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 organisation would have taken community ownership of rural broadband earlier if it had its time over...
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 June 2021, the federal government said Friday.
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada said in a press release Friday that the delay was to allow “the...
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...
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...
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 consultation launched Monday, the commission says it wants to hear how primary brands differ from flanker brands, whether the plans are "sufficient" to meet the needs of Canadians with disabilities, and whether new requirements are needed. Wireless providers are required to provide such plans as the result of a December 2016 decision. "These include people who are Deaf or hard of hearing, and primarily...
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 for those travelling to the U.S. “To call COVID-19's impact on travel “severe” would be an understatement. As a business built on enabling communication for travellers, Roam Mobility has, unsurprisingly, been significantly affected,” the company said in a statement....
In order to make “progress” on the issue of access to encrypted...
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...
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 COVID-19 since the beginning of March, the RCMP’s assistant commissioner of federal policing criminal operations Eric Slinn told a Parliamentary committee Wednesday....
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 and regulate access to transport networks. The CRTC currently only requires incumbents to make the access portion of the network — the “last mile” that connects homes and businesses to an ISP — available for wholesale. The rest of the network, which connects telco central offices or...
An NDP plan for the federal government to add money raised from past and...
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...
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 $500-million aid package to support the cultural sector will work.
The program, officially known as the COVID-19 Emergency Support Fund for Cultural, Heritage and Sport...
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 taking to monitor potential health effects of 5G networks, indicating it is treating 5G no differently than previous generations of wireless technology.
“It is Health Canada’s position that the...
Opposition parties that normally hold differing views on any given issue...
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...
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 response to COVID-19, with details to be announced shortly, according to Maryam Monsef, minister for women and gender equality and rural economic development.
Monsef told The Wire Report in an interview...
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 by this point in its 2020 rollout, according to a Thursday release.
The company said it was increasing the speed of the rollout because of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
The CRTC has responded to a letter from The Canadian Network Operators...
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...
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 multi-dwelling units should be put on hold until after the COVID-19 pandemic has ended, or until BCE Inc. has been given sufficient time to check every existing connection, Bell has argued in a Part 1 application...
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 requests drew the ire of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner in 2018, according to a document obtained through Access to Information.
The OPC settled the access complaint in February 2018,...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is joining a call made last week by Conservative...
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...
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 Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains and the CRTC to issue an emergency directive forcing the big telecom companies to abide by the terms of the regulator's August 2019 decision on wholesale rates.
Referencing...
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 postponing CBC/Radio-Canada’s licence renewal hearing to an undetermined later date.
The hearing...
A decision to accept masks and respirators from Huawei Technologies Co....
The federal government should guarantee internet service providers payments...
Canada’s publicly-traded wireless service providers added just under 1.29 million wireless subscribers...
Telus Corp.’s years-long investment in e-health and telemedicine has...
The CRTC is reviewing its internal processes after it published confidential documents from BCE Inc.’s Northwestel and Télébec on its website and left them there for more than seven months before...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) will be...
Quebecor Inc. and Cogeco Inc. have both announced staff layoffs due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Quebecor announced on Friday morning it would lay off 10 per cent of its workforce, which the company said amounted to about 1000...
Netflix Inc. has announced it will lower its bit rate in Canada by 25 per cent for the next 30 days, just days after three telecommunications associations publicly urged the streaming giant to lower rates to lessen network...
Teksavvy Solutions Inc. has laid off 130 staff and will implement a flat $5 bill increase for its residential internet customers as of May, saying a legal challenge against last year’s wholesale rate reduction, combined with the COVID-19 pandemic, left the company with no...
