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Open telecom to foreign investment, former competition commissioner says
Internet and Governance | 04/26/2024 5:25 pm EDT
A 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
Reaction has been swift and condemnatory to the announcement Thursday by BCE Inc. that it is laying off 4,800 workers, selling 45 radio stations and slashing news programming...
Bell files leave to appeal over CRTC decision to renew its licence without hearing
Media | 10/16/2023 5:45 pm EDT
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
On 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
TORONTO — Executives from Canada’s biggest carriers defended the...
Bell, Rogers defend sales practices to CRTC
telecom | 10/26/2018 8:00 pm EDT
GATINEAU –– BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. defended their sales tactics Friday after a week...
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 pirated content, resurrecting a request the companies spearheaded that was denied by the CRTC earlier this month. Tuesday’s recommendation is not new, as it was raised in front of the House of Commons industry committee in late September. However, earlier this month, the CRTC rejected the FairPlay Canada application that sought to impose a website-blocking system...
Big telecoms ask MPs for beefed up anti-piracy measures
Media | 09/27/2018 12:37 pm EDT
Some 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
TORONTO — 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
OTTAWA — 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
OTTAWA — 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
BCE 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...
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 affairs, said at a CRTC hearing Tuesday. “Clearly, broadband connectivity is a necessity, and social assistance programs run by governments, we think, should take that into account,” he said. Outside of remote and rural areas, “the issue is not about Internet rates being just and reasonable, but rather it's that some Canadians with low incomes struggle to...
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...