A past Competition Bureau Commissioner is calling on the federal government to loosen the restrictions on foreign investment in telecommunications. Others say a fundamental...
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...
BCE Inc. filed an application with the Federal Court of Appeal for leave to...
On the heels of the incumbent appeal of a Federal Court of Appeal decision...
TORONTO — Executives from Canada’s biggest carriers defended the...
GATINEAU –– BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. defended their sales tactics Friday after a week...
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...
Some of the battles taking place before the CRTC related to site-blocking...
TORONTO — If there was a single point of agreement among panelists representing both small and big...
OTTAWA — Representatives from Canada’s biggest telecoms argued that...
OTTAWA — If BCE Inc.’s suggestion in September that the federal...
BCE Inc. has said it thinks Canada can tackle piracy by mandating that...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
