Canada’s telecom companies are debating before the CRTC whether it is best to deploy a national mental health and suicide prevention crisis hotline simultaneously throughout...
The CRTC is asking the telecommunications service provider Net2Web Inc. to explain why it should not be found in violation of the Telecommunications Act, and why it shouldn't be fined $50,000 as a company for failing to join the Commission for Complaints for...
The not-for-profit organization that manages Canada’s .CA domains says...
Canada remains amongst the world's highest wireless phone prices, according...
The CRTC approved finalized statements of work Friday in five projects...
While the Canadian government is busy collecting $8.9 billion dollars from...
Rogers Communications Inc. announced Wednesday evening that CFO Tony Staffieri has left his post after about a decade with the company.
Rogers, which did not provide details about Staffieri’s departure, said his exit is effective immediately and that he has been replaced by interim CFO Paulina Molnar.
“On behalf of the Rogers team, I thank Tony for the many contributions he made to our company including ensuring the integrity of our financial reporting over the nearly ten years he served as our CFO,”...
With a shift to a disaggregated access model anticipated by the Competitive...
Even if the Competition Bureau forces Shaw...
The CRTC wants BCE Inc. to clarify why the company wants to make payments...
Telus Corp. is expanding its 5G network in four British Columbia communities as part of its $13 billion...
The Canadian Communication Systems Alliance (CCSA) Friday announced four new members have been elected to its board of directors. Hearst Connect general manager Tania Cossette, Novus Entertainment Inc. co-president and chief...
A would-be class-action lawsuit filed against BCE Inc. and the province of...
Days after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won another minority government...
Rogers Communications Inc. has expanded its 5G network in the Halifax, N.S., region.
Rogers said in...
The RCMP is seeking to expand its digital policing services, months after the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) found that it violated the law by using mass surveillance technology.
The RCMP intends to award two contracts -- each for three years plus two one-year...
New Brunswick-based rural broadband provider Xplornet Communications Inc. announced Wednesday it’s...
In order to achieve better spectrum sovereignty for Indigenous communities in Canada, the government has...
Rogers Communications Inc. has told the CRTC the pandemic has slowed work down after it was asked by the...
The data services company TeraGo Inc. announced Monday that it has appointed Andy Ramsey, the company's...
The data services company TeraGo Inc. has announced it is looking for a new chief financial officer as its current CFO David Charron is stepping down "to pursue other professional opportunities," though he is staying on as a special advisor to the company and its board.
"Over the past four years Dave has capably helped transform TeraGo into Canada's leading nationwide provider of enterprise wireless network, cloud and colocation powered solutions," CEO Matthew Gerber said in a Thursday release.
"During Dave's...
A London, England-based low-earth-orbit satellite communications company is partnering with Galaxy...
The Federal Court of Appeal will take up TekSavvy Solutions Inc.'s...
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh said his party could use laws to direct the...
The New Democratic Party released its costed platform for next week’s...
Whatever the outcome of the vote after polls close in the Sept. 20 federal election, it won't have much of an effect on regulatory approval of the proposed acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc. by...
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is the first party leader to explicitly oppose the proposed acquisition of Shaw...
China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. is going to court to fight an...
Telecoms shares have continued to track higher thanks to a regulatory backdrop which “has turned much more benign,” according to an industry analyst. Thursday National Bank of Canada analyst Adam Shine issued a note that...
Telus Corp. Wednesday announced developments in a pair of projects aimed at rolling out higher speed wireless service. The company announced it has rolled out its 5G network to Lethbridge and Sylvan Lake, Alberta, as part of what it said is a $14.5 billion investment in the province. "The significant investments we are making in our world-leading network to rapidly expand our 5G footprint is enabling us to connect the citizens of Lethbridge to the people, resources, and critical information they need as we continue to navigate the global pandemic,” president and CEO Darren Entwistle...
Vancouver-based Novus Entertainment Inc. said Wednesday it will refrain from raising internet prices for three years as it allows customers to sign up for its residential internet service without locking themselves into...
The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC)...
Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole said during a press conference on...
With a federal election called for Sept. 20, parties have pledged to make Canadians’ lives better in a...
Two telecommunication workers’ unions, Unifor and the Canadian Union for Public Employees (CUPE), have partnered up to demand the federal government step in to minimize the outsourcing of Canadian jobs overseas in the telecom sector. The unions -- which represent employees of BCE Inc., Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron, Telus Corp. and Cogeco Inc. -- said in a release Thursday that while telecommunications companies benefit from billions in subsidies and significant profit margins, Canadian jobs are disappearing. Two representatives of the unions, Tulsa Valin-Landry of CUPE Quebec and Renaud...
Canada’s big telecommunications companies are in favour of making access...
The CRTC has approved an application from the Cochrane Telecom Services for the CRTC to refrain from regulating its residential services in Cochrane, Ont. In a Thursday decision, the regulator...
If re-elected come Sept. 20, Justin Trudeau’s...
Rogers Communications Inc. is calling out a Toronto developer’s so-called...
A number of film groups and companies have...
Telus Corp. has joined BCE Inc. in seeking to block Quebecor Inc. from...
BCE Inc. is going to court to stop Quebecor Inc. from purchasing valuable...
Three companies are disputing claims from BCE Inc. that it would be unduly harmed by the CRTC’s...
The CRTC is giving the Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) more time to analyze information the regulator recently ordered incumbents to disclose in an ongoing proceeding on the disaggregated wholesale regime. In an Aug. 19 letter posted to the CRTC's website this week, the regulator wrote that "in order to ensure a complete and robust record, as well as to afford all parties sufficient time to make submissions regarding the additional information to be provided, Commission staff is of the view that an extension of the filing dates for comments and replies is necessary." ...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is hiking fees for some customers of its residential internet service by a few...
An Ottawa-area internet service provider has added its voice to those asking the government to overturn the CRTC's decision to revert rates for wholesale-based internet service providers (ISPs) to...
Telesat Corporation announced Wednesday that it is entering into an agreement with U.K.-based satellite...
The CRTC has said it will consider a procedural request from Iristel Inc....
In its response to a Rogers Communications Inc. request to the CRTC asking that it force a Toronto high-rise owner to give the company access to the building to perform...
Rogers Communications Inc. has made a deal to acquire Seaside Communications, a long-time local internet...
The association representing Canada’s...
On the heels of Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron announcement Wednesday, Distributel Communications Ltd. said Friday that -- along with its recently acquired Primus subsidiary -- it would be suspending...
Redline Communications Group Inc., a Markham-Ont.-based manufacturer of...
A dispute over Cogeco Inc. dropping children’s television content creator...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron is suspending its long-distance charges for all calls from Canada to Haiti, where a recent earthquake has left many residents homeless, and to...
After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally called Sunday for a...
The CRTC today launched its Voter Contact Registry program for the 2021 federal election announced Sunday by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. According to a Monday release, the program requires anyone making a call to a voter...
Telesat Corporation, a newly-public satellite company with plans to connect Canadian communities to broadband internet using a low earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation,...
In a dispute between a trade organization representing wholesale-based...
The federal government is planning to pour $1.44 billion into Telesat...
The Federal Court of Appeal will take up a Telus Corp. challenge to two...
Rogers Communications Inc. is asking the CRTC to force a high-rise building owner in Toronto, ON, to give...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc.'s arguments in its June challenge to the CRTC's final decision on wholesale internet access rates -- that the CRTC breached its duty of procedural...
The government has announced more than $17.3 million of funding for four high-speed internet projects in rural British Columbia in an effort to close the digital divide in...
Telesat Holdings Inc.'s push to become Canada's biggest purveyor of low-earth orbit satellites (LEO) got...
Quebecor Inc.’s president and CEO is renewing calls for the federal...
For BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic, the high cost of the...
The CRTC has determined that, unless a telecommunications service provider...
The federal government Wednesday launched a trio of consultation documents on spectrum policy that it says is aimed at freeing up the valuable resource for use by rural...
Approximately 3,625 households will benefit from the CRTC’s Broadband Fund, after a Wednesday announcement of 10 projects selected to receive a total of $20.5 million....
Iristel Inc. will continue to challenge the Canada Revenue Authority’s...
Going forward, if Canadians are to “truly benefit” from 5G innovation and affordability, the government needs to develop “responsible, forward-looking, and predictable regulatory policy that ensures expedition, fair, and economical access to the national asset,”...
As the dust settles on the results of the 3,500 MHz auction announced Thursday, much of the initial...
The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed an attempt by Quebecor Inc. to...
Canadian telecom companies -- and wireless service hopefuls -- have spent...
The CRTC’s decision against mandating access to...
Companies using BCE’s Inc.’s fibre in-building wire (IBW) must now reach a commercially negotiated agreement for access after the CRTC determined access to fibre IBW in...
The Competition Bureau is asking the Federal Court...
BCE Inc. is requesting that the CRTC allow it to deploy its new toll trunks...
Cogeco Inc. cable subsidiary Cogeco Connexion has signed on Fido Mobile VP Nancy Audette as its own vice...
BCE Inc. is urging the CRTC to give it permanent...
The Federal Court of Appeal ruled Friday partially in favour of a group...
The CRTC is seeking further information from...
Faced with what it said are multiple different instances of non-cooperation from a small Ontario-based internet service provider (ISP), the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS) has "terminated...
The return of the Toronto Blue Jays has caused Rogers Communications...
In its ongoing effort to gain access to multiple apartment buildings in Saint John, N.B., Rogers Communications Inc. said in a reply filed with the CRTC Tuesday that a representative of IronGate Developments has not officially responded to its application.
The...
BCE Inc. has expanded its 5G network in Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec and...
Telus Corp. has expanded its 5G network into Quebec City as part of a $38 million investment in infrastructure. The company, which plans to spend $9 billion throughout the province through 2024, said Tuesday it will continue...
Industry analysts are declining to speculate too much on what caused the...
The new low-cost mobile wireless plans released yesterday by BCE Inc., Telus Corp., and Rogers Communications Inc. are not good enough, according to the Public Interest Advocacy Centre. PIAC's Thursday letter argues that the...
Cogeco Inc. saw a rise in revenue and profit this spring and though CEO Philippe Jetté did not discuss the company’s potential wireless plans with analysts during a call...
Fed up with the CRTC's May decision to overturn its 2019 decision on wholesale internet access rates, the...
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...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is recommending that the...
The telecom sector is on track to rebound following a bleak 2019 and 2020, according to an analysis of the industry halfway through the 2021 financial year. “Halfway through the year, we see...
The New Brunswick RCMP is raising concerns to the CRTC that the province’s proposal for how it would like to adapt its next-generation 911 (NG911) services could put RCMP...
According to a Statistics Canada study, in order to better measure the well-being or quality of life and progress of nations, digitization needs to be taken into account, among other trends, in “a...
Quebec’s Superior Court has granted an increase in the number of total...
Six months after it received a request to release the data it collects on a fraud process known as "SIM swapping," the CRTC yesterday sent a letter to parties involved in a proceeding on the matter saying that instances of the...
Nearly six weeks after a Federal Court of Appeal upheld Canada's first-ever site-blocking order against an anonymous so-called pirate IPTV service, the same trio of rights...
