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 dispute over the incumbent’s plans to upgrade its facilities in two Toronto buildings, a move that...
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 in a threatened position. BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. appeared at the commission’s proceedings into...
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...
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 (CNOC)’s executive director said it is “no surprise” TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has gone up for sale.
“As we have been...
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 (OTA) that its hopeful future owner Rogers Communications Inc. has agreed to enter into with Quebecor...
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...
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) spectrum framework means small rural internet service providers (ISPs) will "have to drastically reduce the number of rural Canadians they serve," according to the Canadian Association of Wireless...
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 Rogers Communications Inc. reveal more about the details of what led to a nationwide outage across the telecom’s network on July 8.
In a Friday letter to the CRTC, PIAC wrote that Rogers’...
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...
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. requesting it order Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink to move its Nova Scotia third-party Internet...
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 wholesale high-speed access service tier. The commission okayed a 250 Mbps download and 15 Mbps upload system which Shaw will sell for $41.36 per month.
This is similar to a ruling last month which...
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...
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 dollars per month, which it says is a consequence of the CRTC’s decision to revert the rates for wholesale-based internet service providers to interim levels from 2016. ...
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 approval to continue to block certain scam voice calls, saying the benefits “are unmistakable” after a nearly...
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,...
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 Solutions Inc.'s assertion that it will be unfairly burdened by regulations that will require companies to make their services more accessible to Canadians with disabilities.
The CRTC is set to implement...
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 filed Monday on SSi's Part 1 application from December, TekSavvy wrote that the CRTC needs to move faster, given the delays in setting wholesale third-party internet access rates for competitive internet service providers across the country. "TekSavvy’s experience in rate setting, and the incumbents’ willingness to litigate and pursue every appeal possible to avoid their regulatory...
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...
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 Tuesday filing with the CRTC, Bell said that the delay is a "direct consequence of Videotron's errors" in forecasting the number of subscribers that would need third-party internet access, according to the French-language filing. On Aug. 4, Bell said in its filing, Quebecor told Bell it was forecasting ten times the number of third party internet access (TPIA)...
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 allow them to make fresh submissions in the already-heard appeal of the CRTC's wholesale rates,...
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...
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 done through videoconferencing. The two day hearing will proceed as originally scheduled, on June 25 and 26. In court filings last week, lawyers representing Rogers Communications Inc., Bragg Communications Inc., Cogeco Inc., Shaw Communications Inc., and Quebecor Inc. had asked justice David Stratas for the previously agreed-to hearing to be adjourned until the court can conduct...