 2019 decision that would have slashed wholesale access rates for competitor internet providers.
The country’s highest court issued its judgment...
The CRTC has decided not to change its temporary decision on the wholesale...
The reasons behind a Federal Court justice’s December decision to grant a...
BCE Inc. says it will not participate in future...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is looking to the Supreme Court of Canada for an...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc.’s appeal of the CRTC’s reversal of a 2019 decision that would have slashed wholesale access rates for competitor internet providers has been...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. have settled their...
The CRTC has requested Rogers Communications Inc. maintain service for TekSavvy Solutions Inc. in two Toronto buildings until it can make a...
Friday the CRTC denied an application by several stakeholders for an...
A wealth of intervenors have told the CRTC that the large established telecoms should not be allowed to...
The CRTC has ordered Cogeco Inc. to maintain TekSavvy Solutions Inc.’s...
Two large incumbent telecoms told the CRTC that broadband resellers are not...
Cogeco Inc. is adamantly defending its right to upgrade infrastructure for...
The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed BCE Inc.’s motion for a stay against the CRTC’s decision to...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. lodged a formal Part 1 complaint with the CRTC against Cogeco Inc., to address its concerns about Cogeco's planned removal of facilities, potentially hindering competition and consumer choice in the telecommunications sector.
“Should Cogeco’s...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC requesting that a real estate...
The CRTC denied an application brought forward by TekSavvy Solutions Inc....
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has settled a dispute over access to a building in Chatham Ont. The company filed...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has become the latest CLEC calling on the CRTC to...
The CRTC has published some of the interventions for its proceeding into the Broadband Fund. Most of the filings so far have been from governments, lobby groups and private individuals. Telecom service providers (TSPs) and internet service providers (ISPs) are expected to...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada...
The CRTC has issued its annual telecommunications survey for 2021. Coming out of the pandemic shutdown, the numbers are generally good.
The sector experienced a 3.4 per cent jump in total revenues...
Incumbent carriers are opposed to the expedited review of the CRTC’s...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) and TekSavvy Solutions...
The CRTC Wednesday made good on newly-minted chair...
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 chair Vicky Eatrides who will be making it her top priority to modernize the commission’s internet framework as it has not...
One of Canada’s largest wholesale-based internet...
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 appointment of Vicky Eatrides as the incoming chair of the CRTC.
Eatrides' five-year term is...
"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...
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 as 15 per cent, fixed broadband prices increased by as much as 13 per cent, while mobile internet prices have remained...
In a Thursday decision, the CRTC announced it was implementing regulations...
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 introduce internet 1500 wholesale high-speed access service (1.5 Gig service). It denied three conditions suggested by Shaw and also dismissed a request from TekSavvy Solutions Inc. for administrative...
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),...
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 renewal of Canada's first ever site-blocking order, two years after the original blocking order was...
A Federal Court judge has granted intervenor status to the...
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. in May, the internet service provider (ISP) has decided to take the case to the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC).
In an application for leave to appeal filed with the...
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...
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 site-blocking order against an anonymous so-called pirate IPTV service, the same trio of rights...
The Federal Court of Appeal has allowed Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order to stand,...
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 internet service providers for the regulator to extend the Internet Code to smaller ISPs and resellers.
In a decision released Thursday, the CRTC wrote that, in its determination, the large ISPs had...
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...
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 little more than a "disagreement" with a Federal Court of Appeal decision, focused on policy...
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...
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 amounts owed, with interest, against amounts charged on their monthly invoices for regulated wholesale services," according to a letter filed Thursday with the regulator. TekSavvy will continue to count its current bills from Bell and Rogers against what it says the two incumbents owe the reseller under new regulated...
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...
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 require telecoms to provide paper bills on request. TekSavvy Solutions Inc. was the only telecom to support the CRTC requiring paper bills be sent to customers who requested them, but said in its intervention that any action should be confined to “dominant service providers.” TekSavvy has repeatedly objected to being labelled a dominant service provider, and...
