The CRTC has rejected a 988 service routing plan proposed by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and has given the commission’s working group six months to come up with a better proposal.
The 988 number is a phone number used by people who are suicidal...
Even though the Ontario government has cancelled its contract with Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), it may still reach its goal of connecting everyone in the...
The CRTC and the Office of the Privacy...
TORONTO—Telecommunications should be recognized...
Canada needs to make moves on building a national public safety broadband...
While many wireless internet service providers...
The Independent Telecommunications Providers Association is asking the CRTC to release its members providing wireline phone services of some of the “regulatory burden”...
Leading into 2025, Rogers Communications Inc. CEO...
Samer Bishay was working for the Canadian Space Agency in Saint-Hubert,...
It was not that long ago that technology gurus were predicting that...
Ericsson AB has extended and broadened its partnership with Montreal’s Concordia University, the two...
The CRTC has approved BCE Inc.’s application to provide local voice...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Thursday that it is...
Telus Corp. is launching a new app which helps homeowners track their energy usage, the western telecom...
With Parliament returning today, there are a handful of bills affecting the online world still before...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. is challenging the CRTC’s recent decision ordering it to provide competitors with wholesale access to its fibre networks. ...
Telesat Corp. expects to announce more...
Cogeco Inc. is running smoothly after a corporate reorganization, its CFO maintains. Patrice Ouimet was...
Charlene Gavel could be considered a lifer at Saskatchewan...
Cogeco Inc. has appointed Mike Henry as its chief commercial officer, the...
By Manish Singh
5G offers a transformative potential for industry and enterprises. The versatility of 5G provides a variety of smart options to optimize network resources...
The CRTC has denied a request from Quebecor Inc. for a mandated settlement...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner and the United States Federal...
A group looking to make it easier to find local workers when building...
The head of the Canadian Telecommunications Association wants more...
A Cape Breton woman is suing BCE Inc. and a call centre company after an...
As a lockout between Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron...
Telesat Corp. released its second quarter results Wednesday and said it is...
While some companies praised the CRTC’s long-awaited decision to mandate...
Quebecor Inc. announced Monday that it has installed two new executives in its Videotron and Freedom Mobile divisions. The pair will each work at both subsidiaries....
The United Steelworkers Union (USW) successfully petitioned a B.C. court to...
Strong results from its media division gave Quebecor Inc. a robust second quarter, the company reported...
An Ottawa man is spearheading a drive to get next generation 911 (NG911)...
Telus Corp. released its numbers for the second quarter of 2024 on Friday.
Operating revenues arising...
BCE Inc. reported a slight drop in revenue for its second quarter of 2024.
Operating revenues for the telecom took a small dive of one per cent for the quarter, which ended June 30, landing at just over $6 billion compared to the same period in 2023. Bell said that was...
Editor's note: To read the Aug. 9, 2024 update on this news story, click...
A residual spectrum auction run by the department of Innovation, Science...
Rogers Communications Inc. reported a successful second quarter of the 2024 fiscal year. Although the...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc.’s appeal of the CRTC’s reversal of a 2019...
A small independent incumbent in eastern Ontario will be providing access...
Telus Corp. is reversing its policy of having call centre employees work...
BCE Inc. announced Tuesday that it has bought a pair of technical services companies and added them to its FX Innovation division at Bell Canada.
Statejm is located in Mississauga, Ont. and leverages artificial intelligence...
A wireless outage across Europe seems to have had minimal impact on...
Rizwan Jamal is the new CEO of Beanfield Technologies Inc. effective immediately, the company announced Tuesday. Jamal comes to the firm from Xplore Inc., where he also served as chief executive.
He is replacing Dan Armstrong, who founded the company.
“Beanfield has...
Iristel Inc. has been told to pay overdue fees to BCE Inc. properties in...
Continuum Online Services Ltd., which operates under the Netflash name, has filed a Part 1 application...
Recent advancements in the satellite communications ecosystem have made...
Interventions have been filed with the CRTC over Telus Corp.’s desire to...
A private member’s bill on internet service quality has passed through Parliament and received royal assent.
Manitoba Conservative MP Dan Mazier (Dauphin—Swan River—Neepawa) introduced the bill, which would require internet service providers (ISPs) to give...
TORONTO—Industry experts on the Canadian Telecom Summit’s “regulatory...
The Senate committee studying the Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11, officially completed its work after...
A municipally-owned small incumbent local exchange carrier (SILEC) in...
BCE Inc. has filed an intervention with the CRTC saying New Brunswick’s plan for how it would like to adapt its next-generation 911 (NG911) services may not be the best approach. According to Bell’s intervention, the...
Telus Corp. and Sogetel Inc. are each getting millions to connect 2,850 houses in Quebec to high-speed internet by September 2022 for a total cost of $38 million, Innovation, Science and Economic...
Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne has rejected a call by the...
BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic told shareholders...
The CRTC directed BCE Inc. to put on the public record responses to a...
BCE Inc. doesn’t have to implement a freeze on rates it charges Iristel Inc. while the CRTC decides how to settle a dispute between the two regarding the rates, the regulator said Thursday.
In January, Iristel filed a Part 1 application saying that Bell put in place “massive and unprecedented rate increases” for access to some of its infrastructure. Iristel CEO...
The CRTC has quietly informed wholesale-based internet service providers...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has hired a new consultant lobbyist to raise...
The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) took aim at mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in its submission to the ongoing review of Canada’s communications legislation....
The panel in charge of reviewing the broadcasting and telecom acts received...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s mobile division is expanding to some Eastern Ontario markets as it continues deploying its low-band spectrum.
Freedom Mobile announced Friday that it has opened its network to residents of Cobourg, Trenton, Belleville, Brockville, Cornwall...
A new app launched by Telus Corp.’s health division will enable users to...
The CRTC has reversed its long-held position that mobile virtual network...
The new policy direction for the CRTC announced by the federal government...
The Liberal government is proposing a significant departure...
A group representing the Canadian community TV sector is asking the panel reviewing the broadcasting and...
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. held a rare press conference in Toronto Thursday to promote new...
The head of Telus Corp. says the company would be able to “adeptly”...
An application to relax eligibility requirements for the CRTC’s...
The likelihood Canada will ban Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. equipment from the country’s 5G networks has gone up in recent months, and if that happens, the deployment of those networks will be delayed, National Bank analyst Adam Shine said in a research note.
“Plans...
Canada’s largest cable companies said they already have existing provisions that allow providers to buy and resell their services to other providers. Late last year, the CRTC asked the cablecos...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp.’s acting president and CEO has been named to the role on...
Quebec MP Rémi Massé will replace David Lametti as the parliamentary...
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a highly-anticipated criminal case against Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. Monday, issuing a spate of charges against the company, two affiliates and its chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou,...
Scott Bradley, vice-president of corporate affairs at Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.’s Canadian division, has left the company.
Bradley had been with Huawei for eight years, according to his LinkedIn page, which now states that he recently left the company.
An internal message sent out to Huawei Canada staff thanked him for his time at the company and noted that he will continue to assist Huawei as a special adviser "as required."
"We are saddened to see him leave but grateful for the tireless work he has put in...
A new report using data from Statistics Canada says 44.5 per cent of Canadian households headed by...
The organization responsible for allocating IP numbers to intermediaries in...
As the new year begins, the months ahead promise a new spectrum auction, new CRTC announcements on...
Canadians are increasingly signing up for home internet services that meet...
The prices of higher-speed wireline internet plans increased last year, and...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government will rely on expert...
The CRTC has dismissed an appeal by BCE Inc. and ordered it to pay...
A proposal by Corus Entertainment Inc. to shut down 44 television...
OTTAWA -- Two of Canada’s largest telecoms and CBC/Radio-Canada told the Supreme Court on Monday that it’s “absurd” and “illogical” for a court to force them to ensure the safety of an environment their employees work in but the companies have no control over.
The case stems from a complaint a Canada Post employee made in 2012 about the need for postal...
OTTAWA — The Canadian Bar Association told MPs Monday Parliament should introduce a new regime to deal with online piracy in the Copyright Act because the current notice-and-notice regime is...
The CRTC has closed a Part 1 file, once suspended, involving two parties embroiled in a condo access issue that emerged when the property owner allegedly didn’t answer a telecom’s calls to connect its services. Novus...
The list of consumer groups that say they won’t take part in the CRTC’s...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) has launched a...
Rogers Communications Inc. is planting more cell towers in parts of Manitoba as wireless activity in the province heats up.
The company said it is adding a tower in South Transcona, Linden Woods, Beliveau, Provencher Blvd., King Edward St., and Powell Ave. in Winnipeg...
Existing customers on Shaw Communications Inc.’s top internet packages, and new customers on those...
The CRTC is asking telecoms and satellite broadband providers for feedback on broadband maps and data...
VMedia Inc. recently launched its full suite of services in all four Atlantic Canada provinces, meaning it now operates in all 10 provinces. CEO George Burger confirmed that the company “started rolling out services as...
The federal government’s recently-tabled tax strategy allowing telecoms...
There’s a lack of consensus over who should help Canadians determine what...
GATINEAU, QUE. -- Seeking to differentiate itself from other applicants,...
The CRTC ordered Friday both Telus Corp. and Iristel Inc. to make interim...
Part of Cogeco Inc.’s plan to deliver gigabit internet service to its footprint is to put two fibre...
Just as it did in Ontario, Cogeco Inc. is now expanding its gigabit internet plans to target Quebec markets as well, according to a Thursday press release.
The Montreal-based cable company is making available its gigabit internet, via its DOCSIS 3.1 technology, to...
