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. However, the regulator indicated that the issue could be raised at the CBC’s license renewal hearings, scheduled for January. The letter from a group of 25 ex-employees (including former anchor Peter Mansbridge, former CBC host and governor general Adrienne Clarkson, and former CBC president Robert Rabinovitch, among others) implored the CRTC to investigate the Tandem branded content...
The CRTC appears to be preparing for a new secret shopper project that will monitor the sales practices of telecommunications companies in Canada.
A tender notice posted...
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...
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 a press release. "Our agreement with Ericsson will provide Xplornet's robust national network with 5G equipment to revolutionize the rural broadband experience across our country,” president and CEO Allison Lenehan said in the release. Xplornet announced last year it would invest $500 million in rural broadband services over five years. Its choice of Ericsson for 5G comes as the federal government is still deciding whether to ban Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. equipment. In the meantime, companies have been opting for other suppliers, with BCE Inc. announcing deals with Ericsson and Nokia Corp., and Telus...
The Supreme Court appeal incumbent telecoms filed in November amounts to...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. have the support of...
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 OpenMedia told MPs the federal government needs to demonstrate more political will to bring lower internet and wireless prices to Canada, two days after Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains told the same...
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...
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...
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...
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 regional provider Maskicom issued the joint statement, which says that even after a number of “regulatory easements” that Bell recently announced, only 13 per cent of approximately 300 planned high speed internet projects will be able to go ahead. Bell announced new measures to simplify access to...
As Canadian emergency management authorities hold their regular test of the...
A corporate restructuring that will see Telesat Holdings Inc. go public and...
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...
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...
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...
The federal government has launched a consultation on a proposal to open up the 6 GHz spectrum band for...
On the heels of the incumbent appeal of a Federal Court of Appeal decision...
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...
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, chairman Ian Scott said Tuesday. Speaking in a keynote address at this year's online edition of the Canadian Telecom Summit, Scott said that the regulator had commissioned the U.K.-based research and consultancy firm Omdia to "take an in-depth look at online services in Canada and nine other countries, and to examine the effects of these services on television distribution." "Our goal here...
The federal government introduced sweeping private-sector privacy law...
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 Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has issued its...
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...
The $2 billion Canadian Infrastructure Bank rural broadband fund will seek to fund projects that fall in the gap between profitable connectivity projects the market could...
Both BCE Inc. and large cable companies have turned to the Supreme Court...
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...
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...
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...
A number of Canadian wireless providers have objected to a proposal that...
The federal government announced the launch of its long-awaited Universal Broadband Fund Monday morning,...
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...
BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic praised the updates to the Broadcasting Act...
Quebecor Inc. posted its third-quarter earnings on Thursday morning, with revenues slightly up, boosted by a strong performance in the wireless and home internet sectors.
The company’s total revenues hit $1.11 billion in the three-month period ending on Sept. 30, a...
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...
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault isn’t concerned about potential...
The Liberal government’s proposed updates to the Broadcasting Act have...
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. ...
The Liberal government’s long-awaited update to the Broadcasting Act confirms that the CRTC is able to regulate online services such as streaming platforms and leaves it to...
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...
The lack of pricing "discipline" in the wireless market could have negative...
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...
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...
Six months after the CRTC declined its request to hold an inquiry into contact tracing technologies and...
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...
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...
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 Inc. announced its fourth quarter earnings on Wednesday, increasing its revenues but reporting slightly reduced profits, a drop that CEO Philippe Jetté attributed to the ongoing pandemic which “significantly impacted” advertising revenue at Cogeco’s 23 radio...
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...
Facebook Inc. is asking a judge to throw out significant chunks of an...
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 Communications Inc. showed a rebound in its third-quarter earnings report Thursday, with media and...
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, Lanaudière, Montérégie and the Laurentians. National Bank analyst Adam Shine wrote Wednesday in a research note that while DERYtelecom is “one of the largest cable operators in the province, it's a distant third to Vidéotron and Cogeco.” Its footprint is also more rural, Canaccord Genuity analyst Aravinda Galappatthige noted, meaning it has a higher proportion...
Speaking Tuesday morning at an online event, Bell assistant general counsel...
President of BCE Inc.'s Bell Media Randy Lennox will step down on Jan. 4,...
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...
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...
The federal government was told telecom companies...
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...
The Liberals' election commitment to drop wireless prices 25 per cent will...
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...
In order to make its disaggregated wholesale regime work, the CRTC should reintroduce a level of aggregation to cut down on the amount wholesale-based providers would have to spend to connect, the Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) told the CRTC.
Under the...
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....
The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened privacy concerns around activities...
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 Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. have asked the CRTC...
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 partnering with the BIPOC TV & Film organization, which works to increase the representation of BIPOC individuals in on-camera and production roles. The initiative, known at HireBIPOC, bills itself as "the definitive and ubiquitous industry-wide roster of Canadian BIPOC creatives and crew" in Canada, and functions as a database of potential hires. According to a...
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...
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),...
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....
The Liberal government is doubling the Canada Infrastructure Bank’s...
An announcement Thursday from Alphabet Inc.'s Google that it would put...
An ongoing dispute between BCE Inc. and Quebecor Inc. has escalated as the...
One in five potential customers for telecommunications services "perceived...
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...
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 put in effect until the regulator decides on a review-and-vary application filed by the large telecoms that sell wholesale access to smaller internet service providers. The CRTC could also decide to change the rates as part of that review proceeding. In its decision approving the stay, the CRTC...
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...
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...
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...
Quebecor Inc. has launched a wristband that lights up and vibrates when individuals come too close to...
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 was stimulating traffic to the 867 area code. In an intervention submitted to the CRTC on Sept. 21, Telus argued that Iristel's request for a stay shouldn’t be granted because the rates are only interim, meaning that any harm done by the rates can be undone. "Through this process,...
In Wednesday’s throne speech kicking off Parliament’s return, the...
Given the precarious situation around the now-escalating COVID-19 pandemic, what will actually be...
BCE Inc. is not unduly preferring its own TV service and is simply...
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’...
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...
In a Wednesday afternoon press release, the board of directors for Cogeco Inc. accused the CEOs of both...
As Cogeco Inc.’s CFO speculated Tuesday that a bid for his company’s...
The CRTC has extended its deadline for telecom providers to implement an anti-call-spoofing protocol known as STIR/SHAKEN by nine months, until June 30, 2021. Telecoms had initially been required to launch the protocol by the...
In an increasingly bitter dispute with the nation's tax collector, Iristel Inc. has accused a Canada Revenue Agency employee of lying under oath in a court case related to an audit of the company, and has asked the Attorney General's office to investigate.
In an Aug. 28...
