BCE Inc. subsidiary Northwestel has been told by the CRTC to stop charging DSL customers an extra $20 if they do not subscribe to home phone service as well. The decision was released Thursday. The surcharge was originally approved in 2016. Northwestel said it could not...
Sylvain Lafrance has been appointed the new chair of Telefilm Canada, effective Thursday. His term will run for five years. He is currently an adjunct professor at HEC Montreal and director of its Media Management Hub. He also chairs the board of directors of TV5, a...
Monday the Bloc Québécois continued its assault on plans for CBC/Radio-Canada to merge some of its...
Friday the CRTC denied an application by several stakeholders for an...
The House of Commons industry committee continued...
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri gave a rosy picture of life...
The Miracle Channel Association (MCA) has been granted a licence for a discretionary service, the CRTC announced Monday. It had been operating Corco as an exempt service with fewer than 200,000 subscribers but has now passed that threshold. Corco broadcasts original...
Rogers Communications Inc. announced Thursday that it is entering into an...
BCE Inc. announced Thursday that it is launching seven English and three...
Customer complaints against telecom and TV service providers surged by 43...
Quebecor Inc. announced that it is suspending the launch of its "data-rich"...
Toronto entertainment company WildBrain Ltd. has named Mark Trachuk as its general counsel. He will also...
Grocery giant Loblaw Companies Ltd. is entering the mobile data market with the launch of its No Name...
The House of Commons industry Committee continued its clause-by-clause...
Quebecor Inc. subsidiary Videotron has filed a Part 1 application with the...
Quebecor Inc.’s flanker wireless brand Fizz has completed the beta testing of its services in Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia. On Wednesday, the company...
Canada’s four major wireless carriers experienced major upticks in usage during Monday’s solar...
The CRTC issued follow-up numbers to an earlier decision on broadcasting fees. The initial ruling was...
The CRTC issued a series of decisions providing addenda to...
Toronto wireless network manager Terago Inc. has appointed Rajneesh Sapra as its new CFO, effective the beginning of April. He replaces Parveen Mithra who was serving as...
The April 8 solar eclipse is expected to have an impact on wireless networks as people increase their usage of cell phones. The four major carriers in Canada anticipated this and have made preparations. BCE Inc.’s Bell Canada is taking various steps to ward off...
Alberta IT system integrator Sunco Communication and Installation Ltd. is...
Xplore Inc. announced Wednesday that it is rolling out high-speed internet...
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) has...
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink announced Tuesday that it is introducing a video streaming...
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) is auctioning off 225 spectrum...
The CRTC has approved Rogers Communications Inc.’s funding application...
The Competition Bureau announced Thursday that it is seeking feedback from...
The federal government is spending an additional $2.8 million to advance clean energy and roll out...
A day after the leaders of Canada’s biggest three telecoms told Parliament that prices for telephone services are falling, Statistics Canada released data illustrating the...
The CRTC has decided to look at whether the town of Yellowknife, NWT can support another FM radio...
The Indigenous Screen Office (ISO) will receive permanent government funding to support Indigenous-led...
As copper prices increase, BCE Inc. is enhancing its security around its...
Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne...
Cogeco Inc. and Cogeco Communications Inc. announced Monday morning that president and CEO Philippe Jetté is retiring immediately from the companies and will be replaced by Frédéric Perron. Perron was most recently president of Cogeco Connexion, the firms’ broadband subsidiary. In addition to being president and CEO, he will serve as a director of both companies. Perron has been with the Quebec company since 2020. Before signing on to Cogeco, he worked for...
Beanfield Technologies Inc. has hired Chris Adamkowski as its new SVP of commercial services, the company announced Thursday. “I am thrilled to be joining Beanfield and contributing to the mission of connecting communities...
Minister of Rural Economic Development Gudie Hutchings continued her tour...
The governments of Canada and Alberta announced Tuesday that they are...
Monday the federal government and the government of British Columbia joined...
Quebecor Inc. subsidiary Groupe TVA has reached an agreement with CUPE local 687, which represents...
The Government of Canada announced Friday that it...
A member of the Independent Senators Group is questioning why penalties for...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pascale St-Onge announced Friday an...
CBC/Radio-Canada and the Canadian Media Guild have inked a tentative labour agreement that will cover employees of the public broadcaster for the next three years. The deal, which must be voted on by union members, sees an immediate pay increase of 6.1 per cent, including...
The Competition Bureau announced...
A Quebec senator is calling for the government to increase its spending in newspapers and magazines. During Wednesday’s Question Period, Independent Senators Group member Tony Loffreda said...
Canada has joined nine other nations to promote the development of next generation telecommunications...
The government has named Natalie Théberge as vice-chair at the CRTC, it was announced Thursday. Her...
The CRTC is upset with Telus Corp. over its proposal to eliminate home telephone service in three communities in the Kamloops, BC region. The commission sent a strongly worded letter to the telecom on Feb. 15 saying it was “concerned” about the move. “Disconnecting...
Telus Corp. announced Tuesday that it is partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Samsung...
The CRTC will initiate public consultation on Canada's Online News Act, formerly known as Bill C-18, next...
The CRTC has declined an application from BCE...
The CRTC announced Monday an expansion in forbearance from regulating...
Telus Corp. reported a 17 per cent increase in...
The CRTC has denied an application by TerreStar Solutions Inc. for a stay...
Telus Corp. is being called upon by the CRTC to justify its proposal to...
Stingray Group Inc. saw an increase in growth and revenue as it issued its third quarter results on...
Galaxy Broadband Communications Inc., a subsidiary of Crown Capital Partners Inc., has clinched a multi-year contract with Shared Services Canada, a department of the...
Cogeco Inc. announced Monday that Cogeco Connexion is acquiring an...
CBC/Radio Canada has been ordered to pay costs after it lost a case over...
The Bloc Québécois is calling for CBC/Radio-Canada to have its funding...
The Government of Canada is supporting Canadian feature films and television productions by investing...
Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne introduced a new spectrum licensing framework that will concentrate on rural and remote regions of...
Corus Entertainment Inc. announced Monday its plans to restructure its original content leadership team...
A 911 operator in Calgary has had three charges laid against her in a corruption investigation, local...
CRTC chair Vicky Eatrides has promised to look into recent problems with...
The access dispute between BCE Inc. and the owner of a multi-dwelling unit (MDU) in Kitchener, Ontario continues as Bell stands by its claims that it is blocking the company from accessing its facilities. Bell’s response in the Part 1 proceeding, filed last Friday, said that although the MDU owner claims to acknowledge...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) unveiled its Strategic Plan...
As it gears up to launch several public consultations aimed at modernizing...
Ericsson AB and Telus Corp. have linked up to roll out a 5G standalone network, it was announced Monday....
Best Buy Canada Ltd. and BCE Inc. have joined forces to rebrand 165 small-format consumer electronics stores under the banner "Best Buy Express." The Source (formerly Radio Shack), a wholly-owned...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Wednesday the deployment of 5G technology across more than 40 additional cell sites, extending its reach to rural...
The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) has joined up with other...
The governments of Canada and British Columbia have announced a joint...
CBC/Radio-Canada will not be permitted to appeal a lower court’s ruling...
Cogeco Inc. is partnering with Quickplay to adopt their cloud-native OTT platform, the company announced in a Tuesday press release. The collaboration will offer Cogeco Media's five million listeners...
The CRTC’s interim vice-chair of broadcasting and commissioner for Quebec, Alicia Barin, stepped down from her position last week. In a statement provided to The Wire Report, Barin said she is taking a break from her professional career to focus on family. “My...
The Minister of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) has...
The Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry is calling on Canadian...
Terago Inc. announced the appointment of Jason Toledano as its new CFO, effective last Tuesday. The telecommunications industry veteran succeeds Phil Jones, who is...
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) has launched a group of satellites which will facilitate...
The Canadian Telecommunications Contribution...
The CRTC has told several telecommunications providers it will not be able...
BCE Inc. customers in New Brunswick have been without telephone and...
Rogers Communications Inc. has activated three...
A coalition of 30 individuals and civil society groups have released an open letter to the House of Commons committee on Industry asking that the Artificial Intelligence and...
The current and past Minister of Canadian Heritage were loath to endorse...
Rogers Communications Inc. has divested itself of all of its shares in...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Monday that it was providing state of the art WiFi across the prairie province. SaskTel is joining forces with Eero, a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc., to deliver...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge would not take the bait when the...
BCE Inc. has responded to a commission staff letter regarding Rogers Communications Inc.’s 2019 Part 1 Application concerning Bell's Billed Number Screening (BNS) database...
The federal government made its three-digit suicide crisis helpline, 988, officially available across Canada on Thursday. According to a press release, the helpline, is now available to call or text, in English and French, 24...
The Bloc Québécois is continuing its fight for a fund to help Canadian...
In a Friday statement, leaders from Canada and the European Union announced the creation of a new...
The deadline for interventions and replies to the CRTC proceedings into service in the Far North has been...
BCE Inc. has asked the CRTC for urgent relief in a dispute with a building...
In a House of Commons heritage committee meeting that was marked more by partisan feuding than for what...
As part of what it says is an effort to reduce the cost of living for...
Quebecor Inc.’s Freedom Mobile announced its new roaming plan, Roam...
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce has jumped on the Artificial Intelligence bandwagon. On Nov. 20 it announced it had formed a 30-member council on the future of AI. This comes on the heels of a decision by the United Nations to create an advisory body on the technology....