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. Telecom firms surveyed are posting the most substantial reductions in increase budgets, the report states.
After surveying 400 companies across the nation, Normandin Beaudry discovered that the...
BCE Inc. is seeking to eliminate up to 1,200 positions in its telecommunications division. The workers affected are unionized.
“We have informed the unions that Bell...
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...
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 purchase of Ziply Fiber of Kirkland, Washington. Bell will pay C$5 billion and assume a further C$2 billion of Ziply’s debt. The American firm has operations in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and...
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...
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 the expansion of high-speed fiber Internet services, following a recent decision by the CRTC.
Bell's decision to reduce planned network investment by over $1 billion in 2024-25, including a minimum...
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...
BCE Inc. reported what it said were record subscriber additions in the third quarter of 2022, according...
Canada’s Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner will not be opening an investigation into CRTC chair Ian Scott’s 2019 beer with BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic having found...
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...
BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic told shareholders...
As the House of Commons Heritage committee hearings on the government's proposed update to the Broadcasting Act carries on, BCE Inc. told the committee in a Monday meeting that while it supports the bill, it needs a carve-out of funding for local news broadcasters.
Even...
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,...
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 wireless customers will be boosted to speeds "up to" 50 Mbps for download, and 10 Mbps for upload, which is the CRTC's universal service objective — the minimum speeds it said in 2016 that all Canadians should have access to. Both rollouts are set to begin this fall, according to a Thursday release. "The intense usage of Wireless Home Internet and positive feedback from our rural...
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...
The imminent departure of BCE Inc. CEO George Cope, announced Friday...
Gatineau, Que. — Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau was unrepentant as he justified his decision to pull the TVA Sports signal from BCE Inc. TV subscribers Wednesday,...
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...
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 their counterpart at TekSavvy Solutions Inc. over the issue at the Canadian Telecom Summit on Tuesday. During the so-called “Regulatory Blockbuster” panel discussion, TekSavvy chief regulatory officer Bram Abramson found himself arguing the merits of stronger oversight over the prices companies like his have to pay for access to networks owned by the major telecoms. “You’ll...
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...
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 information to other parties, including government agencies, without a warrant. Bernier, speaking at a Senate transport and communications committee hearing into privacy and data collection policies at BCE Inc., said her office is unaware how many government requests are made for customer data or how many of them are fulfilled. “We have tried many times, we have sought out information from the...
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,...
