Leading into 2025, Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri says attention must be paid to a difficult-to-predict political environment in Canada and the United States. ...
Samer Bishay was working for the Canadian Space Agency in Saint-Hubert, Que. in the late 1990s when he stumbled across a magazine article about real-time communications. At the time, a long distance phone call from Bishay’s Montreal apartment to his family in Toronto cost...
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 announced Wednesday.
The SmartHome+ app is being rolled out across English Canada with Quebec to follow when language and technology issues are ironed out. Afterwards...
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...
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...
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5G offers a transformative...
The CRTC has denied a request from Quebecor Inc. for a mandated settlement...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner and the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have signed a memorandum of understanding they say will strengthen...
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 hopeful of inking agreements for its low earth orbit (LEO) satellite service soon. The company is in...
While some companies praised the CRTC’s long-awaited decision to mandate...
Quebecor Inc. announced Monday that it has installed two new executives in...
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...
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A residual spectrum auction run by the department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) brought in $5.61 million in revenue, as 56 licences out of the...
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 through security solutions. Halifax’s CloudKettle Inc. is a Salesforce professional services provider.
“Having joined Bell ourselves just a little over a year ago, I can attest to the exceptional strength of offerings created through this partnership,” FX Innovation CEO Guillaume Bazinet said in a statement.
“This acquisition not only amplifies our capabilities but also allows us to leverage Bell’s extensive resources and reach,” Stratejm CEO John Menezes was quoted as saying....
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...
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...
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 spending a total of 65 hours in clause-by-clause review and passing 25 amendments.
The Senate Committee of Transport and Communications spent Wednesday and Thursday in...
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 Thursday that it is "too soon" to properly assess the impact of the CRTC's decision to mandate access to incumbent networks like...
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...
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...
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 operators (MVNOs) aren’t entitled to wholesale access to wireless providers’ networks.
It now holds the “preliminary view" that mobile virtual network operators "should have mandated access”...
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” financially manage a change in supplier dynamics if the federal government moves to ban Huawei...
An application to relax eligibility requirements for the CRTC’s...
The likelihood Canada will ban Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. equipment from...
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...
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 Canada is raising concerns there may no longer be a strong incentive for companies to keep updated records on IP number allocation or Whois information, and it wants Parliament to address the issue....
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 nearly half a million dollars in tangible benefits an audit found was ineligible for a music festival...
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...
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...
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 sets it compiled from information they gave the commission, in light of criticism from the auditor general that current mapping methods aren’t specific enough to...
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 changes to practises the regulator said harms customers in a long-standing fight involving alleged artificial traffic stimulation and call blocking.
Both companies are accusing each other of...
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...
The federal government’s fall economic update includes a faster way for telecoms to recover a bigger portion of their investment costs in fibre deployment, which it hopes will spur broadband connectivity in rural areas. The...
Cogeco Inc. has a new senior vice-president of public affairs and communications, the telecom announced Tuesday, following the retirement of René Guimond.
Marie-Hélène Labrie will replace...
The federal government is looking for a contractor to crowdsource measurements of mobile phone spectrum performance in Canada – results that could affect government licensing strategies. A new...
The CRTC is asking for input on a draft version of a new code governing internet service providers (ISPs)...
Former CRTC commissioner Raj Shoan has filed a lawsuit against the federal...
As CEO Manon Brouillette wrapped up her last quarterly results with...
BCE Inc.’s Bell Media is suing Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron for copyright and trademark infringement after a licencing agreement between the two companies expired.
Bell said in a statement of claim filed in Federal Court Friday that Videotron has continued to offer...
