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Infrastructure investments could see cuts due to wholesale rates: Bibic, French
telecom | 09/28/2023 6:54 pm EDT
BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. reiterated their concerns around the CRTC’s ongoing review of the wholesale high-speed access framework, warning regulators of the delicate balance...
Bell blames advertising, challenging regulatory environment, for its 1,300 layoffs and closed radio stations
Media | 06/14/2023 2:17 pm EDT
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...
Bell mopped up customers switching from Rogers in Q3
Media | 11/03/2022 6:15 pm EDT
BCE Inc. reported what it said were record subscriber additions in the third quarter of 2022, according...
Ethics commissioner finds no conflict of interest in TekSavvy complaint over Scott-Bibic beer
Media | 08/24/2022 5:29 pm EDT
Canada’s Conflict of Interest and Ethics...
Bell revenues up, profits down as company releases Q2 numbers
telecom | 08/04/2022 3:51 pm EDT
BCE Inc. announced revenues of $5.86 billion for the second quarter of 2022...
TekSavvy wants concrete actions in CRTC policy direction, PIAC argues for directive language
telecom | 07/20/2022 5:13 pm EDT
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) says...
Stakeholder reaction to CRTC policy direction mixed
telecom | 05/27/2022 5:33 pm EDT
Amongst those independent internet service providers (ISPs) who had been pleading with the federal government to overturn the CRTC's 2021 reversal of a 2019 decision that drastically lowered the rates those ISPs paid for access to incumbent networks, reaction to Thursday's...
Integrity Commissioner refers TekSavvy’s Scott complaint to Ethics Commissioner
Media | 05/05/2022 3:20 pm EDT
Public Sector Integrity Commissioner Joe Friday...
TekSavvy asks for investigation by Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of CRTC comish
telecom | 03/02/2022 6:09 pm EST
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has asked the Office of...
Bell posts quarterly profits driven by wireless growth
Media | 11/04/2021 4:25 pm EDT
Bell reported a slight increase in overall revenue of $49 million or 0.8...
3500 auction should result in “careful consideration” by gov: Bell’s Bibic
telecom | 08/05/2021 6:07 pm EDT
For BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic, the high cost of the...
MVNO decision consistent with traditional facilities-based policy: Bell’s Bibic
telecom | 04/29/2021 5:41 pm EDT
BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic told shareholders...
Local news funding needed in C-10: Bell
Media | 03/22/2021 6:07 pm EDT
As the House of Commons Heritage committee hearings on the government's proposed update to the...
Bell says it will spend an extra $1B on networks
Media | 02/04/2021 4:56 pm EST
BCE Inc. announced Thursday morning that it would increase its typical capital expenditure by between $1...
Bell’s Bibic gives a ‘tip of the hat’ on Broadcast Act update
Media | 11/05/2020 6:26 pm EST
BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic praised the updates to the Broadcasting Act...
Randy Lennox to leave Bell Media, Wade Oosterman to take over
telecom | 10/19/2020 6:06 pm EDT
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...
Bell’s Q2 profit plunges by 64 per cent
telecom | 08/06/2020 3:51 pm EDT
BCE Inc.’s second quarter profit dropped to $294 million, a 64 per cent decrease on a year before, with...
Bell upping internet speed for some rural customers to 50 Mbps
telecom | 07/23/2020 4:25 pm EDT
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...
Network performance supports light regulatory touch: Bibic
telecom | 05/27/2020 6:58 pm EDT
The performance of networks in other countries during the COVID-19 crisis...
Bell calls for delayed payments in 3.5 GHz spectrum auction
telecom | 05/07/2020 5:59 pm EDT
While BCE Inc.'s first quarter results showed a decline in profits and...
Bell speeding up rural broadband rollout
telecom | 04/23/2020 3:30 pm EDT
BCE Inc. will be delivering its fixed wireless internet to some 137,000 more homes than it had planned to by this point in its 2020 rollout, according to a Thursday release.
The company said it was increasing the speed of the rollout because of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Bell donating 1.5 million masks to provinces, federal gov’t
Media | 04/17/2020 2:01 pm EDT
BCE Inc. announced Friday that it has acquired 1.5 million N95 and KN95...
Shaw founder JR Shaw dies at 85
telecom | 03/25/2020 2:23 pm EDT
Shaw Communications Inc. founder JR Shaw has passed away at the age of 85, the company said Tuesday....
Bell picks ‘first’ 5G vendor, says regulatory to affect buildout
telecom | 02/06/2020 5:25 pm EST
BCE Inc. will start building out its 5G network with equipment supplied by...
Bell to focus on declining mobile service prices in MVNO review
Media | 10/31/2019 5:40 pm EDT
Ahead of the CRTC’s wireless review early next year, and on the heels of...
Bibic’s background an asset in CEO transition at Bell: observers
Media | 06/28/2019 7:56 am EDT
The imminent departure of BCE Inc. CEO George Cope, announced Friday...
Bell calls for revocation of TVA Sports licence at tense CRTC hearing
Media | 04/17/2019 5:44 pm EDT
Gatineau, Que. — Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau was unrepentant...
Bibic named Bell COO
telecom | 10/04/2018 2:35 pm EDT
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...
Incumbents defend wireless prices after Bains criticism
telecom | 06/06/2017 7:59 pm EDT
TORONTO — Representatives from the big three were on the defense a day...
Industry execs blast Quebec Internet-blocking, call for CRTC involvement
Media | 06/08/2016 12:29 am EDT
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...
Sweeping government review to include CRTC, Broadcast Act, CanCon
Media | 04/25/2016 10:56 pm EDT
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...
TekSavvy’s Abramson takes on incumbents at Telecom Summit
telecom | 06/02/2015 7:36 pm EDT
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...
Rogers includes NHL streaming, Shomi with new Internet packages
telecom | 03/04/2015 9:50 pm EST
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...
CRTC says no to Bell meeting regarding simsub
Media | 02/02/2015 10:18 pm EST
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...
Mandating wholesale FTTH would be ‘another risk factor’: Bell
telecom | 11/26/2014 9:53 pm EST
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). Bell chief legal and regulatory officer Mirko Bibic said that while mandated access won’t “immediately grind investment [in FTTH] to a halt in every location in Canada,” it “will have an impact.” “Mandated access rules will affect the pace of deployment and breadth of deployment. That’s essentially the issue,” he said,...
Bell files complaint against Rogers’ online NHL offerings
Media | 10/21/2014 7:17 pm EDT
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,...
Carriers ask CRTC to take powers from government
telecom | 10/02/2014 9:37 pm EDT
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...
Local TV needs another revenue stream: Bell
Media | 09/10/2014 9:13 pm EDT
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...
CRTC warns companies as rural broadband deadline looms
telecom | 06/06/2014 8:45 pm EDT
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...
Bell defends targeted ad program as ‘transparent’
Media | 05/01/2014 2:07 am EDT
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...
Privacy czar calls for greater powers on telecom data sharing
telecom | 04/29/2014 7:16 pm EDT
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...
We will ‘manage through’ conditions on Astral acquisition, Bell says
Media | 06/28/2013 9:07 pm EDT
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 benefits from ‘unintended consequences’ of auction rules: Bibic
telecom | 06/28/2013 8:47 pm EDT
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...
Former Bell executive Alain Gourd dies at 66
Media | 12/12/2012 9:48 pm EST
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...