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CRTC approves 911 location technology implementation, denies Bell rate range

telecom | 02/25/2022 4:39 pm EST

CRTC approves 911 location technology implementation, denies Bell rate rangeOn Friday, the CRTC approved recommendations from the Emergency Services Working Group (ESWG) on handset-based location technology implementation for 911 service. Because of...

Quebecor targeting both MVNOs and Shaw assets for wireless roll out 

Media | 02/24/2022 6:04 pm EST

Quebecor threatens legal action if MVNOs are mandatedQuebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau said that while his company is waiting on the CRTC to "hurry up" and finish determining the framework for mobile virtual network...

Bell acquires Quebec-based provider Ebox

Media | 02/24/2022 4:23 pm EST

Bell warns about some Apple Watch 911 capabilitiesBCE Inc. has acquired Quebec-based internet, telephone and television provider Ebox Inc., the incumbent...

Tories announce changes to critics positions

Media | 02/22/2022 3:12 pm EST

ARIN asks Parliament to require ISPs to maintain Whois infoInterim Conservative leader Candice Bergen shuffled her shadow cabinet on Tuesday, moving some MPs into...

Telus, Blue Dot stress Health Canada never received personal data

telecom | 02/18/2022 5:26 pm EST

Telus, Blue Dot stress Health Canada never received personal dataIt would be impossible for the government to re-identify mobility data of...

ISED contributes $80M to fund cyber security project 

Media | 02/17/2022 5:16 pm EST

Public Health Agency among most targeted for cyber threats: CSEThe Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development announced Thursday that it would allocate some $80 million to the  National Cybersecurity Consortium to establish the Cyber Security Innovation Network.  "In order to expand Canada's national cyber security...

Gov. allocates $6.6 million in UBF to Saskatchewan

telecom | 02/17/2022 2:11 pm EST

$1.7B broadband fund to launch in 2020, no formal consultation: ISEDThe Canadian government is investing nearly $6.6 million in rural Saskatchewan in its effort to connect...

CRTC seeks comments on telecom fees amendments

telecom | 02/16/2022 3:57 pm EST

As CRTC rejects FairPlay, proposal could move to legislative reviewsThe CRTC is calling for comments on proposed amendments to the Telecommunications Fees Regulations, it...

CRTC rejects CNOC request for Scott’s recusal

telecom | 02/16/2022 11:07 am EST

CRTC rejects CNOC request for Scott's recusalThe CRTC has decided that it will not consider a request from the Competitive Network Operators of Canada...

Telesat provides satellite lessor capacity

telecom | 02/14/2022 4:26 pm EST

Telesat provides satellite lessor capacityTelesat Corp. provided satellite lessor Anuvu satellite capacity in what the companies said is the...

Government is using surveillance in data dive, Ethics committee told

telecom | 02/14/2022 4:05 pm EST

Big telecoms fight calls for an ‘ISP tax’, pitch new OTT rulesA panel of academics reiterated that the Privacy Act and the Personal...

Quebecor calls Bell’s Vrai complaint “desperate” and “devoid of any merit”

Media | 02/11/2022 6:10 pm EST

Videotron asks for extension on Unlimited Music finaleQuebecor Inc. wants BCE Inc.’s request to mandate that Videotron...

CRTC relaxes phone fraud reporting requirements

telecom | 02/11/2022 5:10 pm EST

STB data measurement complex task, group saysThe CRTC has relaxed its rules for the reporting of the telephone frauds known as number porting and SIM...

CRTC poses questions on three-digit suicide number

telecom | 02/11/2022 2:57 pm EST

Western Quebec to get new area code overlayThe CRTC has released a dozen questions it wants stakeholders to answer regarding the establishment of a three-digit number reserved for suicide prevention and mental health crises. The questions seek to discover what barriers would prevent such a rollout and how to overcome...

Telus, TLN, have a business dispute, not an actionable complaint: CRTC

telecom | 02/11/2022 2:41 pm EST

Roaming revenue not expected to fully recover until 2022: Telus CFOOn Friday the CRTC dismissed a complaint by Telus Corp. against TLN Media...

PHAC lack of transparency “appalling”, Cavoukian tells Ethics committee

Internet and Governance | 02/11/2022 10:06 am EST

PHAC lack of transparency “appalling”, Cavoukian tells Ethics committeeOntario’s former privacy commissioner called the Public Health Agency’s...

Telus revenue, subs up; continued concerns about roaming

telecom | 02/10/2022 6:07 pm EST

Telus revenue, subs up; continued concerns about roamingRoaming revenue remains among the biggest headwinds for Telus Corp.’s...

Paper billing for vulnerable customers, not universally: CRTC

telecom | 02/10/2022 5:42 pm EST

Paper billing for vulnerable customers, not universally: CRTCThe CRTC has determined that all communications service providers (CSPs),...

Quebec court authorizes class-action against Bell’s Télébec, Câblevision

telecom | 02/09/2022 6:09 pm EST

Quebec court authorizes class-action against Bell’s Télébec, CâblevisionA Superior Court of Quebec judge has authorized a class-action lawsuit against BCE Inc.’s  Télébec or Câblevision du Nord du Québec for imposing changes of rates which...

Government spends $41M to bring broadband to rural Alberta

telecom | 02/09/2022 5:27 pm EST

A cell tower with a blue sky in the background.The federal government is investing $41 million to roll out broadband in...

Scott defends CRTC decisions, and himself, at Industry committee

telecom | 02/08/2022 6:44 pm EST

TekSavvy seeks permission to appeal CRTC rates decision, CNOC asks for public support In an at-times testy exchange between CRTC chair Ian Scott and MPs on the...

House adopts Ethics report, Liberals vote against measure

telecom | 02/08/2022 6:38 pm EST

ARIN asks Parliament to require ISPs to maintain Whois infoThe House of Commons passed an Opposition motion endorsing the Ethics...

Competition Bureau recommends overhaul of competition law

Media | 02/08/2022 5:47 pm EST

Rogers sued by Competition Bureau over alleged false advertising in ‘unlimited’ data plansIn reviewing mergers and acquisitions Canada's Competition Act should do...

CRTC seeks information on deaf accessibility from telecoms

telecom | 02/08/2022 3:21 pm EST

CRTC seeks information on deaf accessibility from telecomsThe CRTC is seeking aggregated data from telecoms on accessibility plans...

CRTC orders Bell to stop service in Saint John MDU until Rogers gains access

telecom | 02/08/2022 2:55 pm EST

CRTC orders Bell to stop service in Saint John MDU until Rogers gains accessThe CRTC denied BCE Inc. the right to market to tenants in a multi-dwelling...

Privacy Commissioner advocates update of Privacy Act before Ethics committee

Media | 02/07/2022 4:43 pm EST

Privacy Commissioner advocates update of Privacy Act before Ethics committeeCanada’s Privacy Act needs to be updated, Privacy Commissioner Daniel...

B.C. court greenlights 1 of 3 class actions against Google for non-consensual data collection

Media | 02/04/2022 5:57 pm EST

Google CanadaA Supreme Court of British Columbia judge has temporarily stayed two separate class-action lawsuits against Alphabet Inc.’s Google, pending a final determination on the...

Feds win fight to keep evidence secret in decision to ban China Mobile

telecom | 02/04/2022 5:30 pm EST

Providers stirred up by ‘premature’ anti-spoofing system deadlineA federal court judge has rejected a China Mobile Communications Group Co.,...

Duclos and Tam face Ethics committee over data collection, RFP extended again

telecom | 02/03/2022 7:42 pm EST

Duclos and Tam face Ethics committee over data collection, RFP extended againData being collected by private companies on behalf of the Public Health...

Bell reports slight revenue uptick 

Media | 02/03/2022 4:36 pm EST

MVNO decision arrives at a ‘tipping point’: Bell CEOBCE Inc’s overall revenue crept up 1.8 per cent, up to $6.21 billion from $6.1 billion, from this time...

Tories attack government over PHAC data tracking, Huawei delay

telecom | 02/02/2022 3:38 pm EST

Groups diverge on handling of net neutrality in comms lawsTwo Conservative MPs lambasted the Liberal government on Tuesday over data tracking by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and the government’s delay in deciding whether Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. can deploy its equipment in Canada’s 5G networks. First up was...

Class-action will not shrink despite Videotron arbitration clause, court rules

telecom | 01/31/2022 6:20 pm EST

Class-action will not shrink despite Videotron arbitration clause, court rulesThe Superior Court of Quebec denied an application by Quebecor Inc.’s...

Tam refuses to appear before Ethics committee, Duclos to testify on Thursday

telecom | 01/31/2022 4:56 pm EST

Opposition seeks emergency probe into Health Canada cellphone trackingCanada’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, has declined an...

ISED touts lower wireless bills, lobby group says gov. using backward looking targets

telecom | 01/28/2022 4:47 pm EST

Resistance to tower builds shows need to ‘rethink’ consultations: MPThe Government of Canada said it has delivered on...

Staffieri not pleased with cable, Rogers’ profit dip in first quarterly report as CEO

Media | 01/27/2022 5:58 pm EST

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise divisionRogers Communications Inc. reported a 10 per cent...

CRTC approves Northwestel internet tariffs

telecom | 01/27/2022 3:53 pm EST

CRTC denies Northwestel Wholesale Connect applicationThe CRTC approved two internet tariffs from BCE Inc.’s Northwestel Thursday, over objections from some stakeholders in the north. In October 2020 the telecom filed tariff notice (TN) 1099 which would have introduced three new...

Clearview goes to B.C. Supreme Court to fight privacy order

Media | 01/25/2022 6:11 pm EST

OPC will ask court to force changes to Facebook privacy practicesA controversial artificial intelligence and facial recognition software...

Cogeco hires new HR officer

telecom | 01/25/2022 5:05 pm EST

Cogeco hires new HR officerCogeco Communications Inc. has appointed a new senior vice-president and chief human resources officer, the company was announced Tuesday in a press release. Linda Gillespie  will begin her duties at the Montreal head office effective April 4, 2022. The Queen's University alumna spent the...

Beanfield buys ISP FibreStream

telecom | 01/25/2022 3:33 pm EST

Beanfield buys ISP FibreStreamToronto network operator Beanfield Technologies Inc. has purchased internet service provider (ISP) FibreSteam Inc., allowing it to expand its network. Beanfield operates networks in Toronto and Montreal; FibreStream is in Toronto...

Telus, Iristel, say administrative monetary penalties don’t apply in 867 dispute

telecom | 01/24/2022 7:05 pm EST

CRTC calls out Iristel, but says no new regs in traffic stimulation caseThe CRTC cannot impose fines on either Iristel Inc. and Telus Corp. after the regulator found the companies have violated the Telecommunications Act in a long-running dispute...

Telus, Tbaytel, subordination of spectrum licences approved

telecom | 01/24/2022 4:24 pm EST

Resistance to tower builds shows need to ‘rethink’ consultations: MPThe department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED)...

Telus, uOttawa launch 5G research partnership

telecom | 01/24/2022 4:02 pm EST

Telus offering communication service for doctorsTelus Corp. and the University of Ottawa have announced a new partnership aimed at turning the...

Quebec Ag. Commission to reconsider decision to reject Quebecor build

telecom | 01/21/2022 6:15 pm EST

Quebec Ag. Commission to reconsider decision to reject Quebecor buildThe Commission for the Protection of Quebec’s Agricultural Territory will...

TeraGo divestiture positive for company: Analyst

telecom | 01/21/2022 2:16 pm EST

TeraGo divestiture positive for company: AnalystA Canaccord Genuity analyst says ​​TeraGo Inc.’s  divestiture of its cloud and colocation business...

Canada’s fibre coverage, speeds, growing marginally compared to other countries: Study 

telecom | 01/20/2022 5:34 pm EST

A cell tower with a blue sky in the background.Canada has seen “reasonable fibre coverage” but growth in coverage has been slow over the last year, according to a new fibre development study. Thursday, Omdia, a...

China Mobile pleads for Gov. evidence in fight against order to vacate Canada

telecom | 01/20/2022 4:48 pm EST

China Mobile pleads for Gov. evidence in fight against order to vacate CanadaChina Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. is arguing before the Federal...

5G and aviation: the Canadian context

telecom | 01/18/2022 5:28 pm EST

A cell tower with a blue sky in the background.On Monday, executives of several U.S. airlines wrote to leadership of the Federal Aviation...

CRTC asks Eastlink to propose NG 911 rates and submit cost study

telecom | 01/17/2022 6:10 pm EST

CRTC asks Eastlink to propose NG 911 rates and submit cost studyThe CRTC has requested that several telecoms companies send it more...

Give feds more powers over passive infrastructure: C.D. Howe Institute

telecom | 01/17/2022 5:22 pm EST

Ericsson forecasts faster 5G rollout in updated reportThe federal government should have more control over passive infrastructure to facilitate the rollout of 5G internet, the C.D. Howe Institute said.  In a report issued in mid-January, a trio of...

Cogeco more interested in MVNO than Freedom

Media | 01/14/2022 5:04 pm EST

Cogeco reports higher revenues and profit in Q3The addition of Shaw Communications Inc.'s Freedom Mobile brand, should Shaw be forced to sell it off by...

CRTC orders apartment owner to permit Rogers access

telecom | 01/14/2022 5:03 pm EST

Rogers requests extension for Wireless Code changesThe CRTC has told a Saint John, New Brunswick real estate developer he must offer “timely access” for...

Ethics committee votes for data hearing, Health Canada amends RFP

Internet and Governance | 01/13/2022 5:09 pm EST

Ethics committee votes for data hearing, Health Canada amends RFPOTTAWA–The House of Commons Ethics committee voted unanimously  Thursday...

Shaw reports $33M increase in profit for Q1 2022

Media | 01/12/2022 4:41 pm EST

Plan comes together for TV subs boost in Shaw Q3: MehrShaw Communications Inc. saw a 20.2 per cent increase in its net earnings this quarter, jumping from $163 million in the same quarter last year to $196 million in its first quarterly report for 2022 for the three month reporting period ending in Nov. 2021. Shaw released...

Gov. award Ontario AI company contract to map out rural broadband access

telecom | 01/12/2022 9:15 am EST

Gov. award Ontario AI company contract to map out rural broadband accessThe Government has awarded a Toronto-based analytics company that uses...

BREAKING: Staffieri confirmed as Rogers CEO

telecom | 01/10/2022 5:58 pm EST

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise divisionTony Staffieri had been appointed as President and CEO of Rogers Communications Inc., the company...

Opposition seeks emergency probe into Health Canada cellphone tracking

telecom | 01/10/2022 5:21 pm EST

Opposition seeks emergency probe into Health Canada cellphone trackingA group of four Opposition MPs is asking for an emergency meeting of the...

MVNOs expected in 2023; impact will be ‘manageable’ for incumbents: analyst

telecom | 01/07/2022 5:00 pm EST

MVNOs expected in 2023; impact will be 'manageable' for incumbents: analystThe advent of facilities-based mobile virtual network operators {MVNOs) made possible by the CRTC's April 2021 wireless review decision won't come in earnest until 2023, and...

UPDATED: Conservative MP Brassard demands investigation into cellphone tracking

telecom | 01/07/2022 4:17 pm EST

Telecoms added over 1.4 million new wireless subs in 2018Conservative MP John Brassard wrote a letter Jan. 5 to Privacy Commissioner...

Arbitrator dismisses Union complaint against Bell Technical Solutions 

telecom | 01/06/2022 4:52 pm EST

Bell Media layoffs 'directly caused’ by the CRTC: UniforAn Ontario-based labour arbitrator has dismissed a complaint by Unifor...

Canada avoids American confusion of 5G impact on airports

telecom | 01/05/2022 4:29 pm EST

Millimetre wave spectrum set-asides harmful to 5G potential: telcosEarly consultations on regulations to 5G rollout affecting air traffic...

Iristel takes CRTC traffic stimulation decision to Federal Court of Appeal

telecom | 01/05/2022 2:59 pm EST

Freedom cites ‘suspicious patterns’ in Iristel traffic pumping caseWhile it is asking the CRTC for guidelines on how to comply with a recent...

867 traffic stimulation fight now focuses on conference calling

telecom | 01/04/2022 5:05 pm EST

CRTC calls out Iristel, but says no new regs in traffic stimulation caseIristel Inc. has asked for guidance from the CRTC in seeking to comply with...

Lawson Hunter appointed to Order of Canada

telecom | 01/04/2022 12:59 pm EST

Lawson Hunter appointed to Order of CanadaLawson Hunter, a former Commissioner of the Competition Bureau and a one-time BCE Inc. executive, has...

CRTC revises deadline for CAV funding procedure

Media | 12/22/2021 3:13 pm EST

CRTC revises deadline for CAV funding procedureThe CRTC has changed the deadline for the Canadian Administrator of Video Relay Service Inc. (CAV) to...

ISED proposes to keep 3500 Mhz set-aside rules in 3800 Mhz auction consultation doc

telecom | 12/20/2021 4:33 pm EST

A cell tower with a blue sky in the background.The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) is proposing to keep the set-aside spectrum auction rules established in its recent 3500 Mhz auction for...

CRTC suspends application of STIR/SHAKEN for 911 calls

telecom | 12/20/2021 1:21 pm EST

CRTC suspends application of STIR/SHAKEN for 911 callsThe CRTC approved an application by its Interconnection Steering Committee...

OpenMedia criticizes Libs for abandoning promise to lower connectivity bills

telecom | 12/17/2021 3:10 pm EST

OpenMedia criticizes Libs for abandoning promise to lower connectivity billsLobby group OpenMedia chastised Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Friday for...

CRTC approves $8.8 million in broadband rollout in Alberta and Nova Scotia

telecom | 12/16/2021 4:41 pm EST

CRTC approves $8.8 million in broadband rollout in Alberta and Nova ScotiaThe CRTC has approved four projects that will facilitate broadband rollout...

Revenues dropped in 2020, EBITDA margins increased in 2020: CRTC CMR report

telecom | 12/15/2021 6:00 pm EST

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPsOverall, telecommunications companies pulled in some $53.4 billion in 2020, a 1.4 per cent decrease in overall revenues compared to 2019, according to the most recent edition...

CRTC denies French-language organization request to intervene late in Rogers-Shaw merger

Media | 12/15/2021 4:53 pm EST

STB data measurement complex task, group saysThe CRTC denied a Quebec organization representing...

ISED approves Rogers spectrum subordination in Yukon

telecom | 12/15/2021 3:31 pm EST

ISED approves Rogers spectrum subordination in YukonThe Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) approved the subordination...

Lightbound takes over chair of Industry committee

telecom | 12/14/2021 6:28 pm EST

Lightbound takes over chair of Industry committeeThe House of Commons Industry committee selected Joël Lightbound as its chair by a unanimous vote...

Interveners not swayed by Rogers-Shaw arguments at CRTC merger hearing

Media | 12/14/2021 6:04 pm EST

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise divisionNumerous interveners of the CRTC's Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...

Hedy Fry new chair of Heritage committee

Media | 12/13/2021 5:43 pm EST

Hedy Fry new chair of Heritage committeeOTTAWA – Veteran Liberal MP Hedy Fry was elected chair of the House of Commons committee on Canadian...

CRTC approves wholesale high-speed access tier for Shaw

telecom | 12/10/2021 3:40 pm EST

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPsShaw Communications Inc. was given approval by the CRTC Friday for a new...

MPs appointed to House Industry and Heritage committees

Media | 12/10/2021 12:17 pm EST

Groups diverge on handling of net neutrality in comms lawsParliament has established its committees for the new session, with the...

CRTC makes Bell AI call blocking permanent, declines to establish regulatory framework

telecom | 12/09/2021 5:28 pm EST

CRTC makes Bell AI call blocking permanent, declines to establish regulatory frameworkThe CRTC has given approval to BCE Inc. to make permanent a call blocking system it has trialled for a year, over the objections of some interveners who cited a concern about...

CRTC calls for comments on next-gen 911

telecom | 12/09/2021 5:27 pm EST

CRTC calls for comments on next-gen 911On Thursday the CRTC called for comments on hosted call handling solutions (CHS) for public safety...

Canadian organizations paying more than $450,000 in ransomware attacks: study

telecom | 12/08/2021 4:54 pm EST

Public Health Agency among most targeted for cyber threats: CSECanadian organizations pay an average ransom of $458,247 to ransomware...

CRTC fines The Gap $200,000 for violating spam laws

telecom | 12/08/2021 2:46 pm EST

CRTC fines The Gap $200,000 for violating spam lawsClothing giant Gap Inc. has been fined $200,000 for violating Canada’s anti-spam legislation (CASL),...

Court denies China Mobile request for stay of Gov. order to vacate

telecom | 12/08/2021 10:49 am EST

Court denies China Mobile request for stay of Gov. order to vacateA telecommunications provider owned by the Chinese government has lost its...

Opposition hammers Government on 988, broadband rollout

telecom | 12/08/2021 10:24 am EST

ARIN asks Parliament to require ISPs to maintain Whois infoThe government was taken to task Tuesday over rollout of a dedicated number for mental health and last-mile fibre lays. Two Conservative MPs lashed out at the Trudeau administration over the failings. Pointing out it had been nearly a year since his colleague Todd Doherty...

Class action lawyers seek to have Bell affidavit stricken in prison phones case

telecom | 12/07/2021 6:52 pm EST

Bell's prison phone rates violated telecom act, lawsuit arguesIn a would-be class-action lawsuit against BCE Inc. and the province of...

Singh calls for price caps on wireless and internet bills, opposes Shaw takeover

telecom | 12/07/2021 5:01 pm EST

Singh calls for price caps on wireless and internet bills, opposes Shaw takeoverOTTAWA – NDP leader Jagmeet Singh reiterated his party’s call for lower...

SaskTel launches new digital mobile service

telecom | 12/07/2021 4:02 pm EST

SaskTel launches new digital mobile serviceA crown-owned Saskatchewan telecommunications firm is launching its new digital mobile service In a...

Telus sells financial solutions business to Dye & Durham

telecom | 12/06/2021 10:50 am EST

Roaming revenue not expected to fully recover until 2022: Telus CFOTelus Corp. has sold its financial solutions division to Vancouver-based...

Trudeau announces parliamentary secretaries

Media | 12/03/2021 4:32 pm EST

Groups diverge on handling of net neutrality in comms lawsPrime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the appointment of parliamentary secretaries Friday with Chris...

Rogers, Quebecor, Cogeco lag behind in pandemic pick up: analyst

telecom | 12/02/2021 5:48 pm EST

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise divisionOf Canada’s big three telecom companies, Rogers Communications Inc. is...

Dépatie in as new Rogers home COO

Media | 12/02/2021 5:22 pm EST

Dépatie in as new Rogers home COORogers Communications Inc. announced Thursday afternoon that Robert Dépatie is joining the company as chief operating officer of the home and business division. He will start Dec. 6.  In a statement, interim CEO Tony Staffieri praised Dépatie's experience. “With...