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 province’s proposal is a “fundamental change” to the NG911 framework set by the CRTC -- though technically feasible -- “which is being introduced at such a late hour that it threatens to undermine the launch date.” “Further, the proposal contemplates a solution that is problematic and has been rejected by the commission because the commission decided that...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is recommending that the CRTC put in place a framework for regulating artificial intelligence, the use of automated decision-making, and machine...
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 fraud had fallen by 95 per cent between October 2020 and May of this year. The CRTC did not disclose how many instances of the fraud the 95 per cent drop represented, either at the beginning or the end of the monitoring period. SIM swapping involves a fraudster convincing a wireless provider to transfer the victim’s phone number to a new SIM card in 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...
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 will be purchasing all of the broadband systems, located in Ohio, owned by a U.S. cable operator.
On Wednesday, Cogeco announced that its subsidiary Atlantic Broadband...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is asking the Federal...
BCE Inc. is expanding its 5G network into Atlantic Canada, with service launching in Nova Scotia and...
The CRTC is amending its consultation on a potential network-level framework to limit malicious botnet...
The Communications Security Establishment, which is billed as Canada’s...
With Parliament rising this week for its summer break, a number of bills of interest to the broadcasting and telecom sectors (both tabled and untabled) sit in various stages along the legislative process.
Whether the bills have a chance of proceeding any further depends...
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...
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 Ministers, fearing it will let the biggest corporations in the world off the hook.
On Tuesday, Canadians for Tax Fairness, a non-profit and non-partisan organization, issued...
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...
Conservative MP Dan Mazier has introduced a private member’s bill that would, if passed, require internet service providers (ISPs) to publicize information such as typical...
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...
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 third-party aggregated wholesale access to the level of interim rates established in 2016, before an August...
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...
CRTC chair Ian Scott said he believes the commission’s pick of a facilities-based model will result “in more robust and sustained competition,” as it faces criticism...
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...
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 accessibility intervener participation for the consultation on reporting requirements for telecom companies under the Accessible Canada Act (ACA). The recipients of the funding are Canadian Association of the Deaf - Association des Sourds du Canada ($4,180), Media Access Canada ($7,872.75), Canadian National Society of the Deaf-Blind, Inc. ($4,747), CNIB Foundation ($5,170), Deaf Wireless Canada...
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...
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). In the application filed with the regulator May 6, Rogers wrote that it was given access to the first two buildings in a four-building development, after which the developer said he was "satisfied with only having one service provider (BCE Inc.) in these properties." The developer persisted in denying Rogers access to the building despite being advised of CRTC...
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...
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. access to its facilities after the company claimed Bell disagreed.
According to a decision released by the CRTC Tuesday, Bell will have to allow Fibernetics to use...
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...
BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic told shareholders Thursday that it is "too soon" to properly assess the impact of the CRTC's decision to mandate access to incumbent networks like...
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...
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 Industry committee Tuesday, as he called for the government to “rebuild the Economic Council of Canada to create in-house capacity for the analysis of the contemporary economy”. Balsillie, testified before the House of Commons’ Industry Committee regarding competitiveness in what he called the "intangibles...
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. ...
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 negative" for incumbent telecom companies. In a note published late Thursday, Canaccord Genuity analyst Aravinda Galappatthige wrote that effectively for the incumbents, it could have been worse. Incumbents "should be comforted," he wrote, by two aspects of the decision. First, the seven year sunset on the mandated access,...
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...
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 will benefit from telecom service providers blocking botnet traffic, a requirement currently being considered by the CRTC, and which has been opposed by several...
