BCE Inc. has entered into a partnership with the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) to create a fibre company in the United States, the Canadian telecom...
The Supreme Court of Canada has rejected TekSavvy Solutions Inc.’s request for leave to appeal the CRTC’s reversal of a 2019 decision that would have slashed wholesale access rates for competitor internet providers.
The country’s highest court issued its judgment...
A survey by consulting firm Normandin Beaudry has found that Canadian companies in general are exercising caution when it comes to increasing compensation to their employees....
BCE Inc. is seeking to eliminate up to 1,200 positions in its...
BCE Inc. is hoping the CRTC will overturn its...
Members of the federal standing committee on industry and technology (INDU)...
A union representing thousands of BCE Inc. employees is concerned that the Canadian telecom and broadcasting giant is expanding into the United States. In early November, Bell announced plans to purchase Ziply Fiber, operating in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S.
The move...
BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic expressed optimism over his company’s recent acquisition of U.S. telco Ziply...
BCE Inc. has moved into the Pacific Northwest of the United States with the...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is looking to the Supreme Court of Canada for an...
Rogers Communications Inc. is picking up BCE Inc.’s stake in Maple Leaf...
A New Democratic Party MP attacked BCE Inc. for not knowing its customers...
Unifor, Canada’s largest private sector union, called on BCE Inc. to answer for its recent layoff...
The presidents of the Big Three telecoms told the House of Commons Industry...
Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne...
BCE Inc. announced Thursday that it will be restructuring by eliminating 4,800 positions, divesting more than 40 per cent of its radio stations, cutting CTV newscasts, and...
After almost two hours of deliberation last Thursday, the House industry and technology committee failed...
BCE Inc. has announced its decision to cut capital expenditures and reduce...
In a Thursday quarterly earnings conference call, BCE Inc.'s president and...
BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. reiterated their concerns around the CRTC’s...
Approximately 1,300 BCE Inc. employees will be left without a job, six radio stations closed and three sold due to “a challenging regulatory environment,” the company...
BCE Inc. reported what it said were record subscriber additions in the third quarter of 2022, according...
Canada’s Conflict of Interest and Ethics...
BCE Inc. announced revenues of $5.86 billion for the second quarter of 2022...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) says...
Amongst those independent internet service providers (ISPs) who had been pleading with the federal...
Public Sector Integrity Commissioner Joe Friday...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has asked the Office of...
Bell reported a slight increase in overall revenue of $49 million or 0.8...
For BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic, the high cost of the 3,500 MHz spectrum auction should result in the federal government making "careful consideration" in its assessment of...
BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic told shareholders...
As the House of Commons Heritage committee hearings on the government's proposed update to the...
BCE Inc. announced Thursday morning that it would increase its typical capital expenditure by between $1...
BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic praised the updates to the Broadcasting Act...
President of BCE Inc.'s Bell Media Randy Lennox will step down on Jan. 4, and will be replaced by Wade Oosterman, currently the Bell Group president and vice-chair.
"On behalf of everyone at Bell, I would like to thank Randy for his leadership at Bell Media and his...
BCE Inc.’s second quarter profit dropped to $294 million, a 64 per cent decrease on a year before, with...
BCE Inc. announced today that it is increasing the speed of its fixed wireless home internet service for some 300,000 rural homes, and will expand the service into parts of Atlantic Canada. Fixed...
The performance of networks in other countries during the COVID-19 crisis...
While BCE Inc.'s first quarter results showed a decline in profits and...
BCE Inc. will be delivering its fixed wireless internet to some 137,000 more homes than it had planned to...
BCE Inc. announced Friday that it has acquired 1.5 million N95 and KN95...
Shaw Communications Inc. founder JR Shaw has passed away at the age of 85, the company said Tuesday....
BCE Inc. will start building out its 5G network with equipment supplied by...
Ahead of the CRTC’s wireless review early next year, and on the heels of a report showing Canada is among the highest-priced jurisdictions in the world for data, BCE Inc. executives on Thursday focused on the declining cost of data to push the point that regulatory...
The imminent departure of BCE Inc. CEO George Cope, announced Friday...
Gatineau, Que. — Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau was unrepentant...
BCE Inc.’s head of regulatory, Mirko Bibic, has been named its new chief operating officer.
Bell said in a press release Thursday that in his new role, Bibic will “lead...
TORONTO — Representatives from the big three were on the defense a day...
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 Tuesday, saying the CRTC should take action on the issue. During a panel discussion at the Canadian Telecom Summit Tuesday, Ted Woodhead, senior vice-president of regulatory affairs at Telus Corp., said the Bill 74 measure to block certain gambling websites is “about as offensive to the net...
Industry insiders and observers are calling Canadian Heritage’s impending study of Canadian content in the digital age — which could potentially affect CBC/Radio-Canada, legislation like...
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...
On Wednesday Rogers Communications Inc. announced a new brand of broadband Internet, Ignite, that comes bundled with subscriptions to two of Rogers' online video-streaming services. The company...
The CRTC has turned down a request from BCE Inc. to meet and discuss the regulator's decision to get rid of simultaneous substitution for the Super Bowl starting in 2017. Last week, the CRTC said it has decided to maintain...
GATINEAU, Que. — BCE Inc. told the CRTC Wednesday that many of its customers could be delayed from upgrading to an Internet connection faster than what's available through fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) if smaller Internet service providers receive the right to buy wholesale space on fibre-to-the-home networks (FTTH)....
BCE Inc. has filed a challenge with the CRTC against Rogers Communications Inc.’s plan to offer its own customers free access to its NHL streaming product until the end of the year as well as exclusive content while watching games. Bell claims the free trial of Rogers’ NHL GameCentre, announced in September,...
GATINEAU, Que. — Two of Canada's largest wireless carriers called on the CRTC to take some regulatory power from Industry Canada at the commission's week-long hearing into the wholesale wireless market. Both Rogers...
GATINEAU, Que. — BCE Inc. executives asked the CRTC Wednesday to put in place a “local specialty” model for local television stations, which it said are no longer financially sustainable. “The economics of...
This week the CRTC warned three companies — Telus Corp., BCE Inc. and Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. — about missing a late-August deadline for expanding broadband service to rural communities. The deadline is part of a 2006 agreement on the use of money set aside from the companies’ telephone operations as independent local exchange carriers (ILECs) between 2002 and 2006 at the behest of the CRTC. “Commission staff considers that a failure by an ILEC to complete its broadband rollout plan by the established deadline is a serious matter,” the CRTC wrote in a...
BCE Inc.’s chief legal and regulatory officer told a Senate hearing on Wednesday night that his company’s targeted advertising program respects Canada’s current privacy laws. Mirko Bibic repeatedly compared his...
Interim Privacy Commissioner Chantal Bernier said Tuesday that new legislation is needed to compel Canada’s telecom companies to disclose when they hand over subscribers’ private...
BCE Inc. will “manage through” conditions the CRTC put on the regulatory approval of the company’s $3.38 billion deal to acquire Astral Media Inc., said Mirko Bibic, BCE’s...
Verizon Communications Inc. could buy twice as much spectrum at a lower price than Canada’s wireless incumbent carriers if it enters next year’s 700 MHz spectrum auction, said Mirko Bibic, BCE Inc.’s executive vice-president and chief legal and regulatory officer. Bibic said in an interview with BNN...
Alain Gourd, an independent broadcasting consultant and former chair of an industry-led working group on over-the-top services, died Dec. 8, a release from his firm Alain Gourd Communications Inc. said Tuesday. In the release, the firm said that after successfully battling cancer for about 10 years, Gourd succumbed to bacteria that caused severe pneumonia. He was 66. Gourd served as president and CEO of BCE Inc.'s satellite services (then called BCE Media) in 1998, the release said. He went on to become executive vice-president, corporate, at the former division Bell Globemedia from 2001...
