Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that in developing the federal government's new voluntary app to trace exposure to the COVID-19 virus, it consulted the Office of...
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 set by the Support Structure Service Tariffs until a review of mobile wireless services is complete, Telus Corp. is arguing. In an intervention to Rogers and Quebecor’s Part 1 application, uploaded to the CRTC website on June 15, Telus said the applicability of those tariffs for wireless antenna deployments were being addressed in the review and it would be “premature to order carriers to...
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...
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 Indigenous-owned internet service provider says there needs to be a separate stream of funding for companies devoted to indigenous communities. Without it, Indigenous communities will get left behind, Western James Bay Telecom Network (WJBTN) Sally Braun told Canada’s Rural and Remote Broadband...
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...
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 reporting requirements for telecom companies under the Accessible Canada Act (ACA). Public interest and accessibility advocates had previously criticized the regulator for saying that it would not award costs for interventions under the act. Bell then suggested that the commission use money...
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...
A day after announcing it would partner with Nokia Corp. and Ericsson AB on...
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...
On Tuesday, BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. announced new partnerships with Ericsson AB and Nokia Corp. on 5G network rollouts, but what that means for their existing 4G network...
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...
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...
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...
The outdated state of Canadian privacy laws may harm efforts to launch a...
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. ...
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...
The performance of networks in other countries during the COVID-19 crisis...
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...
In order to make “progress” on the issue of access to encrypted communications, the federal government will have to reach out to the public and try to bring stakeholders...
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...
Telecom companies operating in Calgary will not have to abide by a...
Two small internet service providers who install their own fibre...
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...
Colin McKay, head of public policy and government relations for Canada for Alphabet Inc.’s Google, told the House industry committee that Google and Apple Inc. have designed their new application programming interface (API) for tracing exposure to COVID-19 to avoid...
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 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...
The Canadian Anti Fraud Centre has received almost 1000 complaints about fraud attempts related to...
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...
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 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...
Universal connectivity at the CRTC’s universal service objective speeds...
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...
An NDP plan for the federal government to add money raised from past and upcoming spectrum auctions to existing broadband funding could achieve universal connectivity well...
Quebecor Inc. is dialing back its capital expenditure projections for the upcoming year, owing to the...
The CRTC has rejected a Public Interest Advocacy Centre request that it look into the involvement of...
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...
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...
The federal government’s upcoming $1.7 billion Universal Broadband Fund won’t use the often-criticised hexagon mapping system, Rural Development Minister Maryam Monsef told the House industry committee.
“We’ve learned from Connect to Innovate, and we build on...
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,...
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...
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault Friday released more details on how a previously-announced...
Telus Corp.’s net income for the first quarter of 2020 dropped 19 per...
While BCE Inc.'s first quarter results showed a decline in profits and...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google will no longer participate in the Sidewalk Labs...
Under a rural broadband policy platform put out for public consultation by...
Health Canada has responded to an MPs’ query about what steps it is...
Opposition parties that normally hold differing views on any given issue are finding themselves agreeing on some telecom-adjacent files in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, with both the Conservatives and NDP calling for the government to support lower wholesale internet...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre is asking for all Canadian...
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...
As the federal government and individual companies work on accelerating...
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...
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 long-running dispute with Cloudwifi Inc. over use of its wiring. The CRTC said in its Thursday decision that Bell had plenty of time -- at least 10 weeks between the initiation of the tariff regime and when the COVID-19 induced lockdown began in March -- to prepare submissions for the tariff process. The...
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...
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...
The federal government will speed up its rural broadband funding in...
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 Inc.'s request that Federal Court throw out a report from the...
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...
Cogeco Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire telecommunications service provider iTéract Inc., the...
BCE Inc. will be delivering its fixed wireless internet to some 137,000 more homes than it had planned to...
The CRTC has responded to a letter from The Canadian Network Operators Consortium (CNOC) and TekSavvy Solutions Inc. taking issue with changes to incumbent installation and repair procedures, saying it won’t require the filing of additional information in response to the...
Rogers Communications Inc. recorded a five per cent drop in revenue in the...
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...
Alberta’s information and privacy commissioner will launch two separate...
The telecommunications sector will have an "irrelevant" first quarter and will "write off" the second...
Quebecor Inc. has urged the CRTC to deny a BCE Inc. request to indefinitely postpone its consultation on access to fibre in-building wire in multi-dwelling units, labelling...
The federal government is looking at what other jurisdictions are doing...
BCE Inc. announced Friday that it has acquired 1.5 million N95 and KN95...
A process to create a tariff for access to in-building wire in...
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...
After BCE Inc. asked it to grant an "urgent" approval to block the one-ring...
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...
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...
BCE Inc.’s delays and incomplete responses to multiple information access...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is joining a call made last week by Conservative Industry critic Michelle Rempel Garner that the CRTC intervene to lower its wholesale rates to the level determined in its August 2019 decision, on an emergency basis.
On Monday TekSavvy said in a...
Shaw Communications Inc. will temporarily lay off about ten per cent of its...
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...
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...
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...
While it’s too early to tell what impact COVID-19 will have on Shaw Communications Inc., the company believes its wireless division will do well with budget-conscious consumers going through a difficult economic time, financial analysts heard Thursday.
Paul McAleese,...
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...
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...
Conservative industry critic Michelle Rempel Garner has called on...
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...
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...
Amid the financial uncertainty and upheaval of the COVID-19 global...
Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains says the...
The CRTC said Wednesday that, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it is...
A decision to accept masks and respirators from Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. won’t affect decisions on whether the company can be involved in Canada’s 5G rollout or whether chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou is extradited to the U.S, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...
