On its surface, the ISP Coalition is an unusual lobbying group.
It is a team effort composed of telecom giants that are more comfortable as sparring partners — Rogers...
Although the dispute between Bell and Telus over how they provide wholesale services to each other has been settled, smaller competitors say they are not the only internet...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is asking the CRTC to block Cogeco Inc. from ending...
Smaller telecoms worry about how new CRTC...
BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. are in a dispute over end-user...
Major telecommunications companies across Canada voiced strong opposition...
The federal government has declined to overrule the CRTC decision granting Canada’s largest telecom companies wholesale access to fibre networks outside of their home...
Most Canadian telecom players want the federal government to step in to...
The Supreme Court of Canada has rejected TekSavvy Solutions Inc.’s...
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...
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 decision on the incumbent’s plans to replace its network...
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 benefit of its customers in response to TekSavvy Solutions Inc.'s recent Part 1 application regarding decommissioning its coaxial facilities.
Cogeco argued that transitioning from coaxial to...
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...
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...
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 that year, as opposed to the 1.4 per cent decline posted in 2020. That 2020 fall was the largest ever recorded in the Communications Market Reports (CMR). The only other decrease was in 2002 when the dot-com bubble burst.
The chief factor in the 2021 increase was the...
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 opponents of the pending merger between Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc.
“It's going to wind up like an albatross -- an albatross around one’s...
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...
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 companies and sports broadcasters.
In a court order issued Monday, Justice Jocelyne Gagné granted BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., and Quebecor Inc. and...
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 government’s proposed new policy direction for the CRTC is “severely out of touch” with the competition issues...
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...
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 morning dismissed a last effort by TekSavvy Solutions Inc. to challenge Canada's first-ever...
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 by Rogers Communications Inc. to introduce a new wholesale high-speed access (HSA) service tier to its access services tariff...
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...
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 2016 interim levels. In a petition to the Governor in Council filed Wednesday, National Capital FreeNet Inc. argues the decision "does not promote competition, affordability, or consumer interests, as ordered in the 2019 Policy Direction, but instead actively inhibits these goals, while...
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 Competitive Network Operators of Canada is turning to the federal government for help.
In a petition to the Governor in Council filed Thursday, the trade group --...
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,...
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 Rogers Communications Inc. to spin-off Shaw Communications Inc.'s wireless assets as part of its regulatory approval of the Rogers-Shaw merger, Quebecor would be open to purchasing it, provided it came...
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 must disclose more information about the practice in order to comply with regulatory requirements, the CRTC rules in a decision released Monday. "The pandemic may have been seen, at the outset, as an emergency situation necessitating the application of a temporary ITMP to address network capacity...
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...
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 "policy reasons." "Be that as it may, the Order appealed from is well-founded in fact and law, and it must therefore stand," Bell argues in a Sep. 2 submission to the court. At issue in the appeal, first filed by TekSavvy in November 2019, is whether or not site-blocking is an available solution to the issue of piracy under the Copyright Act. TekSavvy had also initially argued in its November...
