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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 division

The CRTC denied Rogers Communications Inc.’s request for several third-party interveners to appear at an upcoming Nov. 22 hearing into the company's acquisition of Shaw...

CRTC Rogers Shaw

Rogers expands 5G in 11 Quebec cities

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

Rogers 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...

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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...

CRTC Rogers Shaw

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: MP

Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) is extending the...

Internet Rural broadband Spectrum

Several Quebec organizations receive leftover funds from Rogers $26M class-action lawsuit

telecom | 10/08/2021 6:30 pm EDT

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise division

A Quebec judge Tuesday decided the majority of the...

Rogers Smartphones Wireless

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...

CRTC Radio

Primus expanding in Quebec

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

Distributel 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 Thursday release. Primus, which was acquired by Distributel back in January, said in the release that the "enhancements will make it easier for consumers to take advantage of Primus' competitive product offerings in more places throughout Canada, while enjoying the benefits of world-class high-speed connectivity." "We always aim to do what's right...

Internet

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

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

Xplornet turns on LTE in Newfoundland communities

Xplornet Communications Inc.’s newly acquired fibre-based service...

Internet

Redline partners with Utah-based mining company

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

Redline partners with Utah-based mining company

The Markham-Ont.-based manufacturer of wireless network technology for mining, oil-and-gas, and utilities...

Lte Spectrum Wireless

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: ISED

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

5g ISED Spectrum

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: CWTA

An industry association-sponsored study released...

Smartphones Wireless

Telecoms companies debating immediate vs. phased-in deployment of crisis line

telecom | 10/05/2021 7:09 pm EDT

Wireless Code, home Internet, helping with data overage fees: Research

Canada’s telecom companies are debating before the CRTC whether it is...

CRTC Smartphones Wireless

CRTC asks Net2Web to explain its non-compliance with CCTS

telecom | 10/05/2021 6:14 pm EDT

CRTC asks Net2Web to explain its non-compliance with CCTS

The CRTC is asking the telecommunications service provider Net2Web Inc. to...

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Update to National Cyber Security Plan needed to combat ransomware attacks: CIRA

Media | 10/04/2021 5:49 pm EDT

Public Health Agency among most targeted for cyber threats: CSE

The not-for-profit organization that manages Canada’s .CA domains says...

cybersecurity Internet

Rewheel report again shows high prices for wireless data

telecom | 10/04/2021 5:44 pm EDT

Rewheel report again shows high prices for wireless data

Canada remains amongst the world's highest wireless phone prices, according...

Smartphones Wireless

CRTC awards additional funding to northern Quebec broadband project

telecom | 10/01/2021 2:21 pm EDT

The CRTC approved finalized statements of work Friday in five projects originally awarded a total of about $71.6 million from the commission’s $750 million rural broadband...

CRTC Funding Universal Broadband Fund

Indigenous economic reconciliation needs path toward spectrum sovereignty: experts

Media | 09/30/2021 5:03 pm EDT

A cell tower with a blue sky in the background.

While the Canadian government is busy collecting $8.9 billion dollars from...

5g Internet Smartphones

Rogers CFO leaving the company

Media | 09/30/2021 10:27 am EDT

Rogers requests extension for Wireless Code changes

Rogers Communications Inc. announced Wednesday evening that CFO Tony Staffieri has left his post after...

Rogers Shaw

Disaggregated wholesale regime not ‘doom and gloom’: CNOC chair

telecom | 09/29/2021 5:33 pm EDT

Disaggregated wholesale regime not ‘doom and gloom’: CNOC chair

With a shift to a disaggregated access model anticipated by the Competitive...

CRTC Internet wholesale rates

Shaw-Rogers deal would decrease competition, even with Freedom divestiture to Quebecor: analyst

telecom | 09/28/2021 6:19 pm EDT

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise division

Even if the Competition Bureau forces Shaw...

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CRTC wants more info from Bell on certain retroactive wholesale payments

telecom | 09/27/2021 5:30 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

The CRTC wants BCE Inc. to clarify why the company wants to make payments related to the removal of a markup on a certain service retroactive only to last month, instead of...

Bell CRTC Internet

Telus expands networks in five B.C. communities

telecom | 09/27/2021 1:52 pm EDT

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

Telus Corp. is expanding its 5G network in four British Columbia communities as part of its $13 billion...

5g Internet Rural broadband

CCSA elects new board members, announces new chair

telecom | 09/24/2021 5:03 pm EDT

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...

Internet

Class members defined in suit against Bell over prison phone contract

telecom | 09/24/2021 4:20 pm EDT

Class members defined in suit against Bell over prison phone contract

A would-be class-action lawsuit filed against BCE Inc. and the province of...

Bell

Petitions to overturn recent CRTC decisions gaining steam

telecom | 09/23/2021 7:09 pm EDT

Petitions to overturn recent CRTC decisions gaining steam

Days after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won another minority government...

CRTC dotmobile MVNO

Rogers expands 5G network in Nova Scotia

telecom | 09/23/2021 5:58 pm EDT

Ericsson forecasts faster 5G rollout in updated report

Rogers Communications Inc. has expanded its 5G network in the Halifax, N.S., region. Rogers said in...

5g Rogers Wireless

RCMP looking to expand its digital policing services

telecom | 09/22/2021 6:37 pm EDT

Increase transparency in RCMP stingray use: OPC

The RCMP is seeking to expand its digital policing services, months after the Office of the Privacy...

digital Privacy

Xplornet announces rural 5G standalone network

telecom | 09/22/2021 3:12 pm EDT

Xplornet turns on LTE in Newfoundland communities

New Brunswick-based rural broadband provider Xplornet Communications Inc. announced Wednesday it’s...

5g Rural broadband Smartphones

Spectrum license exclusivity must go: Mozilla advisor

telecom | 09/21/2021 6:36 pm EDT

A cell tower with a blue sky in the background.

In order to achieve better spectrum sovereignty for Indigenous communities in Canada, the government has...

Rural broadband Spectrum Wireless

Rogers extends modem migration deadline

telecom | 09/21/2021 4:20 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

Rogers Communications Inc. has told the CRTC the pandemic has slowed work down after it was asked by the commission to elaborate on what kind of “new business complexities” have caused it to extend the date at which it will require third-party internet access customers...

CRTC Internet Rogers

Andy Ramsey named interim CFO of TeraGo

telecom | 09/20/2021 5:37 pm EDT

Andy Ramsey named interim CFO of TeraGo

The data services company TeraGo Inc. announced Monday that it has appointed Andy Ramsey, the company's...

data

TeraGo looking for CFO

telecom | 09/17/2021 5:10 pm EDT

David Charron. Image via LinkedIn.

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...

data

OneWeb partnering with Galaxy Broadband

telecom | 09/16/2021 4:04 pm EDT

OneWeb partnering with Galaxy Broadband

A London, England-based low-earth-orbit satellite communications company is partnering with Galaxy...

Internet Satellite

Appeal of CRTC reversal of wholesale rates to go ahead in federal court

telecom | 09/15/2021 9:46 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

The Federal Court of Appeal will take up TekSavvy Solutions Inc.'s...

CRTC Internet wholesale rates

Singh says he would use laws to meet telecom affordability goals

telecom | 09/14/2021 1:28 pm EDT

Singh says he would use laws to meet telecom affordability goals

NDP leader Jagmeet Singh said his party could use laws to direct the telecoms industry toward more affordable services following decisions from the CRTC that have been criticized for being anti-consumer and anti-competitive. His comments come at a Tuesday press conference...

2021 election Internet

NDP’s platform includes millions for rural broadband

Media | 09/13/2021 6:05 pm EDT

NDP’s platform includes millions for rural broadband

The New Democratic Party released its costed platform for next week’s...

2021 election Internet

Election outcome won’t stop Rogers-Shaw deal: Rogers CFO

Media | 09/13/2021 6:05 pm EDT

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...

2021 election Rogers Shaw

Singh says he’ll oppose Rogers-Shaw merger

Media | 09/10/2021 2:46 pm EDT

NDP to lobby government on foreign digital sales, ad taxes

NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is the first party leader to explicitly oppose the proposed acquisition of Shaw...

2021 election Cbc CRTC

China Mobile fights back in court against Gov. order to shut down

telecom | 09/09/2021 6:23 pm EDT

China Mobile fights back in court against Gov. order to shut down

China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. is going to court to fight an...

Court mobile Telus

Telecom regulation more ‘benign’: analyst

telecom | 09/09/2021 6:00 pm EDT

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...

CRTC Internet Rogers

Telus announces newly connected 5G regions in AB, QC

telecom | 09/08/2021 4:49 pm EDT

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...

5g Telus

Novus cutting contracts and freezing prices

telecom | 09/08/2021 4:40 pm EDT

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...

Data charges Internet

Ontario privacy watchdog says province should update privacy law, even without feds

Media | 09/07/2021 5:59 pm EDT

Home internet speeds nearly doubled year-over-year: CRTC

The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC)...

Privacy

Conservatives would reject mergers impacting competition: O’Toole

telecom | 09/07/2021 5:14 pm EDT

Conservatives would reject mergers impacting competition: O’Toole

Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole said during a press conference on cell phone and internet affordability Tuesday that his party would stand against mergers that could...

2021 election Rogers Rural broadband

Broadband blues: the UBF and its discontents

telecom | 09/03/2021 5:50 pm EDT

Broadband blues: the UBF and its discontents

With a federal election called for Sept. 20, parties have pledged to make Canadians’ lives better in a...

2021 election CRTC Rural broadband

Telecom unions want govt. action on jobs outsourcing

telecom | 09/03/2021 4:33 pm EDT

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...

Bell Quebecor Rogers

Telecoms support for 3-digit crisis line and transition to ten-digit dialling

telecom | 09/02/2021 5:43 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

Canada’s big telecommunications companies are in favour of making access...

CRTC Wireless

CRTC approves Cochrane Telecom application for forbearance

telecom | 09/02/2021 5:21 pm EDT

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...

CRTC Internet Landline phones

Liberals promise to pressure spectrum-holders to connect rural and remote communities

Media | 09/01/2021 5:20 pm EDT

Liberals promise to pressure spectrum-holders to connect rural and remote communities

If re-elected come Sept. 20, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party says it would employ a “use it or lose it” approach requiring national carriers that have purchased the...

2021 election Spectrum Unlock

Rogers claims Yorkville MDU owner playing ignorant to stall CRTC proceeding

telecom | 08/31/2021 4:46 pm EDT

Rogers files another MDU access complaint

Rogers Communications Inc. is calling out a Toronto developer’s so-called...

CRTC MDU Rogers

More than a dozen nearly-identical interventions filed with CRTC in favour of Rogers-Shaw broadcasting acquisition

Media | 08/30/2021 4:54 pm EDT

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise division

A number of film groups and companies have...

Cable Cancon CRTC

Telus joins Bell’s call for rollback on Quebecor spectrum acquisition

telecom | 08/30/2021 4:51 pm EDT

Telus offering communication service for doctors

Telus Corp. has joined BCE Inc. in seeking to block Quebecor Inc. from...

Spectrum

Bell seeks to block Quebecor set-aside 3,500 MHz purchases

telecom | 08/27/2021 2:26 pm EDT

Bell seeks to block Quebecor set-aside 3,500 MHz purchases

BCE Inc. is going to court to stop Quebecor Inc. from purchasing valuable...

5g Spectrum Unlock

Bell misunderstands CRTC toll-trunk order: Telus

telecom | 08/26/2021 6:01 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

Three companies are disputing claims from BCE Inc. that it would be unduly harmed by the CRTC’s...

CRTC

CRTC gives CNOC more time to analyze disagg disclosure

telecom | 08/26/2021 5:45 pm EDT

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...

CRTC

TekSavvy raising home internet plan fees

telecom | 08/25/2021 5:31 pm EDT

TekSavvy releases quarterly transparency report

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is hiking fees for some customers of its residential internet service by a few...

CRTC wholesale rates

National Capital FreeNet asks gov. to reverse CRTC wholesale rates decision

telecom | 08/25/2021 5:09 pm EDT

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...

CRTC wholesale rates

Telesat partnering with U.K. satellite comms provider

telecom | 08/25/2021 4:47 pm EDT

Telesat partnering with U.K. satellite comms provider

Telesat Corporation announced Wednesday that it is entering into an agreement with U.K.-based satellite communications provider NSSLGlobal to collaborate on Telesat's low-earth-orbit satellite constellation (LEO), branded as Telesat Lightspeed. According to a release,...

Satellite

Iristel asks CRTC for incumbents’ MVNO template agreements

telecom | 08/24/2021 5:55 pm EDT

Freedom cites ‘suspicious patterns’ in Iristel traffic pumping case

The CRTC has said it will consider a procedural request from Iristel Inc....

CRTC MVNO wholesale rates

Tell us more about Rogers facilities in our building: MDU owner

Media | 08/24/2021 5:28 pm EDT

Rogers files another MDU access complaint

In its response to a Rogers Communications Inc. request to the CRTC asking...

CRTC MDU Rogers

Rogers picking up Nova Scotian ISP

telecom | 08/23/2021 5:35 pm EDT

Rogers picking up Nova Scotian ISP

Rogers Communications Inc. has made a deal to acquire Seaside Communications, a long-time local internet...

Internet Rural broadband

Overturning CRTC decisions key if parties are serious about telecom affordability: CNOC

telecom | 08/20/2021 5:54 pm EDT

Overturning CRTC decisions key if parties are serious about telecom affordability: CNOC

The association representing Canada’s...

2021 election CRTC Internet

Distributel waives long-distance calling charges to Haiti, Afghanistan

telecom | 08/20/2021 4:49 pm EDT

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 long-distance phone charges for calls to both Haiti and Afghanistan. In Haiti, an Aug. 14 earthquake has left as many as 2,100 dead and more homeless in the country, while in Afghanistan the Taliban has swept back into power 20 years after an American invasion. "The news of what is happening in...

Data charges

Redline Communications hires new CEO as it eyes LTE and 5G growth

telecom | 08/19/2021 12:54 pm EDT

Redline Communications hires new CEO as it eyes LTE and 5G growth

Redline Communications Group Inc., a Markham-Ont.-based manufacturer of...

Smartphones Wireless

CRTC sending Cogeco and Wildbrain to mediation over channel drop dispute

telecom | 08/18/2021 5:03 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

A dispute over Cogeco Inc. dropping children’s television content creator...

Cogeco CRTC

Videotron waives long-distance fees to Haiti, Afghanistan in response to international crises

telecom | 08/18/2021 4:01 pm EDT

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...

Data charges Quebecor

The Wire Report’s guide to the 2021 federal election

Media | 08/17/2021 2:35 pm EDT

The Wire Report's guide to the 2021 federal election

After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally called Sunday for a...

2021 election Cbc CRTC

CRTC launches voter calling registry

telecom | 08/16/2021 4:25 pm EDT

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...

2021 election CRTC

Telesat reports rising expenses and drops in revenue, profit for Q2

telecom | 08/13/2021 3:28 pm EDT

Telesat CEO Dan Goldberg

Telesat Corporation, a newly-public satellite company with plans to connect...

Internet Rural broadband

CRTC orders some incumbent disclosure to CNOC in disaggregated regime consultation

Media | 08/13/2021 11:13 am EDT

CNOC petitions gov on wholesale rates

In a dispute between a trade organization representing wholesale-based...

CRTC Internet

Feds spending $1.44B on Telesat’s advanced low earth orbit satellites

telecom | 08/12/2021 4:51 pm EDT

LEO providers aiming to meet gov’t connectivity goals within 3 years

The federal government is planning to pour $1.44 billion into Telesat...

Funding Satellite

Court to hear Telus challenge to CRTC wireless review decision

telecom | 08/12/2021 1:13 pm EDT

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

The Federal Court of Appeal will take up a Telus Corp. challenge to two aspects of the CRTC's April wireless review decision. In a Wednesday decision, the court granted Telus' request for leave to appeal, in which the telecom company is seeking to fight provisions...

CRTC MVNO Telus

Rogers files another MDU access complaint

telecom | 08/10/2021 4:49 pm EDT

Rogers files another MDU access complaint

Rogers Communications Inc. is asking the CRTC to force a high-rise building owner in Toronto, ON, to give...

CRTC MDU Rogers

TekSavvy’s wholesale appeal uses failed incumbent arguments from 2019: Bell

telecom | 08/09/2021 5:41 pm EDT

TekSavvy's wholesale appeal uses failed incumbent arguments from 2019: Bell

TekSavvy Solutions Inc.'s arguments in its June challenge to the CRTC's...

Bell CRTC

Rural B.C. receives $17.3m from UBF, provincial fund, for high-speed internet projects

telecom | 08/06/2021 4:57 pm EDT

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...

Internet Rural broadband

Telesat inks $109M deal with Ontario

telecom | 08/06/2021 4:52 pm EDT

LEO providers aiming to meet gov’t connectivity goals within 3 years

Telesat Holdings Inc.'s push to become Canada's biggest purveyor of low-earth orbit satellites (LEO) got...

Satellite

Quebecor calls for swift news media compensation legislation

Media | 08/05/2021 6:14 pm EDT

Quebecor calls for swift news media compensation legislation

Quebecor Inc.’s president and CEO is renewing calls for the federal government to implement a news media compensation strategy, to “ensure the sustainability of advertising revenue, and the vitality of competitiveness” and for the CRTC to ensure swift negotiations...

Bell Cancon CRTC

3500 auction should result in “careful consideration” by gov: Bell’s Bibic

telecom | 08/05/2021 6:07 pm EDT

3500 auction should result in "careful consideration" by gov: Bell's Bibic

For BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic, the high cost of the...

3500 MHZ Bell Quarterly Reports

No reason to deny TSPs access to secure telephony identity certificates: CRTC

telecom | 08/05/2021 2:10 pm EDT

Wireless Code, home Internet, helping with data overage fees: Research

The CRTC has determined that, unless a telecommunications service provider...

CRTC Smartphones

ISED launches new spectrum consultations, decides to forego consultations on residual spectrum auctions

telecom | 08/04/2021 6:37 pm EDT

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...

ISED Spectrum

CRTC announces 10 projects, $20.5M, in Broadband Fund

telecom | 08/04/2021 5:39 pm EDT

Price most critical factor when choosing telecom services: report

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....

CRTC Funding Rural broadband

Iristel fight against CRA’s wage subsidiary denial survives appeal

telecom | 08/03/2021 5:28 pm EDT

Freedom cites ‘suspicious patterns’ in Iristel traffic pumping case

Iristel Inc. will continue to challenge the Canada Revenue Authority’s...

Court CRA Internet

Telus talks wireless strategy after spectrum auction, Q2 results

telecom | 07/30/2021 6:31 pm EDT

Telus offering communication service for doctors

Going forward, if Canadians are to “truly benefit” from 5G innovation...

Spectrum Telus

Eyes on Quebecor following 3500 MHz auction

telecom | 07/30/2021 6:25 pm EDT

Eyes on Quebecor following 3500 MHz auction

As the dust settles on the results of the 3,500 MHz auction announced Thursday, much of the initial...

Bell CRTC Internet

Court of appeal dismisses Quebecor challenge in TVA Sports fight with Bell

telecom | 07/30/2021 10:49 am EDT

Court of appeal dismisses Quebecor challenge in TVA Sports fight with Bell

The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed an attempt by Quebecor Inc. to...

Bell Court CRTC

BREAKING: 3500 MHz auction nets $8.9B, $7.3B from incumbents

telecom | 07/29/2021 6:04 pm EDT

A cell tower with a blue sky in the background.

Canadian telecom companies -- and wireless service hopefuls -- have spent some $8.91 billion on the 3,500 MHz band of spectrum, according to preliminary results released Thursday afternoon by the Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED). The...

3500 MHZ 5g Bell

CRTC’s fibre wire access decision ‘nail after nail after nail in the coffin of competition’: CNOC

telecom | 07/28/2021 7:42 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

The CRTC’s decision against mandating access to...

Bell CRTC Unlock

Companies must negotiate with Bell for MDU fibre IBW access or install their own, CRTC decides

telecom | 07/27/2021 7:24 pm EDT

Companies must negotiate with Bell for MDU fibre IBW access or install their own, CRTC decides

Companies using BCE’s Inc.’s fibre in-building...

Bell CRTC

Comp. Bureau asks court for info from Bell, Telus, Quebecor, Xplornet in its review of Rogers-Shaw deal

telecom | 07/26/2021 6:22 pm EDT

Plan comes together for TV subs boost in Shaw Q3: Mehr

The Competition Bureau is asking the Federal Court...

Rogers Shaw

Bell asks CRTC to reverse decision to deploy new toll trunks to all LECs

telecom | 07/26/2021 6:10 pm EDT

Bell asks CRTC to reverse decision to deploy new toll trunks to all LECs

BCE Inc. is requesting that the CRTC allow it to deploy its new toll trunks...

CRTC

Cogeco hires Fido VP Nancy Audette

telecom | 07/26/2021 4:56 pm EDT

Cogeco hires Fido VP Nancy Audette

Cogeco Inc. cable subsidiary Cogeco Connexion has signed on Fido Mobile VP Nancy Audette as its own vice president and general manager for the Quebec region. "I am delighted that Nancy is joining the Cogeco family. She will be an undeniable asset to our growth strategy in...

Cogeco

Bell says permanent approval of call blocking ‘is overwhelmingly in the public interest’

telecom | 07/23/2021 6:46 pm EDT

Bell says permanent approval of call blocking 'is overwhelmingly in the public interest'

BCE Inc. is urging the CRTC to give it permanent...

CRTC

Federal Court of Appeal dismisses BDUs’ appeal of distant signal tariffs

telecom | 07/23/2021 6:34 pm EDT

A cell tower with a blue sky in the background.

The Federal Court of Appeal ruled Friday partially in favour of a group...

Bell Cogeco Copyright

CRTC seeks more info on how companies comply with Internet Code for people with disabilities

telecom | 07/22/2021 5:25 pm EDT

CRTC seeks more info on how companies comply with Internet Code for people with disabilities

The CRTC is seeking further information from...

CRTC Internet Wireless

SkyChoice kicked out of CCTS

telecom | 07/22/2021 5:14 pm EDT

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...

ccts

Rogers reports spike in wireless subscribers and rise in profit for Q2

Media | 07/21/2021 6:52 pm EDT

Rogers requests extension for Wireless Code changes

The return of the Toronto Blue Jays has caused Rogers Communications...

Rogers Shaw

Rogers claims Saint John developer ignoring CRTC proceeding

telecom | 07/21/2021 6:11 pm EDT

Regional players shouldn’t qualify for spectrum set asides: Bell, Rogers

In its ongoing effort to gain access to multiple apartment buildings in...

Bell CRTC MDU

Bell expands Canadian 5G network; now offering 5G roaming in the United States

telecom | 07/21/2021 6:04 pm EDT

Bell expands Canadian 5G network; now offering 5G roaming in the United States

BCE Inc. has expanded its 5G network in Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec and...

5g Bell

Telus expands 5G network to Quebec City

telecom | 07/20/2021 5:25 pm EDT

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...

5g Telus

High spectrum costs could be driven by competition for set aside: analyst

telecom | 07/15/2021 6:32 pm EDT

A cell tower with a blue sky in the background.

Industry analysts are declining to speculate too much on what caused the Canadian telecom sector to have so far spent $8 billion on the 3500 MHz auction, more than double what...

5g Shaw Spectrum