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Bell won’t participate in subsidized broadband projects if wholesale access for Big Three continues, signs agreement with CNOC

| 12/18/2024 3:22 pm EST

Bell won’t participate in subsidized broadband projects if wholesale access for Big Three continues, signs agreement with CNOCBCE Inc. says it will not participate in future government-subsidized broadband projects – such as those meant to support Canada’s connectivity goals through the Universal...

CRTC planning consult on cabinet order that it revisit blocking Big Three’s wholesale access to fibre in Ontario, Quebec

| 11/07/2024 7:23 pm EST

CRTC logo graphic The Wire ReportReporting by: Phalen Tynes-MacDonald Hannah Daley The CRTC has been ordered to reconsider whether it should block three of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies...

Competitors unhappy, incumbents closed-lipped about CRTC’s interim wholesale rates

| 10/28/2024 5:27 pm EDT

CRTC logo graphic The Wire ReportThe CRTC’s recent decision on interim wholesale fibre rates is supposed...

Effects of mandated wholesale fibre access depend on final rates, stakeholders say

Internet and Governance | 08/13/2024 9:43 am EDT

Effects of mandated wholesale fibre access depend on final rates, stakeholders sayWhile some companies praised the CRTC’s long-awaited decision to mandate...

CTS panelists criticize asymmetrical fibre access regime, urge national approach

telecom | 06/20/2024 11:40 am EDT

CTS discusses road map to growth in telecom market despite challengesIndustry experts on the Canadian Telecom Summit’s “regulatory...

Ex-Rogers CEO Joe Natale sues company for alleged wrongful dismissal

telecom | 08/18/2023 5:01 pm EDT

Rogers, Shaw execs mum on spectrum at Industry committee  The former CEO of Rogers Communications Inc. Joe Natale is suing the...

On outages, Rogers exec calls for ‘regulatory humility’ at CRTC

telecom | 11/23/2022 2:37 pm EST

On outages, Rogers exec calls for 'regulatory humility' at CRTCMISSISSAUGA – When it comes to CRTC chair Ian Scott's Monday announcement of the regulator's upcoming proceeding on network outages, Rogers Communications Inc.’s chief regulatory officer Ted Woodhead said that the CRTC needed to demonstrate "regulatory humility." The executive spoke Tuesday at a “regulatory blockbuster” panel for 2022 Canadian Telecom Summit. ...

CRTC demands answers on Rogers outage

telecom | 07/12/2022 4:57 pm EDT

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise divisionIn an uncommonly strongly worded letter, the CRTC has asked Rogers Communications Inc. to provide a broad...

Rogers keeps mum on post-ouster Natale consultation fee

Media | 11/30/2021 6:08 pm EST

Rogers needs Shaw to sell CanCon alongside OTT services Rogers Communications Inc.  has declined to adjust its calculation of the...

Rogers needs Shaw to sell CanCon alongside OTT services 

Media | 11/22/2021 8:35 pm EST

Rogers needs Shaw to sell CanCon alongside OTT services Top brass from Shaw Communications Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc....

Telus plans could also ‘interfere’ with customer churn: PIAC

telecom | 07/12/2019 4:42 pm EDT

CRTC asks carriers for lower-priced data-only plan proposalsThe same week that concerns were raised about new device financing plans...

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...

Court nixing Que. site-blocking ‘helpful’ against FairPlay: advocates

Media | 07/24/2018 5:59 pm EDT

Court nixing Que. site-blocking ‘helpful’ against FairPlay: advocatesThe Quebec Superior Court has ruled against a plan by the Quebec government...

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...

Incumbents defend wireless prices after Bains criticism

telecom | 06/06/2017 7:59 pm EDT

Incumbents defend wireless prices after Bains criticismTORONTO — Representatives from the big three were on the defense a day after the innovation minister publicly took issue with wireless prices, pointing to investments they’ve made in their networks and the quality of service that’s available to Canadians. “Nowhere...

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...

Small ISPs laud government denial of Bell’s FTTH appeal

telecom | 05/11/2016 1:23 pm EDT

Independent Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and advocacy groups said Wednesday they’re encouraged by the federal government’s rejection of BCE Inc.’s appeal of the CRTC...

Effect of zero-rating on competition under debate

Media | 05/06/2016 8:21 pm EDT

OTTAWA — A panel discussion on net neutrality Friday dug into whether zero-rating can help or harm market competition, with Ted Woodhead, senior vice-president of regulatory affairs at Telus Corp. taking issue with the...

In ‘unusual’ move, Blais calls for national digital strategy

telecom | 04/18/2016 10:37 pm EDT

GATINEAU, Que. — The ongoing basic services hearing may be the “last, best chance” for the CRTC and the stakeholders appearing before its five-person panel to formulate some...

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...

CRTC urged to look toward future on wireline regulation

telecom | 12/03/2014 8:44 pm EST

GATINEAU, Que. — On Wednesday, the first day of replies in the CRTC’s wholesale wireline hearing, the regulator was consistently asked to look to the future in determining how best to...

No FTTP wholesale without CRTC action: PIAC

telecom | 12/01/2014 9:49 pm EST

GATINEAU, Que. — Three consumer groups opened the second week of the CRTC hearing into wholesale wireline connections by telling the regulator to expand its wholesale access regulations to fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP)...

Telus, Eastlink provide opposing perspectives on wholesale regulation

telecom | 09/30/2014 9:23 pm EDT

GATINEAU, Que. — The CRTC on Tuesday got opposing opinions on the need for wholesale wireless market regulation from two wireless carriers with very different perspectives. Incumbent carrier...

Internet regulation may be template for future of wholesale wireless

telecom | 09/26/2014 2:19 pm EDT

As the CRTC prepares for a week of hearings beginning Monday on the future of wholesale wireless in Canada, the rules regarding wholesale Internet access may be a predictor of how the regulator will...

Cogeco calls for regulated access to wireless networks

telecom | 09/25/2014 8:05 pm EDT

Cogeco Cable Inc. wants the CRTC to set up regulated access to established wireless carriers’ networks, president and CEO Louis Audet said during a conference call with media Thursday....

Telus calls Shomi service undue preference by Rogers, Shaw

Media | 09/12/2014 8:47 pm EDT

GATINEAU, Que. — Telus Corp. says it is “very concerned” Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. are using the beta-test phase of their recently launched over-the-top...

Telecoms square off on government intervention

telecom | 06/18/2014 1:01 am EDT

TORONTO — Canada’s biggest telecom companies faced off with one of their smaller rivals over the government’s approach to regulating the wireless industry at the Canadian Telecom Summit on Tuesday. Ted Woodhead,...

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...

‘It has an impact,’ CWTA’s Lord says of Telus exit

telecom | 03/18/2014 9:27 pm EDT

OTTAWA — Bernard Lord, CEO of the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association, said that Telus Corp.’s decision to leave his group affects the association, though because of the way its funding is structured, that effect is not as significant as it would be for other trade associations. “Of course, there is an impact. When you lose … your second- or third-largest member, it has an impact on an organization,” Lord told reporters Tuesday following a speech to the Canadian Club of Ottawa. He added that the CWTA, unlike many other trade associations,...

‘We are not the same,’ Telus exec says on leaving CWTA

telecom | 02/28/2014 9:04 pm EST

Telus Corp. has pulled out of the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA), the main trade association and lobbying group for companies associated with the mobile-communications...

Competition Bureau advocacy could help telecom sector: experts

telecom | 12/09/2013 10:56 pm EST

Canada’s largest telecom providers need not necessarily fear a Competition Bureau initiative to do more advocacy work focused on increasing competition in the telecom sector, industry insiders and former competition commissioners said. In a release Thursday, the Competition Bureau said Canadians, through a September...

Wind Mobile says ‘extreme rents’ higher than the cost of building a tower

telecom | 06/05/2013 2:17 pm EDT

TORONTO—Wind Mobile said it is paying “extreme rents” for wireless tower sharing and called for mandated tower access at regulated rates as the Conservative government is said to be considering stronger roaming and tower sharing rules favouring the new entrants. On a panel Tuesday...

Paradis delays auction, says no set aside spectrum transfers to incumbents

telecom | 06/04/2013 1:29 pm EDT

OTTAWA, TORONTO—Industry Canada will block Telus Corp.'s proposed deal for Dave Wireless Inc.’s mobile spectrum, as well as any other proposal from an incumbent to acquire wireless...

Woodhead fills Hennessy vacancy at Telus

Media | 02/08/2013 7:08 pm EST

Telus Corp.'s Ted Woodhead has been promoted to the position of senior vice-president of federal government and regulatory affairs, filling the vacancy left by former Telus official Michael Hennessy.  Woodhead, formerly the vice-president of telecom policy and regulatory affairs, told The Wire Report in an email that he was promoted in November and is now responsible for advancing Telus’ "advocacy and regulatory positions in wireless, wireline and broadcasting as well as federal government relations." Hennessy left Telus in June to take on the position of president and CEO of the Canadian Media Production Association (CMPA)....