Canadian satellite operator Telesat Holdings Inc. has spruiked its proposal to fast track the auction of 200 MHz of spectrum in the 3800 MHz spectrum band, stating in a Tuesday release that it’s the “only actionable path to rapidly deploy true 5G service in Canada and to...
Rogers Communications Inc. Tuesday announced a flurry of expansions to its 5G network, extending coverage to new cities and towns in British Columbia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Quebec. In January, Rogers announced it was beginning its 5G rollout in Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal, while today's announcement extends the faster wireless speeds to another 50 towns and cities. “Strong digital infrastructure and investments in 5G are critical to fuel productivity and innovation across this country now, as we power out of COVID-19, and in the future as we reset the competitive landscape for Canada, globally,” Rogers CEO Joe Natale said in a release. Rogers is currently deploying 5G services on the 600 MHz and 2.5 GHz spectrum, having spent some $1.7 billion on the former band at an auction in 2019. Experts told The...
The use of algorithms and surveillance technologies by police forces in...
Iristel Inc.'s ongoing fight with the Canada Revenue Agency has become yet more complicated, as the company filed a new application for judicial review Friday, alleging that the CRA improperly...
In a letter to shadow ministers, Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien assures opposition MPs that the...
Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada announced the launch of its consultation process on the 3800 MHz spectrum auction. The band is widely seen as being one of the bands crucial for 5G deployment. The launch...
The CRTC has suspended all deadlines relating to its consultation on wireless plans for people with disabilities until further notice while it considers a request for a virtual public hearing to be held. In a Wednesday ruling, the regulator said the suspension was necessary to consider the request from the Deaf Wireless Canada Consultative Committee (DWCC), the Canadian Association of the Deaf and the Canadian National Society of the Deaf-Blind, Inc., particularly in light of the COVID-19....
BCE Inc.'s submission to the Federal Court of Appeal -- in which it argued the federal Cabinet's decision that the wholesale internet rates set by the CRTC were low enough to stifle network investment...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has asked the Federal Court of Appeal to ignore the language of a recent cabinet decision declaring that the CRTC's wholesale rates were too low to encourage network...
The federal privacy watchdog published its guidance for manufacturers of so-called Internet of Things devices, in an effort to ensure their compliance with the federal privacy law, the Personal Information Protection and...
BCE Inc. and a coalition of cable companies have submitted letters to the...
As its work was being put on hiatus due to prorogation of the House of Commons, the industry committee sent a letter to Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains saying the federal government must act to...
The Canadian Communication Systems Alliance has filed a formal complaint with the CRTC, alleging that BCE Inc. has conferred an undue preference to its own TV service offerings and "other distribution...
With Tuesday's prorogation of Parliament, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has...
Lawyers representing BCE Inc. have asked a Federal Court of Appeal judge to...
The Liberal government has sided with Canada’s largest telecoms in their appeal of an August 2019 CRTC decision lowering wholesale rates, saying those rates may harm network investment, though it did not overturn the decision or send it back to the CRTC for...
The Ontario government has launched a public consultation in a bid to improve the province’s privacy protection laws. The consultation will involve an online survey, written submissions and web conference, the Ministry of...
The CRTC has proposed enforcing a financial penalty of between $750,000 and...
VMedia Inc. has filed a complaint with the CRTC alleging that it is being unduly disadvantaged by BCE Inc.'s delay in approving the distribution of Bell programming over VMedia's streaming apps. ...
The CRTC largely played a hands-off role during the COVID-19 pandemic in a...
As the CRTC announced the first recipients of its $750-million rural broadband fund Wednesday, chairman Ian Scott said in an interview that while the COVID-19 pandemic...
Iristel Inc.'s application for judicial review of the conduct of the Canadian Revenue Authority (CRA) during an audit of the telecom company's finances is an "attack" on the outcome of a tax assessment and circumvents the "comprehensive system of objections and appeals" that already exist within the...
An updated version of a class action lawsuit against BCE Inc. and the...
Innovation, Science, and Economic Development says it is moving toward establishing a hybrid work-from-home model that will see increasing numbers of employees return to office work in a series of...
The Competition Bureau has reached a consent agreement with electronics distribution and services company WESCO International Inc., which will see the company divest its utility and datacom businesses...
A Federal Court of Appeal judge has ruled that Quebecor Inc. must turn over documents to the Competition Bureau, which the bureau argues it needs access to to determine if Videotron has violated...
The CRTC has sent a letter to BCE Inc. informing the company that its...
BCE Inc. has asked the CRTC to strike a Competition Bureau report...
A network outage left wireless, internet and TV customers in Ontario and Quebec without service for about 45 minutes on Thursday. Consumers, mostly with BCE Inc., began reporting the outage on social media soon after 12 p.m. A...
Quebecor Inc. posted second quarter returns Thursday that beat analyst expectations, primarily on the back of strong wireless and home internet additions, despite the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic across the sector.
In wireless metrics, June was the best month for the company in four years, according to Videotron CEO Jean-François Pruneau. "We were clearly the first operator out of the gate, thereby allowing us to bring back most of our employees that were...
BCE Inc.’s second quarter profit dropped to $294 million, a 64 per cent decrease on a year before, with...
Canadians are complaining less about their wireless service and fewer consumers are receiving unexpected charges in their monthly wireless bill, according to wireless code...
Iristel Inc. has asked the CRTC to issue an order explicitly prohibiting...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development on Tuesday announced that it would be funding two separate projects in rural Quebec under its $585 million Connect to Innovate program. In a release, ISED said it was giving just...
In a much-watched appeal of Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order, three separate opponents of the order have filed two interventions asking the Federal Court of Appeal to strike down the order. In the first of the two interventions, the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic at the University of Ottawa (CIPPIC) and the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) jointly argue that the orders disrupt a balance between rights-holders and the free dissemination of information grounded in the Copyright Act, and that the order supersedes...
Telus Corp. posted a 39.4 per cent drop in profit in the second quarter of the year, the first quarter to...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner has cleared up uncertainty about...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s new wireless brand is likely to initially...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s first Shaw-branded wireless service has...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada allowed companies to...
Following on the Liberal election campaign promise to lower wireless prices by 25 per cent, the federal government released on Tuesday the first of its quarterly check-ins on wireless prices across the country. The data --...
Telus Corp. has gained CRTC approval to launch a national on-demand service, granting it a licence for the next two years. In a Tuesday decision, the regulator granted Telus its second broadcast licence for an on-demand...
At a discussion about Ottawa’s now-delayed Universal Broadband Fund with...
Federal Court has said that both the CBC/Radio-Canada and the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic at the University of Ottawa (CIPPIC) can intervene in a case that could help determine whether a Canadian “right to be forgotten” exists....
Quebecor Inc. has promoted Peggy Tabet, previously vice-president of broadcasting regulatory affairs, to the job of vice-president of regulatory and public affairs. In the new position, Tabet will oversee regulatory matters for...
Small telecommunications providers, the Canadian Communications Systems...
BCE Inc. announced today that it is increasing the speed of its fixed wireless home internet service for some 300,000 rural homes, and will expand the service into parts of Atlantic Canada. Fixed...
The federal government has responded to a petition calling for Canada to restrict the installation of cellphone towers and antennas around schools and playgrounds, saying such measures are...
Rogers Communications Inc. posted a 17 per cent fall in revenue and a 53 per cent drop in profits in the second quarter, numbers that reflected the impact of the COVID-19 lockdowns that began in mid-March.
The drop in revenue was driven primarily by a 13 per cent...
An open letter to online video teleconferencing (VTC) platforms signed by...
All three Maritime provinces experienced 911 outages on Wednesday morning, with an as-yet-unknown technical issue disrupting the emergency phone line. The RCMP in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island all...
Ontario-based home phone and internet provider Fibernetics Corp. is calling on the CRTC to compel BCE Inc. to allow it to lease facilities so it can expand its landline phone service to eight new areas. In a Part 1 application...
The Competition Bureau is asking Federal Court to compel Quebecor Inc.'s...
In its first quarterly report to include the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cogeco Inc.’s radio revenues fell by one-third, though its overall revenue beat analyst expectations. In the results...
A wireless industry-commissioned report is arguing mandating network access by mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) could bring Canadian wireless average revenue per user down 30 to 35 per cent by...
The CRTC has denied BCE Inc.’s application for a decision requiring it to install trunk connections to carry toll-free traffic between its network and that of Rogers Communications Inc. to be rescinded. In its review and vary...
In its long-awaited privacy review of ABTraceTogether, Alberta's COVID-19...
The U.K. government has ordered all Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. equipment be removed from the country’s 5G networks by 2027, after initially allowing the Chinese technology giant a limited role in the next generation of networks. U.K. mobile providers are also banned from purchasing new Huawei equipment from Dec. 31, but are not required to remove Huawei equipment from their 2G, 3G or 4G networks. British Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden told the House of Commons of the decision on Tuesday, stating it would delay the country’s 5G rollout by a year, adding that the cumulative cost...
An Ontario-based ethnic broadcaster lobbying the government for funding to...
Shaw Communications Inc. president Paul McAleese said that while there has...
In a tax case worth tens of millions that Iristel Inc. said its survival hinged on, the Federal Court of Appeal has agreed with the company that the Federal Court has jurisdiction to review the...
The CRTC has denied a CloudWifi Inc. request for an interim scheme to allow small internet service...
BCE Inc. has asked Federal Court to order a small Ontario telecom to stop using the name “WiFIBE” for its wireless fibre internet service. Bell argued in a claim filed Monday that SkyChoice Communications Inc.'s WiFIBE wireless sounds close enough to BCE Inc.'s Fibe IPTV service that it directs customers away from the latter toward the former. It’s asking the court for an injunction against the Oakville, Ont.-based SkyChoice, which offers home phone, television, and wireless fibre...
Just over four months after the Office of the Privacy Commissioner...
Telecoms and broadcasters have overwhelmingly urged the CRTC not to intervene in billing practices, arguing billing formats act as “competitive differentiators,” while the majority of public submissions call for the CRTC to...
A reported bid by Ottawa-headquartered satellite service provider Telesat Holdings Inc. to acquire competitor OneWeb has been unsuccessful, with a consortium including the U.K. government and Indian...
Telus Corp. has hired Jacob Glick to be its vice-president of public policy. Glick was most recently the general counsel for North, a wearable technology eyewear company based in Kitchener-Waterloo. That company was acquired by...
Major Canadian telecoms have ended one of their major relief measures for Canadians who suddenly shifted...
COVID-19 has made privacy rights even more important, the federal privacy commissioner’s office told Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault in May. A presentation prepared by the Office of the...
In order to continue paying dividends to the company's shareholders —...
The federal Office of the Privacy Commissioner, as well as the provincial commissioners in Quebec, British Columbia and Alberta, are looking into the collection of geo-location data by a coffee chain app. They said in a press...
Experts are unanimous in saying Canada’s 5G networks will eventually deliver on their promise, transforming the way we use the internet and leading to an uptake in exciting...
BCE Inc.'s argument that retroactive payments mandated by the CRTC in its August wholesale rate decision are an unconstitutional tax is a "disguised attack" on the "entire rate setting regime" laid...
The CRTC's wholesale rates ruling from last August ignored the intentions of a 2006 Maxime Bernier-era policy directive, and the decision to slash wholesale rates for third-party internet service...
New Brunswick lawyer Ellen Desmond and former journalist Nirmala Naidoo are joining the CRTC for five-year commissioner terms, the federal government announced Thursday. Desmond, who will serve as the regional member for...
In a closely-watched appeal of Canada's first-ever site-blocking court...
Contact tracing apps aimed at assisting public health authorities in tracking the spread of COVID-19 shouldn't be launched before privacy commissioners across the country have...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has again refused to put a timeframe on when...
The CRTC is asking Telus Corp. to publicly release a resolution from the...
Quebecor Inc. has filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC over access to BCE Inc. support structures. The June 16 French-language application, which is not yet available on the CRTC website, says...
Both Telus Corp. and BCE Inc. still won’t rule out partnering with Huawei...
Rogers Communications Inc. has signed a five year agreement with the University of Calgary to further Internet of Things research, the company announced in a Thursday media release. Steven Liang,...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that in developing the federal...
The CRTC should not rule on a Quebecor Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. application for the regulator to compel BCE Inc. to allow small cell technologies to be attached to Bell’s poles at rates...
BCE Inc. has signalled its intention to argue in the upcoming Federal Court of Appeal hearing on the CRTC's Wholesale internet rates that the CRTC's decision to apply the rates retroactively...
Legislation modernizing Canada’s Broadcasting Act is “pretty much ready” and will be tabled in Parliament in the fall, when the Liberal government also intends to...
Five years after it announced a move to a new system for wholesale internet...
Western University’s London campus will be transformed into a “living lab” as part of a partnership with BCE Inc. to test applications for the 5G network. Bell will spend $2.7 million on the...
As the question of how to connect rural communities across Canada to increasingly essential high-speed broadband internet continues to occupy the minds of policy makers and telecom companies, one...
Xplornet Communications Inc.’s sale to U.S. based Stonepeak...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has asked the CRTC to force Rogers Communications Inc. to stop applying an internet traffic management practice (ITMP) the reseller says disproportionately affects TekSavvy's users, and contravenes regulatory requirements.
An ITMP is used to...
Winnipeg Municipality Region executive director Colleen Sklar says the...
The CRTC has told BCE Inc. it can go ahead and trial using artificial intelligence for call blocking fraudulent calls on its networks. It said the Tuesday decision would “will help ensure that the potential benefits of the...
The federal government will open applications for its $1.7 billion...
Rural Economic Development Minister Maryam Monsef says “precise...
The United States State Department said that if Canada doesn’t ban...
The 3500 MHz spectrum auction, originally scheduled for December of this year, will now take place in...
The CRTC Thursday approved BCE Inc.'s request to use the $125,000 sitting in its deferral account to pay the costs of public interest and accessibility intervenors in an upcoming consultation on...
Telus Corp. announced Wednesday that it has accepted the resignation of former federal Conservative MP Stockwell Day from its board of directors, following his appearance on a CBC/Radio-Canada...
The Competition Bureau says its advocacy for a temporary hybrid mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) model has been unchanged by COVID-19, as telecoms and stakeholders say the global pandemic has only strengthened their positions.
Responding to a CRTC request for...
