Numbers up for Bell in Q3, wholesale fibre launch for western Canada expected in January

| 11/06/2025 6:40 pm EST

BCE Inc. issued positive figures in its third...

UPDATED: Bell looking at ‘streamlining’ its brands, with focus on internet & mobility bundling under Bell name

| 10/15/2025 6:13 pm EDT

BCE Inc. held an investors day presentation on...

Bell consolidates cybersecurity services under new ‘Bell Cyber’ brand 

| 09/09/2025 4:54 pm EDT

BCE Inc. is rolling out a new cybersecurity brand as it looks to expand its services aimed at protecting Canadian businesses from digital threats.  During its Cybersecurity Summit in Toronto on...

Bell ‘disappointed’ by feds upholding CRTC wholesale decision, expects fibre footprint to ‘plateau’

| 08/07/2025 7:37 pm EDT

Rather than build more fibre in Canada, BCE Inc....

Cogeco and Eastlink file joint court appeal of wholesale fibre access decision 

| 07/21/2025 5:47 pm EDT

Cogeco Communications Inc. and Bragg Communications Inc., parent company of Eastlink, have filed a motion with the Federal Court of Appeal seeking to overturn the CRTC’s...

Bell creates U.S. fibre firm, cuts dividend in first quarter report

| 05/08/2025 5:52 pm EDT

BCE Inc. has entered into a partnership with the Public Sector Pension...

Supreme Court dismisses TekSavvy’s wholesale rates appeal

| 03/27/2025 5:22 pm EDT

The Supreme Court of Canada has rejected TekSavvy Solutions Inc.’s...

Projected salary increases for telecom employees down as Canadian companies cautious on pay raises

| 02/27/2025 11:46 am EST

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....

Bell offering buyouts to up to 1,200 telecom employees, union questions cuts

| 02/11/2025 3:15 pm EST

BCE Inc. is seeking to eliminate up to 1,200 positions in its...

Bell wants CRTC to reverse Big Three wholesale ruling, as it issues quarterly results

| 02/06/2025 6:01 pm EST

BCE Inc. is hoping the CRTC will overturn its...

INDU committee frustrated with Rogers CEO Staffieri, summons him to appear

telecom | 11/28/2024 4:57 pm EST

Members of the federal standing committee on industry and technology (INDU)...

Union concerned over Bell expansion into United States

telecom | 11/25/2024 1:28 pm EST

A union representing thousands of BCE Inc. employees is concerned that the...

Bell sees revenue decline, reports loss for Q3 2024

telecom | 11/07/2024 7:10 pm EST

BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic expressed optimism over his company’s recent acquisition of U.S. telco Ziply...

Bell acquires U.S. telecom; Eastlink buys in Northern Ontario

telecom | 11/04/2024 1:42 pm EST

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 wants to take fight over 2021 wholesale rate decision to Supreme Court

telecom | 10/10/2024 5:49 pm EDT

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is looking to the Supreme Court of Canada for an...

Rogers buys Bell’s stake in Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment for $4.7B

Media | 09/18/2024 12:05 pm EDT

Rogers Communications Inc. is picking up BCE Inc.’s stake in Maple Leaf...

Ashton says Bell provides poor service to Manitoba communities

telecom | 06/05/2024 6:21 pm EDT

A New Democratic Party MP attacked BCE Inc. for not knowing its customers...

Unifor demands Bell be held accountable for layoffs

Media | 03/19/2024 6:23 pm EDT

Unifor, Canada’s largest private sector union, called on BCE Inc. to answer for its recent layoff...

High spectrum costs are the villain in cellular prices, Big 3 tell INDU

telecom | 03/18/2024 3:52 pm EDT

The presidents of the Big Three telecoms told the House of Commons Industry Committee that it is the government which is one of the biggest offenders in wireless prices....

Champagne second-most lobbied minister, Hill Times finds

telecom | 03/12/2024 3:33 pm EDT

Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne...

CRTC, St-Onge highlight Bell’s profitability in response to 4.8K job cut, CTV and radio closures

Media | 02/08/2024 3:57 pm EST

BCE Inc. announced Thursday that it will be...

INDU debates study of mobile plan price hikes

telecom | 01/15/2024 5:46 pm EST

After almost two hours of deliberation last Thursday, the House industry and technology committee failed...

Bell responds to CRTC decision by cutting fibre investment

telecom | 11/06/2023 8:34 pm EST

BCE Inc. has announced its decision to cut capital expenditures and reduce...

Bell fibre build progress threatened by regulatory uncertainty: Bibic

telecom | 11/02/2023 3:58 pm EDT

In a Thursday quarterly earnings conference call, BCE Inc.'s president and...

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...

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...

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 Commissioner will not be opening an investigation into CRTC chair Ian Scott’s 2019 beer with BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic having found...

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...

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 the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada to open an investigation into what the company has long alleged is a pattern...

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,...

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 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...

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...

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. Shaw founded Capital Cable Television Co. Ltd in 1966, which eventually as Shaw Communications grew into Canada’s largest TV service provider. The company also included a broadcasting division that was spun off into Corus Entertainment Inc., while Shaw entered the wireless market in 2016.  “I spoke to JR every day about the business. He was engaged and interested in everything the company was doing – from the...

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...

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 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...

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 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 Communications Inc. and BCE Inc. want to change the balance of regulation in the wireless business, asking the CRTC to take over the arbitrator role currently filled by Industry Canada in disputes between companies.  On Wednesday Rogers said the commission should take that role on tower sharing, while on Thursday Bell said the CRTC was their regulator of choice...

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,...