TAGGED AS TED WOODHEAD
Rogers keeps mum on post-ouster Natale consultation fee
Media | 11/30/2021 6:08 pm EST
Rogers Communications Inc. has declined to adjust its calculation of the value of the acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc. to include in its application to the CRTC the value of any consulting fee paid to ousted CEO Joe Natale, a week after the regulator asked it to do...
Rogers needs Shaw to sell CanCon alongside OTT services
Media | 11/22/2021 8:35 pm EST
Top brass from Shaw Communications Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. sought to convince CRTC officials that a merger of their two companies would be a boon for Canadian television programming in the face of increased competition from U.S.-based over-the-top streaming...
Telus plans could also ‘interfere’ with customer churn: PIAC
telecom | 07/12/2019 4:42 pm EDT
The 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
TORONTO — 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
The 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
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 flexibility in Canada’s net neutrality framework will be necessary with the advent of 5G, as they...
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...
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...
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 Telus Corp. argued that too much regulation will deter a healthy climate for investment in Canada's wireless market, while regional carrier Eastlink said the current lack of regulation is stifling competition. At the second day of a weeklong hearing on the wholesale wireless market, Ted Woodhead,...
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 communities. The deadline is part of a 2006 agreement on the use of money set aside from the companies’ telephone operations as independent local exchange carriers (ILECs) between 2002 and 2006 at the behest of the CRTC. “Commission staff considers that a failure by an ILEC to complete its broadband rollout plan by the established deadline is a serious matter,” the CRTC wrote in a...
‘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...
‘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...