Rogers, University of Calgary create Internet of Things partnership 

Media | 06/18/2020 5:04 pm EDT

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,...

Privacy commissioner hasn’t approved new gov’t contact tracing app

telecom | 06/18/2020 3:48 pm EDT

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that in developing the federal...

Telus calls for small cell attachment ruling to be postponed

telecom | 06/17/2020 5:45 pm EDT

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...

Bell to argue retroactivity of wholesale rate appeal is unconstitutional

telecom | 06/16/2020 5:17 pm EDT

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...

Gov’t to introduce web giant, CanCon, news legislation in fall: Guilbeault

Media | 06/16/2020 3:00 pm EDT

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...

CRTC considering changes to disaggregated wholesale regime

telecom | 06/11/2020 5:47 pm EDT

Five years after it announced a move to a new system for wholesale internet...

Bell partners with Western University for 5G research centre

telecom | 06/11/2020 5:08 pm EDT

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...

Indigenous communities will be left behind without funding overhaul: ISP

telecom | 06/11/2020 5:07 pm EDT

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 says Stonepeak sale will lead to accelerated broadband investment

telecom | 06/11/2020 2:37 pm EDT

Xplornet Communications Inc.’s sale to U.S. based Stonepeak...

TekSavvy argues Rogers unfairly applying ITMP

telecom | 06/10/2020 4:12 pm EDT

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has asked the CRTC to force Rogers Communications Inc. to stop applying an...

Community ownership key to connectivity: Winnipeg Municipality Region

telecom | 06/09/2020 5:57 pm EDT

Winnipeg Municipality Region executive director Colleen Sklar says the...

CRTC approves Bell’s AI call-blocking application

telecom | 06/09/2020 1:19 pm EDT

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...

Universal Broadband Fund applications to open in ‘coming days’: Monsef

telecom | 06/08/2020 7:18 pm EDT

The federal government will open applications for its $1.7 billion...

Monsef tight-lipped on rural broadband funding announcement

telecom | 06/05/2020 5:01 pm EDT

Rural Economic Development Minister Maryam Monsef says “precise timelines” for announcing steps to speed up rural broadband funding are still being worked out, five weeks after saying she would “soon” announce them in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

U.S. threatens to re-assess intelligence-sharing over Huawei

telecom | 06/05/2020 1:54 pm EDT

The United States State Department said that if Canada doesn’t ban...

ISED delays 3500 MHz auction by six months

telecom | 06/05/2020 1:45 pm EDT

The 3500 MHz spectrum auction, originally scheduled for December of this year, will now take place in...

CRTC approves use of Bell’s deferral funds in accessibility consultation

telecom | 06/04/2020 1:43 pm EDT

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...

Day stands down from Telus board after racism comments

telecom | 06/03/2020 6:14 pm EDT

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...

Competition Bureau, telecoms MVNO stance unchanged by COVID-19

telecom | 06/03/2020 6:00 pm EDT

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...

Telus silent on Scotiabank claim it hasn’t ruled out Huawei as 5G vendor

telecom | 06/03/2020 5:53 pm EDT

A day after announcing it would partner with Nokia Corp. and Ericsson AB on...

Wholesale rates stay ‘forces’ Distributel to apply temporary surcharge

telecom | 06/03/2020 3:18 pm EDT

Distributel Communications Ltd. will charge a “very small” number of customers a $5 temporary surcharge on each internet bill, due to a legal challenge against last year’s wholesale rates...

Questions remain about Huawei gear as Bell, Telus pick Ericsson, Nokia 

telecom | 06/02/2020 6:03 pm EDT

On Tuesday, BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. announced new partnerships with...

PIAC takes paper bills fight to cabinet

telecom | 06/02/2020 4:02 pm EDT

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre has asked the federal government to reverse a March CRTC decision allowing Telus Corp.'s Koodo Mobile flanker brand to stop issuing paper bills to those who request them.  In a petition to...

Bell selling 25 data centres for $1.04 billion

telecom | 06/01/2020 5:28 pm EDT

BCE Inc. is selling 25 data centres located at 13 sites to California-based Equinix Inc for $1.04 billion, the company announced Monday.  "Our strategic redeployment of capital further underscores Bell's commitment to champion...

CRTC consulting on wireless plans for people with disabilities

telecom | 06/01/2020 5:00 pm EDT

The CRTC  is asking for comments on how Canadian wireless providers are meeting the regulator’s requirement to provide service plans for Canadians with disabilities.  In a notice of...

Outdated privacy laws may hamper COVID-19 tracing: Therrien

telecom | 05/29/2020 7:00 pm EDT

The outdated state of Canadian privacy laws may harm efforts to launch a...

Rogers protests Bell’s toll-free trunk time extension

telecom | 05/29/2020 3:57 pm EDT

Rogers Communications Inc. is protesting the CRTC's decision to extend a deadline it had previously set for BCE Inc. to install trunk connections to carry toll-free traffic between their networks. ...

SaskTel to resume charging overage fees on June 9

telecom | 05/29/2020 2:13 pm EDT

Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. will become the second Canadian telecom to resume charging overage fees to home internet customers who go over their data caps, with the company announcing it will end the COVID-19 relief measure on June 8. SaskTel announced in a Friday press release that it had extended the suspension of overage fees --  scheduled to end on May 31 -- a further eight days, but customers would again be charged for exceeding their caps as of June 9.  SaskTel president and CEO Doug Burnett said in the release that the company understood the importance of...

Network performance supports light regulatory touch: Bibic

telecom | 05/27/2020 6:58 pm EDT

The performance of networks in other countries during the COVID-19 crisis...

Roam Mobility shutting down

telecom | 05/27/2020 5:25 pm EDT

Otono Networks Inc.’s Roam Mobility will cease operations on June 30, the company said Wednesday. Roam Mobility previously provided prepaid SIM cards for visitors to the United States and Canada. It shut down the Canadian service in January, though it continued to provide SIM cards and service...

‘Public outreach’ needed for ‘progress’ on encryption backdoors: gov’t doc

telecom | 05/26/2020 11:42 am EDT

In order to make “progress” on the issue of access to encrypted...

Wholesale rate appeal to go ahead in June via video conference

telecom | 05/25/2020 6:05 pm EDT

A Federal Court of Appeal judge has rejected the argument made by the incumbent telecom companies last week that their appeal of the CRTC's wholesale broadband rates decision is too complicated to be...

Telecoms not obligated to give rights-of-way to Calgary: Alberta court

telecom | 05/25/2020 5:46 pm EDT

Telecom companies operating in Calgary will not have to abide by a municipal bylaw granting the city rights-of-way, the Alberta Court of Appeal has decided.  In a...

IBW access is unnecessary if small ISPs can install their own: Bell

telecom | 05/25/2020 4:22 pm EDT

Two small internet service providers who install their own fibre...

Companies behind site-blocking order want interventions limited

telecom | 05/22/2020 5:05 pm EDT

In an ongoing appeal of Canada's first-ever site-blocking order, BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., and Quebecor Inc. are asking a judge to either throw out or limit the scope of submissions from a...

Google exec outlines privacy measures in new contact-tracing API

telecom | 05/22/2020 2:54 pm EDT

Colin McKay, head of public policy and government relations for Canada for...

Incumbents ask court for delay of wholesale rate appeal 

telecom | 05/21/2020 6:01 pm EDT

Incumbent cable companies have asked a Federal Court of Appeal judge to delay their appeal of the CRTC's wholesale rates decision until the proceeding can be conducted in person.  In a letter...

Rogers, Quebecor ask CRTC to intervene in small cell dispute with Bell

telecom | 05/21/2020 4:20 pm EDT

Rogers Communications Inc. and Quebecor Inc. have asked the CRTC to compel BCE Inc. to allow them to attach small cell technologies to Bell’s poles at rates set by the Support Structure Service...

Fraudsters cashing in on pandemic, committee told

telecom | 05/20/2020 8:05 pm EDT

The Canadian Anti Fraud Centre has received almost 1000 complaints about fraud attempts related to...

Telus to share aggregate location data with government researchers

telecom | 05/20/2020 6:09 pm EDT

Telus Corp. said it will begin providing de-identified, aggregate location data to the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to help combat COVID-19. It said in a...

Bell suggests using deferral account funds for accessibility consult costs

telecom | 05/19/2020 8:17 pm EDT

In an upcoming consultation on how the CRTC should require reporting by broadcasters and telecommunications providers under the Accessible Canada Act, BCE Inc. says the regulator could use money left...

Facebook to pay $9 million to Competition Bureau after investigation

telecom | 05/19/2020 4:19 pm EDT

Facebook Inc. must pay a $9 million penalty to the Competition Bureau after making "false or misleading claims" about the privacy of personal information on the main Facebook platform and its Messenger app, according to a Tuesday release from the Competition Bureau.  The social media giant will also pay $500,000 to the bureau for the cost of the investigation, which took place between 2012 and 2018.  The investigation found that despite telling users they could control who had access to...

2025 offered as connectivity target as pressure to fast track rises

telecom | 05/19/2020 2:01 pm EDT

Universal connectivity at the CRTC’s universal service objective speeds...

Wholesale debate moves to transport in CRTC rural broadband consult

telecom | 05/15/2020 2:33 pm EDT

The familiar argument over wholesale access has made its way to a CRTC consultation on how to remove barriers to rural broadband rollouts, with smaller providers arguing the regulator should mandate...

Spectrum funds could achieve broadband targets before 2030: telecoms

telecom | 05/14/2020 9:35 pm EDT

An NDP plan for the federal government to add money raised from past and...

Quebecor cuts back capex plans for 2020

Media | 05/14/2020 8:27 pm EDT

Quebecor Inc. is dialing back its capital expenditure projections for the upcoming year, owing to the...

CRTC rejects request to hold contact-tracing inquiry

telecom | 05/13/2020 4:09 pm EDT

The CRTC has rejected a Public Interest Advocacy Centre request that it look into the involvement of Canadian telecoms in developing applications to track the spread of COVID-19. In a letter to PIAC, sent Wednesday, the CRTC’s chief of consumer, research and...

Premier League and Dazn support site blocking order

telecom | 05/12/2020 7:48 pm EDT

A consortium of rights holders — including the top tier of English soccer, the Premier League, sports streaming service Dazn and industry trade groups for book publishers — wants the Federal Court of Appeal to uphold...

Complaints to CCTS decrease by 12 per cent

telecom | 05/12/2020 4:25 pm EDT

Consumers lodged 8,621 complaints with the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS) in the six months leading up to Jan. 31, a 12 per cent decrease on the previous year. The decrease, detailed in the...

No hexagons for UBF, Monsef confirms

telecom | 05/11/2020 9:28 pm EDT

The federal government’s upcoming $1.7 billion Universal Broadband Fund won’t use the...

COVID-19 accelerating rural/urban connectivity divide: CIRA

telecom | 05/08/2020 5:49 pm EDT

Rural home internet speeds during the first full month where Canadians shifted to working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic were almost 12 times slower than the median speed for urban Canadians,...

Canadians broadly supportive of COVID-19 tracing apps: survey

telecom | 05/08/2020 5:41 pm EDT

Some eight in 10 Canadians support the use of wireless data to track the spread of COVID-19, and 65 per cent of Canadians think it should be mandatory, according to a survey released by three federal...

Guilbeault details $500M relief for arts and culture

telecom | 05/08/2020 5:02 pm EDT

Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault Friday released more details on how a  previously-announced...

Telus withdraws guidance, records 19 per cent net income reduction

telecom | 05/07/2020 6:00 pm EDT

Telus Corp.’s net income for the first quarter of 2020 dropped 19 per...

Bell calls for delayed payments in 3.5 GHz spectrum auction

telecom | 05/07/2020 5:59 pm EDT

While BCE Inc.'s first quarter results showed a decline in profits and...

Google’s Sidewalk Labs pulls out of Toronto smart city project

telecom | 05/07/2020 3:43 pm EDT

Alphabet Inc.’s Google will no longer participate in the Sidewalk Labs smart city project in Toronto. Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff said in a blog post Thursday that “as unprecedented economic uncertainty has set in around the world and in the Toronto real estate...

Conservatives call for universal rural broadband by 2021

telecom | 05/06/2020 6:45 pm EDT

Under a rural broadband policy platform put out for public consultation by...

5G monitoring same as for all wireless tech: Health Canada

telecom | 05/06/2020 3:16 pm EDT

Health Canada has responded to an MPs’ query about what steps it is...

Conservatives and NDP united for enforcement of wholesale rates

telecom | 05/05/2020 5:27 pm EDT

Opposition parties that normally hold differing views on any given issue...

PIAC calls for providers to detail COVID-19 tracing involvement

telecom | 05/04/2020 6:14 pm EDT

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre is asking for all Canadian...

Shaw to lay off about 100 British Columbia field technicians

telecom | 05/01/2020 3:35 pm EDT

Shaw Communications Inc. plans to permanently lay off about 100 field technicians in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland, stating the COVID-19 pandemic had “only accelerated” the company’s two-year pivot towards a self-connect service model. A Shaw spokesman said in an email that the redundancies — affecting less than eight per cent of its technician workforce — were necessary as “very few of our unionized technicians accepted early retirement or volunteer packages that were offered.” The layoffs were first reported by the Globe and Mail Thursday. Technician-led service and...

Provinces also looking at speeding up rural broadband rollouts

telecom | 05/01/2020 1:10 pm EDT

As the federal government and individual companies work on accelerating...

Cogeco appoints Frédéric Perron as president of cable division

telecom | 04/30/2020 5:27 pm EDT

Cogeco Inc. has appointed T-Mobile Polska S.A. chief commercial officer, Frédéric Perron, as the new president of its cable division, Cogeco Connexion, the company announced on Thursday. In a press release Cogeco said Perron, who has more than 20 years managerial experience in both the telecommunication and banking...

CRTC denies Bell’s request to suspend in-building wire consultation

telecom | 04/30/2020 4:01 pm EDT

A request by BCE Inc. to freeze the process to create an access regime for in-building wire in multi-dwelling units (MDUs) has been denied by the CRTC, in the latest development of Bell’s...

Cogeco to bring back overage fees as of May 1

telecom | 04/30/2020 2:10 pm EDT

Cogeco  Inc. will again start charging overage fees to its home internet customers who exceed their data limits as of Friday, with the company instead focusing on other measures it considers to “be more essential” to its...

Retroactive payments for wholesale rates are not a tax: CNOC

telecom | 04/29/2020 5:45 pm EDT

In a Tuesday filing with the Federal Court of Appeal, the Canadian Network Operators Consortium (CNOC) said that the appeal of the CRTC's August wholesale rate decision by some six companies should be...

Federal government to accelerate rural broadband funds: Monsef

telecom | 04/29/2020 3:49 pm EDT

The federal government will speed up its rural broadband funding in...

Quebecor claims Bell’s Super Écran rates caused it undue disadvantage

telecom | 04/28/2020 5:59 pm EDT

Quebecor Inc. has lodged another complaint with the CRTC in its long-running fight against BCE Inc., alleging Bell placed it at an undue disadvantage by unreasonably increasing the rate for its Super...

Facebook targets procedural fairness at OPC in court filing

Media | 04/27/2020 5:16 pm EDT

Facebook Inc.'s request that Federal Court throw out a report from the...

Deadline for Broadband Fund applications extended again

telecom | 04/27/2020 4:53 pm EDT

The CRTC has again extended the deadline for telecommunication service providers to apply to the regulator’s $750 million Broadband Fund in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, pushing back the deadline to June 1. Last month, the deadline for applications was moved to April 30 as the CRTC suspended all deadlines between March 17 and April 10, but the regulator further revised the due date in a post to its website on Monday. It’s the second call for applications for the fund. The first, limited to the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut and all satellite-dependent communities in...

Cogeco acquires southern Quebec telecom

telecom | 04/23/2020 4:06 pm EDT

Cogeco  Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire telecommunications service provider iTéract Inc., the...

Bell speeding up rural broadband rollout

telecom | 04/23/2020 3:30 pm EDT

BCE Inc. will be delivering its fixed wireless internet to some 137,000 more homes than it had planned to...

‘Work together,’ CRTC tells wholesale-based ISPs, incumbents

telecom | 04/23/2020 1:21 pm EDT

The CRTC has responded to a letter from The Canadian Network Operators...

Rogers revenue drops 5%, withdraws guidance due to COVID-19

Media | 04/22/2020 3:44 pm EDT

Rogers Communications Inc. recorded a five per cent drop in revenue in the...

Ontario prisons waive phone fees for inmates

telecom | 04/21/2020 6:30 pm EDT

Ontario prisons are now allowing prisoners to call cell phones as well as landlines for free in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.  According to a letter Ontario attorney general Sylvia Jones sent Monday to signatories of an online petition demanding free phone calls, prisoners will now be allowed to make up to 50 local calls each month for free, or use up to 52 minutes of long-distance calls, to both landlines and cellphones. Inmates were previously only able to make collect calls to landlines, and were unable to make calls to cell phones at all. The letter states inmates will still...

Alberta privacy commish investigating Telus Health app

telecom | 04/21/2020 6:01 pm EDT

Alberta’s information and privacy commissioner will launch two separate...

2020 a ‘lost year’ for telecom growth: analyst

telecom | 04/20/2020 5:35 pm EDT

The telecommunications sector will have an "irrelevant" first quarter and will "write off" the second...

Quebecor hits out at Bell’s ‘unfounded’ IBW extension request

telecom | 04/20/2020 4:36 pm EDT

Quebecor Inc. has urged the CRTC to deny a BCE Inc. request to indefinitely...

Gov’t in ‘early stages’ of using cellphone data for COVID-19 tracking: Bains

telecom | 04/20/2020 3:40 pm EDT

The federal government is looking at what other jurisdictions are doing...

Bell donating 1.5 million masks to provinces, federal gov’t

Media | 04/17/2020 2:01 pm EDT

BCE Inc. announced Friday that it has acquired 1.5 million N95 and KN95...

Bell calls for new in-building wire tariff to be put on ice

telecom | 04/16/2020 5:47 pm EDT

A process to create a tariff for access to in-building wire in...

Wholesale appeal is on shaky legal footing, TekSavvy argues

telecom | 04/16/2020 5:39 pm EDT

The ongoing appeal by incumbent telecoms of the CRTC's wholesale internet rates decision from August should be dismissed because the appeal argues that the regulator made errors in fact, rather than...

CRTC approves Bell’s ‘urgent’ Wangiri-blocking request

telecom | 04/16/2020 5:17 pm EDT

After BCE Inc. asked it to grant an "urgent" approval to block the one-ring...

Consider cost applications on Accessibility Canada Act regulations, CRTC urged

Media | 04/16/2020 4:58 pm EDT

The CRTC is under criticism for saying it may not award costs to groups who participate in a public consultation on regulations under the Accessibility Canada Act, with stakeholder groups arguing such a move would “contradict” the objectives of the new accessibility legislation. The Public Interest Advocacy Centre and the Forum for Research and Policy in Communications both sent letters to the regulator asking it to immediately provide clarity around funding, arguing the uncertainty...

Pump the brakes on COVID data tracking, advocacy groups warn

telecom | 04/15/2020 5:35 pm EDT

Despite the extraordinary desire to stop the spread of COVID-19, there is still no justification for mass unwarranted surveillance of identifiable people, according to a joint statement of principles...

OPC reprimanded Bell over repeated delays in 2018: doc

telecom | 04/15/2020 2:30 pm EDT

BCE Inc.’s delays and incomplete responses to multiple information access...

TekSavvy also calls for lower, emergency wholesale rates

telecom | 04/14/2020 6:42 pm EDT

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is joining a call made last week by Conservative...

Shaw lays off ten per cent of workforce due to COVID-19

telecom | 04/14/2020 6:04 pm EDT

Shaw Communications Inc. will temporarily lay off about ten per cent of its...

38% of Canadians say COVID-19 slowed internet service: CIRA survey

telecom | 04/14/2020 5:15 pm EDT

Almost four in ten Canadians say their home internet speeds are slower than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a survey conducted for the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA). The Strategic Counsel online survey of 1,200 Canadians — conducted between April 3 and 7 — showed 38 per cent of respondents said their internet speeds are slower than they were pre-pandemic, while 55 per cent say the speed is the same as before. Just three per cent of respondents said...

CRTC seeks feedback on Accessible Canada Act reporting requirements

Media | 04/14/2020 3:08 pm EDT

The CRTC has put out a call for public comment about how new reporting requirements for broadcasters and telecommunications providers should look under the Accessible Canada Act.  The Act came...

Provinces collaborating on cellphone tracking: Tam

telecom | 04/14/2020 2:19 pm EDT

Canadian authorities are “pulling together a group amongst the provinces and territories to gauge interest” in using cellphone data to track the spread of COVID-19, Canada’s chief public health officer, Theresa Tam, said...

Freedom ‘less vulnerable’ to COVID than incumbents: McAleese

telecom | 04/09/2020 8:53 pm EDT

While it’s too early to tell what impact COVID-19 will have on Shaw...

Incumbents using COVID-19 to tamper with procedures, CNOC, TekSavvy claim

telecom | 04/09/2020 8:07 pm EDT

The Canadian Network Operators Consortium (CNOC) and TekSavvy Solutions Inc. are alleging that the incumbent telecoms from whom they purchase wholesale high-speed internet access are making changes to...

CRTC delays launch of new proceedings due to COVID-19 

Media | 04/09/2020 6:47 pm EDT

The CRTC has delayed the launch of new proceedings due to COVID-19, stating it’s aware the telecommunications industry’s primary focus is on delivering services to Canadians.  In a statement...

Rempel Garner calls on Bains, CRTC to enforce wholesale rates

telecom | 04/09/2020 5:15 pm EDT

Conservative industry critic Michelle Rempel Garner has called on...

COVID-19 delays next-gen 911 network roll-out

telecom | 04/09/2020 3:38 pm EDT

The CRTC has pushed back a series of deadlines around the implementation of next-generation 911 (NG911) services, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  In a letter published to the CRTC’s website on Thursday, the regulator said the...

ISPs using Bell’s in-building wire ordered to identify customers

telecom | 04/09/2020 3:12 pm EDT

All internet service providers who were accessing BCE Inc.’s in-building wire as of Dec. 16, 2019 must give Bell a list of all buildings in which they were accessing Bell's wires to provide service...

Cogeco pre-COVID Q2 revs steady, adjusts share buyback

telecom | 04/08/2020 6:57 pm EDT

Amid the financial uncertainty and upheaval of the COVID-19 global pandemic, Cogeco Inc. will adjust its share repurchasing program, the company's executives told analysts on a Wednesday morning second quarter earnings call.  While the company is making the adjustment to...