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INDU says Rogers-Shaw should not proceed; expressed concern about CRTC regulatory decisions

telecom | 03/04/2022 5:22 pm EST

Big telecoms fight calls for an ‘ISP tax’, pitch new OTT rules

The House of Commons Industry committee has said that Rogers Communications Inc.'s acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc. should not be allowed to proceed, but if it is, that...

CRTC Rogers Shaw

UPDATED: Champagne to deny ‘wholesale’ transfer of spectrum from Shaw to Rogers

telecom | 03/03/2022 5:10 pm EST

UPDATED: Champagne to deny 'wholesale' transfer of spectrum from Shaw to Rogers

Updated on March 3 at 5:46 p.m. Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne has indicated that his department will not allow the "wholesale transfer" of spectrum owned...

Rogers Shaw Spectrum

Appeal court dismisses Iristel application to release $21.85m in tax refunds

telecom | 03/03/2022 5:09 pm EST

Freedom cites ‘suspicious patterns’ in Iristel traffic pumping case

The Federal Court of Appeal dismissed an application by Iristel Inc. to...

Internet Landline phones Wireless

Public and private sector privacy laws need an update: Therrien to Ethics committee

telecom | 03/03/2022 4:31 pm EST

Experts say there is no road map for a Facebook-OPC court fight

Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien has followed...

Privacy

Delay 3,800 Mhz auction until altimeter issues resolved, Sasktel tells ISED

telecom | 03/03/2022 9:52 am EST

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Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. has a “simple”...

Bell Rogers Spectrum

Net neutrality prevents CRTC from ordering ISPs verify age online: CRTC to Senate

Media | 03/03/2022 9:10 am EST

Net neutrality prevents CRTC from ordering ISPs verify age online: CRTC to Senate

The CRTC cannot direct internet service providers (ISPs) to implement age...

CRTC Internet Net neutrality

Rogers “not putting a dime” in middle tier news market: Conservative MP

Media | 03/02/2022 7:16 pm EST

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise division

Community-owned television outlets “are not producing local news that meet high journalistic standards,” and the Online Streaming Act should be amended to ensure...

Bell Corus Rogers

TekSavvy asks for investigation by Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of CRTC comish

telecom | 03/02/2022 6:09 pm EST

TekSavvy asks for investigation by Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of CRTC comish

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has asked the Office of...

Bell CRTC

Alberta invests nearly $400 million in rural broadband rollout

telecom | 03/02/2022 4:31 pm EST

Resistance to tower builds shows need to ‘rethink’ consultations: MP

The province of Alberta will spend $390 million over four years to provide...

Internet Rural broadband

PHAC data dive legal but not necessarily ethical, Parliamentarians told

telecom | 02/28/2022 5:38 pm EST

BTLR recs could see U.S. tariff levies under USMCA: Geist

The gathering of mobility cellphone data by the Public Health Agency of...

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Telecom companies waive fees for calls to the Ukraine

telecom | 02/25/2022 5:29 pm EST

Western Quebec to get new area code overlay

Several Canadian telecom companies have responded to the Russian invasion of Ukraine by temporarily...

Landline phones Smartphones Wireless

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 range

On Friday, the CRTC approved recommendations from the Emergency Services...

CRTC Smartphones

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 mandated

Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau said that while his company is...

Quarterly Reports Quebecor

Bell acquires Quebec-based provider Ebox

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

BCE Inc. has acquired Quebec-based internet, telephone and television provider Ebox Inc., the incumbent...

Bell Landline phones Television

ISED failed to show reasons for Quebecor’s set-aside eligibility in 3500 auction: Telus

telecom | 02/23/2022 2:41 pm EST

Roaming revenue not expected to fully recover until 2022: Telus CFO

When it assessed Quebecor Inc. as eligible to bid...

Bell Quebecor Spectrum

Tories announce changes to critics positions

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

ARIN asks Parliament to require ISPs to maintain Whois info

Interim Conservative leader Candice Bergen shuffled her shadow cabinet on Tuesday, moving some MPs into new responsibilities. Chauveau MP Gérard Deltell is now critic for innovation, science and industry, replacing British Columbia MP Ed Fast. Fast is now the finance...

digital Innovation

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 data

It would be impossible for the government to re-identify mobility data of...

Privacy Smartphones

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: CSE

The Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development announced...

Innovation ISED

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: ISED

The Canadian government is investing nearly $6.6 million in rural Saskatchewan in its effort to connect...

Fibre optics Internet

CRTC seeks comments on telecom fees amendments

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

As CRTC rejects FairPlay, proposal could move to legislative reviews

The CRTC is calling for comments on proposed amendments to the Telecommunications Fees Regulations, it...

CRTC Landline phones Wireless

CRTC rejects CNOC request for Scott’s recusal

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

CRTC rejects CNOC request for Scott's recusal

The CRTC has decided that it will not consider a request from the Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) for commission chair Ian Scott to recuse himself from all matters before the regulator related to the relationship of wholesale-based internet service providers...

Bell CRTC Unlock

Videotron giving itself undue preference, but unnecessary to suspend BDU Vrai service: PIAC

Media | 02/15/2022 5:24 pm EST

Videotron giving itself undue preference, but unnecessary to suspend BDU Vrai service: PIAC

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) is...

Bell CRTC Quebecor

Telesat provides satellite lessor capacity

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

Telesat provides satellite lessor capacity

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

Internet Satellite tv Spectrum

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 rules

A panel of academics reiterated that the Privacy Act and the Personal...

Privacy Smartphones Telus

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 finale

Quebecor Inc. wants BCE Inc.’s request to mandate that Videotron...

Bell CRTC Quebecor

CRTC relaxes phone fraud reporting requirements

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

STB data measurement complex task, group says

The CRTC has relaxed its rules for the reporting of the telephone frauds known as number porting and SIM...

CRTC Landline phones Wireless

CRTC poses questions on three-digit suicide number

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

Western Quebec to get new area code overlay

The CRTC has released a dozen questions it wants stakeholders to answer regarding the establishment of a...

CRTC Smartphones Wireless

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 CFO

On Friday the CRTC dismissed a complaint by Telus Corp. against TLN Media...

Cancon CRTC Telus

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 committee

Ontario’s former privacy commissioner called the Public Health Agency’s...

Privacy Smartphones Telus

Telus revenue, subs up; continued concerns about roaming

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

Telus revenue, subs up; continued concerns about roaming

Roaming revenue remains among the biggest headwinds for Telus Corp.’s year ahead, even though an increase in roaming revenue (resulting from the loosening of pandemic travel restrictions) led to its $27 million year-over-year increase, and its chief financial officer...

Quarterly Reports Roaming Telus

Paper billing for vulnerable customers, not universally: CRTC

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

Paper billing for vulnerable customers, not universally: CRTC

The CRTC has determined that all communications service providers (CSPs),...

CRTC Smartphones Television

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, Câblevision

A Superior Court of Quebec judge has authorized a class-action lawsuit...

Bell Cable Landline phones

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...

Internet Rural broadband

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...

CRTC Data charges Internet

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 info

The House of Commons passed an Opposition motion endorsing the Ethics Committee recommendation that the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) delay a request for proposal (RFP) regarding mobility data tracking. The vote was 173-156 with the governing Liberals voting against....

Privacy

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 plans

In reviewing mergers and acquisitions Canada's Competition Act should do...

Rogers Shaw

CRTC seeks information on deaf accessibility from telecoms

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

CRTC seeks information on deaf accessibility from telecoms

The CRTC is seeking aggregated data from telecoms on accessibility plans...

CRTC

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 access

The CRTC denied BCE Inc. the right to market to tenants in a multi-dwelling...

Bell CRTC MDU

Opposition grills Libs over definitive date on suicide hotline implementation, Online Streaming Act

Media | 02/07/2022 5:19 pm EST

Opposition grills Libs over definitive date on suicide hotline implementation, Online Streaming Act

Conservative MP and Heritage Critic John Nater...

Cancon CRTC Smartphones

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 committee

Canada’s Privacy Act needs to be updated, Privacy Commissioner Daniel...

data eHealth Privacy

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 Canada

A Supreme Court of British Columbia judge has...

Google Internet Privacy

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 deadline

A federal court judge has rejected a China Mobile Communications Group Co.,...

Smartphones Wireless

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 again

Data being collected by private companies on behalf of the Public Health...

data Privacy

Scott must recuse himself from all proceedings involving wholesale-incumbent relations: CNOC

telecom | 02/03/2022 6:34 pm EST

Scott must recuse himself from all proceedings involving wholesale-incumbent relations: CNOC

The trade group Competitive Network Operators of Canada has filed an application with the CRTC requesting that its chair, Ian Scott, "recuse himself, or be recused, from...

cnoc CRTC Fibre optics

Bell reports slight revenue uptick

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

MVNO decision arrives at a ‘tipping point’: Bell CEO

BCE Inc’s overall revenue crept up 1.8 per cent, up to $6.21 billion from $6.1 billion, from this time...

Bell Quarterly Reports

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 laws

Two Conservative MPs lambasted the Liberal government on Tuesday over data...

Privacy Smartphones

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 rules

The Superior Court of Quebec denied an application by Quebecor Inc.’s...

Bell Cogeco Internet

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 tracking

Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, has declined an...

Privacy Smartphones

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: MP

The Government of Canada said it has delivered on its commitment to reduce wireless plans by 25 per cent while one lobby group says Canada needs to set new targets if it wants...

Bell CRTC Rogers

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 division

Rogers Communications Inc. reported a 10 per cent...

Rogers

CRTC approves Northwestel internet tariffs

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

CRTC denies Northwestel Wholesale Connect application

The 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 practices

A controversial artificial intelligence and facial recognition software...

Artificial intelligence Privacy

Cogeco hires new HR officer

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

Cogeco hires new HR officer

Cogeco 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 FibreStream

Toronto 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 case

The CRTC cannot impose fines on either Iristel Inc. and Telus Corp. after...

CRTC Rural broadband Telus

Telus, Tbaytel, subordination of spectrum licences approved

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

Resistance to tower builds shows need to ‘rethink’ consultations: MP

The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED)...

Spectrum

Telus, uOttawa launch 5G research partnership

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

Telus offering communication service for doctors

Telus Corp. and the University of Ottawa have announced a new partnership aimed at turning the...

5g Fibre optics Telus

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 build

The Commission for the Protection of Quebec’s Agricultural Territory will reconsider its July 2021 move to reject an application made by Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron to build...

Quebecor Smartphones Wireless

TeraGo divestiture positive for company: Analyst

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

TeraGo divestiture positive for company: Analyst

A Canaccord Genuity analyst says TeraGo Inc.’s divestiture of its cloud and colocation business...

Spectrum

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

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

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Canada has seen “reasonable fibre coverage”...

Bell Fibre optics Internet

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 Canada

China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. is arguing before the Federal...

Smartphones

5G and aviation: the Canadian context

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

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On Monday, executives of several U.S. airlines wrote to leadership of the Federal Aviation...

5g Smartphones Spectrum

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 study

The CRTC has requested that several telecoms companies send it more information for the introduction of Next Generation 911 (NG 911) services after it directed all NG 911 network providers to file proposed wholesale and retail tariffs no later than Nov. 1, 2021. These...

Bell CRTC Smartphones

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 report

The 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 Q3

The addition of Shaw Communications Inc.'s Freedom Mobile brand, should Shaw be forced to sell it off by...

Cogeco Rogers Shaw

CRTC orders apartment owner to permit Rogers access

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

Rogers requests extension for Wireless Code changes

The CRTC has told a Saint John, New Brunswick real estate developer he must offer “timely access” for...

Bell CRTC Rogers

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 RFP

OTTAWA–The House of Commons Ethics committee voted unanimously Thursday...

Privacy Smartphones Wireless

Commission approves POI removal, declines to mandate aggregated regime for Quebec-based Bell subsidiary

telecom | 01/12/2022 5:21 pm EST

Commission approves POI removal, declines to mandate aggregated regime for Quebec-based Bell subsidiary

The CRTC Wednesday approved a request from BCE...

Bell CRTC Internet

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: Mehr

Shaw Communications Inc. saw a 20.2 per cent increase in its net earnings this quarter, jumping from $163...

Cable Internet Shaw

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 access

The Government has awarded a Toronto-based analytics company that uses...

Artificial intelligence Rural broadband

Intervenors take issue with ISED’s proposed Tier 5 service areas in rural spectrum consultation

telecom | 01/11/2022 5:00 pm EST

Resistance to tower builds shows need to ‘rethink’ consultations: MP

Tier 5 service areas are “too large” to meet...

Spectrum Wireless

BREAKING: Staffieri confirmed as Rogers CEO

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

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise division

Tony Staffieri had been appointed as President and CEO of Rogers Communications Inc., the company announced Monday evening in a press release. The announcement concludes a process began in November when Staffieri was appointed interim CEO alongside the ouster of...

Rogers

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 tracking

A group of four Opposition MPs is asking for an emergency meeting of the...

Privacy Smartphones

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: analyst

The advent of facilities-based mobile virtual...

Cogeco Spectrum

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 2018

Conservative MP John Brassard wrote a letter Jan. 5 to Privacy Commissioner...

Privacy

Arbitrator dismisses Union complaint against Bell Technical Solutions

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

Bell Media layoffs 'directly caused’ by the CRTC: Unifor

An Ontario-based labour arbitrator has dismissed a complaint by Unifor...

Bell Cable Fibre optics

Canada avoids American confusion of 5G impact on airports

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

Early consultations on regulations to 5G rollout affecting air traffic seems to have resulted in Canada avoiding a dispute that roiled the American telecom market. On the last day of 2021, United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and the Federal Aviation...

5g Bell CRTC

Ontario judge keeps Bell evidence on record in prison class-action lawsuit against incumbent

telecom | 01/05/2022 3:47 pm EST

Nova Scotia Department of Justice failed privacy obligations: watchdog

An Ontario Superior Court judge has ruled that...

Bell CRTC Landline phones

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 case

While it is asking the CRTC for guidelines on how to comply with a recent...

CRTC Landline phones Rogers

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 case

Iristel Inc. has asked for guidance from the CRTC in seeking to comply with...

CRTC Rogers Telus

Lawson Hunter appointed to Order of Canada

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

Lawson Hunter appointed to Order of Canada

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

Bell Competition bureau

CRTC revises deadline for CAV funding procedure

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

CRTC revises deadline for CAV funding procedure

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

CRTC

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...

3800 MHz ISED Spectrum

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 calls

The CRTC approved an application by its Interconnection Steering Committee...

CRTC Landline phones Wireless

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 bills

Lobby group OpenMedia chastised Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Friday for...

Internet ISED

Rodriguez told to introduce news compensation by early 2022, Champagne to focus on spectrum “use it or lose it”

Media | 12/16/2021 4:45 pm EST

Rodriguez told to introduce news compensation by early 2022, Champagne to focus on spectrum “use it or lose it”

Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez is expected to introduce news compensation legislation in early 2022, after he was directed to do so by Prime Minister Justin...

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 Scotia

The CRTC has approved four projects that will facilitate broadband rollout...

CRTC

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 ISPs

Overall, telecommunications companies pulled in some $53.4 billion in 2020,...

Bell CRTC Quebecor

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 says

The CRTC denied a Quebec organization representing...

CRTC Rogers Shaw

ISED approves Rogers spectrum subordination in Yukon

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

ISED approves Rogers spectrum subordination in Yukon

The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) approved the subordination...

Rogers Spectrum

Huawei decision coming “in weeks”, Champagne says; Opposition says no to telecom payouts

telecom | 12/14/2021 7:03 pm EST

Huawei decision coming “in weeks”, Champagne says; Opposition says no to telecom payouts

OTTAWA – Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne says the government will announce a decision on the use of Huawei Technologies Ltd. equipment...

5g Huawei ISED

Lightbound takes over chair of Industry committee

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

Lightbound takes over chair of Industry committee

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

Internet Television Wireless

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 division

Numerous interveners of the CRTC's Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...

CRTC Rogers Shaw

Hedy Fry new chair of Heritage committee

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

Hedy Fry new chair of Heritage committee

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

Cancon Music streaming

CRTC approves wholesale high-speed access tier for Shaw

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

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

Shaw Communications Inc. was given approval by the CRTC Friday for a new...

CRTC Shaw wholesale rates

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 laws

Parliament has established its committees for the new session, with the...

CRTC Internet Television

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 framework

The CRTC has given approval to BCE Inc. to make...

Bell CRTC

CRTC calls for comments on next-gen 911

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

CRTC calls for comments on next-gen 911

On Thursday the CRTC called for comments on hosted call handling solutions (CHS) for public safety...

CRTC Smartphones

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: CSE

Canadian organizations pay an average ransom of $458,247 to ransomware...

cybersecurity

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 laws

Clothing giant Gap Inc. has been fined $200,000 for violating Canada’s anti-spam legislation (CASL), the CRTC announced Wednesday. The company operates several clothing stores, including The Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy. The commission sent the firm a warning...

CRTC