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 province’s proposal is a “fundamental change” to the NG911 framework set by the CRTC -- though technically feasible -- “which is being introduced at such a late hour that it threatens to undermine the launch date.” “Further, the proposal contemplates a solution that is problematic and has been rejected by the commission because the commission decided that...
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...
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 from Ottawa's past policy direction to the CRTC, changing the focus from market forces to affordability and consumer interests.
The policy direction governs how the CRTC makes decisions, and the new order would...
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...
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 CRTC’s basic service standards of 50 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload, with 36 per cent of...
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...
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 to deduct taxes at a higher rate more quickly on assets may benefit BCE Inc. to the tune of $100 million in 2019, according to analyst Adam Shine of National Bank.
The Accelerated Investment...
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...
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...
TORONTO — Remote communities looking to build internet as an essential...
Manitoba customers of Xplornet Communications Inc.’s upcoming mobile service will be allowed to rollover unused data from the previous month, the company announced Monday as it prepares to launch its 4G LTE network in the province next week.
The roughly 24,000 existing...
BCE Inc. reported its wireless average revenue per user (ARPU) dipped in its third quarter results...
An organization representing Canada’s electricity providers has filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC asking for changes to wireless regulations it says are necessary for the roll out of smart electrical grids. The...
GATINEAU –– BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. defended their sales tactics Friday after a week...
Rogers Communications Inc. top brass say they expect to see enough...
The government should combine the Heritage and Innovation ministries, and give responsibility for spectrum to the CRTC, a Senate committee study into the modernization of Canada’s communications legislation heard Wednesday evening.
Gregory Taylor, an assistant professor...
Manon Brouillette, who has been at the helm of Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron for the past five years, is leaving the company in what National Bank...
Iristel Inc. has acquired Télécommunications de l’Est (TDE), a small Quebec telecom that provides service to industries operating in remote areas with limited cellular service, such as forestry...
Internet service providers (ISPs) in rural and remote communities are trying to keep up with the appetite...
TeraGo Inc. will repurpose spectrum it bought nearly a decade ago for a 5G fixed wireless trial in the Greater Toronto Area, the company said Thursday. It bought the 24 GHz spectrum in 2010, aiming to use it for a backhaul...
The Canadian government took part in a coordinated international effort...
BCE Inc.’s head of regulatory, Mirko Bibic, has been named its new chief operating officer.
Bell said in a press release Thursday that in his new role, Bibic will “lead...
The upcoming departure of Telus Corp.’s president of consumer and small...
A CRTC decision outlining how its $750 million fund for rural broadband will be administered “looks quite encouraging,” according to the president of the Canadian Network Operators’ Consortium (CNOC). Matt Stein said in a...
The Independent Telecommunications Providers Association (ITPA) has filed a review-and-vary application with the CRTC, asking the regulator to bring back its landline subsidy. When the commission announced its $750 million rural broadband fund back in December 2016 -- the details of which it revealed Thursday -- it outlined that money would largely come from repurposing the existing subsidy for landlines. In June, it issued a decision with details about how that phase-out would be implemented over a three-year period, starting in 2019. In a Part 1 application this week, the ITPA asked...
The CRTC revealed Thursday the details of the $750 million rural broadband fund that’s been in the works for nearly two years, prompting criticism from some groups concerned about what they say are...
Representatives from BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. described a favourable relationship with regulators at a CIBC investors conference Wednesday, where they also addressed competition between...
OTTAWA — The expert panel in charge of reviewing Canada’s...
OTTAWA — Those in charge of the wireless emergency alert system...
The federal government spent at least $190,600 on late-payment fees and interest charges to telecom companies since September 2016, according to documents tabled recently in Parliament.
The bulk of the payments went to BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc., who made at...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) should change...
OTTAWA -- Officials from Canada’s cyber-spy agency defended the security of Canada’s telecommunications systems and allowing Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd equipment to operate on them, as MPs...
The Canadian Network Operators’ Consortium (CNOC) told a House of Commons committee reviewing the Copyright Act that small internet service providers would like to see “some tweaking” to the notice-and-notice regime.
That...
OTTAWA -- Lawmakers need to make net neutrality a major priority and...
BCE Inc.’s Northwestel says it will begin providing internet service at speeds three times as fast as...
Global telecoms that have deployed internet of things (IoT) in the home are not seeing the desired profitability from their investments, suggesting those ventures in Canada may suffer a similar fate, according to a review by Desjardins Capital Markets. “While we expect Canadian telcos to be more vocal about the...
Facebook Inc. is facing another class action suit in Ontario over how it...
Sugar Mobile, an affiliate of Iristel Inc.-subsidiary Ice Wireless, can continue roaming on Rogers Communications Inc.’s network while the CRTC considers its final decision in a...
TORONTO — Privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien told a telecom industry audience Wednesday that companies should be prudent about the collection and use of metadata, and cautioned companies that haven’t yet issued transparency reports that his office could push for legislation to force them to do so. “For those companies that have not yet produced such reports, we hope they will see the benefit of transparency and get on board,” Therrien said in a speech at the Canadian...
The Competition Bureau is asking for comment on BCE Inc.’s $3.9-billion bid to buy Manitoba Telecom Services Inc., it said in a press release Tuesday. It made a form available on its website that both consumers and...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) Canada has approved the transfer of 83 WCS spectrum licences from Xplornet Communications Inc. to Telus Corp. ISED said in a decision Thursday that though the transfer means...
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...
Rogers Communications Inc. reported a two-per-cent increase in revenue in the first quarter, which rose from $3.18 billion to $3.25 billion. The company said in a Monday press release the increase...
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has had an encryption key for BlackBerry Inc.’s devices since 2010, Vice News reported Wednesday. The report was based on court documents that show “law enforcement intercepted and decrypted roughly one million PIN-to-PIN BlackBerry messages” in connection with a probe into a Montreal crime syndicate, Vice reported. The article added that neither “the RCMP, nor BlackBerry ever confirmed where the global key actually came from and the documents shed little light on the matter.”...
As-yet-unlaunched satellites will make more Internet capacity available at a lower cost in rural and remote areas, satellite providers told the CRTC Wednesday, on the third day of its three-week...
OTTAWA — Other major Internet service providers may be compelled to follow in the footsteps of Rogers Communications Inc. and offer cheap Internet packages for low-income earners, according to...
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has upheld a previous dismissal of a lawsuit against BCE Inc. over expiry dates on its prepaid wireless services. Launched in 2012, the...
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has launched a labeling program for broadband services, similar to nutrition labels found on food products. “The consumer broadband labels will provide consumers with more...
The Competition Bureau has updated its Intellectual Property Enforcement Guidelines, as part of what it said in a Thursday press release would be an annual review. It said the updated guidelines clarify “the Bureau’s...
The CRTC issued Thursday a new approach to how the rates small companies pay large telecoms for wholesale Internet services are set, stating that “current wholesale [high-speed access] service rates are likely not just and...
Allowing Sugar Mobile to continue roaming on Rogers Communications Inc.’s network would be a “backdoor means” to mandated mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) access, and “a...
The number of subscribers leaving the Canadian TV system appears to be accelerating, as Canada’s publicly traded telecom companies lost five times more TV subscribers in 2015 than a year earlier. They reported having...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. said in a release Friday that it was recently the target of a “large phishing attack.” It said it estimates the attack affected about 1,000 customers. The company added that it would “be proactively resetting the password for impacted email accounts.” It said it “continues to urge customers to practice secure password management as there has been an increase in phishing scams, including attempted attacks on sasktel.net accounts.” ...