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 hindering competition and consumer choice.” CloudWifi applied to become a registered CLEC in August 2018, but lodged an application with the regulator in March 2019, claiming Bell was refusing to sign a Special Master Agreement for Local Interconnection (MALI) necessary to progress its CLEC application. The CRTC denied CloudWifi’s application to complete its...
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 company to better address high call volumes caused by the country’s collective social distancing. It’s asking the regulator for permission to block the calls until June 1, or “such other date that the Commission determines that the extraordinary circumstances associated with the COVID-19 crisis has ended.” Bell said in a Part 1 application that call volumes are at an unprecedented...
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 currently considering using location data from Canadians’ cellphones to track the spread of COVID-19, while representatives from the Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Nunavut governments also told...
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...
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...
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 conference that he doesn’t think COVID-19 will have a “very large” impact on its financials, and that the company is a “bit fortunate” to be based in North America rather than parts of the...
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 impact” on the company and is not worried about its impact on network consumption and capacity.
Quebecor held its quarterly earnings call as the TSX plunged 1000 points in early trading on...
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...
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,...
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 pricing report shows. The 2019 edition of the annual price comparison report prepared for Innovation, Science, and Economic Development finds that mobile wireless pricing dropped by as much as 9.7 per cent for the highest-usage level 5, which the report categorizes as a shared plan with three...
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 Advocacy Centre to require Telus Corp.’s flanker brand Koodo to do so. PIAC and the National Pensioners Federation had asked for the regulator to require Koodo to send out paper bills on request after it stopped sending them from April 2018 to customers who had activated self-serve accounts and who were not identified as having accessibility needs. It claimed the only way for those Koodo...
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 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...
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 starting date for the federal government’s promised 25 per cent wireless price drop clear in recent weeks, Rogers Communications Inc. is declining to do so.
Speaking to...
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 technology. In a statement, a spokesperson for federal Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien, said the investigation was “initiated in the wake of numerous media reports that have raised questions and concerns about whether the company is collecting and using personal information without consent”. The investigation will be carried out by the OPC, as well as the...
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...
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...
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. A note prepared for ISED deputy minister Simon Kennedy ahead of his meeting with CRTC chairman Ian Scott in November outlined that ISED planned to soon begin its “targeted,” informal consultation with stakeholders. “This will help inform the development of the UBF as we work towards a potential launch of the program in spring 2020,” the note read. When asked for additional comment,...
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 2020-2024 document released Tuesday, the bureau says that it will be using new technologies to step up its “proactive intelligence gathering” operations. “Digitization has led to new and more sophisticated methods of anti-competitive and deceptive conduct. To keep pace, a more proactive intelligence-led approach to enforcement is essential,” the report says. While the document included...
In the case that sparked a year of conflict between rivals BCE Inc. and...
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...
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 panel reviewing Canada’s communication laws should be enacted as soon as possible, panel chair Janet...
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 areas with Canada’s slowest internet speeds, despite new minimum internet service speeds vastly increasing the amount of Canadian regions considered “underserved”, according to a CRTC...
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...
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...
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 to launch a smartphone testing program, as well as requiring wireless providers to report on how...
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 CRTC did not comment on Sunday’s alert, that warned of an incident at the station, itself. The regulator told The Wire Report it was always reviewing the alert process after each real and test alert in terms of their distribution but had no “immediate plans for making changes to the process in CRTC regulations (this may change as we move forward)”. The...
The Liberal government's minority mandate means it will have to move fast...
Corus Entertainment Inc. this morning reported television revenue either in line or slightly higher than...
No major wireless provider stands out as most likely to benefit from Canada’s looming 5G network rollout, despite two players’ extensive combined wireline footline placing them on the “front foot”, RBC Capital Markets...
CloudWifi Inc. has gone to bat for other small internet service providers...
Fresh documents are shedding light on how Canada’s first piracy case...
The federal government won’t hold a formal consultation on the...
The average Canadian home internet speed soared to 126 Mbps in 2018, a 88.9...
In yet another appeal of the CRTC’s decision lowering wholesale internet rates, BCE Inc. filed a fresh review-and-vary application to the regulator the week before Christmas, arguing that that the...
BCE Inc. is asking the CRTC to remove some of the pricing stipulations on mobile wireless offerings in its November call for applications to the regulator’s $750-million Broadband Fund.
In a review and vary application filed two days before Christmas, Bell hones in on...
