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 communities in the province to high-speed internet. The communities are already connected, SaskTel said in a Part 1 application filed Mar. 18. "Most of the communities are already served by a SaskTel provided fibre optic transport network," SaskTel wrote in the complaint. "In determining...
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 mining, utilities, and oil and gas sectors. In a release Friday, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne announced Markham-based Redline’s Industrial 5G tech will support the necessary speeds and bandwidth to allow clients to do things like remotely monitor and...
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 technology, which telecoms have to develop themselves, would feature a mechanism to notify users that the call is coming from a suspicious origin so they can decide whether or not to answer. Telecom providers now have until November 30, 2021 -- five months beyond a previous extension to June 30, 2021 -- to launch the protocol, which was originally meant to be in place by...
Without a regime for mandated access for mobile virtual network operators...
BCE Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. are taking issue with TekSavvy...
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 internet service providers to block a "pirate IPTV" service a draconian imposition of an authority best reserved to...
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...
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...
Organizations representing smaller Canadian broadcasters and telecoms have...
After surviving a hostile takeover bid by Rogers Communications Inc. in September, Cogeco Inc. president and CEO Philippe Jetté said Tuesday that Rogers' acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc. presents a great deal of "uncertainty."
Speaking at this year's online...
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...
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 considerations will be important for the public’s best interests in the future. During an “Affordable Internet Day of Action” panel discussions hosted by multiple groups Tuesday, the day’s conversations centred around affordable Internet access for all and the state of the national market,...
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...
If Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada doesn't approve Telesat Holdings Inc.'s proposal to auction off spectrum it holds in the 3700-3900 MHz band, the company won't be able to compete with its competitors in the United States, the company's CEO told the...
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...
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 telecommunications company to respond to the consultation supported ISED’s proposal to some degree, on the basis that it would facilitate the rollout of high-speed broadband across Canada. According to a submission from Shaw Communications Inc., opening this spectrum would streamline Canadians’ internet...
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...
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 efficient if they were devolved to the provincial level.
Speaking to the committee on Tuesday, Barry FieldBarry Field, executive director of Southwestern Integrated Fibre...
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...
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, which it is calling Lightspeed. In a Tuesday release, the company said it expects to offer commercial service over the LEOS constellation in the second half of 2023, and will feature an initial rollout of 298 satellites. “As the world’s leader in manufacturing and implementing cutting...
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. ...
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 clients across a number of industries, recently bought Lionbridge AI for $1.2 billion in anticipation of the IPO. Telus said in a press release it expects the IPO and secondary offering to raise $925 million US. “We are defining a new business category at the intersection of digital information technology and digital customer experience, and are more excited than ever for what lies ahead," Telus International CAO Jeff Puritt said in the release....
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...
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 the mission of CBC/Radio-Canada to a “true public interest mission” where the public broadcaster...
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...
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 quarterly report revenue increased due to reasons including growth in internet service customers “given the increased demand for high speed offerings in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic,” rate increases and the impact of the acquisition of Thames Valley Communications in March 2020, as well as “increased political advertising revenue related to the United...
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...
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 provision of retail broadband services, the Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) Friday filed a Part 1 application calling on the CRTC to implement a "retail Internet service resale"...
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...
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 came into effect on Jan. 1.
Moore served as industry minister from 2013 to 2015, and chose not to run in the 2015 federal election. He is currently a senior business advisor at Dentons and a public policy advisor at the public relations and...
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...
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 Kennedy has said. In response to questions at a Friday meeting of the House of Commons ethics committee, Kennedy said that Palantir was simply one of many companies that responded to an ISED call for action in the early days of the pandemic. "In that call we had almost 200 digital service firms and software firms, very large companies, very small, large...
