Iristel Inc.’s arguments that the CRTC was wrong to dismiss its allegations of tariff violations in the company’s dispute with BCE Inc. have once again been rejected by...
The CRTC issued a new framework for the Independent Local News Fund (ILNF) on Monday, June 9. The ruling was contentious, with three commissioners attaching dissenting...
BCE Inc. property Northwestel Inc. now has permission from the CRTC to...
The CRTC announced late Friday, Feb. 28 that it is delaying the timeline for transitioning to next...
The CRTC has approved BCE Inc.’s application to provide local voice...
OTTAWA — If BCE Inc.’s suggestion in September that the federal...
Bram Abramson, chief legal and regulatory officer at TekSavvy Solutions Inc., is leaving the company.
Abramson joined TekSavvy in 2014, moving from Toronto law firm McCarthy Tétrault.
Abramson said in an email Monday that he is “proud to have helped amplify TekSavvy’s and independent competitors’ voices in policy debates, and will continue to serve on the [Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services] board on behalf of competitors and smaller companies.”
On Wednesday, Mozilla Corp....
The CRTC kickstarted the industry’s move to a disaggregated wholesale...
On Wednesday, major internet and tech companies teamed up to rally against...
TORONTO — Representatives from the big three were on the defense a day...
As large Internet Service Providers (ISPs) push on with the build of fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks, small providers say they are encountering an increasing number of areas where they have no...
As the federal government gears up to review the Copyright Act later this year, information about the rate of piracy in Canada remains elusive, two full years since the implementation of the...
GATINEAU, Que. — Advocates are calling the CRTC’s new basic service requirements — which include a minimum of 50 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload speeds and LTE coverage —...
The CRTC has missed an opportunity to foster innovation among telecom competitors as it moves forward in the implementation of mandated wholesale access by smaller Internet service providers (ISPs) to...
TORONTO — Executives from Canada’s telecom companies took aim at a new bill by the Quebec government that would force Internet service providers (ISPs) to block some gambling websites...
New Quebec legislation forcing Internet service providers (ISPs) to block certain online gambling websites from being accessed in the province could put smaller ISPs out of business, industry reps said. Last week, Quebec’s national assembly adopted Bill 74, which put into force several measures introduced in the province’s 2015 budget. Among these were changes to the Consumer Protection Act, making it illegal for ISPs to “give access to an online gambling site whose operation...
Independent Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and advocacy groups said Wednesday they’re encouraged by the federal government’s rejection of BCE Inc.’s appeal of the CRTC...
OTTAWA — A panel discussion on net neutrality Friday dug into whether zero-rating can help or harm market competition, with Ted Woodhead, senior vice-president of regulatory affairs at Telus Corp. taking issue with the...
In recent weeks, BCE Inc. and HBO have begun using copyright infringement notices to steer recipients toward legal sources of TV content — but some of the Internet service providers...
GATINEAU, Que. — On the first day of the CRTC’s hearing on what basic telecom services should be available to all Canadians, small ISP TekSavvy Solutions Inc. asked the CRTC to...
The CRTC issued Thursday a new approach to how the rates small companies pay large telecoms for wholesale Internet services are set, stating that “current wholesale [high-speed access] service rates are likely not just and reasonable.” It directed large telecoms to file new cost studies relating to the rates they charge for wholesale high-speed Internet access. The new prices that come out of that costing process will apply to all wholesale high-speed access (HAS) rates, which the CRTC made interim “as of the date of this decision.” That means any changes to the rates...
Too much reliance on landline-phone-service revenue, combined with a heavy debt load, has resulted in Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc. being placed in creditor protection and awaiting court...
The CRTC has denied TekSavvy Solutions Inc.'s request for interim relief in a situation where Rogers Communications Inc. is slated to replace some legacy cable in a Toronto neighbourhood with...
TORONTO — With a key decision from the CRTC on smaller service providers’ access to wireline telecommunications networks expected soon, three incumbents’ regulatory bosses took on...
The CRTC is demanding that four of Canada’s largest cable companies and small ISPs represented by the Canadian Network Operators’ Consortium (CNOC) work out a dispute over customer service...
After "significant" investments in time and money to prepare for the notice-and-notice regime that went into effect this month, independent Internet service providers Teksavvy Solutions Inc....
The CRTC faces another major policy hearing next month, and this one has the potential to affect independent Internet service providers that depend on major telecom companies to connect them to customers. In September, the...
As the CRTC prepares for a week of hearings beginning Monday on the future of wholesale wireless in Canada, the rules regarding wholesale Internet access may be a predictor of how the regulator will...
GATINEAU, Que. — Independent ISP TekSavvySolutions Inc. told the CRTC Tuesday it is considering becoming a TV distributor, on the same day that it announced a “partnership” with Hastings Cable Vision Ltd., an...
Friday’s Supreme Court decision requiring law enforcement to get a warrant in order to obtain customers’ personal information from Internet service providers muddies the water around lawful access legislation, according to lawyer John Lawford, executive director of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC). In the unanimous opinion, Judge Thomas Cromwell said the reasonable expectation of privacy on the Internet includes anonymity, and that warrantless requests for subscriber information, as routinely practiced under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents...
Communications lawyer Bram Abramson has joined Teksavvy Solutions Inc. as chief legal and regulatory officer. Abramson left McCarthy Tétrault, a Toronto-based business law firm, where he specialized in telecommunications and regulation. Abramson received his law degree from McGill University in 2007, according to his LinkedIn page....
