If the CRTC implements a standardized labeling system for internet service providers (ISPs), it should impose them on all carriers, no matter the size, several intervenors in a proceeding told the regulator. A commission panel on the issue wrapped up its hearings on Friday,...
SSi Canada says a partnership with satellite and connectivity services provider SES S.A. will deliver a “large, large amount” of extra capacity for its QINIQ broadband and mobile services in the country’s north, allowing SSi to again add new customers and provide continual service for its existing ones. The partnership with SES Networks, announced in a media release Monday, will deliver new satellite capacity to Canada’s north, including all 25 communities of Nunavut. SSi Canada’s chief development officer Dean Proctor said in a phone interview that the company was not making...
GATINEAU, Que. — Setting a basic speed requirement doesn’t do the North any good when it comes to improving Internet access, unless there’s necessary backbone infrastructure in...