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Wholesale-based ISPs back Quebecor’s fibre complaint against Bell
Internet and Governance | 04/05/2023 3:48 pm EDT
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...
UPDATED: CRTC cuts wholesale broadband rates by 10 per cent, launches new rates proceeding, and will expedite review of FTTH access; competitors pleased
Internet and Governance | 03/08/2023 4:24 pm EST
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 defends off-tariff agreements, Telus calls for review in TekSavvy complaint
telecom | 02/23/2023 12:11 pm EST
Shaw Communications Inc. has argued that the type of off-tariff-agreement...
On Rogers-Shaw, Champagne faces policy choice
Media | 01/26/2023 11:48 am EST
All eyes are on Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne, who is the last line of defense for...
TekSavvy application: a test for new-look CRTC and competition landscape?
telecom | 01/24/2023 12:18 pm EST
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...
Eatrides era at CRTC starting with new framework for internet, “wait and see” approach for wireless
telecom | 01/20/2023 5:34 pm EST
The CRTC is starting a fresh chapter with new...
Rogers-Quebecor TPIA arrangements in Shaw merger violate Telecom Act: TekSavvy to CRTC
telecom | 01/19/2023 3:00 pm EST
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 calls on government to disallow Rogers-Shaw merger
telecom | 01/10/2023 3:23 pm EST
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...
CRTC grants Cogeco five new speed tiers
telecom | 01/09/2023 4:34 pm EST
In a Monday decision, the CRTC approved five new disaggregated Ethernet passive optical network...
CRTC approves interim rates for Rogers 1.5 Gbps aggregated TPIA service speed
telecom | 01/04/2023 4:54 pm EST
The CRTC approved, on an interim basis, a monthly rate of $49.06 for Rogers...
Vicky Eatrides appointed new CRTC chair; consumer advocates pleased
Media | 12/19/2022 4:08 pm EST
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez Monday morning announced the...
CanWISP worried ISED proposals will reduce rural connectivity
Media | 12/01/2022 7:04 pm EST
"Stringent" limitations proposed for the non-competitive licensing (NCL)...
Hockey broadcasters win fresh site-blocking order
Media | 11/23/2022 7:43 am EST
The start of another hockey season brings another federal court site-blocking order for a trio of telecom...
Bell granted World Cup site-blocking order; broadcasters seek NHL piracy blocking renewal
Media | 10/24/2022 5:07 pm EDT
The emerging ad-hoc regime of site-blocking in...
Comp. Bureau’s silence on anti-competitive complaint allowing abuse of dominance to persist: TekSavvy
telecom | 08/17/2022 6:13 pm EDT
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has told the Competition...
Big 3 fight back against ISED’s efforts to protect wholesale regime
telecom | 08/11/2022 5:50 pm EDT
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...
PIAC, CNOC detail disclosure request on Rogers outage
telecom | 08/08/2022 6:54 pm EDT
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre has asked the CRTC to mandate that...
TekSavvy wants concrete actions in CRTC policy direction, PIAC argues for directive language
telecom | 07/20/2022 5:13 pm EDT
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) says...
CRTC will allow Bell to keep central office location secret for disaggregated service, over TekSavvy’s objections
telecom | 07/07/2022 5:32 pm EDT
The CRTC had decided to allow BCE Inc. to keep...
Mobile prices down but high internationally, broadband prices up and still high internationally: ISED report
telecom | 07/06/2022 5:30 pm EDT
In 2021, consumer mobile wireless fell by as much...
CRTC outlines framework to block botnets from internet traffic
telecom | 06/23/2022 5:48 pm EDT
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, Telus, want CRTC to deny TekSavvy TPIA tariff changes
telecom | 06/03/2022 5:34 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. are asking the CRTC to deny a...
Integrity Commissioner refers TekSavvy’s Scott complaint to Ethics Commissioner
Media | 05/05/2022 3:20 pm EDT
Public Sector Integrity Commissioner Joe Friday...
TekSavvy calls for TPIA tariff changes to stop delayed access to new offerings
telecom | 05/03/2022 5:13 pm EDT
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is asking the CRTC to speed up the regulatory...
CRTC approves, with changes, Shaw’s 1500 wholesale service
telecom | 04/05/2022 4:47 pm EDT
Tuesday the CRTC approved an application by Shaw Communications Inc. to...
CRTC won’t order Bragg to relocate its TPIA point of interconnection
telecom | 03/25/2022 4:17 pm EDT
The commission denied an application by City Wide Communications Inc....
Supreme Court dismisses TekSavvy appeal of GoldTV site-blocking order
Media | 03/24/2022 1:28 pm EDT
Updated with TekSavvy reaction.
The Supreme Court of Canada Thursday...
TekSavvy asks for investigation by Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of CRTC comish
telecom | 03/02/2022 6:09 pm EST
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has asked the Office of...
CRTC rejects CNOC request for Scott’s recusal
telecom | 02/16/2022 11:07 am EST
The CRTC has decided that it will not consider a request from the Competitive Network Operators of Canada...
Paper billing for vulnerable customers, not universally: CRTC
telecom | 02/10/2022 5:42 pm EST
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...
CRTC approves wholesale high-speed access tier for Shaw
telecom | 12/10/2021 3:40 pm EST
Shaw Communications Inc. was given approval by the CRTC Friday for a new...
CRTC approves Rogers new wholesale high-speed access service tier, ignores TekSavvy wholesale customer concerns
telecom | 11/24/2021 3:58 pm EST
The CRTC approved on an interim basis a proposal...
Dynamic site-blocking case gets Nov. 23 hearing date
Media | 11/03/2021 5:51 pm EDT
A test-case for Canada's first-ever "dynamic" site-blocking order is headed...
Bell, Rogers, Quebecor apply for extended site-blocking in GoldTV
Media | 10/26/2021 9:30 am EDT
A trio of Canada's biggest broadcasters has asked the Federal Court for a...
Court grants CIPPIC, Beanfield intervenor status in dynamic site-blocking case
Media | 10/14/2021 5:39 pm EDT
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...
Petitions to overturn recent CRTC decisions gaining steam
telecom | 09/23/2021 7:09 pm EDT
Days after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won another minority government...
New ‘dynamic’ site-blocking needs new safeguards: CIPPIC
Media | 09/22/2021 5:56 pm EDT
The site-blocking order that will block a rolling list of pirate streaming...
Appeal of CRTC reversal of wholesale rates to go ahead in federal court
telecom | 09/15/2021 9:46 pm EDT
The Federal Court of Appeal will take up TekSavvy Solutions Inc.'s...
TekSavvy takes GoldTV site-blocking fight to Supreme Court
Media | 08/26/2021 6:11 pm EDT
After Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order survived an appeal from...
TekSavvy raising home internet plan fees
telecom | 08/25/2021 5:31 pm EDT
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is hiking fees for some customers of its residential internet service by a few...
National Capital FreeNet asks gov. to reverse CRTC wholesale rates decision
telecom | 08/25/2021 5:09 pm EDT
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...
The Wire Report’s guide to the 2021 federal election
Media | 08/17/2021 2:35 pm EDT
After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally called Sunday for a...
TekSavvy’s wholesale appeal uses failed incumbent arguments from 2019: Bell
telecom | 08/09/2021 5:41 pm EDT
TekSavvy Solutions Inc.'s arguments in its June challenge to the CRTC's...
Companies must negotiate with Bell for MDU fibre IBW access or install their own, CRTC decides
telecom | 07/27/2021 7:24 pm EDT
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...
Bell says permanent approval of call blocking ‘is overwhelmingly in the public interest’
telecom | 07/23/2021 6:46 pm EDT
BCE Inc. is urging the CRTC to give it permanent...
CNOC petitions gov on wholesale rates
telecom | 07/15/2021 5:42 pm EDT
Fed up with the CRTC's May decision to overturn its 2019 decision on wholesale internet access rates, the...
TekSavvy wants regulatory framework before Bell permanently implements AI call blocking
telecom | 07/14/2021 6:23 pm EDT
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is recommending that the...
Bell, Rogers, and Quebecor seek first-ever ‘dynamic’ site-blocking order
Media | 07/08/2021 6:22 pm EDT
Nearly six weeks after a Federal Court of Appeal upheld Canada's first-ever...
GoldTV blocking order survives TekSavvy appeal
Media | 05/26/2021 6:41 pm EDT
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 Appeal Court upholds decision finding Quebec site blocking law unconstitutional
telecom | 05/14/2021 5:10 pm EDT
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...
Telecoms emphasize concerns, support for CRTC’s botnet blocking proposal
telecom | 05/06/2021 7:19 pm EDT
Canada’s big-three telecoms are doubling down on their assertions that...
Feds considering site-blocking proposal
Media | 04/14/2021 6:20 pm EDT
The federal government has launched a consultation document to solicit feedback on whether or not it...
CRTC rejects incumbent request to expand Internet Code
telecom | 04/08/2021 5:05 pm EDT
The CRTC has rejected a request from a number of large facilities-based...
Accessibility reporting should apply to resellers: Bell, Shaw
Media | 04/06/2021 5:57 pm EDT
BCE Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. are taking issue with TekSavvy...
Quebecor would buy Freedom, but only with spectrum: PKP
telecom | 03/31/2021 6:21 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc. has indicated that, should the Competition Bureau force...
Focus on competition at ‘day of action’ following Rogers-Shaw deal
Media | 03/16/2021 6:10 pm EDT
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...
Focus turns back to CRTC as SCC rejects incumbent wholesale challenge
telecom | 02/25/2021 5:46 pm EST
As the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed an incumbent challenge to an...
Incumbents push back on interim fibre resale rates proposal
telecom | 02/12/2021 5:11 pm EST
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...
Northern TPIA access for SSi should be expedited: competitors
telecom | 02/10/2021 4:35 pm EST
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...
Rogers pandemic ITMP policy ‘vague’ but does not discriminate, CRTC says
telecom | 01/11/2021 6:13 pm EST
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...
CRTC to track wholesale quality of service in 2022
telecom | 01/04/2021 6:03 pm EST
The CRTC is giving incumbent telecom companies that provide wholesale high speed internet access a year...
Policy impacts of CRTC wholesale rates outside SCC purview: TekSavvy, CNOC
telecom | 12/07/2020 6:29 pm EST
The Supreme Court appeal incumbent telecoms filed in November amounts to...
CRTC seeks further information on telecoms’ paper billing practices
Media | 12/03/2020 3:15 pm EST
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 asks for judicial review of CRTC wholesale rate stay
telecom | 10/29/2020 1:32 pm EDT
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...
CRTC hears differing pitches to fix lagging disaggregated regime
telecom | 10/13/2020 6:04 pm EDT
In order to make its disaggregated wholesale regime work, the CRTC should...
Rogers still too vague about its use of ITMPs: TekSavvy
telecom | 10/02/2020 4:02 pm EDT
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),...
TekSavvy will count bills from Bell, Rogers against debts until it receives retroactive payments
telecom | 09/25/2020 5:10 pm EDT
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...
Bell says TPIA delays are Videotron’s fault
telecom | 09/24/2020 5:34 pm EDT
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...
Bell argues site-blocking doesn’t need CRTC approval
Media | 09/04/2020 5:18 pm EDT
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...
CNOC argues Cabinet’s wholesale decision has no bearing on court appeal
telecom | 08/26/2020 4:35 pm EDT
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 argues court should ignore cabinet’s wholesale rates decision
telecom | 08/25/2020 5:18 pm EDT
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...
Bell tells court cabinet decision on wholesale ‘vindicates’ its concerns
telecom | 08/20/2020 5:52 pm EDT
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...
Bell bringing cabinet’s wholesale appeal response to Federal Court
telecom | 08/17/2020 7:56 pm EDT
Lawyers representing BCE Inc. have asked a Federal Court of Appeal judge to...
Network outage impacts services in Ontario, Quebec
telecom | 08/06/2020 6:52 pm EDT
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...
CIRA, CIPPIC, BCCLA intervene in site-blocking case
telecom | 08/04/2020 5:07 pm EDT
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...
Most telecoms say no need for paper billing rules
telecom | 07/06/2020 5:19 pm EDT
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...
Telecoms end overage fees suspension
telecom | 07/02/2020 4:52 pm EDT
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...
Bell was previously in favour of retroactive payments, TekSavvy argues
telecom | 06/26/2020 8:34 pm EDT
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 argues Rogers unfairly applying ITMP
telecom | 06/10/2020 4:12 pm EDT
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has asked the CRTC to force Rogers Communications Inc. to stop applying an...
Wholesale rates stay ‘forces’ Distributel to apply temporary surcharge
telecom | 06/03/2020 3:18 pm EDT
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...
SaskTel to resume charging overage fees on June 9
telecom | 05/29/2020 2:13 pm EDT
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...
Wholesale rate appeal to go ahead in June via video conference
telecom | 05/25/2020 6:05 pm EDT
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...
Companies behind site-blocking order want interventions limited
telecom | 05/22/2020 5:05 pm EDT
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...
Incumbents ask court for delay of wholesale rate appeal
telecom | 05/21/2020 6:01 pm EDT
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...
Wholesale debate moves to transport in CRTC rural broadband consult
telecom | 05/15/2020 2:33 pm EDT
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...
Premier League and Dazn support site blocking order
telecom | 05/12/2020 7:48 pm EDT
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...
Conservatives and NDP united for enforcement of wholesale rates
telecom | 05/05/2020 5:27 pm EDT
Opposition parties that normally hold differing views on any given issue...
Cogeco to bring back overage fees as of May 1
telecom | 04/30/2020 2:10 pm EDT
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...
Retroactive payments for wholesale rates are not a tax: CNOC
telecom | 04/29/2020 5:45 pm EDT
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...
‘Work together,’ CRTC tells wholesale-based ISPs, incumbents
telecom | 04/23/2020 1:21 pm EDT
The CRTC has responded to a letter from The Canadian Network Operators...
TekSavvy also calls for lower, emergency wholesale rates
telecom | 04/14/2020 6:42 pm EDT
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...
Incumbents using COVID-19 to tamper with procedures, CNOC, TekSavvy claim
telecom | 04/09/2020 8:07 pm EDT
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...
Rempel Garner calls on Bains, CRTC to enforce wholesale rates
telecom | 04/09/2020 5:15 pm EDT
Conservative industry critic Michelle Rempel Garner has called on...
Teksavvy lays off staff, increases internet bills
telecom | 03/26/2020 6:39 pm EDT
Teksavvy Solutions Inc. has laid off 130 staff and will implement a flat $5 bill increase for its...
COVID-19 prompts multiple ISPs to suspend data caps
telecom | 03/13/2020 5:46 pm EDT
Multiple Canadian internet providers have suspended caps on data usage as they prepare for a huge...
Site-blocking further expanded in GoldTV case
Media | 03/13/2020 4:28 pm EDT
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...
Canadian prices will ‘always be higher’: Bragg
telecom | 02/21/2020 7:40 pm EST
GATINEAU, Que. — According to Lee Bragg, CEO of Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink, it is “really...
Teksavvy asks Competition Bureau to investigate Rogers, Bell
telecom | 02/20/2020 6:42 pm EST
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...
CIPPIC, CIRA to challenge court authority in site-blocking case
telecom | 02/07/2020 3:54 pm EST
Both the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) and the Canadian...
VMedia blasts ‘regressive’ BTLR recommendation
telecom | 02/05/2020 4:38 pm EST
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...