Home Page Regulatory Telecom Broadcast Court People Archives About Us GET FREE NEWS UPDATES
Advertising Subscribe Reuse & Permissions
The Hill Times Parliament Now The Lobby Monitor HTCareers
Subscribe Login Free Trial

TAGGED AS TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Bains says he’s in ‘constant contact’ with telecoms over network capacity

telecom | 04/08/2020 4:24 pm EDT

Broadband price hikes ‘concerning’: Bains

Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains says the strength of Canada’s telecommunications networks has been on “full display” during the COVID-19 pandemic, as they have coped...

CRTC postpones CBC licence renewal, sets new deadlines in other proceedings

telecom | 04/08/2020 2:50 pm EDT

CBC, CRTC still viewed as keepers of Canadian identity: study

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...

Huawei’s COVID-19 donation won’t affect decisions: Trudeau

telecom | 04/07/2020 5:45 pm EDT

Huawei’s COVID-19 donation won’t affect decisions: Trudeau

A decision to accept masks and respirators from Huawei Technologies Co....

CNOC calls for gov’t funding to keep Canadians connected

telecom | 04/07/2020 5:40 pm EDT

CNOC calls for gov’t funding to keep Canadians connected

The federal government should guarantee internet service providers payments...

Canadian wireless sub adds down slightly from 2018

telecom | 04/07/2020 4:39 pm EDT

Canadian wireless sub adds down slightly from 2018

Canada’s publicly-traded wireless service providers added just under 1.29 million wireless subscribers...

Telus Health ‘scaling up’ as COVID-19 spreads

telecom | 03/30/2020 5:11 pm EDT

Telus Health 'scaling up' as COVID-19 spreads

Telus Corp.’s years-long investment in e-health and telemedicine has...

CRTC reviews processes after publishing confidential documents

telecom | 03/30/2020 2:55 pm EDT

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 realising its error. In a letter published to the regulator’s website on Monday, it said the confidential versions of Northwestel’s 2019 price cap model and Télébec’s 2018 price cap model were posted in error to the website on June 17, 2019. The CRTC said it became aware of the error on Jan. 28 and immediately removed them. In its letter, the CRTC asked anyone who downloaded the 2019...

ISED pushing Bell to show progress on CTI rollout: docs

telecom | 03/27/2020 4:35 pm EDT

ISED pushing Bell to show progress on CTI rollout: docs

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) will be...

Quebecor, Cogeco lay off staff due to COVID-19

telecom | 03/27/2020 4:26 pm EDT

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 lowers Canadian bit rate for next 30 days

telecom | 03/27/2020 12:44 pm EDT

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 lays off staff, increases internet bills

telecom | 03/26/2020 6:39 pm EDT

TekSavvy releases quarterly transparency report

Teksavvy Solutions Inc. has laid off 130 staff and will implement a flat $5 bill increase for its...

CRTC orders Bell to sign agreement with CloudWifi

telecom | 03/26/2020 5:22 pm EDT

The CRTC has ordered BCE Inc. to sign an agreement that would allow CloudWifi Inc. to progress its application to become a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC), finding Bell’s continued refusal to do so is “unnecessarily...

Bell asks CRTC for ‘urgent’ approval to block Wangiri calls

telecom | 03/26/2020 5:05 pm EDT

BCE Inc. has filed an application with the CRTC asking it for “urgent expedited and ex parte approval” to block so-called Wangiri — one-ring phone scam — calls, saying doing so would allow the...

Networks coping, but future traffic impossible to predict

Media | 03/25/2020 5:48 pm EDT

Networks coping, but future traffic impossible to predict

Experts say Canada’s telecommunications networks are currently handling a...

Rempel Garner calls for transparency on any cellphone tracking 

telecom | 03/25/2020 4:44 pm EDT

BTLR reaction mixed, no clarity on gov't implementation

Conservative industry critic Michelle Rempel Garner said Wednesday that if...

Shaw founder JR Shaw dies at 85

telecom | 03/25/2020 2:23 pm EDT

Shaw founder JR Shaw dies at 85

Shaw Communications Inc. founder JR Shaw has passed away at the age of 85, the company said Tuesday. Shaw founded Capital Cable Television Co. Ltd in 1966, which eventually as Shaw Communications grew into Canada’s largest TV service provider. The company also included a broadcasting division that was spun off into Corus Entertainment Inc., while Shaw entered the wireless market in 2016.  “I spoke to JR every day about the business. He was engaged and interested in everything the company was doing – from the...

CRTC approves Northwestel’s waiving of overage fees

telecom | 03/24/2020 2:44 pm EDT

The CRTC has given interim approval to BCE Inc.’s Northwestel application for urgent relief that will allow to it waive data overage charges for its cable and fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP)  internet...

Feds, 4 provinces not looking at COVID-19 phone tracking

telecom | 03/24/2020 12:39 pm EDT

Huawei’s COVID-19 donation won’t affect decisions: Trudeau

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday the federal government isn’t...

Broadband Fund deadline extended to April 30, others remain suspended

telecom | 03/20/2020 3:47 pm EDT

The CRTC has extended the deadline for telecommunication service providers to apply to the regulator’s $750 million Broadband Fund to April 30, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.  The initial...

Canada could track COVID-19 through cellphones: experts

telecom | 03/20/2020 3:25 pm EDT

As programmatic ads grow, GDPR could pose a problem: expert

As reports emerge of countries around the world using cellphone location...

CRTC wants more info on Cooptel’s call blocking

telecom | 03/19/2020 5:06 pm EDT

The CRTC is asking Cooptel to answer several questions about how its call blocking system will work, after the company asked if it could introduce a call filtering service in its October 2019 updated tariff application. The regulator wants to know whether or not the Valcourt, Quebec-based telecom provider will institute network-level call blocking as some of the larger telecoms like BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. have, or whether calls will be blocked only for customers that opt-in to a call filtering service.  The CRTC also wants to know precisely what kinds of calls will be blocked at the...

Northwestel ordered to redo temporary relief application

telecom | 03/19/2020 4:46 pm EDT

The CRTC has ordered BCE Inc.’s Northwestel to resubmit its “urgent” application for temporary relief in order to waive overage fees in response to the COVID-19 pandemic because the application...

Carriers to text consular information to Canadians abroad

telecom | 03/18/2020 5:30 pm EDT

Broadband price hikes ‘concerning’: Bains

Canada's wireless service providers will send out text messages to their...

Financial analysts say telecoms ‘resilient’ to impact of COVID-19

telecom | 03/18/2020 5:24 pm EDT

Canada’s telecommunications sector is a “constructive place to hide” for financial investors as markets continue to feel the impact of COVID-19, RBC Capital Markets analyst Drew McReynolds...

Federal prisons waiving inmate phone fees

telecom | 03/18/2020 9:42 am EDT

Wholesale payphone service no longer mandated: CRTC

The Correctional Service of Canada is temporarily making calls free of charge for prisoners in Canada's...

CRTC deadlines suspended due to COVID-19

Media | 03/17/2020 4:41 pm EDT

The CRTC has suspended all deadlines on proceedings open for public comment that were set to close before April 10, due to the impact of COVID-19. In a post to Twitter on Tuesday, the CRTC said the deadlines suspended included...

COVID-19 won’t have ‘very large impact’ on Cogeco: CFO

telecom | 03/17/2020 3:54 pm EDT

Cogeco reports higher revenues and profit in Q3

Cogeco Inc. chief financial officer Patrice Ouimet has told an investor...

Telecoms close stores, offer free channels in response to COVID-19

Media | 03/16/2020 5:56 pm EDT

Telecommunication providers are closing retail stores, offering complimentary TV channels and continuing to waive overage fees on home internet plans as they respond to COVID-19. Xplornet...

COVID-19 prompts multiple ISPs to suspend data caps

telecom | 03/13/2020 5:46 pm EDT

Home internet speeds nearly doubled year-over-year: CRTC

Multiple Canadian internet providers have suspended caps on data usage as they prepare for a huge...

Site-blocking further expanded in GoldTV case

Media | 03/13/2020 4:28 pm EDT

BCE Inc., Quebecor Inc.'s Groupe TVA, and Rogers Communications Inc. — the trio of companies behind Canada's first ever website-blocking order — have submitted a draft order adding new domains to the Federal Court.  In a draft order dated March 11, the three telecoms have identified six new domains and subdomains to be added to the blocking order, bringing the total number of blocked domains and subdomains in the order to 29. The blocking order was first issued in November, and targets a "pirate IPTV" service called GoldTV. The case has been somewhat controversial, as net neutrality...

STIR/SHAKEN may create a ‘two-tiered’ wireless system: ISCC

telecom | 03/12/2020 6:03 pm EDT

STIR/SHAKEN may create a 'two-tiered' wireless system: ISCC

OTTAWA — The CRTC's efforts to work with telecom companies to implement a...

Quebecor ‘not worried’ about COVID-19 impact on capacity

Media | 03/12/2020 5:09 pm EDT

Quebecor ‘not worried’ about COVID-19 impact on capacity

Quebecor Inc. says COVID-19 is not expected to have a “material financial...

Price commitment applies to wireless, but not road coverage: CRTC

telecom | 03/12/2020 3:08 pm EDT

The CRTC has clarified that the pricing commitment in its $750-million Broadband Fund will not apply to funds used only for new mobile wireless coverage along major roads. BCE Inc. had filed an...

CRTC approves Rogers’ prepaid balance limit

telecom | 03/11/2020 6:03 pm EDT

The CRTC has given Rogers Communications Inc. the green light to set a maximum prepaid account balance of $150, rejecting an argument from the Public Interest Advocacy Centre and National Pensioners Federation that doing so would...

Rogers to move to paperless billing

telecom | 03/11/2020 5:53 pm EDT

Just over a week after the CRTC declined to require Telus Corp.'s Koodo flanker brand to issue paper bills to those customers that want them, Rogers Communications Inc. has also said it will stop issuing paper bills, the company confirmed Wednesday afternoon. The company said it began informing customers of the move February 10.  On March 3, the regulator rejected a request from the Public Interest Advocacy Centre and the National Pensioners Federation to require Koodo to issue paper bills, but launched a consultation in response to a number of complaints about online bill paying, which...

Fraud, nuisance calls will ‘never go away’: CRTC chairman

Media | 03/10/2020 6:17 pm EDT

CRTC changes position on MVNOs, proposes mandated access

OTTAWA — Calls are only a part of the problem of nuisance and fraudulent...

NDP calls for moratorium on facial recognition tech

telecom | 03/09/2020 6:12 pm EDT

NDP calls for moratorium on facial recognition tech

New Democratic Party MP and ethics critic Charlie Angus Monday morning called for a moratorium on the use...

Data leaked from 1,200 Koodo customers

telecom | 03/09/2020 4:30 pm EDT

Order telecoms to provide paper bills, PIAC asks CRTC

Telus Corp. has confirmed that its flanker brand Koodo Mobile was subject to a data breach in February,...

Telus savages gov’t price directive, others more circumspect

telecom | 03/06/2020 5:30 pm EST

Telus savages gov’t price directive, others more circumspect

Analysts have provided nuanced reactions to the government’s plan to...

CRTC asks more small telecoms to explain CCTS non-compliance

telecom | 03/06/2020 5:01 pm EST

After several months of attempting to get several smaller telecom service providers to join up to the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services, the CRTC Friday issued a notice that...

Wireless prices down in Canada in 2019, but still high internationally: ISED report

telecom | 03/05/2020 4:45 pm EST

Mobile wireless prices are lower or have stayed the same across all service "baskets" compared to last year, but the higher data plan prices remain stubbornly higher than most other countries, a new...

Industry committee to study wireless affordability, spoof calls

telecom | 03/05/2020 4:30 pm EST

The House industry committee will study two hot-button telecommunications issues, launching a study into the affordability and accessibility of telecommunications in Canada, while also deciding to...

Gov’t 25% price reduction to target big three flanker brands

telecom | 03/05/2020 4:00 pm EST

60% of Connect to Innovate applicants still haven’t heard back

The federal government will focus on 2 GB to 6 GB post-paid plans from...

Shaw announces shake-up as Mehr retires

telecom | 03/05/2020 1:37 pm EST

Shaw announces shake-up as Mehr retires

Shaw Communications Inc.'s president Jay Mehr will retire in April after four years in the role and be replaced by Paul McAleese, currently the president of the company’s wireless division. In announcing the moves on Thursday, Shaw CEO Brad Shaw said in a statement that...

After seeing Bell’s AI call-blocking methodology, ISCC still unhappy

telecom | 03/04/2020 5:26 pm EST

Bell offers to reveal AI call blocking system to critics

The Canadian chapter of the Internet Society is not satisfied with what it...

CRTC launches paper billing consultation after denying request

telecom | 03/03/2020 2:56 pm EST

The CRTC has launched a consultation to consider whether wireless service providers should be required to provide paper bills to customers, after it rejected an application from the Public Interest...

Super Channel takes piracy fight to Alberta court

Media | 03/03/2020 11:50 am EST

Allarco Entertainment 2008 Inc.’s Super Channel has dropped its Federal Court lawsuit against four major retailers, whose employees allegedly recommended pirating content from media boxes sold in the store, only to launch...

Court must consider Charter rights in site-blocking case: BCCLA

Media | 03/02/2020 6:05 pm EST

Court mandated website-blocking is an "extraordinary" remedy and should only be granted sparingly, according to a court filing from the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association.  The BCCLA has...

CRTC chair, commish toured Rogers’ ‘piracy lab’

Media | 03/02/2020 1:23 pm EST

CRTC changes position on MVNOs, proposes mandated access

As part of their ongoing effort to fight content piracy, two of Canada’s largest media and telecom companies have, or are considering setting up, “piracy labs” to demonstrate to visitors including regulators and government officials what infringement looks like....

CIPPIC unveils most ambitious low cost wireless plan

telecom | 02/28/2020 6:01 pm EST

CIPPIC unveils most ambitious low cost wireless plan

GATINEAU, Que. — The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic and Open Media have unveiled...

OPC investigating RCMP over facial recognition

telecom | 02/28/2020 5:14 pm EST

Increase transparency in RCMP stingray use: OPC

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner today announced it is launching an investigation into the use of...

Mandate access for Rogers, and spare us: SaskTel

telecom | 02/28/2020 1:32 pm EST

Mandate access for Rogers, and spare us: SaskTel

GATINEAU, Que. — If you’re going to mandate mobile virtual network operators in Saskatchewan, require...

Xplornet confirms sale to U.S infrastructure firm

telecom | 02/27/2020 2:20 pm EST

Xplornet Communications Inc. has confirmed it has signed an agreement for it to be purchased by U.S. based Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners.  In a statement, Xplornet said Stonepeak would acquire a controlling stake in the...

Competition Bureau MVNO proposal ‘punts the problem’: Natale

telecom | 02/26/2020 6:31 pm EST

Competition Bureau MVNO proposal ‘punts the problem’: Natale

GATINEAU, Que. — Rogers Communications Inc.’s Joe Natale was the last...

Rogers takes different tack on 25-per-cent price drop

telecom | 02/26/2020 5:24 pm EST

Rogers takes different tack on 25-per-cent price drop

GATINEAU, Que. — While BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. have made their opinion about the December 2019...

Xplornet to be sold to U.S. company for $2B: report

telecom | 02/25/2020 6:41 pm EST

Xplornet Communications Inc. will be bought for some $2 billion USD by a U.S.-based investment firm, according to a report from Bloomberg News.  Asked if the government was aware of the reports of the transaction, a...

Quebecor threatens legal action if MVNOs are mandated

telecom | 02/25/2020 6:22 pm EST

Quebecor threatens legal action if MVNOs are mandated

GATINEAU, Que. — Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau says he would take legal action against both...

Former Freedom executives champion single MVNO model

telecom | 02/24/2020 6:05 pm EST

Former Freedom executives champion single MVNO model

GATINEAU, Que. — The CRTC should mandate a single provider to act as a certified MVNO throughout Canada, three former Freedom Mobile executives told the regulator on the fifth day  its wireless review hearing. Alek Krstajic, Bob Boron and Bruce Kirby — former Public...

Canadian prices will ‘always be higher’: Bragg

telecom | 02/21/2020 7:40 pm EST

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

GATINEAU, Que. — According to Lee Bragg, CEO of Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink, it is “really...

Privacy commissioners to investigate Clearview AI

telecom | 02/21/2020 3:14 pm EST

An investigation into Clearview AI has been launched by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, as well as three provincial privacy commissioners, due to growing concerns about the use of controversial facial recognition...

Teksavvy asks Competition Bureau to investigate Rogers, Bell

telecom | 02/20/2020 6:42 pm EST

The Competition Bureau has been asked to investigate a “pattern of anti-competitive activities” in wholesale and retail internet markets by BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications, in a complaint filed...

Investment cut threats over MVNOs not ‘just theater’: Telus

telecom | 02/20/2020 6:30 pm EST

Investment cut threats over MVNOs not ‘just theater’: Telus

GATINEAU, Que. — Toward the tail end of nearly three hours of testimony...

BTLR recs could see U.S. tariff levies under USMCA: Geist

Media | 02/20/2020 11:36 am EST

BTLR recs could see U.S. tariff levies under USMCA: Geist

OTTAWA — Any content levy on internet giants, as the telecom and broadcasting legislative review panel recently recommended, could expose Canada to retaliatory tariffs under the new NAFTA, University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist told the parliamentary trade...

MVNO decision arrives at a ‘tipping point’: Bell CEO

telecom | 02/19/2020 6:48 pm EST

MVNO decision arrives at a ‘tipping point’: Bell CEO

GATINEAU, Que. — How threatening the prospect of mandated MVNO access is...

Government’s wireless price drop promise should be altered: Bibic

telecom | 02/19/2020 3:15 pm EST

Government’s wireless price drop promise should be altered: Bibic

GATINEAU, Que. — The Liberal government’s promise to lower mobile...

Broad MVNO access too risky, Competition Bureau tells CRTC

telecom | 02/18/2020 5:54 pm EST

Broad MVNO access too risky, Competition Bureau tells CRTC

GATINEAU, Que. — The CRTC’s two-week wireless policy review kicked off...

Liberal government’s ‘free ride’ on industry file to end: Rempel Garner

telecom | 02/14/2020 6:18 pm EST

Liberal government’s ‘free ride’ on industry file to end: Rempel Garner

Conservative industry critic Michelle Rempel Garner is calling on both the...

BTLR on telecom: a Q&A with Janet Yale 

Media | 02/14/2020 5:31 pm EST

BTLR on telecom: a Q&A with Janet Yale 

In a phone interview with Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review panel chair Janet Yale,...

Potential spring launch for Universal Broadband Fund: ISED doc

telecom | 02/14/2020 12:31 pm EST

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada could launch its $1.7-billion rural broadband fund as early as this spring, according to a briefing note obtained through Access to Information....

Telus confirms it will use Huawei in ‘initial module’ of 5G rollout

telecom | 02/13/2020 8:29 pm EST

Telus confirms it will use Huawei in ‘initial module’ of 5G rollout

Telus Corp. will be using Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. equipment in its...

Fibre wire access scheme already exists, PIAC argues

telecom | 02/12/2020 5:46 pm EST

As CRTC rejects FairPlay, proposal could move to legislative reviews

CloudWifi Inc.’s application for small internet service providers to be able to access fibre...

Class action filed against Bell over prison phone contract

telecom | 02/12/2020 5:21 pm EST

Attorneys representing an unnamed former inmate at several Ontario prisons have filed a class action lawsuit against BCE Inc., for what they say are the “unconscionable” telephone rates for prisoners in Bell’s contract with the Ontario prison system.  The lawsuit, filed with the court on Feb. 5 by lawyers from Sotos Class Actions, alleges that Bell “engaged in unfair practices” contrary to section 15 of the Ontario Consumer Protection Act, which prohibits companies from making “unconscionable representations” to consumers.   The suit holds that once it entered into a...

Telus introduces its own wireless affordability certification

telecom | 02/11/2020 6:20 pm EST

Telus introduces its own wireless affordability certification

Telus Corp. says it has already met and exceeded the Liberal Party’s goal...

Competition Bureau to use AI in intelligence gathering

telecom | 02/11/2020 3:45 pm EST

The Competition Bureau today announced that it would soon begin using artificial intelligence and algorithms to track anti-competitive behaviour going forward.  In its Strategic Vision for...

Bell backs Quebecor on standstill rule — but not for TVA Sports

Media | 02/10/2020 5:48 pm EST

Bell backs Quebecor on standstill rule — but not for TVA Sports

In the case that sparked a year of conflict between rivals BCE Inc. and...

CIPPIC, CIRA to challenge court authority in site-blocking case

telecom | 02/07/2020 3:54 pm EST

Telecoms’ site-blocking court request ‘draconian,’ TekSavvy argues

Both the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) and the Canadian...

Bell picks ‘first’ 5G vendor, says regulatory to affect buildout

telecom | 02/06/2020 5:25 pm EST

Bell picks 'first' 5G vendor, says regulatory to affect buildout

BCE Inc. will start building out its 5G network with equipment supplied by Nokia Corp. as it waits for the federal government to decide if Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd...

OPC takes Facebook to Federal Court

telecom | 02/06/2020 2:17 pm EST

International legislators flag regulatory options for data giants

The Office the Privacy Commissioner has filed a much-anticipated notice of application in Federal Court...

CRTC tells Bell and Quebecor to play nicer in Part 1 roaming decision

telecom | 02/05/2020 4:40 pm EST

BCE Inc. must keep providing Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron with wholesale roaming on an ongoing basis, the CRTC said Wednesday in a decision that also took the two perennial rivals to task for not first...

VMedia blasts ‘regressive’ BTLR recommendation

telecom | 02/05/2020 4:38 pm EST

Gov’t should move on passive infrastructure ‘yesterday’: Yale

VMedia Inc. says a recommendation from the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review...

CRTC says no to delay, compensation for ending landline subsidy

telecom | 02/04/2020 5:31 pm EST

The CRTC has upheld its decision to phase out a subsidy for landlines through 2021, and in a pair of decisions today rejected requests to maintain the subsidy for at least 10 years and to compensate...

Providers stirred up by ‘premature’ anti-spoofing system deadline

telecom | 01/31/2020 1:25 pm EST

Providers stirred up by ‘premature’ anti-spoofing system deadline

Canada’s telecommunications providers have united to delay the...

Gov’t should move on passive infrastructure ‘yesterday’: Yale

telecom | 01/30/2020 5:28 pm EST

Gov’t should move on passive infrastructure ‘yesterday’: Yale

OTTAWA — The recommendations on passive infrastructure from the expert...

Guilbeault promises BTLR legislation in ‘months’

Media | 01/30/2020 12:53 pm EST

Guilbeault promises BTLR legislation in ‘months’

OTTAWA — Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault says his government will introduce legislation to...

BTLR reaction mixed, no clarity on gov’t implementation

Media | 01/29/2020 5:32 pm EST

BTLR reaction mixed, no clarity on gov't implementation

OTTAWA — A broadcasting and telecommunications legislative review report...

CRTC should regulate foreign digital services, news sites: BTLR

Media | 01/29/2020 12:00 pm EST

Few surprises in BTLR ‘what we heard’ report

The blue-ribbon panel tasked with modernizing Canada’s communications legislation is calling for “fundamental changes” to how the CRTC operates, including giving the regulator jurisdiction over online news and rules requiring large foreign digital audio and video...

Canada likely to follow U.K.’s template on Huawei decision: analyst

telecom | 01/28/2020 5:58 pm EST

The Liberal government will “inevitably” follow the U.K. in banning Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. equipment from the core of Canada’s 5G network, according to National Bank of Canada financial...

Regions call for overhaul of broadband funding criteria

telecom | 01/27/2020 5:25 pm EST

$1.7B broadband fund to launch in 2020, no formal consultation: ISED

Investment in rural broadband infrastructure should be focused on improving...

CNOC asks CRTC to stop Eastlink from axing modems

telecom | 01/24/2020 4:42 pm EST

The Canadian Network Operators Consortium has asked the CRTC to prevent Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink from effectively requiring a number of its third-party internet access customers to remove a particular type of modem...

As Parliament returns, Bains promises ‘plan’ for lower wireless prices

telecom | 01/23/2020 6:12 pm EST

As Parliament returns, Bains promises ‘plan’ for lower wireless prices

When the House of Commons comes back after winter break next week, it will...

Big Three united in call for scrapping CRTC pricing guarantee

telecom | 01/23/2020 5:01 pm EST

Big Three united in call for scrapping CRTC pricing guarantee

BCE Inc.’s push for the CRTC to remove a provision that would require wireless providers seeking funding under the $750-million Broadband Fund to make a pricing commitment has won the backing of Canada’s remaining Big Three providers. Telus Corp. and Rogers...

Rogers says further regulation could lead to capex cuts

telecom | 01/22/2020 6:09 pm EST

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise division

Rogers Communications Inc. has warned that, depending on what regulatory...

CRTC asks for plan to combat unauthorised phone porting

telecom | 01/21/2020 1:06 pm EST

‘Unlimited’ plans leading to 50% more data use, Rogers says

The CRTC has asked for information about the unauthorised porting of...

Bell appeals CRTC decision in fight over undue preference

telecom | 01/20/2020 5:19 pm EST

A months-long dispute between BCE Inc. and Quebecor Inc.  entered yet another phase Friday, as Bell filed for judicial review of the CRTC’s Dec. 19 decision that found Bell gave undue preference to...

Teksavvy calls for public support in wholesale rates battle

telecom | 01/20/2020 3:47 pm EST

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has launched a public campaign urging the federal government to reject petitions filed by the major telecommunications providers, calling on it to reverse a CRTC decision that...

Bell to reveal AI call-blocking methods to NDA-signing intervenors

telecom | 01/17/2020 4:59 pm EST

Bell offers to reveal AI call blocking system to critics

The CRTC has approved BCE Inc.’s request to make available to interveners...

CRTC launches tests, reporting rules after emergency alert glitches

telecom | 01/16/2020 4:41 pm EST

CRTC launches tests, reporting rules after emergency alert glitches

Complaints about the national emergency alert system have prompted the CRTC...

Industry waiting on detail from gov’t on wireless price drop

telecom | 01/15/2020 6:14 pm EST

60% of Connect to Innovate applicants still haven’t heard back

If Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains wants to see a 25-per-cent reduction...

Cogeco’s IPTV service in beta testing, but no start date

telecom | 01/15/2020 4:27 pm EST

There’s no firm timeframe for when Cogeco Inc. will roll out its new IPTV service, despite the cableco previously telling investors it would become available in 2019.  Cogeco’s CEO Phillipe...

Incumbents, small telecoms pan Competition Bureau MVNO proposal

telecom | 01/14/2020 5:54 pm EST

Incumbents, small telecoms pan Competition Bureau MVNO proposal

Telecom providers both big and small have unanimously rejected a Competition Bureau proposal to allow strictly-regulated mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) access to the Big Three’s networks for five years, but for vastly different reasons. The bureau endorsed a...