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. On Wednesday, BCE Inc. announced its services now reach more than 25,000 homes and businesses in Clarington, ON, with all-fibre high-speed internet connections, and 5,000 rural locations with its Wireless Home Internet service. Additionally, Rogers Communications Inc. announced that in the past 18 months it enhanced its wireless networks in more than 250 communities British Columbia, with plans...
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 Capital Markets analyst Drew McReynolds said in a Tuesday evening note that the positive numbers were potentially due to "pent-up demand from advertisers post-re-opening to get brands in front of consumers."
For the three months ending on May 31, overall revenues were up 15 per cent to $403 million from $348.9 million this time last year, for a profit...
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...
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...
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 uncertainty when it comes to access to municipal rights of way for wireless technology as Telus Corp....
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 said will be available on its website in late-June. In a press release the company said the service “is ideal” for entrepreneurs re-locating in the United States and for snowbirds who live in the U.S. or Mexico for part of the year. Mobifi, the release said, will forward voice and data from a Canadian phone number to a phone with an American SIM card,...
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...
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 the Abitibi-Témiscamingue of Quebec -- at its own expense -- by Sept. 1 to accommodate a higher capacity of users, as per a Tuesday decision from the CRTC.
The order is the result of a...
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 “speaking out across Canada to defend access to the internet” by launching a day of action...
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...
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 François-Philippe Champagne, announced his department’s decision to open the 6 GHz band with the goal of increasing both affordability and choice in respect to wireless broadband for consumers. “More spectrum available for Wi-Fi means Canadians will benefit from increased speed and connectivity for working from home, participating in online education and accessing...
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 2018, a Quebec Superior Court judge found an article of the Consumer Protection Act that says Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have to block web users in Quebec from accessing unauthorized online gambling sites within 30 days of receiving notice from the Société des Loteries du Québec to be out of the province’s...
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...
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 CRTC does not need to implement a proposal that would require them to block malicious botnet...
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 access to incumbent mobile networks for a limited number of regional operators. In a Tuesday release, Data On Tap (which operates under the name dotmobile) CEO Algis Akstinas said that the CRTC's decision "misinterprets Canada’s wireless policy." "Industry analysts, telecom experts, competitive regional providers and even the dominant carriers all recognise...
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...
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 than 26 communities to high-speed internet. The CRTC previously awarded BH Telecom, which does business as FlexNetworks, $9.5 million through its $750 million broadband funding program in order to connect the almost 30 communities -- but SaskTel argued in a March 18 Part 1 application that the...
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 Policy in Communications (FRPC) are urging the CRTC to come up with an interim plan to “stabilize the finances” of the Broadcasting Participation Fund as they anticipate a shortfall in money for...
“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. ...
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 Wednesday for its second quarter of the year, totalling nearly $1.39 billion for the period ending February 28—not long before it was announced Rogers Communications Inc. intends to acquire the...
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 service” according to a report from the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA). A report released by the CIRA on Tuesday revealed that during the year of the pandemic, the gap in rural versus urban internet performance has grown with urban speeds reaching a median speed of 51.09 Mbps compared to 9.74 Mbps for rural areas. In 2016, the CRTC established a Universal Service...
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 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 (MVNOs), the regulatory authorities in charge of reviewing the proposed merger between Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. should force the companies to spin off the Freedom Mobile...
