TORONTO — Nearly half of Canadian consumers have switched or plan to switch their cell phone plans —with many finding better deals — a new survey has found.
Abacus Data conducted the poll on behalf of the Canadian Telecommunications Association (CTA). The results...
TORONTO – Simply reducing prices is not enough to attract customers anymore. A new generation of consumers is willing to pay a premium for expedited service, the Canadian Telecom Summit was told Monday.
Jasmeet Sethi is head of ConsumerLab for Ericsson AB. He told the...
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...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. have settled their...
The House of Commons is experimenting with a new Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony system for MPs’ constituency offices. The pilot project is slated to get...
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...
A New Democratic Party MP attacked BCE Inc. for not knowing its customers...
The Independent Telecommunications Providers Association (ITPA) is seeking to raise the threshold for contribution levies from $10 million to $25 million. It also wants to...
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...
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 $24 billion in Ontario to expand and improve its network over the next five years.
The spending is part of Telus’ overall investment plan totaling $73 billion to be...
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...
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 largely by its acquisition of Freedom Mobile last year. The telecom company discussed its financial results during a conference call on Thursday.
For the three months...
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...
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri gave a rosy picture of life...
Canadian wireless and broadband internet prices declined in 2023, however the country’s prices remain some of the highest compared to its G7 peers, particularly when it...
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...
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 have access to aggregated wholesale high-speed access over fibre-to-the-premises (AWHSA-FTTP) facilities.
A diverse group of stakeholders filed their remarks this...
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...
Quebecor Inc. subsidiary Videotron has filed a Part 1 application with the...
Quebecor Inc.’s flanker wireless brand Fizz has completed the beta testing of its services in Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia. On Wednesday, the company...
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...
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 usage of cell phones. The four major carriers in Canada anticipated this and have made preparations.
BCE Inc.’s Bell Canada is taking various steps to ward off...
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 department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) is auctioning off 225 spectrum...
The CRTC has approved Rogers Communications Inc.’s funding application under its Broadband Fund in a bid to improve cell service along 70 kms of highway in northern B.C. ...
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...
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 Cogeco Connexion, the firms’ broadband subsidiary. In addition to being president and CEO, he will serve as a director of both companies.
Perron has been with the Quebec company since 2020. Before signing on to Cogeco, he worked for...
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...
The governments of Canada and Alberta announced Tuesday that they are...
The Superior Court of Quebec has authorized a class action lawsuit against several major telecom companies for allegedly abusive fees charged to customers to unlock their mobile phones.
Consumers living in Quebec who paid an unlocking fee between Aug. 14, 2014 and Dec. 1,...
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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...
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 view that it has concurrent jurisdiction with the department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) over the...
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...
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 was largely due to the continued impact from its Freedom Mobile acquisition.
During a conference call with financial analysts on Thursday, the Montreal-based telecom...
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...
If Canada is to have a viable wholesale market, high speed access needs to...
The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed BCE Inc.’s motion for a stay against the CRTC’s decision to mandate access to fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) facilities over aggregated wholesale high-speed access (HSA) services but will still hear the incumbent's challenge in...
