The Federal Court of Appeals handed a small win to Bragg Communications Inc. in a dispute with trade union Unifor, in which the union was seeking to enlarge a collective bargaining unit of Eastlink Inc. technicians. In a decision published Tuesday, Judge David G. Near found that the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) did not provide sufficient reasoning when it determined that this bargaining unit could be substantially enlarged. The case dates to 2018, when the CIRB certified a bargaining unit made up of eight technicians working in five Nova Scotia communities across the...
Organizations representing smaller Canadian broadcasters and telecoms have expressed concern about the feasibility of the CRTC’s proposed new accessibility reporting...
After surviving a hostile takeover bid by Rogers Communications Inc. in...
Following the $26.2 billion deal between Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. announced last week, citizen advocacy group Democracy Watch says a consumer-run telecom watchdog group should be created to protect...
Rogers Communications Inc., BCE Inc., and Quebecor Inc.’s collective bid to get back millions in royalties they say they paid to the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada...
The Eastern Ontario Regional Network (EORN), the Province of Ontario, the federal government, and Rogers Communications Inc. Friday announced a $300 million project with the goal of connecting 99 per...
The Quebec Superior Court has granted the group handling claims related to a $26 million class-action lawsuit against Rogers Communications Inc. permission to target thousands more people who may be eligible for damages through Facebook ads. The group is tasked with the goal of compensating mobile customers who were charged abusive fees for terminating their contracts early. The class-action started several years ago after Rogers charged hefty fees to customers who left their...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada is proposing new official languages requirements for consultations regarding the installation or modification of antenna systems across Canada. ...
Monday’s announcement of a deal for Rogers Communications Inc. to acquire...
Telus Corp. will receive more than $5 million in funding through the Rapid Response Stream of the federal government’s Universal Broadband Fund for projects bringing high-speed Internet to rural...
Telecommunications companies big and small have expressed opposition to a...
As news of Roger’s Communications Inc.’s deal to acquire Shaw Communications Inc. sparks discussions on what it may mean for the wireless market in Canada, advocates say competition and other...
Shadow minister for jobs and industry Pierre Poilievre announced Tuesday afternoon that the Conservatives...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. will be using Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. as its primary supplier as the company builds out its own 5G network, the company announced Monday. Samsung will be SaskTel’s sole...
From the perspective of Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Joe Natale,...
Iristel Inc. is once again elevating its fight with the Canada Revenue Agency by asking a federal court for a new order against the CRA as they continue to duke it out over...
If Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada doesn't approve Telesat Holdings Inc.'s proposal...
The CRTC has launched a consultation into the quality of the national video relay service for Canadians...
BCE Inc. has announced a new partnership with Honda Canada inc. to provide in-built Wi-Fi hotspots in newly-manufactured cars. The hotspots, billed as “Bell Connected Car” will be installed in...
Telesat Holdings Inc. announced a new agreement with satellite communications technology developer SatixFy Israel Ltd. Wednesday morning, as Telesat moves towards launching its Lightspeed satellite...
Industry, Science and Economic Development Canada announced plans Tuesday to hold a series of workshops, seeking “to better understand the public’s perception of AI”. The workshops -- named Open Dialogue: Artificial Intelligence in Canada -- will be run by the federal government’s Advisory Council on Artificial Intelligence, alongside Toronto-based Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and the Université de Montréal’s Algora lab, which specializes in research around the ethics of artificial intelligence. A statement issued by Industry Minister François-Philippe...
The Independent Telecommunications Providers Association (ITPA) is asking the CRTC to force large telecom service providers to give the association a list of the wireless service numbers with...
The fees required for a customer to buy out of a 36-month mobile phone financing contract amount to a...
The federal government has rejected a petition from the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and the National Pensioners Federation seeking to mandate telecommunications companies to offer paper...
In what is becoming a semi-regular occurrence for the competitive local exchange carrier, Vancouver-based Novus Entertainment Inc. has filed another complaint with the CRTC, asking it to help the internet service provider gain...
The federal government’s proposal to open up the 6 GHz spectrum band for WiFi use has received broad support in an Industry, Science and Economic Development Canada consultation. Every...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) recently defended its application for a “retail internet service resale” (RISR) framework for fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) services from incumbent claims that the application...
As the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed an incumbent challenge to an...
Quebecor Inc. has continued to grow its revenues in spite of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, according to...
Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien is calling for the Office of the Privacy Commission (OPC) to have its jurisdiction extended to cover the Office of the Prime Minister and other federal ministerial offices. Therrien raised the proposal in a submission filed Tuesday as part of a statutory review to Canada’s Access to Information Act (ATIA), in which he also suggested that the the act's scope should be broadened to cover those same offices. Such expansions to the Privacy Act and ATIA would “[extend] Canadians’ right of access to information, including their own personal information, regardless of where it is held within government,” Therrien wrote. In the submission,...
A regional nonprofit dedicated to expanding internet connectivity in rural Ontario told the House of Commons industry committee that investment schemes like the Universal Broadband Fund would be more...
Rural Economic Development Minister Maryam Monsef said that the federal government is hoping to promote competition within the telecommunications sector as it awards funding for projects from the...
Mitel Networks Corp. has delivered a blunt reply to incumbents over their approaches to implementing the STIR/SHAKEN anti-fraud-call technology, suggesting that larger companies are seeking...
A federal court has ordered the Canada Revenue Agency to hand over to Iristel Inc. "all materials" in its possession related to the tax authority's decision not to release tens of millions of dollars worth of tax returns to the company. In an order released Monday, the court agreed with Iristel's September filing for the...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and National Pensioners Federation are repeating their request for the CRTC to require Canadian telecommunications companies to issue paper bills to customers.
In their joint final reply to a consultation on paper billing, PIAC...
The request from the Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) for the...
Telus Corp.'s ability to extract roaming revenue from its customers will...
The CRTC should move quickly to set wholesale prices in the North for SSi Canada's access to BCE Inc.’s Northwestel, according to an intervention by TekSavvy Solutions Inc. In an intervention...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) has asked the CRTC to publicly disclose the information it...
Telesat Holdings Inc. announced today that the company will partner with French-Italian company Thales Alenia Space for the manufacture of post of its low-earth orbit satellite (LEOS) constellation,...
The Internet Society’s Canada Chapter (ISCC) has endorsed a call from Mitel Networks Corp. for the CRTC to instruct the agency in charge of implementing the anti-fraud-call protocol known as STIR/SHAKEN to allow resellers to...
In a preliminary study on the government's overhaul of the Broadcasting Act...
BCE Inc. announced Thursday morning that it would increase its typical capital expenditure by between $1...
The CRTC has awarded up to $26.7 million to five transport projects that will improve broadband connectivity in British Columbia, Ontario and Saskatchewan as part of the second funding call for its $750 million Broadband Fund. The successful projects, proposed by Shaw Communications Inc., BH Telecom Corp. (operating as FlexNetworks), Rogers Communications Inc., Tough Country Communications Ltd. and the Columbia Basin Broadband Corporation, will build more than 550 kilometres of fibre transport network across the three provinces, the CRTC announced on Thursday. The projects will benefit...
Telus Corp.’s Telus International division went public Wednesday, in what the company said was “the largest technology IPO in TSX history by total proceeds raised.” Telus International, which provides IT services to...
The government has signalled that it will file a motion to overturn last month's ruling from a federal judge which allowed Iristel Inc.'s judicial review into the conduct of the Canada Revenue Agency...
Cogeco Inc. breached the CRTC’s standstill rule by announcing its intention to drop Wildbrain’s family programming while in commercial negotiations about their ongoing carriage, Wildbrain claims....
Rogers Communications Inc. announced a seven-per-cent fall in revenues and...
Local governments and advocacy groups are urging the CRTC to take action to address the issue of insufficient telecom service in Northern Canada, while big telecom companies are asking the regulator to take a hands-off approach.
The CRTC heard from various intervenors...
Spectrum auction revenues should be reinvested in rural broadband initiatives and the multiple broadband...
A Federal Court judge has rejected a request from the government to throw out an application for judicial review from Iristel Inc., in which the company sought a review of the Canada Revenue...
The motto of Facebook Inc. is, famously, "move fast and break things." ...
Distributel Communications Ltd. has acquired telecom service provider Primus from Fusion Connect Inc. in what Distributel CEO Matt Stein said Tuesday was a “major acquisition” for the company. ...
Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau has called on the CRTC to recentre...
SSi Canada says a partnership with satellite and connectivity services provider SES S.A. will deliver a “large, large amount” of extra capacity for its QINIQ broadband and mobile services in the country’s north, allowing SSi...
Audience measurement company Numeris will fully roll-out its video audience...
On the final day of the first week of CBC/Radio-Canada's license renewal hearing before the CRTC, CBC...
New Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s new mandate letter has less of a telecom focus than that issued to his predecessor, directing him to support rural broadband and regulating online platforms, but including no reference to telecom affordability. ...
Cogeco Inc. reported $646.4 million in revenue in its first quarter, up 4.5 per cent from a year earlier. Profit, meanwhile, was up 27.8 per cent to $120.5 million in the three months ending Nov. 30. The company said in its...
Canada should follow the lead of the United States and put in place a $50 “broadband benefit” throughout the rest of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) says. The...
The CRTC has launched a public consultation into whether a network-level...
While Shaw Communications Inc. posted a substantial loss in wireline subscribers for the three months...
On the second day of the CRTC's hearings into the CBC/Radio-Canada license renewal, CBC executives detailed the lead up to the broadcaster’s much-criticized decision to cut local news broadcasts across the country in the early days of the pandemic. "I know some Canadians were disappointed in us, and I'm very sorry about that," CBC's executive vice-president of radio and audio Susan Marjetti said about the March 19 decision, but explained that it was made with a view to preserving some level of local coverage early in the pandemic. Marjetti told CRTC vice-chair Caroline Simard that at...
The affordability-focused initiatives Navdeep Bains put in place will...
Cogeco Inc. Monday announced the appointment of John Hargrave as its vice-president of products. "I am very excited that John is joining the Cogeco family. He will be an undeniable asset to our growth strategy, especially in...
There is insufficient evidence Rogers Communications Inc.'s pandemic-driven internet traffic management policy (ITMP) disproportionally affects wholesale end users, but at the same time the company...
The CRTC announced Monday that it would establish a CRTC interconnection steering committee (CISC) ad hoc relief planning committee to examine options and make numbering relief recommendations for...
Frustrated with what it said is the deteriorating state of competition in...
The wireless sector will be buoyed in 2021 by the likely end of the competitive skirmishes brought about by the introduction of unlimited data across the industry, according to Canaccord Genuity analyst Aravinda Galappatthige. ...
Mitel Networks Corp. has filed a Part 1 application requesting that the CRTC instruct the agency in charge of implementing the anti-call-spoofing protocol known as STIR/SHAKEN to allow all resellers to participate in the...
A BCE Inc. price increase on the unbundled local loop (ULL) service it...
The CRTC is giving incumbent telecom companies that provide wholesale high speed internet access a year to implement a new quality of service (QoS) regime, which will require incumbents to track and report how well they provide service to wholesale customers.
Two years...
James Moore, who served as industry minister in Stephen Harper’s Conservative government, has joined the board of directors at Xplornet Communications Inc.
The company said in a late-December press release the appointment...
BCE Inc. announced Friday that it has established a number of new protocols to simplify access for service providers to the company's support structures in Quebec. In a release, Bell said that service providers will now be...
When the federal government’s proposed new privacy legislation, Bill...
Telus Inc.'s request for the CRTC to review its decision that the company "unjustly discriminated" against Iristel Inc. should be thrown out and the original ruling upheld, Iristel has told the...
Public Safety Canada is considering implementing a “more sustainable funding approach” for Canada’s emergency alert system, according to documents obtained through the...
The federal government will waive Part II licensing fees for Canadian broadcasters that have seen advertising downturns due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A Tuesday afternoon press release from Canadian...
Xplornet Communications Inc. has acquired the southern Ontario fibre-based service provider Ocdotus Inc., Xplornet announced Tuesday. Ocdotus -- which operates under the name Metro Loop -- is based in Hamilton and provides...
President of Cogeco Inc.'s media division Michel Lorrain has stepped down from the position, the company...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) has released its report into a major data breach at the Fédération des caisses Desjardins du Québec, which affected around 9.7 million individuals and...
An April meeting between Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) and a former Canadian ambassador to the U.S. now working for the controversial U.S. data-mining company Palantir Technologies was part a normal response to a company's offer of services at the start of the pandemic, ISED deputy minister Simon...
The CRTC will not open a new Part 1 or consultation in response to a letter from a number of ex-CBC/Radio-Canada employees criticizing the public broadcaster’s new branded content scheme, Tandem. ...
The CRTC appears to be preparing for a new secret shopper project that will...
A pair of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada proposals on changes to midband spectrum allocation that would affect fixed wireless service has drawn a mixed response from telecoms....
While telecommunications revenues across the sector increased by two per cent in 2019, it was the slowest rate of growth in a decade, according to the CRTC’s Communications Monitoring Report, published Thursday morning by the regulator.
A year previously in 2018,...
Northern broadband provider SSi Canada is asking...
The disparate broadband funding programs administered across different federal government departments...
Xplornet Communications Inc. will use technology from Ericsson AB in its next-generation network, the company said Tuesday. Xplornet will begin rolling out its 5G fixed-wireless network in rural areas this summer, it said in...
The Supreme Court appeal incumbent telecoms filed in November amounts to...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. have the support of two regional telecom companies in a joint Part 1 that they filed, requesting that the CRTC force...
A CRTC consultation on paper billing practices in the telecommunications and broadcasting sectors is continuing, with the commission requesting that all major companies respond to a series of...
While it believes the CRTC's existing definition of "customer confidential...
While much of the conversation about rural broadband in Canada has recently centered on low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites, the business is a very expensive one, with huge capital costs and...
The number of complaints from Canadians about their telecom services fell 19 per cent last year, the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS) said in its annual report Monday. It’s the first time...
The recently launched package of funding opportunities for rural broadband...
The House industry committee is calling on the federal government to review legislation covering fraudulent calls, and for the government and regulators to support industry-based solutions to the issue. The committee put out a...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) and advocacy group...
In a case that could determine whether a "right to be forgotten" exists in...
In a CRTC proceeding set to determine whether competitive access for in-building wire (IBW) will be mandated in multi-dwelling units (MDUs) like condominiums, CloudWifi Inc....
