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Champagne announces network sharing agreement following Rogers outage
telecom | 09/07/2022 4:35 pm EDT
Wednesday Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced a network sharing agreement for telecom service providers (TSPs) in response to the...
CRTC to forbear from regulating IXPL services on 12 additional routes
telecom | 03/25/2022 4:32 pm EDT
The CRTC has added a dozen additional routes to its list of interexchange private line (IXPL) services that it is forbearing from regulation.
In a decision released Friday,...
Part 1 over Calgary access agreement reinstated
telecom | 12/20/2017 4:49 pm EST
The CRTC has resumed a proceeding regarding municipal access by telecoms in the city of Calgary, even...
Disaggregated regime to spark new wholesale models, agreements: CNOC
telecom | 11/07/2017 6:12 pm EST
TORONTO — The CRTC’s new disaggregated wholesale regime will bring with...
Canadian fibre could be up for grabs if Zayo sold: analyst
telecom | 03/02/2017 9:45 pm EST
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...
Telecoms to challenge Calgary bylaw in court
telecom | 01/31/2017 8:45 pm EST
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....
As online video, data transmissions grow, need for CDNs expanding
Media | 01/09/2017 9:18 pm EST
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 of digital content is consumed and emerging technologies like 4K and virtual reality grow. Among the features provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS), which made its debut in Montreal in December, is a service called “CloudFront,” a content delivery network (CDN) with...
Court dismisses dispute over hydro pole pricing
telecom | 12/20/2016 10:31 pm EST
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...
CRTC rejects wholesale wireline policy review
telecom | 06/29/2016 5:49 pm EDT
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...
Experts say approval of Bell’s MTS acquisition likely
telecom | 05/02/2016 2:12 pm EDT
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...
MTS completes sale of Allstream to Zayo
Media | 01/15/2016 2:29 pm EST
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...
Forbes downplays potential MTS selloff after Allstream deal
telecom | 11/23/2015 9:38 pm EST
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....