TORONTO – Connectivity is not only a tool for good, it is a human right, the president of Ericsson AB’s Canadian division told the Canadian Telecom Summit Tuesday. Jeanette Irekvist spoke about the digital divide plaguing much of Canada.
“Those that are not...
TORONTO – It is a tough picture for companies looking to grow in the Canadian telecom market but there are hopeful signs, a trio of experts told the Canadian Telecom Summit...
TORONTO — Nearly half of Canadian consumers have switched or plan to...
TORONTO – Simply reducing prices is not enough to attract customers...
TORONTO – The head of Quebecor Inc. came out swinging against the Big...
TORONTO – The Government is developing a new framework to enable telecom...
TORONTO – A new survey done for the Canadian Telecommunications Association (CTA) finds that the telecom sector contributes more than $80 billion to the Canadian economy and supports more than three quarters of a million jobs.
The report, entitled Driving Canada’s...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. have settled their...
The House of Commons is experimenting with a new Voice over Internet...
The longest-serving CEO of a Canadian telecom told the Canadian Club in...
Quebecor Inc. has lodged a complaint with the Competition Bureau over...
A group of Indigenous communities from the Yukon, Northwest Territories,...
BCE Inc. is postponing its challenge against the CRTC’s temporary...
Telus Corp. said on Monday that it will spend nearly $33 million this year...
Ericsson AB and Quebecor Inc. subsidiary Videotron have renewed their...
Social scientists are depending on wireless data to drive their research. A study at the University of Toronto’s School of Cities uses such information as the cornerstone of...
A New Democratic Party MP attacked BCE Inc. for not knowing its customers...
The Independent Telecommunications Providers Association (ITPA) is seeking...
The CRTC has requested Rogers Communications Inc. maintain service for TekSavvy Solutions Inc. in two Toronto buildings until it can make a...
The Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (FRPC) is asking the CRTC to review the broadcasting...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is urgently asking the CRTC to block Rogers Communications Inc. from decommissioning its copper network facilities, according to a Part 1 application obtained by The Wire Report. Scheduled for next week, the move by Rogers would force TekSavvy to...
The CRTC defended its telecommunications mandate before a skeptical Senate...
Telus Corp.’s spending spree continued on Tuesday as the company announced that it will be investing...
Compliance among telecom and TV service providers with the Commission for...
Complaints filed with the CRTC’s Spam Reporting Centre (SRC) are on the rise, according to the...
A new bill – aimed at countering foreign interference – illustrates the...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has unveiled the widespread availability of...
Telus Corp. announced Monday that it is investing more than $16 billion and...
Telus Corp. has filed a Part 1 application which it hopes will resolve connectivity issues in three parts...
Telesat Corp. issued its first quarter 2024 figures on Friday and is cautiously optimistic about the numbers.
“I am pleased with our financial and operating performance for the first quarter,” president and CEO Dan Goldberg said in a statement. “We remain on track...
Telus Corp. president and CEO Darren Entwistle said Thursday that he will...
Quebecor Inc. reported a robust increase in revenues and profits for the first quarter of 2024, driven...
BCE Inc. subsidiary Northwestel has been told by the CRTC to stop charging...
Friday the CRTC denied an application by several stakeholders for an...
BCE Inc. issued its first quarter 2024 results Thursday morning and featured a mixed bag of returns. Subscriptions were up, earnings were down and average revenue per user (ARPU) was constant.
Postpaid wireless phone subscriptions jumped from 43,289 in Q1 2023 to 45,247...
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri gave a rosy picture of life...
Canadian wireless and broadband internet prices declined in 2023, however...
The Senate Committee on Transport and Communications began its study of...
Rogers Communications Inc. is endorsing a Part 1 application by BCE Inc....
A past Competition Bureau Commissioner is calling on the federal government...
Customer complaints against telecom and TV service providers surged by 43...
Northern Ontario is lagging behind the rest of the province when it comes...
The CRTC is making headway in improving the telecommunications landscape, a...
Following the release of its first quarter results of 2024, Rogers Communications Inc. announced it has signed a 10-year agreement with Comcast Corp. to bring the American...
To celebrate Earth Day on Monday, Ericsson AB signed on with the federal...
A wealth of intervenors have told the CRTC that the large established telecoms should not be allowed to...
BCE Inc.’s appeal against the CRTC’s November decision to require the...
BCE Inc. did not give the federal government...
Cogeco Inc. reported strong internet subscriber growth for the second quarter of the 2024 fiscal year, it reported Thursday night after markets closed.
Revenues fell by 0.7 per cent to $751.9 million as increases in Canadian numbers were offset by declines in American...
Quebecor Inc. subsidiary Videotron has filed a Part 1 application with the...
Quebecor Inc.’s flanker wireless brand Fizz has completed the beta...
Canada’s four major wireless carriers experienced major upticks in usage during Monday’s solar...
The CRTC has ordered Cogeco Inc. to maintain TekSavvy Solutions Inc.’s...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. are...
The CRTC issued a series of decisions providing addenda to...
In the wake of recent controversy surrounding BCE Inc.’s restructuring...
Bethlehem Housing and Support Services denies...
Toronto wireless network manager Terago Inc. has appointed Rajneesh Sapra as its new CFO, effective the beginning of April. He replaces Parveen Mithra who was serving as interim CFO.
"His strategic leadership, broad capital markets experience and strong M&A track record will add important value to the business,” CEO Daniel Vucinic said of Sapra in a statement. “Additionally, his strong operational focus will contribute significantly to our financial strategy, driving growth, improving cash flow generation, and...
The federal government is loaning $2.14 billion to...
The April 8 solar eclipse is expected to have an impact on wireless networks as people increase their...
Alberta IT system integrator Sunco Communication and Installation Ltd. is...
Xplore Inc. announced Wednesday that it is rolling out high-speed internet...
BCE Inc. asked the CRTC to lighten licensing requirements for ExpressVu, the company’s satellite TV division, and called for all satellite relay distribution undertakings (SRDUs) to be exempt from regulation because of declines in the market.
ExpressVu’s current...
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) is auctioning off 225 spectrum...
The CRTC has approved Rogers Communications Inc.’s funding application...
The federal government is spending an additional $2.8 million to advance clean energy and roll out...
The recent history of Rogers Communications Inc. has had more drama than anything broadcast on its CityTV network. The company poached its CEO Joe Natale from Telus Corp. only to ultimately dismiss...
A day after the leaders of Canada’s biggest three telecoms told...
The presidents of the Big Three telecoms told the House of Commons Industry...
The CRTC is delaying transition of next-generation 911 (NG911) services in...
As copper prices increase, BCE Inc. is enhancing its security around its...
The CRTC has dismissed BCE Inc.’s application challenging the regulator’s preliminary view that the attachment of wireless facilities to support structures owned or...
Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne...
Cogeco Inc. and Cogeco Communications Inc. announced Monday morning that president and CEO Philippe Jetté is retiring immediately from the companies and will be replaced by Frédéric Perron. Perron was most recently president of...
Beanfield Technologies Inc. has hired Chris Adamkowski as its new SVP of commercial services, the company announced Thursday.
“I am thrilled to be joining Beanfield and contributing to the mission of connecting communities...
Minister of Rural Economic Development Gudie Hutchings continued her tour...
A trio of Quebecers has been granted leave to launch a class action suit against Rogers Communications Inc. and two subsidiaries over a service disruption in April 2021. The filing was submitted last month in Montreal.
The plaintiffs are Kelly Amram and Jonathan Amar, who are partners, and Jaclyn Rabin. They want all nationwide Rogers, Rogers for Business, Fido and Chatr clients as of April 19, 2021 to be added to the class action.
On that date Rogers experienced...
The governments of Canada and Alberta announced Tuesday that they are...
The Superior Court of Quebec has authorized a class action lawsuit against...
The Wire Report, the leading news source covering telecom, digital communications and broadcast media in Canada, is searching for an editor to join our Ottawa office.
The Wire Report is part of The Hill Times Canada’s leading...
Monday the federal government and the government of British Columbia joined...
The Government of Canada announced Friday that it...
Neighbourhood Connect (NHC), operating under 2621159 Ontario Inc. DBA...
The House of Commons committee on Industry met Wednesday to discuss...
This story has been updated to reflect changes to deadlines made by the CRTC on Monday.
The CRTC is issuing a consultation on its proposal to make its voluntary call traceback process mandatory for...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron and its subsidiary VMedia have lodged two formal complaints with the Competition Bureau, urging an investigation into BCE Inc.'s alleged abuse of dominant position in the high-speed internet access (HSA) services market and with its telecommunications transport service contracts.
The complaint, issued Tuesday, accuses Bell of engaging in...
The CRTC has approved Execulink Telecom Inc.’s request for access to three multi-dwelling units (MDUs) owned by JLC Homes Ltd. in western Ontario.
The buildings, located in Tillsonburg, Ont. at...
BCE Inc. is disputing the CRTC’s preliminary...
Revenues were robust in the telecommunications sector, a new CRTC study has...
Canada has joined nine other nations to promote the development of next generation telecommunications...
With the heads of Canada’s big three telecoms threatening to boycott a House of Commons session, the House of Commons industry committee is prepared to force them to testify. Monday the panel held a hearing on accessibility and affordability of wireless and broadband. The...
By Paul Park at ppark@thewirereport.ca
Technology is changing the family...
Quebecor Inc. reported a successful fourth-quarter as it closed out the 2023 fiscal year, which it said...
The CRTC is upset with Telus Corp. over its proposal to eliminate home...
Telus Corp. announced Tuesday that it is partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Samsung...
The crisis in competition when it comes to internet connectivity is...
Representatives from Cogeco Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. told the...
Two large incumbent telecoms told the CRTC that broadband resellers are not...
To bring affordable internet and consumer choice to rural communities, the...
Cogeco Inc. is adamantly defending its right to upgrade infrastructure for the benefit of its customers in response to TekSavvy Solutions Inc.'s recent Part 1 application regarding decommissioning its coaxial facilities.
Cogeco argued that transitioning from coaxial to...
