The CRTC is amending its consultation on a potential network-level framework to limit malicious botnet traffic following input from some telecommunications service providers (TSPs), which claimed they are already doing that work.
In a release Tuesday, the CRTC said some...
The Communications Security Establishment, which is billed as Canada’s foreign signals intelligence agency, says it responded to 2,206 cyber security incident cases affecting the Canadian government or critical infrastructure partners last year, as well as threats to the...
With Parliament rising this week for its summer break, a number of bills of interest to the broadcasting...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. (SaskTel) is throwing another...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has provided the Liberal Government with what it...
Rather than creating a "lacuna in the federal regulatory scheme," causing...
An organization advocating for an open and surveillance-free internet is fishing for a beer date with CRTC chair Ian Scott in response to claims that he met with BCE Inc.’s CEO weeks after the company filed an appeal of the commission’s 2019 wholesale rates.
On...
The House of Commons Industry committee is recommending that the government...
New Brunswick is looking for answers as to whether or not independent local exchange carriers (ILECs) delivering next-generation 911 (NG911) services may connect those networks to demarcation points...
Bidding opened Tuesday morning in what will be a...
Iristel Inc. is launching a service that will allow Canadian phone numbers to be paired with less expensive plans offered by U.S. telecom companies. On Monday the company announced its $6 per month "Mobifi" service, which it...
A Canadian tax lobby group is criticizing the global tax deal announced this weekend by G7 Finance...
Cogeco Inc. is getting more than $40 million in funding for high-speed internet projects in Quebec. ...
Rogers Communications Inc. has voiced its support for Telus Corp.'s Federal...
A report by the Department of Innovation, Science,...
Independent internet service provider (ISP) CIK Telecom announced Friday that it would dial back a planned $300 million fibre network development, blaming the CRTC's decision to revert wholesale internet access rates to 2016 levels. In a release, the Markham, Ont.-based ISP said that the "decision is no doubt an unjust and unacceptable disaster that impacts all independent ISPs in Canada." After "5 years of hard work, the CRTC is still biased towards pressure from major...
Conservative MP Dan Mazier has introduced a private member’s bill that...
A Federal Court judge has dismissed a challenge from the Canada Revenue Agency to a February court order compelling the country's tax collectors to turn over a set of...
The CRTC is seeking public opinion on wether or not the regulator should establish a national three-digit number for mental health crisis and suicide prevention services in an effort to quicken access...
BCE Inc. subsidiary Cablevision du Nord has to finish upgrading its routers...
In what the company says is a direct response to the CRTC's reversal on wholesale high-speed internet access rates, BCE Inc. announced Monday that it is increasing the amount...
Rogers Communications Inc. is repeating its request that the CRTC help it...
As reaction continues to pour in following the CRTC's Thursday decision to...
Bell Mobility Inc. is asking the CRTC to put in place new measures for...
An organization with the aim of keeping an open and affordable internet is...
The CRTC Thursday announced that it is setting permanent rates for...
The federal government announced Friday it is repurposing the 3800 MHz spectrum band to support 5G services, with an auction to take place in early 2023. The department of Innovation, Science and...
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) has approved the subordination of two spectrum licences held by Freedom Mobile. In its decision released Thursday,...
The CRTC is requesting that all Canadian telecommunication service providers (TSPs) supply universal network-level call blocking customer complaints concerning nuisance calls. The May 20 letter asked for all complaints...
The CRTC is suspending all deadlines to submit public comments examining the offer and promotion of accessible wireless plans by wireless service providers after multiple groups requested the proposal be made accessible to people who are deaf and hard of hearing. In a Friday release, the commission stated it would suspend all deadlines so it can issue its call for comments in American Sign Language (ASL) and Quebec Sign Language (LSQ) “so interested sign language users could better understand exactly what feedback and information the commission requires,” as requested by the Deafness Advocacy Association Nova Scotia, the Newfoundland and Labrador Association of the Deaf, and Ontario Association of the Deaf, in a letter signed April 22, 2021. The coalition of groups also...
CRTC chair Ian Scott said he believes the commission’s pick of a...
The CRTC has fined a small telecoms company $15,000 for failing to participate in the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services. On Thursday, the commission released the decision regarding William Robert John...
BCE Inc. rival Rogers Communications Inc. and a number of other groups are...
The federal government is making more spectrum available to increase competition, rural connectivity and the effective deployment of Wi-Fi and 5G technologies. On Wednesday, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry...
The CRTC has rejected a request from Xplornet Communications Inc. to repeal certain language from the regulator's Internet Code that raised the barrier for cutting off customers that haven't paid. In a Wednesday decision, the commission wrote that it was not swayed by arguments put forward by Xplornet -- and supported in interventions by BCE Inc. and Bragg Communications Inc.'s Eastlink -- that the CRTC's move to adopt a standard that would only allow disconnections on accounts that were...
A coalition of four separate advocacy groups Tuesday delivered a 62,000 signature-strong petition to the Competition Bureau, asking the regulator to block Rogers Communications Inc.'s proposed acquisition of Shaw Communications...
Telus Corp. is planning to spend a combined $26 billion on network connectivity in Ontario and Quebec...
Telus Corp. is seeking permission to appeal two provisions of the CRTC's April decision flowing from the commission's wireless review. While Telus is not seeking to appeal the central decision of...
Quebec’s Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal from the province’s attorney general over its desire to have telecoms block access to illegal gambling sites. In July...
Six organizations for people with disabilities are receiving a total of $61,562 from BCE Inc.’s deferral account, after the CRTC approved a proposal from the company to fund public interest and...
Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau added his voice to a chorus of...
The Conservative Party Thursday accused the Liberals of “trying to hide...
The number of Canadians sending the Spam Reporting Centre complaints about consent issues is on the rise, according to a Tuesday CRTC release. In the past six months, the centre received thousands of complaints about spam...
In an escalation of an ongoing fight over upgrades to a new modem, the Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) has accused Rogers Communications Inc. of failing to comply with a CRTC directive to confirm that it will continue to allow the installation of a particular type of modem for its third-party internet wholesale customers while a dispute over the modems is before the CRTC. In a Monday letter to the CRTC, CNOC wrote that Rogers has instead told CNOC that it will not require the updated modems until December 31, 2021. "Rogers does not confirm that TPIA customers will not...
Rogers Communications Inc. filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC asking the regulator to help it get access to a number of apartment complexes in Saint John, N.B., in another dispute involving a multi-dwelling unit (MDU). ...
Cochrane Telecom Services has submitted an application to the CRTC requesting that the commission refrain from regulating its residential services in Cochrane, Ontario. The company filed a Part 1 with the CRTC Tuesday,...
Echoing his counterparts at BCE Inc. and Rogers...
Canada’s big-three telecoms are doubling down on their assertions that...
The federal government is looking to enter a multi-year funding agreement with experts who will form its new Cyber Security Innovation Network. The four-year, $80 million investment to support three or more Canadian centres of expertise on cyber security was already announced in 2019, but the new program was officially launched on Thursday by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED). “Strong cyber security expertise and innovations are key to protecting Canada’s data and intellectual property and to maintaining the competitiveness of Canada’s businesses,”...
The CRTC has denied an order requested by Iristel Inc. after it found that...
BCE Inc. is suing Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron, escalating their battle over wireless customers allegedly...
The average Canadian mobile wireless prices rank the second highest internationally in four of seven service “baskets,” and remains in the middle-high range for the...
Data on Tap Inc., one of the country's hopeful mobile virtual network operators, has filed a petition to the governor in council, asking the government of Justin Trudeau to review the April decision of the CRTC to only mandate...
The CRTC is directing BCE Inc. to allow Ontario-based home phone and internet provider Fibernetics Corp....
Cogeco Inc. and Xplornet Inc. are getting a combined $81.36 million to connect more than 18,000 households to high-speed internet in the Outaouais region of Quebec. The funding announcement from...
Telus Corp. and Sogetel Inc. are each getting millions to connect 2,850 houses in Quebec to high-speed internet by September 2022 for a total cost of $38 million, Innovation, Science and Economic...
Canada should establish a centralized expert regulator for...
Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne has rejected a call by the Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) and its member company Distributel Communications...
BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic told shareholders...
The CRTC directed BCE Inc. to put on the public record responses to a...
The CRTC has asked Rogers Communications Inc. to stop requiring its third-party internet access customers to use a particular kind of modem until the regulator makes a decision on a complaint about...
BH Telecom Corp. claims that it is local residents who will lose if Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. gets the stay it wants on millions in funding awarded to the company to connect more...
Quebecor Inc. executive Jean-François Pruneau announced Tuesday morning that he would be stepping down from his position as president and CEO of Videotron in order to "leave active professional life and devote himself to personal investment projects," according to a release.
"I am turning a page in my professional life with a sense of accomplishment," Pruneau said in the release. "I am leaving the organization in a good position and with a first-class team to...
The CRTC has extended the deadline for comments on the quality of the national video relay service for Canadians with hearing impairments. The consultation, announced last month, is meant as a...
Through its newly acquired fibre-based service provider Ocdotus Inc. — which operates as Metro Loop — Xplornet Communications Inc. is expanding its fibre network in Haldimand County, Ontario. New Brunswick-based Xplornet...
BCE Inc. is objecting to proposed changes to the procedures for the operation of the National Contribution Fund, saying that a proposed system for payment forecasts does not allow contributors to the fund to plan properly. In...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and the Forum for Research and...
“Canada is first world in its input and third world in its output”, according to the chair of the Council of Canadian Innovators Jim Balsillie told the House of Commons...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. is requesting a stay in the distribution of $9.5 million in funding the CRTC awarded to BH Telecom Corp. for a Saskatchewan project that BH Telecom says that would connect more than 26...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) have requested a 90-day delay to the 3,500 MHz spectrum auction, currently scheduled to take place in June. In a Monday letter addressed to Innovation Minister...
Rogers Communications Inc. is in the midst of a wireless outage, with reports of service dropping early...
As part of its 2021 budget, the federal government is plowing another $1 billion dollars into its Universal Broadband Fund over the next five years, bringing the total fund up to $2.75 billion. According to the budget document released Monday, the government will spread the additional $1 billion over five years starting in 2021-2022, with more than half of it—some $616 million—front-loaded in the first two years. The fund was first announced in the 2019 budget as a $1 billion...
Industry analysts are calling Thursday's decision to mandate access to incumbent wireless networks for a limited number of regional wireless competitors a "moderate net...
The CRTC has floated the idea of penalizing BCE Inc. after Quebecor Inc....
The competition bureau is “flying blind” when it comes to understanding the cumulative effects of mergers—such as the proposed Rogers Communications Inc. acquisition of Shaw Communications...
Shaw Communications Inc. reported an increase of 1.8 per cent in revenue...
Incumbent telecom companies will be required to sell access to their mobile networks to some regional service providers, but only those that have some level of spectrum and...
The federal government has launched a consultation document to solicit feedback on whether or not it...
A public-private partnership on 5G technology research in Ontario and Quebec is deploying a standalone (SA) end-to-end 5G network meaning it will no longer have to rely on 4G technology. ENCQOR 5G and Ericsson AB, one of its...
Cogeco Inc. announced another increase in revenue with its second-quarter results Tuesday as it awaits...
Internet speeds for rural Canadians continue to remain “well below” the recommended CRTC speeds, even during the COVID-19 pandemic, when people “are counting more than ever on reliable broadband...
The Communications Security Establishment (CSE) has argued that the average Canadian’s cybersecurity...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. has asked the CRTC to overturn its decision to award $9.5 million in funding to BH Telecom Corp. for a project in Saskatchewan that would connect some 26...
The federal government is investing $14 million in Redline Communications Group Inc. through its Strategic Innovation Fund for the company to produce “Industrial 5G” products for clients in the...
Several large telecom companies have argued that the CRTC shouldn’t...
Novus Entertainment Inc., which is fighting for access to a multi-dwelling unit in Coquitlam, British Columbia, has asked the CRTC to pause its application against the developer while they exchange information and negotiate. The Vancouver-based internet provider filed a complaint with the CRTC earlier this year asking for help gaining access to the building as it claimed the developer’s representatives indicated they were satisfied with the services offered by Shaw Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. “The comfort and satisfaction of the developer with its arrangements have no...
The CRTC has rejected a request from a number of large facilities-based...
Allowing a merger to proceed on the basis of the...
The CRTC has once again extended its deadline for telecom providers to enact an anti-call-spoofing protocol known as STIR/SHAKEN, this time into fall 2021. Instead of entirely blocking calls from coming through, the...
Without a regime for mandated access for mobile virtual network operators...
BCE Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. are taking issue with TekSavvy Solutions Inc.'s assertion that it will be unfairly burdened by regulations that will require companies to make their services more accessible to Canadians with disabilities.
The CRTC is set to implement...
Quebecor Inc.'s Videtron has acquired wireless, TV, home phone, and cellular company Cablovision Warwick Inc., which has been operating in the Centre-du-Quebec region for almost 50 years. Videotron CEO Jean-François Pruneau...
Quebecor Inc. has indicated that, should the Competition Bureau force...
The federal government’s Universal Broadband Fund is in high demand, according to a speech from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) senior director David Willis Wednesday at...
Rogers Communications Inc.'s proposed acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc. doesn't change anything for one of their biggest competitors, according to BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic. Speaking Tuesday...
Statistics Canada has begun to aggregate data about the results of major auctions of Canadian spectrum bandwidth. The government agency is making the data available on its Telecommunications in Canada portal, which it launched...
The federal government’s Canada Infrastructure Bank and DIF Capital Partners have signed an agreement in principle to spend $130 million each to increase rural broadband connectivity through the...
Is a Nov. 2019 court order mandating a number of...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner wants Canada’s yet-to-be revamped...
Despite the uncertainty surrounding the potential impacts of Rogers Communications Inc. acquiring Shaw Communications Inc., BCE Inc. CFO Glen LeBlanc does not seem incredibly fazed.
During day two of the Desjardins Industrials, Telecom, Media & Tech, Diversified and...
