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 presupposes the regulator will determine to reinstate a subsidy for landlines. Northwestel submitted a Part 1 application and a tariff notice to the regulator on March 18 requesting the financial relief, stating in a press release that it could not take the consumer-friendly measures without it. Northwestel stressed the importance of supporting consumers during the COVID-19 “crisis”,...
Canada's wireless service providers will send out text messages to their customers overseas with information about consular support services for Canadians living or travelling abroad during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains and Foreign Affairs...
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...
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 Communications Inc. and Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. were the latest providers to announce a temporary pause to wireless internet overage charges on Monday, joining a number of telecommunications companies who announced similar moves on March 13. BCE Inc.’s Northwestel announced in a...
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...
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 of facial recognition technology and on Public Safety Minister Bill Blair to act.
"This is something that Minister Bill Blair has to explain: how it is possible the...
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...
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 study the influx of fraud calls received in the country. The industry committee announced the studies in two separate press releases on Thursday, noting both motions had been agreed to during a closed committee business meeting on Feb. 20. The committee’s accessibility and affordability study will examine a range of issues including 5G network expansion, the spectrum allocation process,...
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...
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 facial recognition software by the RCMP.
In a statement released Friday morning, the office said it would investigate in light of the RCMP’s admitting to using the...
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...
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 spokesperson for Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains wrote in an emailed statement: “our government is committed to ensuring Canadians pay fair prices for mobile and wireless services, regardless of their postal code. We monitor transactions in Canada from a competition and regulatory perspective and conduct reviews as appropriate.” There are indications the government...
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...
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 service bills by 25 per cent should be measured from 2018 or when “unlimited” plans were introduced,...
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....
Telus Corp. will be using Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. equipment in its initial 5G launch, the company said following a day in which the company’s CEO and CFO had seemingly...
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...
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 working together to solve the issue. Had the two companies looked into what was an acceptable level of incidental roaming and Videotron’s safeguards against permanent roaming, “Bell and Videotron would have allowed the Commission and themselves to save precious time and significant...
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...
OTTAWA — Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault says his government will introduce legislation to implement some of the recommendations from the expert panel reviewing Canada’s communications legislation in the coming months, and could order the CRTC to take action on new...
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...
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 Canadians’ phone numbers after becoming aware that customers “have been subject to fraudulent activity”, according to a letter sent to the Canadian Wireless Telecommunication Association.
The...
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...
If Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains wants to see a 25-per-cent reduction in wireless prices starting from December 2019 — as he clarified this week — the best way is to maintain a hands-off approach that has seen a reduction of 28 per cent in wireless prices since 2016,...
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...
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 involving court-ordered website-blocking is playing out — revealing methods used by BCE Inc. to keep up with an expanding list of sites, and that Bell, Rogers Communications Inc. and Quebecor Inc. sent...
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...
The CRTC has asked telecoms to provide information about wireless plans aimed at Canadians who only need service occasionally or on an emergency basis, as part of its upcoming wireless policy review. It said in a letter to participants to that review process that “additional information on occasional-use or emergency-use wireless plans would ensure a more complete record.” The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) had previously asked the regulator to ensure telecoms offer plans for consumers who don’t need regular wireless service. The CRTC declined to do so, saying that would...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron has purchased a local cable company operating...
The nation’s highest court has quashed a 2016 decision by the CRTC to ban...
In an ongoing dispute between BCE Inc. and CloudWifi Inc. over whether...
Ken Smithard, the president of Cogeco Inc.’s Canadian telecom division, is leaving the company after 20...
The latest portion of the CRTC’s Communications Monitoring Report, focused on the mobile retail market and released Monday, shows that wireless industry revenues have gone up, and while smaller...
The CRTC has denied an application by BCE Inc. subsidiary Cablevision du Nord de Québec to eliminate its wholesale internet service, and ordered the company to sell that service to Quebecor Inc.’s...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has delivered a greatly expanded set of telecom and internet-related...
The CRTC has responded to requests to divulge the methodology and confidential data in the Competition Bureau’s report on mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs), giving the bureau and telecoms who...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron said Friday it has chosen Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. as its equipment supplier for the deployment of LTE-A and 5G networks. “This partnership is the result of an extensive selection process to identify the most complete and evolutive 5G option that fits Videotron's ambitious objectives,” Videotron said in a press release. It said the move “allows Videotron to accelerate the deployment of its next-generation network and aim for a gradual service availability in the second half of 2020.” Videotron previously partnered with Ericsson AB for 5G...
