Telus Corp. is expanding its 5G network in four British Columbia communities as part of its $13 billion infrastructure and operations investment in the province through 2024,
In a series of Monday releases, Telus announced its 5G network is expanding to residents and...
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 financial officer Chris Marett, Cooptel executive director Marie-Eve Rocheleau, and Total TV president Matt Stein have joined the board for a two-year term. Outgoing members include Novus co-president and chief legal officer Donna Robertson, the former chair who will be replaced by Angela Lawrence, general manager of Hay Communications. Steve Scott of Cross Country...
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...
New Brunswick-based rural broadband provider Xplornet Communications Inc. announced Wednesday it’s rolling out a rural 5G standalone network, starting with its home province and expanding over the coming months.
Xplornet, which bills itself as the leading...
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...
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 Rogers Communications Inc., according to Rogers' chief financial officer. Speaking at the 2021 edition of the Bank of America Media, Communications & Entertainment investors' conference Monday, Rogers CFO Tony Staffieri told analyst David Barden that government relations have improved. "Irrespective of where the election continues to move over the next few days, I think the backdrop...
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...
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 time-committed contracts. Novus, an independent provider that’s been operating since 1996, said in a release that it owns and builds its own fibre network, allowing it to keep prices lower, and that its “no contract offering aligns with Novus' mission to bring the community flexible, reliable, and quality internet service at an affordable price point.” "We've...
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...
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 submitted nearly identical letters to the CRTC in support of Rogers Communications Inc.’s plan to acquire Shaw Communication Inc....
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...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is hiking fees for some customers of its residential internet service by a few dollars per month, which it says is a consequence of the CRTC’s decision to revert the rates for wholesale-based internet service providers to interim levels from 2016. ...
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...
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 Wildbrain Ltd.’s programming will now go through a mediation process after the CRTC has opted to...
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...
In a dispute between a trade organization representing wholesale-based internet service providers (ISPs) and facilities-based ISPs over the amount of information the latter...
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...
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 (TSP) cannot be trusted to maintain the integrity of the anti-call-spoofing protocol known as...
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...
As the dust settles on the results of the 3,500 MHz auction announced Thursday, much of the initial interest amongst analysts and industry watchers has centered not on the $7.31 billion spent by the so-called big three incumbents -- BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc, and...
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...
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 that challenged a tariff increase by the Copyright Board of Canada for over-the-air distant signal...
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...
BCE Inc. has expanded its 5G network in Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec and has begun offering 5G roaming in the United States, it announced Wednesday -- saying it is the first...
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...
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 security at risk, in an intervention published Tuesday. The concerns are in response to a Part 1 application requesting clarification on whether or not independent local exchange carriers (ILECs) delivering NG911 services in New Brunswick may connect those networks to demarcation points determined by relevant 911 Governing...
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...
The CRTC is opting to reduce the timeline for the implementation of area code relief from 72 months before the projected exhaust date of an area code down to 36 months. The regulator said in its decision Thursday it’s making the change because the current relief planning timeline was developed at a point when area code relief was not common and required a more complex process than it does now. Area code relief planning kicks in when the Canadian Numbering Administrator projects the date of exhaustion for an area code or area code complex -- which is created when two or more area...
Work to upgrade the wireless networks of communities in British Columbia and homes and businesses in rural Ontario is coming along according to two of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies....
The CRTC today released its regulations for accessibility reporting requirements, which will govern the obligations of telecom companies when it comes to their compliance under the Accessible Canada Act. The regulations flow...
Telus Corp. wants the CRTC to set an industry-wide definition of...
In a dispute over access to an apartment building...
Shaw Communications Inc. reported a large spike in profit for its third quarter of the year on...
Revenues across Corus Entertainment Inc.'s radio and television divisions were up significantly as the company reported its third quarter earnings results Tuesday.
RBC...
Cogeco Communications Inc. is expanding south of the border after it announced its American subsidiary...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is asking the Federal...
BCE Inc. is expanding its 5G network into Atlantic Canada, with service launching in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador.
Bell announced Tuesday the communities of Halifax, N.S., and St. John’s, Flatrock, Paradise, Portugal Cove, and Wabana, N.L., are now able...
