A judicial review application to the Federal Court challenging Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada’s approval of a cell tower site has been dismissed by the court.
The application was filed by the municipality of Otterburn Park in Quebec, about 40...
Satellite service provider Telesat Holdings Inc. has named Andrew Browne as its new chief financial officer on Thursday, following the retirement of Michel Cayouette.
Browne has financial experience in the satellite industry going as far back as at least 1995, according to a press release. That includes executive positions at SES most recently, as well as previously-held positions at O3b Networks, Intelsat, and New Skies Satellites, where he worked alongside Telesat’s current CEO, Dan Goldberg.
“His vast...
As the new Parliament gets up and running following the election of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals to a minority government, there are also some changes to the ranks of parliamentary secretaries as well. The Prime Minister’s...
After a November Competition Bureau report endorsed a limited version of...
The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed a case brought forward by...
The CRTC is asking all telecoms about what barriers exist that would hinder their ability to deliver the basic service objective for internet access established three years ago. A consultation...
OTTAWA — Federal privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien told reporters Tuesday morning that there is a “crisis of trust” as he launched the Office of the Privacy Commissioner’s annual report, citing polling showing that 90 per cent of Canadians are concerned about...
The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) is teaming up with an artificial intelligence platform that it hopes will produce insights, which would otherwise be missed, from a...
Defendants in a failed reverse class action certification motion brought by Voltage Pictures LLC are filing an appeal against part of the decision by the Federal Court to withhold legal fees they say...
The CRTC Monday announced that it will ask telecom companies to implement a...
Michelle Rempel Garner, Conservative MP for...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron will argue in Federal Court later this month...
A cap on the amount of 3.5 GHz spectrum any one company can hold in the upcoming auction is not, on its own, “sufficient” for smaller rural-based wireless internet service providers to compete, according to the trade group...
The work of the chairwoman heading the review of the broadcasting and telecom acts turned out to be more time-consuming and complicated than the government initially planned for, according to a memo obtained through Access to...
The new Liberal minority government repeated its promise to lower wireless...
Telus Corp.’s outsourcing and call centre operation Telus International is buying Competence Call Center for $1.3 billion, the company has announced.
The German company has more than 8,500 employees and operates in 11 European countries, Telus said in a press release....
As part of its review of Canada’s wireless market, the CRTC has launched a survey to find out how Canadians feel about their service providers. “The survey results will help determine whether further action is needed to...
BCE Inc.’s proposed acquisition of French-language Groupe V Media...
The Conservative Party has announced its shadow cabinet ahead of the Dec. 5 return of the House of...
OTTAWA — Brian Masse, the New Democratic Party MP for Windsor, is staying...
Despite improvements in customer service that have lowered customer defections, the country’s telecom complaints watchdog said it still accepted 35 per cent more issues from...
Rogers Communications Inc. is asking the CRTC if it can delay the implementation of several sections of the newly minted Internet Code, scheduled to come into effect in January of 2020. The company...
Quebecor Inc.’s cancellation of its gigabit internet service is akin to a soccer player diving, or feigning injury to draw a penalty, TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is arguing in an intervention to the...
At a Vancouver press conference Tuesday, the federal and British Columbia...
Consumer advocacy groups are urging the CRTC to require incumbent wireless providers to make low-cost data plans a condition of operation in the latest round of submissions to the regulator’s review...
Internet service provider TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has appealed a Federal Court order requiring ISPs to...
The Competition Bureau is officially endorsing a policy that would temporarily mandate access to the incumbents’ network infrastructure by mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs), the watchdog said Monday. The recommendation...
Voltage Pictures LLC and Rogers Communications Inc. have both agreed to drop their appeal and cross-appeal, respectively, against a decision by the Federal Court to award the telecom costs to dig up personal information of alleged...
The CRTC’s decision to lower wholesale rates for its aggregated regime...
OTTAWA — New Public Safety Minister Bill Blair indicated Wednesday he is open to talking to telecoms about whether to ban Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd equipment from 5G...
In a precedent-setting decision, a Federal Court judge has ordered internet...
In a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump’s economic and foreign affairs teams, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and 14 other organizations have told the American government that they are concerned...
The movie studio that has for years sought to sue...
NORTH BAY, Ont. — Higher rates telecom providers must pay to connect to hydro poles in Ontario are especially onerous in rural areas, Angela Lawrence, vice-chair at Canadian Communication Systems...
NORTH BAY Ont. — The CRTC announced on Wednesday that it is now accepting a second round of applications for its Broadband Fund, as those in attendance at a conference focusing on rural connectivity heard about the need for more funding and more intergovernmental...
U.S.-based investment company Digital Colony has made another major purchase of Canadian telecom-owned assets this year, announcing on Wednesday the acquisition of fibre internet provider Beanfield Technologies Inc. ...
Wednesday saw a flurry of legal moves to overturn a CRTC decision that cut...
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has ruled against BCE Inc. in favour...
The country’s largest TV service providers are appealing an increase in the over-the-air distant signal...
The forthcoming Internet code from the CRTC would make it far too hard for Xplornet Communications Inc. to disconnect customers that haven’t paid, the company argues in a filing to the regulator...
In a joint resolution, passed in Prince Edward Island last month and announced in Gatineau last week, federal, provincial and territorial information and privacy commissioners are calling on their respective governments to...
A few months ahead of the introduction of the CRTC’s Internet Code, scheduled for Jan. 31,, a grouping of the largest telecom companies in the country are asking the regulator to make the code apply...
Despite the summer’s volatility in the wireless market, with a rush of new offerings in “unlimited”...
Quebecor Inc. executives confirmed on Thursday that its previously unexplained move to withdraw its gigabit internet offering was due to the CRTC’s decision to slash the wholesale rate at which resellers purchase bandwidth from incumbents.
“With the new regime, we...
TORONTO — The aggressive way incumbent telecom companies reacted to the...
Rogers Communications Inc. and the University of British Columbia said they have powered the first fully-functional 5G “smart campus” to test applications for the next-generation network. The campus includes 5G towers and...
TORONTO — Smaller, wholesale-based internet service providers may be...
A company that says its privacy-focused software app can tell employers...
The objection to the new phone financing plans from the likes of the Competition Bureau is based on an incorrect understanding of device financing arrangements, according to Rogers Communications Inc.’s reply in the CRTC’s ongoing examination of the 36-month phone financing plans that hit the Canadian wireless market over the summer. The plans are a way for both wireless service providers and consumers themselves to account for the increasingly expensive nature of new cell phones, and the move away from the handset subsidy model is inevitable as the costs of the phones rise, Rogers...
The CRTC has told six small telecoms who have refused to join the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS) they have until Dec. 16 to explain why. It said WISP Internet...
Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau wrote a letter taking the Liberal...
Cogeco Inc. is looking forward to the upcoming spectrum auctions in 2020, especially since Innovation, Science, and Economic Development put in place new tier 5 spectrum licensing rules this past summer. The new licenses,...
Ahead of the CRTC’s wireless review early next year, and on the heels of...
Canadian mobile wireless data prices are falling precipitously, according...
OTTAWA — NDP leader Jagmeet Singh said Wednesday that lowering wireless...
As the Liberals head back to Parliament following the Oct. 21 federal election, they’ll be returning to...
Eighty-eight per cent Canadians have a smartphone, 45 per cent of Canadians check their smartphones at...
BCE Inc. says it is willing to share information with critics of its plan to combat scam phone calls using artificial intelligence — as long as they don’t tell anyone else.
In its initial application to the CRTC, Bell kept most of the details of how it plans to...
The CRTC’s public hearing in its review of mobile wireless services, which was originally scheduled to be held in January, has now been pushed back to Feb. 18. The regulator said in a notice Monday that the Competition Bureau...
In a conference call with analysts Friday, Shaw Communications Inc. executives declared that the company...
Following the release of the Rogers Communications Inc. quarterly results Wednesday that were accompanied by falling stock prices, Desjardins analyst Maher Yaghi asked in a research note if the impact...
The CRTC said Thursday that companies and organizations which offer free WiFi on their premises and providers of some Internet of Things connections don’t need to register with the regulator. It opened a consultation in 2017...
BCE Inc.’s Quebec vice-chair, Martine Turcotte, will retire in January 2020, the company announced Thursday.
Turcotte has been with Bell for 31 years, first joining the company as legal counsel in 1988.
"Martine has been a valued mentor to me in my time on Bell's...
The public-private partnership known as ENCQOR 5G has now made mmWave spectrum available to participants. ENCQOR 5G was first announced in 2018 as a 5G laboratory of sorts, funded by $400 million from the federal government...
Wireless revenue for Rogers Communications Inc. struggled over the summer, primarily due to a...
The CRTC has told Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron it can’t withdraw its gigabit internet offering from the market, after the company did exactly that earlier this month. Videotron told the CRTC on...
Some groups are calling for the CRTC to put the brakes on a request by BCE Inc. to test out an artificial intelligence system for blocking nuisance calls, saying not enough is known about the way the program would collect data...
In its intervention to the CRTC’s consultation on the emergence of...
The Canadian chapter of the Internet Society (ISCC) is looking to embark on...
Despite Conservative leader Andrew Scheer indicating throughout this...
The Federal Court of Appeal has decided it will not hear a case brought by Quebecor Inc. on handing over set-top-box (STB) data to the CRTC. In the latest in a months-long dispute between...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron has shut down its 1 Gbps internet service, effective Oct. 11.
The move affects both Videotron customers and customers of other internet service providers who buy wholesale service from Videotron, the company outlined in an Oct. 11 letter to the...
The Conservative Party has now specified its plan to make web giants “pay...
Federal party leaders agreed Thursday evening in the last debate of the...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development will host a public consultation next month on its proposed “unified approach” to the taxation of the world’s biggest tech companies. A document released by the...
The Canadian Network Operators Consortium has filed its arguments in Federal Court against Telus Corp.’s appeal of a CRTC decision that would temporarily suspend a speed cap affecting wholesale-based service providers. The...
The RCMP Tuesday announced the arrest and charge of two people in connection with a 2018 data breach exposing 97 thousand BCE Inc. customers.
While almost 100 thousand customers were exposed, only 40 accounts were actually fraudulently charged by the hackers.
The...
The Centre for Digital Rights, the non-profit founded by former BlackBerry Ltd. co-CEO Jim Balsillie, is asking the CRTC to agree that political parties engage in what is effectively commercial...
GATINEAU — Conservative leader Andrew Scheer refused to say whether he...
GATINEAU — Federal party leaders faced off in the only English-language debate to feature all six...
Telus Corp. is asking the Supreme Court of Canada to review a decision by the Quebec Court of Appeal that...
As politicians take aim at telecom affordability in this fall’s election...
During the first French-language debate of the federal election campaign,...
Six years after first filing suit alleging BCE Inc. infringed on its patent...
Telus Corp.’s announcement that it is buying ADT Security Services Canada, the Canadian arm of the U.S. home security services company, for $700 million is a wise move that will position Telus for...
The Liberal Party platform, released Sunday, includes promises of new regulations for Canadian content on streaming services — while the Conservatives gear up to announce new taxes affecting foreign digital giants, the specifics of which are still unclear.
As Heritage...
The temporary nature of the decision by the Federal Court of Appeal to...
BCE Inc., Quebecor Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. are arguing in...
After an urgent plea by BCE Inc. requesting the Federal Court hold an oral hearing on the deadline of a CRTC order to implement new wholesale internet rates that it is protesting, Bell and other...
For BCE Inc. the industry-wide lurch toward unlimited data plans in the...
A Federal Court judge is asking BCE Inc. to explain why it should hold an oral hearing about whether it should review and freeze a CRTC decision that slashed wholesale internet rates big telecoms charge to resellers. Judge Yves de Montigny issued a direction on Wednesday asking Bell to provide reasons by Thursday morning as to why such a hearing should take place and that, if a hearing is allowed to proceed, it would occur on Friday afternoon. If respondents intend to oppose the motions, they have until Friday at noon to do so, the judge said. The Federal Court direction comes at the...
Even if the large telecoms satisfy the court’s threshold to move forward with forcing internet service...
In asking the Federal Court to deny certifying a class of defendants in a copyright infringement case, an advocacy group is arguing that an IP address is insufficient in proving an individual has...
In this fall’s election campaign, the Liberal Party is setting the goal...
Investors are overly preoccupied with the wireless divisions of telecom companies, and as such have been overly punitive toward Rogers Communications Inc. this summer, according to a look in on the...
In the event Federal Court allows a site-blocking application brought by...
The CRTC is objecting to a document-collection request Quebecor Inc. is...
In their Friday appeal of the CRTC decision on wholesale internet rates, the affected cable companies are asking the Federal Court of Appeal to defer to a 2006 Harper-era directive that advised the...
Allarco Entertainment 2008 Inc.’s Super Channel...
The Green Party election platform includes promises to ensure only individuals whose identities have been verified can set up social media accounts and indicates a Green...
