Corus Entertainment Inc. this morning reported television revenue either in line or slightly higher than analyst estimates, while “offset by lower than expected” radio revenues, according to RBC analyst Drew McReynolds.
Television revenues went up marginally from $426.2 million in the three months that ended on Nov. 30 in 2018 to $429.9 million for the same period in 2019, Corus reported in its first quarter earnings.
The slight uptick in television revenue came alongside a similarly-sized downtick in radio...
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 analyst Drew McReynolds says. In an annual overview of the telecom sector, McReynolds said Telus Corp. and BCE Inc.’s intention to continue their network sharing agreement to 5G, as well as their extensive fibre-to-the-home networks, placed them at a relative advantage, but each major provider had their strengths and weaknesses as they jostle to benefit from the 5G...
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 CRTC relied on an “irrevocably broken” underlying costing process and framework. The CRTC’s methodology, Bell argues in the Dec. 20 filing, delivered rates that were below cost for Bell, and “failed to follow proper costing principles or prior Commission directives in developing 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....
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 authorities to returning Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains in this year’s mandate letter.
The letter, released Friday, points to increased focus on the telecom sector,...
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...
A judicial review application to the Federal Court challenging Innovation, Science and Economic...
Satellite service provider Telesat Holdings Inc. has named Andrew Browne as its new chief financial officer on Thursday, following the retirement of Michel Cayouette. ...
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 Office announced Thursday that MP Will Amos is now in as the parliamentary secretary for innovation and industry. Amos was his party’s point person on the rural broadband initiative known as M-208, and testified before the industry committee about the increasing importance of rural broadband back in June. For heritage, the new parliamentary secretaries are MPs...
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...
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 that a years-long legal battle over patent infringement levelled against its set-top box products is...
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...
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 ensure that the needs of Canadians are being met in the mobile wireless market,” the CRTC said in a press release. The online survey asks respondents how satisfied they are with their wireless provider, their experience with and attitude toward switching providers, as well as how they feel about flanker brands and about how Canadian pricing compares to other...
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...
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 block a pair of websites selling allegedly pirated content.
In a Federal Court of Appeal filing on Monday, the ISP said that Federal Court judge Patrick Gleeson made an...
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...
In a precedent-setting decision, a Federal Court judge has ordered internet service providers to block specific websites hosting copyright-infringing TV content.
In a Nov....
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...
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 from October 29. In the filing for “review and variance” of the CRTC’s new Internet code, Xplornet asks the regulator to go back to older language of the proposed code. The old language says that a service provider can disconnect a customer for non-payment if the customer “fails to pay an...
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...
TORONTO — The aggressive way incumbent telecom companies reacted to the CRTC’s lowering of wholesale rates in August was a message that they plan to fight any moves to...
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...
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 to a new report from Finnish consulting company Rewheel — which also found Canada remains amongst the most expensive countries in the world.
“While the Canadian median gigabyte price in...
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...
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 had asked for an extension in order to finish a series of economic studies it is preparing for the review, which has involved requesting specific confidential information from telecom companies. The CRTC’s review will consider the rules that govern wholesale access to wireless carriers’ networks, including whether to mandate access by mobile virtual network...
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...
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 three-year device financing plans, the Competition Bureau has cautioned the regulator against the new financing schemes.
“If new competition develops, but consumers must pay hundreds of dollars in...
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...
The Conservative Party has now specified its plan to make web giants “pay their fair share,” which consists of a three-per-cent tax on revenues of the largest digital companies.
The party said in its platform, released late Friday afternoon, that the tax Conservative...
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...
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 campaign, they join a perennial dispute in which industry has taken issue with various reports...
