Alberta IT system integrator Sunco Communication and Installation Ltd. is buying the PBX business of Zayo Group Holdings Inc., an American network provider. The sale was announced Thursday evening after the markets closed.
The purchase will allow Sunco to expand its...
A working group composed of Canadian telecommunication service providers (CTSPs) and experts from the department of Innovation Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) is asking the government to expand the CRTC’s authority over passive infrastructure and provincially regulated support structures.
Earlier this month the Canadian Telecommunications Network...
Wednesday Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe...
The CRTC has added a dozen additional routes to its list of interexchange...
The CRTC has resumed a proceeding regarding municipal access by telecoms in the city of Calgary, even...
TORONTO — The CRTC’s new disaggregated wholesale regime will bring with...
An American acquisition could create an opening in the Canadian fibre market, according to Desjardins Capital Markets. In a Thursday note, analyst Maher Yaghi highlighted the recent acquisition of a fibre network company in the U.S. and the overall activity of the mergers and acquisition market south of the border. The uptick is believed to be due to fibre being “an important asset to backhaul wireless networks, which now have to carry an increasing amount of data,” as well as the coming capacity demands of 5G networks, the note said. Last week, Verizon...
BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., Shaw Communications Inc., Telus Corp., and Zayo Group Holdings Inc. plan to challenge the constitutional validity of Calgary’s municipal rights-of-way bylaw....
Last month, Amazon.com Inc. announced that its data centre business was expanding into Canada, a move that illustrates what some say is the need for more data points as an increasing amount...
A panel of Ontario Divisional Court judges has dismissed an application from a group of telecom companies disputing the Ontario Energy Board’s handling of setting new rates for attaching communications equipment to hydro...
The CRTC has denied three applications to review recent decisions relating to competitor access to infrastructure, according to notices posted on the regulator’s website on Wednesday. BCE Inc. had applied for review of last year’s wholesale high-speed access policy stemming from a review of wholesale wireline services...
BCE Inc. announced Monday morning that it will purchase Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. in a $3.9 billion transaction that, if approved, will see the number of players in Manitoba’s telecom...
Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. announced Friday it has completed the sale of Allstream, its business communication division, to Boulder, Colo.-based Zayo Group Holdings Inc. MTS said in a news release that the deal, announced in...
Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. CEO Jay Forbes on Monday downplayed the likelihood that the whole company could be sold in the wake of a deal to unload its business communications division, Allstream....
