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CRTC fines telemarketer $42,000 for repeated violations

telecom | 12/02/2021 2:15 pm EST

CRTC fines telemarketer $42,000 for repeated violationsThe CRTC fined an Ontario firm $42,000 for violating the Do Not Call List (DNCL) regulations, according to a Thursday decision released by the commission. Smart Choice Window and Door Systems, a subsidiary of 2260948 Ontario Inc. was charged $2,000 for each of 21...

CRTC upholds decision in Telus-Iristel 867 traffic stimulation case, resumes fine consultation 

telecom | 12/01/2021 6:39 pm EST

CRTC calls out Iristel, but says no new regs in traffic stimulation caseThe CRTC has rejected a pair of review and vary applications from Telus Corp. and Iristel Inc. in a long-running dispute over traffic stimulation to the 867 area code, and...

Samsung opens Regina office to work with SaskTel

telecom | 12/01/2021 3:11 pm EST

SaskTel to boost Internet speeds in indigenous communitiesSamsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has opened a regional office in Regina to facilitate its work with...

Base Technology gets money from CRTC Broadband Fund

telecom | 12/01/2021 1:58 pm EST

Base Technology gets money from CRTC Broadband FundThe CRTC has granted Base Technology Ltd. up to $750,000 Wednesday to roll out broadband in rural British...

Western Quebec to get new area code overlay

telecom | 12/01/2021 12:09 pm EST

Western Quebec to get new area code overlayThe CRTC approved the implementation of an overlay for area code 468 for the western Quebec region...

Rogers keeps mum on post-ouster Natale consultation fee

Media | 11/30/2021 6:08 pm EST

Rogers needs Shaw to sell CanCon alongside OTT services Rogers Communications Inc.  has declined to adjust its calculation of the value of the acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc. to include in its application to the CRTC the value of any consulting fee paid to ousted CEO Joe Natale, a week after the regulator asked it to do...

STIR/SHAKEN rolling out despite incumbent demands for delay

telecom | 11/30/2021 3:43 pm EST

Price most critical factor when choosing telecom services: reportCanada’s telecommunications companies have begun implementing the STIR/SHAKEN technology in the CRTC’s effort to combat spoof and fraudulent...

CRTC makes three-digit submissions accessible for deaf

telecom | 11/30/2021 3:41 pm EST

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPsSubmissions to a CRTC proceeding about a three-digit dialing code for...

Scott should recuse himself from MDU in-building access review and vary: TekSavvy

telecom | 11/29/2021 5:44 pm EST

CRTC changes position on MVNOs, proposes mandated accessAn Ontario-based independent service provider argued to the CRTC that chair...

Competition Bureau takes part in global summit on digital marketing

telecom | 11/29/2021 4:19 pm EST

Competition Bureau takes part in global summit on digital marketingCanada’s Competition Bureau is joining with 10 other nations for a Monday...

Telus launches Indigenous reconciliation plan amid goals for connectivity

telecom | 11/29/2021 2:31 pm EST

Roaming revenue not expected to fully recover until 2022: Telus CFOTelus Corp. Monday unveiled a program to connect Indigenous communities to...

Conservatives call for complete ban on Huawei equipment in 5G rollout

telecom | 11/26/2021 11:51 am EST

Huawei to invest $2.5 million in UBC researchThe Conservative Party of Canada is renewing its call for an outright ban on deployment of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. gear when telecoms rollout their 5G networks. “Those who control the medium...

Redline expands its services in Middle East

telecom | 11/25/2021 11:01 am EST

Redline expands its services in Middle EastThe Markham, Ont.-based manufacturer of wireless network technology for mining, oil-and-gas, and utility...

China Mobile pleads for court stay on Gov. order to leave country

telecom | 11/24/2021 7:58 pm EST

China Mobile pleads for court stay on Gov. order to leave countryA telecommunications service provider owned by the Chinese government sought Wednesday to convince a Federal Court judge to stay a move by the Canadian Government to order it...

Rogers needs Shaw to sell CanCon alongside OTT services 

Media | 11/22/2021 8:35 pm EST

Rogers needs Shaw to sell CanCon alongside OTT services Top brass from Shaw Communications Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc....

Telesat trading on TSX, NASDAQ

Media | 11/22/2021 4:05 pm EST

LEO providers aiming to meet gov’t connectivity goals within 3 yearsTelesat Corp. is now trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ, as it builds its network of low earth orbit (LEO) satellites.  The company went public Friday, which is part of a move announced last year. Loral Space & Communications Inc. and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board are trading in their stake in the company for shares in the new publicly traded entity. Loral and Telesat Canada are subsidiaries of the new corporation. Telesat president and CEO Dan Goldberg will be joining the board...

Ericsson takes over Vonage in US$6.2b deal

telecom | 11/22/2021 3:47 pm EST

Ericsson takes over Vonage in US$6.2b dealSwedish telecom manufacturer Ericsson AB is buying Vonage Holdings Corp. for US$6.2 billion, the firms...

CRTC fines Toronto company $59,000 for violating unsolicited telecoms rules

telecom | 11/19/2021 4:19 pm EST

CRTC fines Toronto company $59,000 for violating unsolicited telecoms rulesThe CRTC is fining a Toronto-based window manufacturing and repair company...

CRTC approves Rogers modem transition

telecom | 11/19/2021 4:08 pm EST

Rogers requests extension for Wireless Code changesThe CRTC has ruled that the time frame set out by Rogers Communications Inc. to stop activating and stop...

CRTC okays statement of work for BH Telecom’s Saskatchewan fibre lay

telecom | 11/19/2021 2:15 pm EST

BH Telecom Corp. has had its proposed statement of work for a Saskatchewan fibre project approved by the CRTC. In a Friday order, the commission said it will provide the approval in confidence to the...

CRTC approves final 2021 rates, interim 2022 rates, for for high-cost serving areas

telecom | 11/18/2021 3:15 pm EST

CRTC approves final 2021 rates, interim 2022 rates, for for high-cost serving areasThe CRTC approved the 2021 subsidy amounts for telecom providers operating...

Indigenous connectivity needs separate funding from feds’ UBF: Telus exec

telecom | 11/17/2021 7:40 pm EST

Indigenous connectivity needs separate funding from feds' UBF: Telus execThe federal government’s Universal Broadband Fund (UBF), by having rural...

Rogers-Shaw CRTC hearing now has ‘extra element of intrigue’: analyst

Media | 11/17/2021 11:49 am EST

Rogers, Shaw execs mum on spectrum at Industry committee  The Tuesday night announcement of the departure of Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Joe Natale and the appointment of once-ousted chief financial officer Tony Staffieri as...

Bell wireless service restored to B.C. customers

telecom | 11/16/2021 7:21 pm EST

Bell wireless service restored to B.C. customersBCE Inc.’s Bell Mobility has restored service to its wireless customers following an outage caused by...

Quebecor sells its westward expansion

telecom | 11/16/2021 2:30 pm EST

Quebecor sells its westward expansionMISSISSAUGA - On the second day of the Canadian Telecom Summit, Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau...

Cogeco given permission to provide telephony service Lambton, Que.

telecom | 11/16/2021 10:44 am EST

Cogeco given permission to provide telephony service Lambton, Que.The CRTC is permitting Cogeco Connexion Inc. to provide telephony services...

Business case needs to be made for 5G end-to-end networks: Telus CTO

telecom | 11/15/2021 3:52 pm EST

Ericsson forecasts faster 5G rollout in updated reportMISSISSAUGA — Telus Corp.’s chief technology officer said that the...

Cogeco’s Jetté concerned about MVNO tariff negotiations

telecom | 11/15/2021 2:59 pm EST

Cogeco reports higher revenues and profit in Q3MISSISSAUGA - Even at the earliest stages of the CRTC’s new mobile virtual network operator regime, incumbents are already obstructing the goals of the decision, according to the CEO of one of the companies tipped to be the biggest beneficiary of the new regime. ...

Telus opens conference with attack on set-aside spectrum policies

telecom | 11/15/2021 11:14 am EST

Roaming revenue not expected to fully recover until 2022: Telus CFOMISSISSAUGA -- The government's set-aside spectrum policy has, rather than...

CRTC denies request for delay in Roger-Shaw hearing

Media | 11/15/2021 9:56 am EST

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise divisionThe CRTC has denied a request by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre and the National Pensioners...

Cogeco expects to enter mobile rate negotiations by spring, summer 2022 earliest

telecom | 11/12/2021 5:02 pm EST

Cogeco reports higher revenues and profit in Q3Cogeco Inc.’s CEO said it is a multi-step process it has to follow before...

CRTC approves new area code for Montreal area

telecom | 11/12/2021 12:18 pm EST

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPsThe CRTC has approved a new area code for the region surrounding Montreal. In a decision issued Friday...

Telus still wants CRTC to delay Rogers-Shaw hearing despite court decision on board control

Media | 11/11/2021 4:24 pm EST

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise divisionOne of Canada’s telecom incumbents is urging the...

Telecoms renew call for delay of STIR/SHAKEN

telecom | 11/11/2021 3:43 pm EST

Telecoms renew call for delay of STIR/SHAKENCanada’s incumbent telecoms made another plea for deferral of the application of the STIR/SHAKEN...

Ottawa, northeastern – central Ontario, getting new area codes: CRTC

telecom | 11/10/2021 1:37 pm EST

Ottawa, northeastern - central Ontario, getting new area codes: CRTCOttawa and the surrounding eastern Ontario area will be getting a third...

TekSavvy files wholesale rates appeal

telecom | 11/09/2021 4:44 pm EST

STB data measurement complex task, group saysJust under two months after it was granted leave by the Federal Court of Appeal, TekSavvy Solutions Inc....

UPDATED: Rayes replaced by John Nater as Heritage shadow minister

Media | 11/09/2021 3:24 pm EST

UPDATED: Rayes replaced by John Nater as Heritage shadow ministerA Conservative MP who was outspoken on the revised Broadcasting Act, Bill C-10, will be replaced as Shadow Minister for Canadian Heritage after party leader Erin O’Toole...

Shaw backs delay of STIR/SHAKEN implementation

telecom | 11/09/2021 1:51 pm EST

Shaw backs delay of STIR/SHAKEN implementationShaw Communications Inc. has added its voice to those calling for deferral of the implementation of the...

Spam calls complaints high in September, CRTC finds

Media | 11/09/2021 12:13 pm EST

Federal gov’t looking to expand emergency alerts to online platforms, devicesThe CRTC released its semi-annual report on Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) on Tuesday. The...

Internet Society releases Indigenous connectivity recommendations

telecom | 11/09/2021 10:34 am EST

Internet Society establishes lobby footing in CanadaIndigenous stakeholders in Canadian telecoms are renewing their calls for...

CRTC should proceed with Rogers-Shaw hearing: Rogers, analyst

telecom | 11/08/2021 1:40 pm EST

Competition Bureau MVNO proposal ‘punts the problem’: NataleRogers Communications Inc. says there is no reason to delay the CRTC on its...

Competitive pay-telephone service provider tells CRTC Bell should pay its bills

telecom | 11/08/2021 9:49 am EST

Wholesale payphone service no longer mandated: CRTCAn Ontario-based pay-telephone owner and competitive pay-telephone service provider (CPTSP) wants the CRTC to order BCE Inc. to pay  for providing toll-free services using...

Telus winding down copper network as it releases Q3 results

Media | 11/05/2021 3:41 pm EDT

Telus winding down copper network as it releases Q3 resultsTelus Corp. expects to have its legacy copper network out of commission...

John Raines joins Telus Agriculture as president

Media | 11/05/2021 3:31 pm EDT

Roaming revenue not expected to fully recover until 2022: Telus CFOJohn Raines will be joining Telus Corp.’s agriculture division as president effective Nov. 29, the...

Novus seeks entry in Vancouver-area MDUs

telecom | 11/05/2021 2:54 pm EDT

Novus seeks entry in Vancouver-area MDUsA registered competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) serving Metro Vancouver, B.C., is asking the...

Municipally-owned B.C. SILEC asks CRTC for relief from NG911 requirements 

telecom | 11/05/2021 2:37 pm EDT

Municipally-owned B.C. SILEC asks CRTC for relief from NG911 requirements A municipally-owned small incumbent local exchange carrier (SILEC) in...

RCMP seeks to develop encrypted data solutions for investigation purposes

telecom | 11/04/2021 5:03 pm EDT

Increase transparency in RCMP stingray use: OPCThe RCMP is looking for an artificial intelligence decryption system that...

Bell posts quarterly profits driven by wireless growth

Media | 11/04/2021 4:25 pm EDT

Bell posts quarterly profits driven by wireless growthBell reported a slight increase in overall revenue of $49 million or 0.8...

ISED approves Rogers subordinated spectrum licence to SSi Micro

telecom | 11/04/2021 4:18 pm EDT

Rural, Indigenous, connectivity won’t improve by 2030 if Gov. keeps current goals in place : Report Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) approved to subdivide and subordinate spectrum licences in northern Quebec from Rogers Communications Canada Inc. to SSi Micro Ltd. In a...

Quebec company fined $200k for violating telemarketing rules

telecom | 11/04/2021 2:12 pm EDT

Quebec company fined $200k for violating telemarketing rulesA Quebec-based company that specializes in the sale of wellness products to seniors was penalized for sending millions of unsolicited calls to Canadians, some of which were registered on the National Do Not Call List (DNCL).  In a Thursday release, the CRTC stated that...

Please don’t delay merger hearing: Rogers to CRTC

Media | 11/03/2021 5:59 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPsRogers Communications Inc.'s regulatory team can present the company's...

Quebec court moves ahead with proposed class-action against Google

Media | 11/02/2021 5:30 pm EDT

Google CanadaA Quebec Superior Court judge has rejected an application by Alphabet...

Telecoms ask for delay of STIR/SHAKEN roll-out

telecom | 11/02/2021 1:56 pm EDT

Telecoms ask for delay of STIR/SHAKEN roll-outCanada’s incumbent telecoms are asking the CRTC to delay the start date of an anti-call spoofing...

CRTC orders Sogetel, Comwave to pay Cancon shortfalls

Media | 11/02/2021 12:36 pm EDT

CRTC orders Sogetel, Comwave to pay Cancon shortfallsThe CRTC is ordering two telecommunications companies to cough up Canadian programming contribution...

Masse moves from TekSavvy to CNOC on regulatory file

telecom | 11/01/2021 5:49 pm EDT

Masse moves from TekSavvy to CNOC on regulatory fileBryson Masse is the new Regulatory and Communications Advisor at Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC). He previously served as Regulatory Analyst at TekSavvy Solutions Inc. where he worked from September 2019. From October 2017 until September 2018 he was a...

UPDATED: Board can’t change “at the stroke of a pen”: RCI    

Media | 11/01/2021 5:25 pm EDT

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise divisionLawyers for Edward Rogers are arguing that the recently ousted chairman of...

263 area code coming to Montreal next year

telecom | 11/01/2021 2:32 pm EDT

Wholesale payphone service no longer mandated: CRTCMontreal will be getting a third area code within the next year, the CRTC said in a Monday decision. The...

Shaw closes out fiscal year with increase in revenue, wireless subs. 

Media | 10/29/2021 5:26 pm EDT

Shaw closes out fiscal year with increase in revenue, wireless subs. Shaw's overall revenue increased 2.1 per cent in the fourth quarter, up to...

Nova Scotia Department of Justice failed privacy obligations: watchdog 

telecom | 10/28/2021 5:37 pm EDT

Nova Scotia Department of Justice failed privacy obligations: watchdog The Nova Scotia provincial privacy watchdog has admonished the province's...

Rogers family feud to be heard in BC court Monday

telecom | 10/27/2021 12:32 pm EDT

Rogers requests extension for Wireless Code changesThe Supreme Court of British Columbia will hear submissions regarding the legality of ousted chairman...

CNOC files review and vary application on CRTC in-building wire access decision 

telecom | 10/26/2021 6:17 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPsThe Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) has filed a review and...

Telesat announces new chief commercial officer, president of Government Solutions 

Media | 10/26/2021 1:00 pm EDT

Telesat announces new chief commercial officer, president of Government Solutions Satellite operator, Telesat Corp. appointed an executive in the communications industry in its newly created chief commercial officer and moved its former vice-president of...

UPDATED – Rodriguez back as Heritage minister, Champagne remains in Innovation

Media | 10/26/2021 12:47 pm EDT

Election 2019: watch for price caps, Netflix regs, Huawei banOTTAWA -- MP Pablo Rodriguez is back in familiar territory as he is once...

RCMP awards National Cybercrime Solution contract

Media | 10/25/2021 4:18 pm EDT

Increase transparency in RCMP stingray use: OPCPublic Works and Government Services Canada awarded the RCMP’s “national cybercrime solution”...

Ontario Court of Appeal says provincial bill stands in Telus class-action suit

telecom | 10/25/2021 3:35 pm EDT

Telus offering communication service for doctorsOntario’s Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal by Telus Corp. in a...

Two separate Boards claim authority over Rogers 

telecom | 10/25/2021 10:22 am EDT

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise divisionOusted Rogers Communication Inc. chairman Edward Rogers intends to initiate proceedings in the British...

Court dismisses Telus request for injunction against Quebecor’s 3500 MHz licenses

telecom | 10/23/2021 11:40 am EDT

Court dismisses Telus request for injunction against Quebecor's 3500 MHz licensesThe Federal Court has rejected a Telus Corp. request to stop the department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) from issuing licenses for set-aside...

CRTC approves work on  Cogeco, Columbia Basin, Broadband Fund projects

telecom | 10/22/2021 6:14 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPsTwo telecom companies can start work on their Broadband Fund projects now...

Edward Rogers strikes back, seeks to remake Rogers board

Media | 10/22/2021 9:08 am EDT

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise divisionIn the latest twist in an increasingly public rift in one of Canada's...

CoopTel says Bell subsidiary doesn’t need 5 months to implement competition changes

telecom | 10/21/2021 5:36 pm EDT

CoopTel says Bell subsidiary doesn’t need 5 months to implement competition changesQuebec-based telecom company CoopTel wants the...

368 area code to be introduced in Alberta

telecom | 10/20/2021 12:47 pm EDT

Albertans will be introduced to a new area code in six months as part of a CRTC effort to meet the continuously growing demand for new telephone numbers. The new area code, 368, will gradually launch across the province...

Quebecor’s spectrum winnings an ‘unfair cost advantage,’ Telus tells Federal Court

Media | 10/19/2021 7:16 pm EDT

Quebecor's spectrum winnings an 'unfair cost advantage,' Telus tells Federal CourtA Federal Court injunction stopping the Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) from issuing licenses for set-aside spectrum won by Quebecor Inc. in...

Maskatel submits local competition plan to CRTC 

telecom | 10/19/2021 7:13 pm EDT

Maskatel submits local competition plan to CRTC BCE Inc.’s subsidiary Maskatel Monday filed a plan for establishing local competition in Upton...

CRTC tweaks Quality of Service regime rules 

telecom | 10/15/2021 5:38 pm EDT

As CRTC rejects FairPlay, proposal could move to legislative reviewsThe CRTC has approved a number of adjustments to the upcoming Quality of Service (QoS) regime that will...

CRTC rejects Rogers request for interveners at Shaw merger hearing

telecom | 10/14/2021 1:58 pm EDT

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise divisionThe CRTC denied Rogers Communications Inc.’s request for several...

Rogers expands 5G in 11 Quebec cities

telecom | 10/13/2021 6:31 pm EDT

CRTC awards additional funding to northern Quebec broadband projectRogers Communications Inc. extended its 5G network in Quebec which now reaches more than 90 communities in the province, the company announced in a Tuesday press release. Rogers connected eleven cities and towns in Quebec as part of its commitment to cover over 70 per...

CRTC to allow CPAC to participate in Rogers-Shaw hearing 

Media | 10/13/2021 6:28 pm EDT

CRTC to allow CPAC to participate in Rogers-Shaw hearing The CRTC has granted Cable Public Affairs Channel Inc. -- more widely known...

Deadline extended for ISED consultation on new regime for licensing unused spectrum

telecom | 10/12/2021 5:35 pm EDT

Resistance to tower builds shows need to ‘rethink’ consultations: MPInnovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) is extending the...

CRTC denies license for low-power Alberta Mennonite radio station 

Media | 10/08/2021 6:27 pm EDT

CRTC denies license for low-power Alberta Mennonite radio station The CRTC Friday rejected an application for a broadcast license to operate...

Primus expanding in Quebec

telecom | 10/07/2021 5:32 pm EDT

CRTC awards additional funding to northern Quebec broadband projectDistributel Communications Ltd.'s Primus Communications is expanding its offering in Quebec, and is now covering an additional 71 per cent of the region, according to a...

Xplornet connects Haldimand County to fibre-to-the-home broadband

telecom | 10/07/2021 5:31 pm EDT

Xplornet turns on LTE in Newfoundland communitiesXplornet Communications Inc.’s newly acquired fibre-based service...

Redline partners with Utah-based mining company

telecom | 10/07/2021 5:19 pm EDT

Redline partners with Utah-based mining companyThe Markham-Ont.-based manufacturer of wireless network technology for mining, oil-and-gas, and utilities...

Court order blocking Quebecor 3500 MHz acquisition would harm competition: ISED

Media | 10/06/2021 6:33 pm EDT

Court order blocking Quebecor 3500 MHz acquisition would harm competition: ISEDThe Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) has...

ARPU remains flat for wireless service providers despite increase in data usage: CWTA

telecom | 10/06/2021 6:29 pm EDT

ARPU remains flat for wireless service providers despite increase in data usage: CWTAAn industry association-sponsored study released Wednesday argued that wireless companies in Canada are providing customers with better value for their services at fairly even...