TORONTO—Telecommunications should be recognized as a national strategic priority, the Canadian Telecom Summit (CTS) was told on Tuesday, June 3.
As the first day of the...
Canada needs to make moves on building a national public safety broadband network (PSBN) to facilitate the work of first responders, experts tell The Wire Report.
Head...
While many wireless internet service providers...
The Independent Telecommunications Providers Association is asking the CRTC...
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 high-tech would replace government as the major industry in Ottawa. Small startups were booming and all seemed right with that world. Then came the “telecom winter” and things went south (literally and...
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...
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 Telecommunications Holding Corp. After serving as CFO of SaskTel International, she moved over to the main company,...
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...
A group looking to make it easier to find local workers when building broadband network infrastructure in rural and remote areas of Canada is aiming to do so by training...
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...
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) systems implemented more quickly, by way of a parliamentary petition which is garnering support across...
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...
Rogers Communications Inc. reported a successful second quarter of the 2024 fiscal year. Although the company’s cable segment struggled, its wireless and media divisions saw notable growth compared to the previous year.
Wednesday, the Toronto-based company announced its...
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...
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 mobile connectivity via satellite a much more economical way to bridge Canada’s digital divide,...
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...
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 northwest British Columbia is requesting that the CRTC relieve it of its next-generation 911 (NG911)...
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...
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. “While mandating access to facilities-based carriers’ networks would negatively impact investment by all facilities-based carriers, investment by new entrants and regional providers will be particularly impacted,” the wireless industry group said. It said that effect would be "particularly...
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...
The new policy direction for the CRTC announced by the federal government Tuesday is a blunt message to the regulator to make some changes, but the extent to which it will...
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...
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 secretary to the innovation minister, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a press release Tuesday.
Lametti was promoted to justice minister in a cabinet shuffle earlier this month, which also created...
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...
As the new year begins, the months ahead promise a new spectrum auction, new CRTC announcements on high-profile files like telecom sales practices, and even potentially a new federal government — to be determined in an election in which the danger of hacking and social...
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...
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 internet code proceeding is growing, as more come forward saying they don’t have enough time or...
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...
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 wholesale bandwidth arrangements were being put in place, and have just lit up our last network,” he said in an email. The rollout was completed this week across the four provinces. “Part of the staggered launch was because it turns out we were the first party to ask a major incumbent for wholesale access in a major region, which highlights what a great potential...
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...
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 tender this week put out by the Communications Research Centre, part of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, is looking for a company to crowdsource mobile spectrum usage and performance data. “With the widespread adoption of mobile applications and services, the demand for commercial mobile spectrum has been continuously growing,” the tender said. “In the absence of spectrum...
