CRTC adjourns consult on Iristel, Telus fines

telecom | 09/11/2020 4:54 pm EDT

The CRTC is putting on hold its proceeding on whether it should fine Iristel Inc. and Telus Corp. up to $1.25 million over a fight involving traffic stimulation. The regulator had proposed enforcing a financial penalty of...

Google not shielded by journalistic protections, OPC tells court

Media | 09/11/2020 1:57 pm EDT

Privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien has urged Federal Court to find the...

Federal Court dismisses incumbents’ wholesale rates appeal

telecom | 09/10/2020 10:55 am EDT

The Federal Court of Appeal dismissed Thursday the large telecom...

SkyChoice urges Federal Court to throw out Bell’s trademark injunction suit

telecom | 09/09/2020 3:36 pm EDT

A small Ontario telecommunications provider has told Federal Court it should be able to continue to market its wireless home internet service as “WiFibe,” urging it to deny a trademark injunction...

CRTC presses pause on measures to combat phone porting

telecom | 09/08/2020 6:10 pm EDT

The CRTC has asked telecoms to indefinitely refrain from starting or relaunching any measures to block unauthorized SIM swapping or porting, after Quebecor Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. reported issues with a process created by members of the Canadian Wireless Technology Association’s wireless number portability (WNP) council.  In a letter dated Aug. 24, the CRTC said Shaw and Quebecor’s Videotron had reported that the “enhanced process” to prevent illegitimate phone porting had led to between 40 and 50 per cent of attempted mobile number ports resulting in failure for some...

Canadian internet users almost universally getting ISP’s advertised speeds

telecom | 09/08/2020 5:11 pm EDT

In almost all cases, Canadian internet consumers are receiving service at...

Iristel fights traffic stimulation finding, proposed $1.25M fine

telecom | 09/08/2020 4:51 pm EDT

Iristel Inc. says the CRTC wrongly determined it was stimulating traffic to...

Conservatives name new innovation, heritage critics

Media | 09/08/2020 4:36 pm EDT

New Conservative leader Erin O’Toole shuffled his shadow cabinet Tuesday, with new faces appointed to...

Refusal to sell Cogeco is ‘definitive,’ Audet says

Media | 09/08/2020 1:34 pm EDT

Louis Audet, former CEO of Cogeco Inc. and current executive chairman of...

Bell argues site-blocking doesn’t need CRTC approval

Media | 09/04/2020 5:18 pm EDT

BCE Inc. has asked a Federal Court of Appeal judge to throw out an appeal of Canada's first ever site-blocking court order, saying that TekSavvy Solutions Inc.'s appeal of the order is grounded in...

CRTC seeks feedback on next-gen 911 deadlines

telecom | 09/04/2020 4:50 pm EDT

The CRTC is seeking public comment on a series of suggested deadlines around the rollout of next-generation 911 (NG911) services, and the decommissioning of existing 911 networks. In a notice of consultation posted Friday, the...

Rogers says it would keep Cogeco headquarters in Quebec

telecom | 09/04/2020 4:46 pm EDT

Rogers Communications Inc. says if its proposed acquisition of Cogeco Inc.’s Canadian division went through, it wouldn’t move the headquarters, management team or operations of Cogeco’s media...

Bell applies for indefinite extension of AI call blocking scheme

telecom | 09/04/2020 4:37 pm EDT

BCE Inc. has applied to the CRTC for an interim extension of its “very...

Videotron accuses Bell subsidiary of delaying access to infrastructure

telecom | 09/04/2020 2:24 pm EDT

Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron has filed another complaint with the CRTC over wholesale access in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Que., this time accusing BCE Inc. subsidiary Cablevision du Nord de Québec of “manoeuvring for months to unduly delay Videotron's arrival in Abitibi.” Videotron said in a press release that “Cablevision has done everything in its power to stall initial access to its infrastructure and slow the interconnection process.” In December, the CRTC told Cablevision that...

Rogers denies Iristel’s caller ID manipulation complaint

telecom | 09/03/2020 5:43 pm EDT

Iristel Inc.'s complaint to the CRTC that it thought Rogers Communications Inc. might have been involved in a scheme where some Canadian customers have had their caller ID tweaked to make it seem like...

Watchdog finds Telus ad on wireless prices misled consumers

telecom | 09/03/2020 4:04 pm EDT

Canada’s advertising standards body has found Telus Corp. made misleading...

Audet family declines Altice USA, Rogers offer to buy Cogeco

telecom | 09/02/2020 9:54 am EDT

The controlling shareholder of Cogeco Inc. — the Audet family — has...

Telesat pitches plan to fast-track sale of 3800 MHz spectrum

telecom | 09/01/2020 6:35 pm EDT

Canadian satellite operator Telesat Holdings Inc. has spruiked its proposal...

Rogers expands early 5G rollout

telecom | 09/01/2020 6:04 pm EDT

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...

Algorithmic policing a threat to freedoms: Citizen Lab report

telecom | 09/01/2020 5:35 pm EDT

The use of algorithms and surveillance technologies by police forces in...

CRA withholding wage subsidy from Iristel: court filing

telecom | 08/31/2020 5:06 pm EDT

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...

OPC happy with tracing app, but not with privacy law

telecom | 08/28/2020 5:00 pm EDT

In a letter to shadow ministers, Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien assures opposition MPs that the...

ISED launches 3800 MHz consultation

telecom | 08/27/2020 5:31 pm EDT

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...

CRTC suspends disability wireless service consultation after request for hearing

telecom | 08/26/2020 5:08 pm EDT

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...

CNOC argues Cabinet’s wholesale decision has no bearing on court appeal

telecom | 08/26/2020 4:35 pm EDT

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 argues court should ignore cabinet’s wholesale rates decision

telecom | 08/25/2020 5:18 pm EDT

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...

OPC publishes IoT device guidelines

telecom | 08/21/2020 5:17 pm EDT

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...

Bell tells court cabinet decision on wholesale ‘vindicates’ its concerns

telecom | 08/20/2020 5:52 pm EDT

BCE Inc. and a coalition of cable companies have submitted letters to the Federal Court of Appeal arguing that the Aug. 15 statement from Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains...

Gov’t should launch public awareness campaign about COVID-19 fraud: INDU

telecom | 08/20/2020 5:42 pm EDT

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...

CCSA alleges undue preference by Bell over TV channels

telecom | 08/19/2020 5:27 pm EDT

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...

Committee studies, reports on hold as Parliament prorogued

telecom | 08/18/2020 6:38 pm EDT

With Tuesday's prorogation of Parliament, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has...

Bell bringing cabinet’s wholesale appeal response to Federal Court

telecom | 08/17/2020 7:56 pm EDT

Lawyers representing BCE Inc. have asked a Federal Court of Appeal judge to...

Cabinet says CRTC wholesale rates too low, may harm investment

telecom | 08/15/2020 9:06 am EDT

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...

Ontario considers privacy overhaul

telecom | 08/14/2020 3:39 pm EDT

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...

CRTC proposes fines for Iristel, Telus over ‘self-serving’ conduct

telecom | 08/14/2020 3:24 pm EDT

The CRTC has proposed enforcing a financial penalty of between $750,000 and...

VMedia alleges bad faith by Bell in delaying app approval

telecom | 08/13/2020 5:39 pm EDT

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. ...

CRTC stepped back to allow telecoms to handle COVID-19

telecom | 08/13/2020 3:37 pm EDT

The CRTC largely played a hands-off role during the COVID-19 pandemic in a...

Rural broadband ‘public policy priority’ for CRTC, Scott says

telecom | 08/12/2020 8:08 pm EDT

As the CRTC announced the first recipients of its $750-million rural...

Iristel’s case against CRA an ‘attack’ on tax assessment, AG’s office says

telecom | 08/12/2020 5:20 pm EDT

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...

Bell’s prison phone rates violated telecom act, lawsuit argues

telecom | 08/11/2020 6:10 pm EDT

An updated version of a class action lawsuit against BCE Inc. and the...

ISED says department has ‘done well’ with working from home

telecom | 08/10/2020 5:52 pm EDT

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...

Comp. Bureau signs consent agreement with WESCO over pole line hardware merger

telecom | 08/07/2020 12:48 pm EDT

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 in Canada in order to assuage the bureau’s concerns about its acquisition of Anixter International Inc. In a Thursday release, the bureau said the merger of Canada’s two largest distributors of pole line hardware and data communication, which concluded in June, would “likely have...

Quebecor must hand over documents to Competition Bureau: court

telecom | 08/07/2020 10:32 am EDT

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...

CRTC tells Bell it is still giving undue preference to RDS over TVA Sport

telecom | 08/07/2020 10:23 am EDT

The CRTC has sent a letter to BCE Inc. informing the company that its...

Bell calls for Competition Bureau report to be struck from wireless review

telecom | 08/06/2020 7:15 pm EDT

BCE Inc. has asked the CRTC to strike a Competition Bureau report...

Network outage impacts services in Ontario, Quebec

telecom | 08/06/2020 6:52 pm EDT

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 Q2 stable, with strong wireless adds 

telecom | 08/06/2020 6:40 pm EDT

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...

Bell’s Q2 profit plunges by 64 per cent

telecom | 08/06/2020 3:51 pm EDT

BCE Inc.’s second quarter profit dropped to $294 million, a 64 per cent decrease on a year before, with...

Canadians complaining about wireless less, experiencing fewer unexpected charges: research

telecom | 08/05/2020 3:31 pm EDT

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 calls for caller ID manipulation to be outlawed

telecom | 08/04/2020 6:20 pm EDT

Iristel Inc. has asked the CRTC to issue an order explicitly prohibiting...

Two new CTI projects announced in Quebec

telecom | 08/04/2020 5:25 pm EDT

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...

CIRA, CIPPIC, BCCLA intervene in site-blocking case

telecom | 08/04/2020 5:07 pm EDT

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...

Telus profits down nearly 40 per cent

telecom | 07/31/2020 4:03 pm EDT

Telus Corp. posted a 39.4 per cent drop in profit in the second quarter of the year, the first quarter to...

UPDATED: OPC now says it supports COVID-19 tracing app 

Media | 07/31/2020 8:52 am EDT

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner has cleared up uncertainty about...

Shaw Mobile’s early gains to come at expense of Rogers, Bell: analyst

telecom | 07/30/2020 2:45 pm EDT

Shaw Communications Inc.’s new wireless brand is likely to initially...

Shaw bundles internet and wireless in new mobile offering

telecom | 07/30/2020 6:00 am EDT

Shaw Communications Inc.’s first Shaw-branded wireless service has launched in Alberta and British Columbia, giving the company’s internet customers up to six lines of unlimited talk and text, as well as two data plan options. Those data options are By the Gig -- a...

Half of spectrum licencees opted to use ISED’s COVID flexibility

telecom | 07/29/2020 5:21 pm EDT

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada allowed companies to...

ISED says wireless prices goals still mostly unmet

telecom | 07/28/2020 6:00 pm EDT

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 gets green light to launch on-demand service

Media | 07/28/2020 3:54 pm EDT

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...

UBF should focus on both backbone, last mile, ISPs told ISED

telecom | 07/28/2020 2:22 pm EDT

At a discussion about Ottawa’s now-delayed Universal Broadband Fund with...

CIPPIC and CBC can intervene in de-indexing case, court rules

Media | 07/27/2020 5:16 pm EDT

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....

Peggy Tabet named VP of regulatory at Quebecor

Media | 07/24/2020 1:37 pm EDT

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...

Telecoms back Quebecor over Bell support structure access

telecom | 07/23/2020 5:42 pm EDT

Small telecommunications providers, the Canadian Communications Systems...

Bell upping internet speed for some rural customers to 50 Mbps

telecom | 07/23/2020 4:25 pm EDT

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...

No need for changes to cellphone, antenna safety standards, gov’t says

telecom | 07/23/2020 4:01 pm EDT

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 profits down 53% in ‘most volatile’ quarter

Media | 07/22/2020 6:04 pm EDT

Rogers Communications Inc. posted a 17 per cent fall in revenue and a 53...

OPC signs joint letter to video conferencing platforms about privacy concerns

telecom | 07/22/2020 4:33 pm EDT

An open letter to online video teleconferencing (VTC) platforms signed by...

Technical issue disrupts Maritime 911 services

telecom | 07/22/2020 2:38 pm EDT

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...

Force Bell to sign IXPL lease agreement, CRTC urged

telecom | 07/20/2020 5:36 pm EDT

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...

Competition Bureau investigating Videotron ‘astroturfing’

telecom | 07/17/2020 7:29 pm EDT

The Competition Bureau is asking Federal Court to compel Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron to produce information the bureau says it needs to investigate whether or not the company...

Cogeco radio feels COVID hit, but overall revenues increase

telecom | 07/16/2020 4:42 pm EDT

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...

MVNOs could drop wireless revenues by one-third: report

telecom | 07/15/2020 3:33 pm EDT

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...

CRTC denies Bell’s toll-free trunk R&V

telecom | 07/15/2020 3:01 pm EDT

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...

Alberta tracing app review could ‘inspire confidence’: privacy expert

telecom | 07/14/2020 6:20 pm EDT

In its long-awaited privacy review of ABTraceTogether, Alberta's COVID-19...

Huawei gear must be gone from U.K.’s 5G networks by 2027

telecom | 07/14/2020 4:20 pm EDT

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...

Broadcaster pushes for new multilingual channel as COVID lobbying continues

Media | 07/14/2020 3:33 pm EDT

An Ontario-based ethnic broadcaster lobbying the government for funding to...

Shaw’s subscriber additions dampened by COVID lockdowns

telecom | 07/10/2020 8:39 pm EDT

Shaw Communications Inc. president Paul McAleese said that while there has...

Federal Court will hear Iristel’s arguments against CRA in tax fight

telecom | 07/09/2020 6:08 pm EDT

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...

CRTC says no to interim fibre in-building wire access

telecom | 07/09/2020 5:01 pm EDT

The CRTC has denied a CloudWifi Inc. request for an interim scheme to allow small internet service...

Bell files for trademark injunction against SkyChoice’s WiFibe

telecom | 07/08/2020 5:54 pm EDT

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...

Clearview AI pulls its facial recognition tech following OPC investigation

telecom | 07/06/2020 5:27 pm EDT

Just over four months after the Office of the Privacy Commissioner...

Most telecoms say no need for paper billing rules

telecom | 07/06/2020 5:19 pm EDT

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...

U.K. government-led consortium scuppers Telesat’s reported bid for OneWeb

telecom | 07/03/2020 4:38 pm EDT

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 hires Jacob Glick as VP public policy

telecom | 07/02/2020 5:26 pm EDT

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 Alphabet Inc.'s Google, it announced on Tuesday.  Thursday Glick announced through a tweet that he's been hired by Telus, and said in the tweet he was "excited to join a Canadian company with global ambitions and deep commitment to our communities."  Before his position at the eyewear company, Glick was chief corporate affairs officer at Rogers Communications...

Telecoms end overage fees suspension

telecom | 07/02/2020 4:52 pm EDT

Major Canadian telecoms have ended one of their major relief measures for Canadians who suddenly shifted...

Pandemic has increased need for privacy rights, OPC told Guilbealt 

Media | 06/30/2020 5:08 pm EDT

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...

Telus releases its layoff-authorizing board resolution publicly

telecom | 06/29/2020 5:36 pm EDT

In order to continue paying dividends to the company's shareholders —...

Privacy commissioners investigating Tim Hortons app

telecom | 06/29/2020 5:26 pm EDT

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 say 5G will eventually deliver, but a speed boost for now

telecom | 06/29/2020 2:53 pm EDT

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...

Bell was previously in favour of retroactive payments, TekSavvy argues

telecom | 06/26/2020 8:34 pm EDT

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...

Court has jurisdiction to overturn wholesale rates, big telecoms argue

telecom | 06/25/2020 11:19 pm EDT

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...

Two new CRTC commissioners appointed

Media | 06/25/2020 6:14 pm EDT

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...

Rights holders, advocacy groups can intervene in site-blocking case

Media | 06/24/2020 9:25 pm EDT

In a closely-watched appeal of Canada's first-ever site-blocking court...

Assess privacy before launching contact tracing apps, advocacy groups say

telecom | 06/24/2020 5:09 pm EDT

Contact tracing apps aimed at assisting public health authorities in...

Canada yet to make Huawei decision despite Chinese ‘pressure’

telecom | 06/22/2020 6:30 pm EDT

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has again refused to put a timeframe on when...

Either disclose or withdraw MVNO layoff threat, CRTC tells Telus

telecom | 06/22/2020 6:10 pm EDT

The CRTC is asking Telus Corp. to publicly release a resolution from the...

Videotron accuses Bell of undue preference over access to support structures

telecom | 06/22/2020 5:09 pm EDT

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...

Even as Bell removes its gear, Bell, Telus say Huawei still in play for 5G

telecom | 06/19/2020 11:42 am EDT

Both Telus Corp. and BCE Inc. still won’t rule out partnering with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. for their 5G networks if the government grants permission to do so, despite...