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Bell freezes retail internet rollout in Alberta, B.C., blames Telus for ‘blocked’ launch

| 02/13/2026 6:16 pm EST

Bell freezes retail internet rollout in Alberta, B.C., blames Telus for ‘blocked’ launchBCE Inc. has suspended its expansion of retail internet services into Western Canada, alleging that Telus Corp. is deliberately obstructing the company’s use of the...

Open telecom to foreign investment, former competition commissioner says

Internet and Governance | 04/26/2024 5:25 pm EDT

Open telecom to foreign investment, former competition commissioner saysA past Competition Bureau Commissioner is calling on the federal government to loosen the restrictions on foreign investment in telecommunications. Others say a fundamental...

Trudeau says Bell decision to cut jobs is “garbage”; CNOC not surprised

telecom | 02/09/2024 5:07 pm EST

Committee’s ISP tax proposal a non-starter: PMReaction has been swift and condemnatory to the announcement Thursday by...

Bell files leave to appeal over CRTC decision to renew its licence without hearing

Media | 10/16/2023 5:45 pm EDT

The front entrance of the Bell Canada building on Albert Street in Ottawa on Nov. 2, 2021 (photo by Andrew Meade)BCE Inc. filed an application with the Federal Court of Appeal for leave to...

Regulatory delays a slow-moving incumbent tantrum: CNOC

telecom | 11/19/2020 1:53 pm EST

Regulatory delays a slow-moving incumbent tantrum: CNOCOn the heels of the incumbent appeal of a Federal Court of Appeal decision...

No issue with Canadian wireless pricing: telecom execs

telecom | 06/05/2019 8:45 am EDT

No issue with Canadian wireless pricing: telecom execsTORONTO — Executives from Canada’s biggest carriers defended the...

Bell, Rogers defend sales practices to CRTC

telecom | 10/26/2018 8:00 pm EDT

Bell, Rogers defend sales practices to CRTCGATINEAU –– BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. defended their sales tactics Friday after a week of CRTC hearings on aggressive and misleading sales practices, where numerous witnesses and smaller carriers pointed fingers at the big players for creating a problem....

Bell, Rogers re-raise site-blocking request to MPs

Media | 10/16/2018 3:43 pm EDT

OTTAWA -- BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. are asking the House heritage committee to amend parts of the copyright and telecommunications acts to compel a number of intermediaries to take down websites that make available...

Big telecoms ask MPs for beefed up anti-piracy measures

Media | 09/27/2018 12:37 pm EDT

Big telecoms ask MPs for beefed up anti-piracy measuresSome of the battles taking place before the CRTC related to site-blocking...

Making net neutrality law redundant: telecom execs

Media | 06/05/2018 9:37 pm EDT

Making net neutrality law redundant: telecom execsTORONTO — If there was a single point of agreement among panelists representing both small and big...

Telecoms defend FairPlay to MPs, call for 5G net neutrality flexibility

Media | 02/13/2018 2:01 pm EST

Telecoms defend FairPlay to MPs, call for 5G net neutrality flexibilityOTTAWA — Representatives from Canada’s biggest telecoms argued that...

Website blocking has potential to combat piracy, conference hears

Media | 11/14/2017 7:19 pm EST

Website blocking has potential to combat piracy, conference hearsOTTAWA — If BCE Inc.’s suggestion in September that the federal...

Bell copyright ask draws criticism, as others point to precedent

telecom | 09/26/2017 6:03 pm EDT

Bell copyright ask draws criticism, as others point to precedentBCE Inc. has said it thinks Canada can tackle piracy by mandating that...

Licence decision could devastate Canadian production: WGC

Media | 05/16/2017 6:03 pm EDT

A day after the CRTC released its decision on broadcast licence renewals for large ownership groups, three organizations representing the country’s production sector said they are concerned the new...

Public consultation before closing TV stations unwarranted: Bell, Rogers

Media | 12/02/2016 12:53 am EST

GATINEAU, Que. — CRTC Chairman Jean-Pierre Blais floated the idea that the commission should require a public consultation before a broadcaster closes a TV station during the last day...

Bell Media ‘comfortable’ with Crave, president tells CRTC

Media | 11/29/2016 11:22 pm EST

GATINEAU, Que. — BCE Inc. has to take both offensive and defensive positions when facing off against international competitors, the company told the CRTC Tuesday, as it took its turn being grilled about its TV licence renewal application. “From a defensive perspective, entering into deep licensing arrangements with ongoing producers of great foreign content is really important,” Mary Ann Turcke, Bell Media president, told the panel in response to a question about the company’s game plan to compete against foreign competitors. “Obviously, if I have...

Low-income access to affordable Internet is ‘poverty issue’: Bell

Media | 04/19/2016 11:20 pm EDT

Canadians who can’t afford Internet access don’t face an “affordability problem,” but a “poverty issue that is in need of a social safety net,” which should be addressed by different levels of government, Robert Malcolmson, BCE Inc.’s senior vice-president of regulatory...

Bell, Channel Zero tell CRTC local TV needs help

Media | 01/26/2016 12:57 am EST

GATINEAU — The first day of the CRTC’s hearing on local and community television painted a picture of traditional TV in flux, as operators of conventional stations said declining ad revenue is making local TV...