We didn’t ‘see any utility’ for Palantir: ISED’s Kennedy

telecom | 12/14/2020 2:15 pm EST

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...

CRTC says Tandem can be discussed at CBC licence renewal hearing

Media | 12/11/2020 4:49 pm EST

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. ...

CRTC plans to keep monitoring telecoms through new ‘secret shopper’ program

telecom | 12/11/2020 3:47 pm EST

The CRTC appears to be preparing for a new secret shopper project that will...

ISED proposal to displace spectrum for fixed wireless divides ISPs

telecom | 12/11/2020 11:37 am EST

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....

Telecom revenue growth slowed in 2019: CRTC

telecom | 12/10/2020 5:54 pm EST

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,...

SSi asks CRTC to mandate third-party access to fibre in the North, new wholesale rates

telecom | 12/09/2020 2:27 pm EST

Northern broadband provider SSi Canada is asking...

Create a broadband czar to coordinate funding: PIAC

telecom | 12/08/2020 6:05 pm EST

The disparate broadband funding programs administered across different federal government departments...

Xplornet picks Ericsson for 5G

telecom | 12/08/2020 5:22 pm EST

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...

Policy impacts of CRTC wholesale rates outside SCC purview: TekSavvy, CNOC

telecom | 12/07/2020 6:29 pm EST

The Supreme Court appeal incumbent telecoms filed in November amounts to...

Rogers, Shaw get cableco support in demand for relocation payments

telecom | 12/04/2020 3:36 pm EST

Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. have the support of...

CRTC seeks further information on telecoms’ paper billing practices

Media | 12/03/2020 3:15 pm EST

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...

OPC supports PIAC call for CRTC to clarify rules for tracing apps

telecom | 12/01/2020 5:48 pm EST

While it believes the CRTC's existing definition of "customer confidential...

LEO satellite service pricing still uncertain, conference hears

telecom | 11/30/2020 6:28 pm EST

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...

Telecom complaints down 19%, CCTS says

telecom | 11/30/2020 12:50 pm EST

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 since 2015-2016 that the number of complaints went down year-over-year, the report said. It followed the CCTS mid-year report, which also saw declines. The annual report noted there were 35 per cent fewer complaints regarding BCE Inc.’s services from the previous year and 69 per cent fewer complaints regarding Cogeco Inc. “We are hopeful that service providers...

Gov. rural broadband funding lacks strategy, cohesion: Execulink CEO

telecom | 11/30/2020 10:36 am EST

The recently launched package of funding opportunities for rural broadband...

INDU report says government should act on fraud calls

telecom | 11/27/2020 4:48 pm EST

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...

CNOC, advocates push gov’t to be tougher on affordability

telecom | 11/27/2020 11:38 am EST

The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) and advocacy group...

Journalistic exemption under PIPEDA should apply to Google: CBC

Media | 11/26/2020 6:16 pm EST

In a case that could determine whether a "right to be forgotten" exists in...

Despite some in-building wire competition, barriers remain: CloudWifi

telecom | 11/26/2020 10:48 am EST

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....

Bell seeks to challenge CRTC community programming fine in court

Media | 11/25/2020 6:48 pm EST

BCE Inc. has filed an application for leave to appeal a $17.9-million penalty imposed by the CRTC last month for violations of its broadcasting license, arguing that the CRTC failed to give the...

Post-bankruptcy OneWeb plans to offer Canadian broadband by 2022

telecom | 11/25/2020 5:12 pm EST

OneWeb Ltd. is still planning to offer broadband internet service in Canada, following its recent exit from bankruptcy protection. The company intends to use a low earth orbit (LEO) satellite...

Quebec ISPs say Bell approach to pole access still ‘anti-competitive’

telecom | 11/25/2020 3:22 pm EST

A trio of Quebec internet service providers released a statement Wednesday claiming that BCE Inc. continues to impede their access to its poles.  Quebecor Inc., Cogeco Inc., and non-profit...

Federal gov’t looking to expand emergency alerts to online platforms, devices

telecom | 11/25/2020 10:42 am EST

As Canadian emergency management authorities hold their regular test of the...

Going public gives ‘more optionality’ for funding LEOS, Telesat CEO says

telecom | 11/24/2020 7:04 pm EST

A corporate restructuring that will see Telesat Holdings Inc. go public and...

Service providers often improperly object in complaints process: CCTS

telecom | 11/20/2020 5:30 pm EST

Between Nov. 1, 2018 and Dec. 31, 2019, participating telecom service providers "improperly" objected to 542 customer complaints, and failed to provide complete responses to 931 cases marked as...

OPC expresses concern over privacy rights in government’s PIPEDA update

Media | 11/20/2020 2:31 pm EST

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has responded to the Liberal government’s proposed new privacy legislation for the private sector — while the office “welcomes” Bill...

UBF won’t have fixed affordability requirements 

telecom | 11/19/2020 5:30 pm EST

Government officials have indicated that the newly-launched Universal Broadband Fund will seek to allow for affordable internet pricing across Canada, although it will not impose many firm or fixed affordability requirements on...

ISED opening up 6 GHz band for WiFi

telecom | 11/19/2020 5:01 pm EST

The federal government has launched a consultation on a proposal to open up the 6 GHz spectrum band for WiFi use, a move it says would triple the amount of licence-exempt spectrum available for WiFi.  The announcement, made by Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains at the...

Regulatory delays a slow-moving incumbent tantrum: CNOC

telecom | 11/19/2020 1:53 pm EST

On the heels of the incumbent appeal of a Federal Court of Appeal decision...

LEO providers aiming to meet gov’t connectivity goals within 3 years

telecom | 11/18/2020 2:36 pm EST

Telesat Holdings Inc. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) both said Tuesday they plan to provide broadband connectivity to remote and rural areas of Canada seven years ahead of the...

CRTC to release report on impact on online services on TV soon

Media | 11/17/2020 6:27 pm EST

The CRTC will release a report detailing the impact of online services on the state of video and television and video distribution in Canada and some nine other countries before the end of the year,...

Gov’t tables PIPEDA reform, new consumer privacy legislation

Media | 11/17/2020 5:54 pm EST

The federal government introduced sweeping private-sector privacy law...

Government launches Privacy Act consultation

Media | 11/16/2020 6:34 pm EST

The federal government today announced that it is launching a public consultation on reviewing the Privacy Act, Canada's public sector privacy law.  In a Monday evening release, the Department of Justice said that members of the public are invited to share their views on modernizing the act until Jan. 17, 2021. The release invited Canadians to comment on privacy topics, including "the rules on when federal institutions can collect personal information, how they can use the information entrusted to them, when they can share it with other federal institutions, and the right of individuals...

OPC seeks right for Canadians to push back on AI decision making 

Media | 11/13/2020 8:14 pm EST

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has issued its...

CRTC erred in finding of unjust discrimination against Iristel in 867 fight: Telus

telecom | 11/13/2020 6:00 pm EST

In a years-long dispute over traffic stimulation to the 867 area code, Telus Corp. is asking the CRTC to review its assessment that measures taken by the company to "protect itself" against an...

CIB, UBF to collaborate on projects that fall between market cracks

telecom | 11/13/2020 12:08 pm EST

The $2 billion Canadian Infrastructure Bank rural broadband fund will seek...

Incumbents appeal CRTC wholesale rates at Supreme Court

telecom | 11/12/2020 4:56 pm EST

Both BCE Inc. and large cable companies have turned to the Supreme Court...

Telus jumps into the agricultural tech sector

telecom | 11/12/2020 3:08 pm EST

Telus Corp. announced Thursday the launch of a new business focused on agricultural tech, after the company’s acquisition of eight companies in that sector. Telus Agriculture will bring together those companies’ various...

Cogeco hires Paul Beaudry as VP of regulatory

telecom | 11/11/2020 6:14 pm EST

Paul Beaudry is to become the new vice-president for regulatory affairs at Cogeco Inc., taking over from Nathalie Dorval. Beaudry announced the news on Twitter Thursday morning. “It’s an exciting time to be in the...

Telecoms mostly oppose further delays to next-gen 911 network roll-out

telecom | 11/11/2020 1:54 pm EST

In response to a CRTC call for comments, Canadian telecommunications providers have indicated that they generally agree with new deadlines for the rollout of next-generation 911 networks across...

Telecoms object to Telesat’s proposal to auction 3800 MHz spectrum

telecom | 11/10/2020 5:48 pm EST

A number of Canadian wireless providers have objected to a proposal that...

Feds boost Universal Broadband Fund by $750M

telecom | 11/09/2020 12:57 pm EST

The federal government announced the launch of its long-awaited Universal Broadband Fund Monday morning, increasing the funding by $750 million and the number of Canadians it aims to have connected by 2026 from 95 per cent to 98 per cent.  The fund also includes $150...

Telus acquires AI company for $1.2B ahead of IPO for Telus International

telecom | 11/06/2020 6:34 pm EST

The $1.2-billion acquisition of Lionbridge AI by Telus Corp. will "help accelerate the digital transformation and strategic growth journey of Telus International," CEO Darren Entwistle said on a...

Bell’s Bibic gives a ‘tip of the hat’ on Broadcast Act update

Media | 11/05/2020 6:26 pm EST

BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic praised the updates to the Broadcasting Act...

Quebecor Q3 revenues tick upwards, driven by wireless

Media | 11/05/2020 5:20 pm EST

Quebecor Inc. posted its third-quarter earnings on Thursday morning, with revenues slightly up, boosted...

CRTC process and delays take centre stage at CNOC ISP Summit

telecom | 11/05/2020 11:16 am EST

A day after CRTC chairman Ian Scott addressed the Competitive Network Operators of Canada's ISP Summit and gave no more details about when the regulator would give some finality to the issue of...

Digital platforms won’t fight or flee new regulations, Guilbeault says

Media | 11/04/2020 5:46 pm EST

Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault isn’t concerned about potential political or industry opposition to the Broadcasting Act updates he tabled Tuesday, saying in an...

Broadcast Act updates not comprehensive enough: NDP, Conservatives

Media | 11/03/2020 6:44 pm EST

The Liberal government’s proposed updates to the Broadcasting Act have...

CRTC rejects Rogers complaint over toll-free trunk time extension

telecom | 11/03/2020 5:35 pm EST

The CRTC has rejected a complaint from Rogers Communications Inc. about an extension the regulator granted BCE Inc. to install trunk connections to carry toll-free traffic between their networks. ...

CRTC to have ‘roughly nine months’ to act on Broadcasting Act update

Media | 11/03/2020 11:11 am EST

The Liberal government’s long-awaited update to the Broadcasting Act...

CRTC opens consultation on telecom service in the North

telecom | 11/02/2020 6:08 pm EST

The CRTC Monday announced a consultation on the state of telecommunications in the North, and is in particular seeking input on the service offered by BCE Inc. subsidiary Northwestel. The...

Wireless no longer a growth market: Shaw’s McAleese

telecom | 10/30/2020 5:35 pm EDT

The lack of pricing "discipline" in the wireless market could have negative...

CRTC consulting on how to improve access to poles

telecom | 10/30/2020 5:17 pm EDT

The CRTC has launched a consultation on improving access to poles owned by Canadian telecom companies. It said it heard during its proceeding on barriers to rural broadband rollouts that “untimely and costly access to poles...

ISED: flanker brands prices falling, but not yet at 25% drop target

telecom | 10/29/2020 7:04 pm EDT

The federal government released its second quarterly check-in on wireless prices across Canada Thursday morning, as a follow up to the Liberal government’s plan to lower wireless prices 25 per cent...

PIAC requests privacy review of contact tracing apps

telecom | 10/29/2020 6:24 pm EDT

Six months after the CRTC declined its request to hold an inquiry into contact tracing technologies and...

Facial recognition in malls violated privacy, commissioners say

telecom | 10/29/2020 5:58 pm EDT

An investigation into the use of facial recognition technology to analyze age and gender of customers in shopping malls owned by Cadillac Fairview concluded that it violated Canadian privacy law, the federal Office of the Privacy Commissioner said Thursday.  The OPC launched the investigation in 2018, conducted alongside the Alberta and B.C. privacy commissioners. It said in a press release Thursday that the company, which embedded cameras in 12 shopping malls across Canada, “used facial recognition technology without their customers’ knowledge or consent.”  The release said the...

TekSavvy asks for judicial review of CRTC wholesale rate stay

telecom | 10/29/2020 1:32 pm EDT

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is asking the Federal Court of Appeal to review the CRTC's Sept. 28 decision to grant a request from incumbents for a fresh stay on the implementation of the lower wholesale...

OPC joins counterparts in calling for safeguards on facial recognition and AI

telecom | 10/28/2020 6:43 pm EDT

The federal privacy watchdog has joined its counterparts from 12 other countries in calling for "stronger privacy protections and greater accountability" when it comes to the development and use of...

Cogeco Q4 keeps profits stable, helped by internet demand

telecom | 10/28/2020 6:30 pm EDT

Cogeco Inc. announced its fourth quarter earnings on Wednesday, increasing...

Tech CEOs push Trudeau government for digital innovation projects

telecom | 10/27/2020 5:29 pm EDT

More than a 100 Canadian tech CEOs have signed an open letter calling on the Liberal government to prioritize digital innovation as a key part of Canada’s recovery from COVID-19.  Published by the Canadian Council of Innovators, the letter’s signatories come from a wide-ranging set of start-ups and established...

OPC failed to observe ‘bedrock rules of evidence’ in court: Facebook

Media | 10/27/2020 10:33 am EDT

Facebook Inc. is asking a judge to throw out significant chunks of an affidavit from Canada's federal privacy watchdog in the agency's lawsuit against the social media giant....

Don’t force release of disaggregated configurations, incumbents tell CRTC

telecom | 10/26/2020 6:22 pm EDT

Incumbent telecoms are asking the CRTC to deny a request from the Competitive Network Operators of Canada to require the large telecoms to release more detailed information about the structures of...

Rogers Q3 buoyed by wireless adds, sports advertising

Media | 10/22/2020 5:50 pm EDT

Rogers Communications Inc. showed a rebound in its third-quarter earnings report Thursday, with media and...

Cogeco acquiring Quebec telecom for $405M

telecom | 10/21/2020 6:07 pm EDT

Cogeco Inc. is buying Quebec cableco DERYtelecom for $405 million, the company announced Wednesday.  The acquisition will see Cogeco add around 100,000 customers in various regions of the province, including Estrie,...

Proposed Quebec privacy law overhaul ‘concerning’: Bell lawyer

Media | 10/20/2020 6:17 pm EDT

Speaking Tuesday morning at an online event, Bell assistant general counsel...

Randy Lennox to leave Bell Media, Wade Oosterman to take over

telecom | 10/19/2020 6:06 pm EDT

President of BCE Inc.'s Bell Media Randy Lennox will step down on Jan. 4,...

Increased offer for Cogeco rejected by Audet family

Media | 10/19/2020 5:00 pm EDT

Rogers Communications Inc. and Altice USA Inc. upped their offer in a joint takeover bid of Cogeco Inc. from $10.3 billion to $11 billion over weekend, a bid that was rejected by the controlling shareholder of the company, the...

CNOC wants more info on incumbent disaggregated configurations

telecom | 10/16/2020 5:07 pm EDT

The Competitive Network Operators of Canada industry group has told the CRTC that it needs more information about how incumbents have structured their disaggregated network architecture in order to...

Private sector interest in Infrastructure Bank broadband funds ‘limited,’ PCO told

telecom | 10/16/2020 2:39 pm EDT

The federal government was told telecom companies...

Tests show public alerts system differs markedly across devices

telecom | 10/15/2020 5:07 pm EDT

Testing of the National Public Alerting System (NPAS) across mobile devices produced by five major manufacturers showed devices play alerts at variable volumes, while putting a phone in "do not disturb" mode did not always prevent an audible alert from sounding, the CRTC said in a report released Thursday. The testing of ten devices, planned by the CRTC and the Communications Research Centre and conducted at the Certification and Engineering Bureau (CEB) in late January, also demonstrated that one mobile phone -- Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd’s A70 -- did not receive alerts at all during...

Liberals’ wireless price drop unlikely to achieve promised savings: gov’t docs

telecom | 10/15/2020 2:50 pm EDT

The Liberals' election commitment to drop wireless prices 25 per cent will...

OPC launches investigations into cyber attacks on GCKey and CRA

telecom | 10/14/2020 5:11 pm EDT

The federal privacy watchdog has launched a pair of investigations into a series of cyberattacks on the Canada Revenue Agency and the GCKey credential used by federal agencies. In a Tuesday...

CRTC hears differing pitches to fix lagging disaggregated regime

telecom | 10/13/2020 6:04 pm EDT

In order to make its disaggregated wholesale regime work, the CRTC should...

CRTC gives Bell AI call blocking trial interim extension

telecom | 10/09/2020 3:25 pm EDT

The CRTC is allowing the trial of BCE Inc.’s artificial intelligence-based spam and fraudulent call blocking system to continue until it decides on a request by Bell to make the project permanent....

Commish ‘frustrated for Canadian citizens’ as privacy laws lag

telecom | 10/08/2020 5:53 pm EDT

The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened privacy concerns around activities like videoconferencing, ehealth and elearning that have become more prevalent in our lives, the Office...

Encourage 5G network investment to fight climate change: CWTA

telecom | 10/07/2020 5:48 pm EDT

Telecom industry group Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) released a report Wednesday outlining how deployment of 5G will help Canada meet its climate goals, linking the issue...

Rogers, Shaw want CRTC to force B.C. to pay for infrastructure relocation

telecom | 10/06/2020 12:02 pm EDT

Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. have asked the CRTC...

Broadcasters sign up to BIPOC hiring directory

telecom | 10/05/2020 6:41 pm EDT

Canada’s largest broadcasters have committed to making the use of a Black, Indigenous, and people of colour (BIPOC) hiring database a prerequisite to giving original productions the green light.  The broadcasters are...

CCSA backs Videotron’s Competition Bureau complaint over Bell structures

telecom | 10/02/2020 4:38 pm EDT

The Canadian Communication Systems Alliance has endorsed a complaint from Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron to the Competition Bureau over delays to accessing BCE Inc. infrastructure in Quebec, writing in a...

Rogers still too vague about its use of ITMPs: TekSavvy

telecom | 10/02/2020 4:02 pm EDT

In an ongoing dispute between Rogers Communications Inc. and some of its third party internet access (TPIA) wholesale customers over COVID-19-related internet traffic management practices (ITMPs),...

Bell asks CRTC to make AI scam call blocking permanent

telecom | 10/02/2020 2:40 pm EDT

BCE Inc. has officially asked the CRTC to make its artificial intelligence-based call blocking system permanent, weeks after asking for an interim extension of the originally temporary scheme....

Infrastructure Bank earmarks additional $1B for rural broadband

telecom | 10/01/2020 7:46 pm EDT

The Liberal government is doubling the Canada Infrastructure Bank’s...

Google $1B news initiative won’t stop new legislation, gov’t says

Media | 10/01/2020 7:34 pm EDT

An announcement Thursday from Alphabet Inc.'s Google that it would put...

Quebecor turns to Competition Bureau, court over Bell structure access

telecom | 09/30/2020 5:38 pm EDT

An ongoing dispute between BCE Inc. and Quebecor Inc. has escalated as the latter has turned to the Competition Bureau and the courts to investigate what Quebecor said in a...

Secret shoppers with disabilities less satisfied with telecom options

telecom | 09/29/2020 6:23 pm EDT

One in five potential customers for telecommunications services "perceived...

Cablevision offer to increase wholesale capacity not good enough: Videotron

telecom | 09/29/2020 5:16 pm EDT

Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron told the CRTC that a proposal by BCE Inc. subsidiary Cablevision du Nord in response to Videotron’s request to increase the wholesale capacity it buys from Cablevision is...

CRTC won’t enforce lower wholesale rates until review-and-vary is finished

telecom | 09/28/2020 4:16 pm EDT

The CRTC said Monday it has approved a stay request from incumbent telecoms asking the regulator not to enforce the wholesale rates it lowered in August 2019. That means the lower rates won’t be...

Bell says TPIA delays are Videotron’s fault

telecom | 09/24/2020 5:34 pm EDT

In response to a complaint to the CRTC from Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron that BCE Inc. was unduly delaying Videotron's arrival in the Abitibi region, Bell subsidiary Cablevision du Nord says the delay is Videotron's fault.  In a...

CRA says court should reject Iristel’s second ask for tax returns

telecom | 09/24/2020 4:55 pm EDT

The Canada Revenue Agency has argued that Iristel Inc.'s second request for the Federal Court to make the CRA release tax returns Iristel says it is owed should be struck, either because the request has effectively already been denied by the courts, or constitutes an "abuse of process," according to a motion to strike from the country's tax authority filed Monday.  The case, which concerns some $63.2 million Iristel says it is owed and that its survival hinges on, stems from a 2019 CRA audit...

VMedia, Bell resolve IPTV carriage fight

telecom | 09/24/2020 3:52 pm EDT

VMedia Inc. co-founder George Burger says his company has been able to launch apps for its new IPTV service on several new devices after a dispute with BCE Inc. was resolved. VMedia last month lodged a Part 1 application...

Videotron launches physical distancing wristband

telecom | 09/24/2020 2:34 pm EDT

Quebecor Inc. has launched a wristband that lights up and vibrates when individuals come too close to...

Telus wants Iristel to file new rates in traffic stimulation case

telecom | 09/23/2020 6:09 pm EDT

Telus Corp. has told the CRTC that it doesn't think Iristel Inc. deserves a stay on implementing new tariff rates while the CRTC assesses Iristel's argument that the regulator wrongly determined it...

Throne speech reiterates rural broadband, web giant promises

Media | 09/23/2020 2:54 pm EDT

In Wednesday’s throne speech kicking off Parliament’s return, the...

Back to Parliament: your (pandemic) preview

Media | 09/22/2020 12:43 pm EDT

Given the precarious situation around the now-escalating COVID-19 pandemic, what will actually be...

Bell says it is free to withhold new services in dispute with CCSA

telecom | 09/21/2020 5:29 pm EDT

BCE Inc. is not unduly preferring its own TV service and is simply...

Iristel not satisfied by Rogers denial in caller ID spoofing request

telecom | 09/17/2020 3:19 pm EDT

Iristel Inc. is sticking to its guns in its claim that the CRTC should look into the problem of caller ID manipulation, and in a reply to a response from Rogers Communications Inc. rejected Rogers’...

OPC stresses mandatory breach reporting with new guidelines

telecom | 09/16/2020 7:03 pm EDT

The federal privacy watchdog Tuesday published its guidance for private businesses to abide by mandatory reporting of data breaches in order to stay compliant under the federal privacy law, the...

War of words between Cogeco and Rogers heats up

telecom | 09/16/2020 6:53 pm EDT

In a Wednesday afternoon press release, the board of directors for Cogeco Inc. accused the CEOs of both Rogers Communications Inc. and Altice USA Inc. of making "untrue statements and unsubstantiated allegations" against them, and "misleading investors and increasing the...