TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is looking to the Supreme Court of Canada for an assist in its efforts to fight the CRTC’s reversal of a decision that would have slashed wholesale...
In order to truly measure progress on closing the digital divide in Canada, tracking affordability of internet services should be one of the key factors, says former CRTC...
Reaction has been swift and condemnatory to the announcement Thursday by...
Lobby group OpenMedia has been polling the public about what the major issues in broadcasting and telecom...
Ian Scott's tenure as chair of the CRTC comes to a close Thursday. The Wire Report sat down with Scott to...
CRTC chair Ian Scott is firing a warning at...
The CRTC is now accepting applications for eligible transport infrastructure projects, mobile wireless infrastructure projects that provide or upgrade connectivity along major...
MISSISSAUGA – CRTC chair Ian Scott said he does not know what the state of the CRTC’s finances will look like in future but the commission is “fine” for the moment as it prepares to take on a...
CRTC chair Ian Scott told members of the Senate Committee on Transport and Communication that the...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and CRTC chair Ian Scott were...
Canada’s Conflict of Interest and Ethics...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) says...
In an uncommonly strongly worded letter, the CRTC has asked Rogers Communications Inc. to provide a broad...
Public interest advocacy groups and the union representing CBC/Radio-Canada workers are sounding the alarm about the level of programming discretion afforded to the public broadcaster under the five year licence renewal released...
The CRTC chair has said that social media...
CRTC chair Ian Scott told the House of Commons Heritage Committee Tuesday that Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, is needed to modernize Canada’s broadcast sector. The Broadcasting Act from 1991 did a lot of good but stands out as a product of its time, he said.
“I...
The CRTC will take at least two years to fully...
CRTC chair Ian Scott told conference attendees...
Public Sector Integrity Commissioner Joe Friday...
The CRTC is generally supportive of Bill C-11, the revised broadcasting...
The CRTC has acknowledged the concern of certain stakeholders about the regulator's delay in resolving a number of files still open before it, and has written that it, too, is concerned about the delays.
In a Wednesday letter sent to Competitive Network Operators of...
The industry group Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) has sent a letter personally addressed...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has asked the Office of...
In an at-times testy exchange between CRTC chair Ian Scott and MPs on the...
The trade group Competitive Network Operators of...
MISSISSAUGA - On the second day of the Canadian Telecom Summit, Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau...
CRTC chair Ian Scott said he believes the commission’s pick of a...
The CRTC has awarded up to $26.7 million to five transport projects that will improve broadband connectivity in British Columbia, Ontario and Saskatchewan as part of the second funding call for its $750 million Broadband Fund. ...
The COVID-19 pandemic dropped CBC/Radio-Canada’s revenues by 11 per cent,...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) and advocacy group OpenMedia told MPs the federal government needs to demonstrate more political will to bring lower internet and wireless prices to Canada, two days after Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains told the same...
The CRTC will release a report detailing the impact of online services on the state of video and television and video distribution in Canada and some nine other countries before the end of the year,...
A day after CRTC chairman Ian Scott addressed the Competitive Network Operators of Canada's ISP Summit and gave no more details about when the regulator would give some finality to the issue of...
In almost all cases, Canadian internet consumers are receiving service at...
Lawyers representing BCE Inc. have asked a Federal Court of Appeal judge to...
The CRTC largely played a hands-off role during the COVID-19 pandemic in a bid to allow Canadian telecoms to “do what needed to be done,” chairman Ian Scott said in an interview.
Scott said that when he initially reached out to telecoms at the beginning of the...
As the CRTC announced the first recipients of its $750-million rural...
The CRTC is switching to an online format for a radio broadcast licence hearing originally scheduled to be held in Gatineau, Que. last month. The virtual hearing will now take place on June 16 and look at five radio stations that “appear to be in serious non-compliance with their regulatory requirements, certain conditions of licence or mandatory orders issued by the Commission,” the CRTC said in a press release....
Rogers Communications Inc. and Quebecor Inc. have asked the CRTC to compel BCE Inc. to allow them to attach small cell technologies to Bell’s poles at rates set by the Support Structure Service...
The CRTC has delayed the launch of new proceedings due to COVID-19, stating it’s aware the telecommunications industry’s primary focus is on delivering services to Canadians. In a statement...
OTTAWA — Calls are only a part of the problem of nuisance and fraudulent...
As part of their ongoing effort to fight content piracy, two of Canada’s largest media and telecom...
GATINEAU, Que. — The CRTC’s two-week wireless policy review kicked off...
Complaints about the national emergency alert system have prompted the CRTC...
The CRTC Monday announced that it will ask telecom companies to implement a particular anti-call spoofing protocol, called STIR/SHAKEN, by September 30, 2020, and they will have to develop their own technology to do so.
The technology will not block calls from coming...
CRTC chairman Ian Scott said the new internet code will address many of the...
Two media groups have filed formal petitions to the Governor in Council, asking the government to...
TORONTO — Executives from Canada’s biggest carriers defended the...
TORONTO — During a speech at an industry conference Monday, CRTC chairman...
TORONTO —The CRTC chose to initially target its long-awaited broadband fund on Canada’s North because that’s the area with the most need for improvement when it comes to...
The CRTC will register a mandatory order with the Federal Court forbidding Quebecor Inc. from withholding the signal for TVA Sports from BCE Inc. subscribers — meaning that if Quebecor chooses to...
Gatineau, Que. — Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau was unrepentant...
The CRTC has created a new chief of consumer, research and communications...
The Liberal government is proposing a significant departure...
CRTC Chairman Ian Scott defended the eligibility speeds for the...
Canada’s telecommunications industry suffers from an “unacceptable...
Canada’s current laws implicitly protecting net neutrality are sufficient...
The CRTC is formally asking the federal government to make one regulatory...
GATINEAU, QUE. -- Rogers Communications Inc. is taking what it learned a year ago and is proposing to rectify what a previous CRTC panel said were shortcomings to run its national ethnic channel for a full five-year term. When the CRTC in 2017 granted Rogers the sole licence to operate its OMNI Regional as a mandatory channel broadcasters had to air on their slate of basic service television programs, it handed the licence on a shorter-than-requested three-year basis. It did so because...
The CRTC has rejected a request by BCE Inc. to bring back simultaneous commercial substitution in time for next year’s Super Bowl, pending a ruling by Canada’s top court and implementation of the...
TORONTO — The idea of cross-subsidization of industries did not find...
OTTAWA — Canada’s privacy commissioner said Thursday that comments...
OTTAWA — The billions of dollars Rogers Communications Inc. says it’s...
OTTAWA — The head of Canada’s telecom regulator says clarity on where it stands when it comes to resolving disagreements over the rollout of 5G infrastructure is one...
GATINEAU –– BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. defended their sales tactics Friday after a week...
GATINEAU— CRTC Chairman Ian Scott opened public...
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters registered to lobby the federal government on its review of the Copyright Act in July, which was otherwise a sleepy month in telecom and media government...
Amir Bigloo, who has a history of successful spectrum purchases as CEO of...
OTTAWA — Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains said Thursday afternoon that...
GATINEAU — The CRTC is recommending the government undertake a bevy of...
A new organization called the Centre for Digital Rights (CDR) that is...
Rogers Communications Inc. and BCE Inc. have registered to lobby the...
A decades-old organization that is pushing for a multilateral approach to decision-making on the future of the internet has registered to lobby the government for the first time.
The Feb. 20 registration under consultant Kathleen Monk of Earnscliffe Strategy Group is on...
Having facilities-based carriers offer low-cost data-only plans is a better way to fulfill the government’s goals of more affordable wireless options for consumers than mandating roaming access by...
Over six years after it was established, a government-funded non-profit initiative seeking to deliver...
The CRTC has told the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) that Canadians have other outlets for complaints about telecom sales practices in response to a request from the consumer group to open an...
In a Thursday decision, the CRTC denied an effort by a collection of public...
Weeks ahead of the 2018 Super Bowl, BCE Inc., along with the National Football League (NFL), is turning to the Supreme Court of Canada over the CRTC’s decision to ban...
Stingray Digital Group Inc. and Birch Hill Equity Partners ramped up their lobbying in December, with both submitting their first communications reports for the year in the last weeks of 2017....
Alphabet Inc.’s Sidewalk Labs kicked off the new year by registering to...
A few months after the emergence of a proposal asking the CRTC to shift...
GATINEAU, Que. — There are still some problems with the implementation...
Promoting Canadian content and supporting creators, service affordability and encouraging competition and investment by companies are among the priorities outlined in the federal government’s...
As the head of an organization that must hear and decide on issues that...
Everything old is new again when it comes to telecom and media issues...
CRTC chairman Ian Scott has released his first statement since taking the...
Former CRTC vice-chairman of telecom Peter Menzies is predicting that new chairman Ian Scott will bow to the calls to reverse his predecessors’ decision banning simultaneous substitution of advertising for the Super Bowl on Canadian networks.
In a Tuesday op-ed in...
With six months until kick off, BCE Inc. and its supporters are asking the CRTC to put a freeze on its...
The choice of Ian Scott as the new chairman of the CRTC was greeted...
As-yet-unlaunched satellites will make more Internet capacity available at a lower cost in rural and remote areas, satellite providers told the CRTC Wednesday, on the third day of its three-week...
