The federal government should guarantee internet service providers payments for “basic residential connectivity needs” so Canadians can remain connected during the COVID-19 pandemic, Canadian Network Operators Consortium (CNOC) president Matt Stein says.
Stein said in...
Canada’s publicly-traded wireless service providers added just under 1.29 million wireless subscribers in 2019, a year many executives described as one of the most intensely competitive in recent memory.
The 1,289,347 subscribers added across Telus Corp., Quebecor...
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 congestion during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a statement, Netflix’s vice-president of content delivery, Ken Florance, said the company had developed a way to reduce Netflix’s traffic on telecommunications networks while maintaining the quality of its service, stating customers should continue to get the video quality of their individual plan, whether ultra-high, high...
Teksavvy Solutions Inc. has laid off 130 staff and will implement a flat $5 bill increase for its...
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...
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...
Experts say Canada’s telecommunications networks are currently handling a...
Conservative industry critic Michelle Rempel Garner said Wednesday that if...
Shaw Communications Inc. founder JR Shaw has passed away at the age of 85, the company said Tuesday....
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...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday the federal government isn’t...
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 deadline for the second call for applications was March 27, but the CRTC on Tuesday suspended all deadlines between then and April 10. It’s yet to set new timeframes for other deadlines, including for the final submissions to the regulator’s wireless service review. In a notice of...
As reports emerge of countries around the world using cellphone location...
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...
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...
Canada's wireless service providers will send out text messages to their...
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 says. In a briefing note to investors on Wednesday, McReynolds said he believed telecom stocks currently ranked well on “relative earnings resilience and valuation.” “In addition to the sector’s reasonable leverage and defensive dividend-paying characteristics in an exceptionally low...
The Correctional Service of Canada is temporarily making calls free of charge for prisoners in Canada's...
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...
Cogeco Inc. chief financial officer Patrice Ouimet has told an investor...
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...
Multiple Canadian internet providers have suspended caps on data usage as they prepare for a huge...
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...
OTTAWA — The CRTC's efforts to work with telecom companies to implement a...
Quebecor Inc. says COVID-19 is not expected to have a “material financial...
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 application with the regulator late last year asking it to remove some pricing stipulations from the Broadband Fund’s call for applications. Specifically, it wanted to remove a paragraph stating that applicants to the fund must “commit to providing mobile wireless service packages at a rate no...
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...
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...
OTTAWA — Calls are only a part of the problem of nuisance and fraudulent...
New Democratic Party MP and ethics critic Charlie Angus Monday morning called for a moratorium on the use...
Telus Corp. has confirmed that its flanker brand Koodo Mobile was subject to a data breach in February, and that some of the information has been put up for sale "on the dark web."
According to an emailed statement from Telus Friday, the breached data in question was...
Analysts have provided nuanced reactions to the government’s plan to...
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...
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...
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...
The federal government will focus on 2 GB to 6 GB post-paid plans from...
Shaw Communications Inc.'s president Jay Mehr will retire in April after four years in the role and be...
The Canadian chapter of the Internet Society is not satisfied with what it...
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...
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 similar action seeking $50 million in damages in the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta. Super Channel’s new litigation lists 100 “John Doe” suppliers as defendants, as well as the four retail stores -- Best Buy Canada Ltd., Staples Canada ULC, Canada Computers Inc., and London Drugs Ltd. -- and 1000 “John Doe” customers listed in its now dismissed Federal...
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...
As part of their ongoing effort to fight content piracy, two of Canada’s largest media and telecom...
GATINEAU, Que. — The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic and Open Media have unveiled...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner today announced it is launching an investigation into the use of...
GATINEAU, Que. — If you’re going to mandate mobile virtual network operators in Saskatchewan, require access to Rogers Communications Inc.’s network and not ours, representatives of Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. told CRTC commissioners Thursday.
In...
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...
GATINEAU, Que. — Rogers Communications Inc.’s Joe Natale was the last...
GATINEAU, Que. — While BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. have made their opinion about the December 2019...
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...
GATINEAU, Que. — Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau says he would take legal action against both...
GATINEAU, Que. — The CRTC should mandate a single provider to act as a certified MVNO throughout...
GATINEAU, Que. — According to Lee Bragg, CEO of Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink, it is “really...
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...
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 by independent ISP Teksavvy Solutions Inc. Teksavvy’s complaint comes as it continues to attack Bell, Rogers and other incumbent telecom companies for fighting a CRTC decision to retroactively lower rates for wholesale internet access. It launched a public campaign in January, urging the federal government to reject petitions to the Governor in Council against the CRTC’s decision. The...
GATINEAU, Que. — Toward the tail end of nearly three hours of testimony...
OTTAWA — Any content levy on internet giants, as the telecom and...
GATINEAU, Que. — How threatening the prospect of mandated MVNO access is...
GATINEAU, Que. — The Liberal government’s promise to lower mobile...
GATINEAU, Que. — The CRTC’s two-week wireless policy review kicked off with a detailed questioning of one of the few parties to promote a middle-of-the-road solution for mandating MVNO access to incumbent infrastructure.
Competition Bureau representatives told a panel...
Conservative industry critic Michelle Rempel Garner is calling on both the...
In a phone interview with Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review panel chair Janet Yale,...
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 Corp. will be using Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. equipment in its...
CloudWifi Inc.’s application for small internet service providers to be able to access fibre...
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...
Telus Corp. says it has already met and exceeded the Liberal Party’s goal...
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...
In the case that sparked a year of conflict between rivals BCE Inc. and Quebecor Inc., Bell has now told the Federal Court of Appeal it actually agrees with Quebecor on its...
Both the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) and the Canadian...
BCE Inc. will start building out its 5G network with equipment supplied by...
The Office the Privacy Commissioner has filed a much-anticipated notice of application in Federal Court...
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 Inc. says a recommendation from the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review panel’s report that stipulates a primary reliance on “market forces” could stifle competition in Canada’s telecommunications industry, if enacted.
Recommendation 28...
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...
Canada’s telecommunications providers have united to delay the...
OTTAWA — The recommendations on passive infrastructure from the expert...
OTTAWA — Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault says his government will introduce legislation to...
OTTAWA — A broadcasting and telecommunications legislative review report...
The blue-ribbon panel tasked with modernizing Canada’s communications...
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...
Investment in rural broadband infrastructure should be focused on improving...
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 from customers’ premises and use modems from a different manufacturer. In a Part 1 application filed on Jan. 20 with the CRTC, CNOC says the decision by Eastlink to no longer support the modems is a “completely disproportionate response to minor issues” arising from manufacturer defects of the Technicolor TC4350 modem. According to CNOC’s filing with...
When the House of Commons comes back after winter break next week, it will...
BCE Inc.’s push for the CRTC to remove a provision that would require...
Rogers Communications Inc. has warned that, depending on what regulatory...
The CRTC has asked for information about the unauthorised porting of...
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 its own French-language sports channel over Quebecor’s own offering, TVA Sports. In the CRTC decision, the regulator found that by including Bell’s own RDS channel in the “Bon” TV bundle package but not Quebecor’s TVA Sports, Bell had given its own content an unfair advantage. The “exclusion of TVA Sports from Bon, in contrast to RDS, has had, and continues to have, a...
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...
The CRTC has approved BCE Inc.’s request to make available to interveners...
Complaints about the national emergency alert system have prompted the CRTC...
If Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains wants to see a 25-per-cent reduction...
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...
Telecom providers both big and small have unanimously rejected a...
After taking credit over the summer for the reduction in wireless pricing...
The CRTC says there’s no immediate plans to change the regulations governing Canada’s emergency alert system after an Ontario -wide alert about an incident at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station was sent in error. ...
The Liberal government's minority mandate means it will have to move fast on its promised new rules for Canadian content on foreign digital platforms, Heritage Minister Steven...
