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Bell says broadcasters, streamers should pay into fund for mandatory services

Media | 06/18/2025 7:34 pm EDT

Bell says broadcasters, streamers should pay into fund for mandatory servicesImportant programs that the CRTC decides are mandatory for broadcasters to carry on their services should be supported by a dedicated fund paid into by both traditional...

Bell vows to maintain CanCon; TLN says ethnic stations could be hurt by changes to system

Media | 05/23/2025 2:58 pm EDT

Bell vows to maintain CanCon; TLN says ethnic stations could be hurt by changes to systemBCE Inc. says it is producing Canadian content (CanCon) above mandated levels and will continue to do so, no matter what the CRTC decides new standards should be. The company...

Bell lays out contribution framework proposal at CRTC

Internet and Governance | 11/22/2023 9:13 am EST

Bell lays out contribution framework proposal at CRTCBCE Inc. revealed more details on Tuesday on its proposal for how base contributions from online...

Local news funding needed in C-10: Bell

Media | 03/22/2021 6:07 pm EDT

Local news funding needed in C-10: BellAs the House of Commons Heritage committee hearings on the government's proposed update to the...

Fraud, nuisance calls will ‘never go away’: CRTC chairman

Media | 03/10/2020 6:17 pm EDT

CRTC changes position on MVNOs, proposes mandated accessOTTAWA — Calls are only a part of the problem of nuisance and fraudulent...

No proven harm from differential pricing: Bell

Media | 11/01/2016 9:41 pm EDT

GATINEAU — The CRTC shouldn’t take the non-participation in this week’s hearing by content providers who might eventually benefit from zero-rating and other differential pricing practices as non-interest, a...

FTTH to cover 90% of Bell footprint in 10 years: Cope

Media | 11/12/2015 8:10 pm EST

BCE Inc. will cover about 90 per cent of its wireline footprint with fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) in a little less or a little more than a decade, though the issue of whether smaller Internet service providers will get mandated access to such networks will affect the build-out in an unspecified fashion, Bell CEO George Cope said Thursday. "I don't know if it will be eight years, I don't know if it will be 12 years, but we will have glass to 90 per cent of the homes, that being fibre to 90 per cent of the homes," he said during the Scotiabank Telecom & Cable Conference held...

Liberals’ infrastructure plans could extend to telecom: lawyer

Media | 11/12/2015 1:44 am EST

TORONTO — The newly elected Liberal government has indicated infrastructure will be a priority, and that could include telecom infrastructure, said lawyer Chris Tacit during a panel...

CRTC urged to look toward future on wireline regulation

telecom | 12/03/2014 8:44 pm EST

GATINEAU, Que. — On Wednesday, the first day of replies in the CRTC’s wholesale wireline hearing, the regulator was consistently asked to look to the future in determining how best to...

Telecoms square off on government intervention

telecom | 06/18/2014 1:01 am EDT

TORONTO — Canada’s biggest telecom companies faced off with one of their smaller rivals over the government’s approach to regulating the wireless industry at the Canadian Telecom Summit on Tuesday. Ted Woodhead,...