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SaskTel to resume charging overage fees on June 9

telecom | 05/29/2020 2:13 pm EDT

Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. will become the second Canadian telecom to resume charging overage fees to home internet customers who go over their data caps, with the company announcing it will end the COVID-19 relief measure on June 8. SaskTel announced in a Friday press release that it had extended the suspension of overage fees --  scheduled to end on May 31 -- a further eight days, but customers would again be charged for exceeding their caps as of June 9.  SaskTel president and CEO Doug Burnett said in the release that the company understood the importance of...

Wholesale rate appeal to go ahead in June via video conference

telecom | 05/25/2020 6:05 pm EDT

A Federal Court of Appeal judge has rejected the argument made by the incumbent telecom companies last week that their appeal of the CRTC's wholesale broadband rates decision is too complicated to be done through videoconferencing.  The two day hearing will proceed as originally scheduled, on June 25 and 26.  In court filings last week, lawyers representing Rogers Communications Inc., Bragg Communications Inc., Cogeco Inc., Shaw Communications Inc., and Quebecor Inc. had asked justice David Stratas for the previously agreed-to hearing to be adjourned until the court can conduct...

Spectrum funds could achieve broadband targets before 2030: telecoms

telecom | 05/14/2020 9:35 pm EDT

An NDP plan for the federal government to add money raised from past and...

Provinces also looking at speeding up rural broadband rollouts

telecom | 05/01/2020 1:10 pm EDT

As the federal government and individual companies work on accelerating...

Cogeco pre-COVID Q2 revs steady, adjusts share buyback

telecom | 04/08/2020 6:57 pm EDT

Amid the financial uncertainty and upheaval of the COVID-19 global...

Quebecor, Cogeco lay off staff due to COVID-19

telecom | 03/27/2020 4:26 pm EDT

Quebecor Inc. and Cogeco Inc. have both announced staff layoffs due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Quebecor announced on Friday morning it would lay off 10 per cent of its workforce, which the company said amounted to about 1000...

Financial analysts say telecoms ‘resilient’ to impact of COVID-19

telecom | 03/18/2020 5:24 pm EDT

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 says.  In a briefing note to investors on Wednesday, McReynolds said he believed telecom stocks currently ranked well on “relative earnings resilience and valuation.” “In addition to the sector’s reasonable leverage and defensive dividend-paying characteristics in an exceptionally low...

COVID-19 won’t have ‘very large impact’ on Cogeco: CFO

telecom | 03/17/2020 3:54 pm EDT

Cogeco Inc. chief financial officer Patrice Ouimet has told an investor...

CIPPIC unveils most ambitious low cost wireless plan

telecom | 02/28/2020 6:01 pm EST

GATINEAU, Que. — The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic and Open Media have unveiled...

MVNO decision arrives at a ‘tipping point’: Bell CEO

telecom | 02/19/2020 6:48 pm EST

GATINEAU, Que. — How threatening the prospect of mandated MVNO access is...

CIPPIC, CIRA to challenge court authority in site-blocking case

telecom | 02/07/2020 3:54 pm EST

Both the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) and the Canadian...

Cogeco’s IPTV service in beta testing, but no start date

telecom | 01/15/2020 4:27 pm EST

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...

Incumbents, small telecoms pan Competition Bureau MVNO proposal

telecom | 01/14/2020 5:54 pm EST

Telecom providers both big and small have unanimously rejected a...

Cogeco Connexion president leaving

telecom | 12/17/2019 12:31 pm EST

Ken Smithard, the president of Cogeco Inc.’s Canadian telecom division, is leaving the company after 20...

Telecoms find silver lining in unprecedented number of CCTS complaints

telecom | 11/28/2019 6:00 am EST

Despite improvements in customer service that have lowered customer...

Consumer groups push mandated low-cost data plans in wireless review

telecom | 11/26/2019 6:03 pm EST

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 of the mobile wireless industry.  The Coalition for Cheaper Wireless Services (CCWS), the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) and OpenMedia filed additional comments in a second round of interventions preceding the regulator’s wireless review hearing early next year,...

Competition Bureau endorses limited MVNO model

telecom | 11/25/2019 10:12 am EST

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...

BDUs appeal new distant signal tariffs

Media | 11/12/2019 12:00 pm EST

A cell tower with a blue sky in the background.The country’s largest TV service providers are appealing an increase in the over-the-air distant signal...

Large telecoms say small ISPs should be subject to Internet Code too

telecom | 11/08/2019 5:20 pm EST

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...

Cogeco ‘very optimistic on wireless’: CEO

telecom | 10/31/2019 5:54 pm EDT

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,...

Quebec news funding will help with Google, Facebook dominance: Le Devoir

Media | 10/15/2019 5:56 pm EDT

As the Canada Revenue Agency considers how to administer $595-million worth of tax credits it pledged to news media, the Quebec government has unveiled a newspaper assistance...

CRTC has no jurisdiction over site-blocking request, big telecoms argue

Media | 09/26/2019 5:31 pm EDT

BCE Inc., Quebecor Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. are arguing in...

Investors too focused on Rogers wireless division: analyst

telecom | 09/20/2019 4:59 pm EDT

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...

Telecoms say CRTC wholesale decision violates Harper-era directive

telecom | 09/17/2019 5:13 pm EDT

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...

Big telecoms go to court over wholesale rates

telecom | 09/13/2019 5:26 pm EDT

In a widely anticipated move, several of the country’s biggest telecom companies have filed for leave to appeal a CRTC decision establishing a new rate regime for wholesale internet broadband.  The decision, issued August 15...

Local Quebec radio groups want more gov’t ads

Media | 09/12/2019 5:25 pm EDT

Two local Quebec radio groups representing around 60 stations in the province are asking the provincial...

CRTC resolves issues in Gatineau access dispute

telecom | 09/06/2019 5:11 pm EDT

The CRTC has set guidelines for how the country’s largest telecoms and the city of Gatineau should...

New wholesale rates to cost Rogers $140M, Cogeco $25M, companies say

telecom | 08/19/2019 7:29 pm EDT

Cogeco Inc. said Monday that the new wholesale broadband rates set by the CRTC will cost the company $25 million in retroactive payments, while Rogers Communications Inc. said it "expects to record a...

Telecoms asking SCC to review Quebec bylaw case

telecom | 08/19/2019 2:22 pm EDT

The country’s biggest telecoms are asking the Supreme Court of Canada to review a decision by a lower...

Internet code will indirectly tackle poor sales practices, CRTC chairman says

telecom | 07/31/2019 11:01 am EDT

CRTC chairman Ian Scott said the new internet code will address many of the underlying issues that have resulted in complaints about the industry's poor sales practices, which...

CTI project funding rolling out again

telecom | 07/26/2019 5:35 pm EDT

The last two months have seen a glut of project funding announced under the Connect to Innovate (CTI) program, with $29 million being funneled to 13 projects: three in New Brunswick; two each in Prince Edward Island, Ontario, and...

ISED approves smaller, tier 5 spectrum licence areas

telecom | 07/24/2019 7:04 pm EDT

The federal government will create over 600 smaller spectrum licensing areas across the country, which...

CRTC asks if incumbent networks should have MVNO set-asides

telecom | 07/15/2019 5:40 pm EDT

Ahead of its wireless review hearing, the CRTC is asking Canadian telecoms...

IPTV coming by December, Cogeco says

Media | 07/11/2019 4:21 pm EDT

Cogeco Inc. will launch its new IPTV service in its entire Canadian footprint by the end of the calendar...

CRTC asks wireless providers to justify post-data cap throttling

telecom | 07/04/2019 4:52 pm EDT

The CRTC has asked several telecoms to explain how their throttling of wireless speeds once customers exceed their data allotments doesn’t violate the commission’s regulatory policy on internet traffic management practices (ITMPs). In a June 28 letter posted to its website this week, the regulator issued requests for information to eight telecoms related to their use of ITMPs. That includes questions to Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile, Rogers Communications Inc. regarding its Chatr flanker brand, and BCE Inc.’s Bell MTS and Lucky Mobile about throttling mobile speeds after...

Broadcast news tax credit exclusion means cuts ‘inevitable’: CAB

Media | 07/02/2019 5:27 pm EDT

The independence of the panel that will determine which print news...

Videotron must give data to STB working group: CRTC

Media | 07/02/2019 5:13 pm EDT

The CRTC has ruled that Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron must continue to participate in an industry-wide working group charged with creating a set-top box (STB) data measurement system.  In April, Videotron walked away from the group, saying it didn’t want to provide any of its data to the STB working group. In an April letter to the CRTC, Shaw...

Cogeco creates new VP wireless position, hires Stingray exec

telecom | 06/25/2019 4:47 pm EDT

Cogeco Inc. said it has hired Marie Ginette Lepage as its new...

Industry committee dissents from ISED spectrum clawback plans

telecom | 06/18/2019 8:09 pm EDT

The House of Commons industry committee has endorsed Xplornet Communications Inc.'s call that the ministry of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) should not claw back any of the 3.5...

Effect of 3.5 GHz clawback on rural broadband to vary across Canada

telecom | 06/14/2019 5:03 pm EDT

In recent weeks, telecom issues haven’t escaped the increased rhetoric...

Cogeco calling for radio representation on tax credit panel

Media | 05/22/2019 5:25 pm EDT

Cogeco Inc. is lobbying the government to help Canadian radio news...

CRTC asking Canadians to participate in internet performance test

telecom | 05/10/2019 9:37 am EDT

A CRTC project dating back to 2015 that seeks to measure the internet performance of service providers (ISPs) in Canadian homes to help drive policy decisions is kicking off a second phase. The...

Telus appealing CRTC speed cap relief

telecom | 04/18/2019 5:00 pm EDT

Telus Corp. is going to court over the CRTC’s decision last month to grant smaller internet providers a...

Small telecoms call for more forceful language in policy direction

telecom | 04/16/2019 6:19 pm EDT

The CRTC’s new, consumer-focused policy direction doesn’t go far enough, according to smaller companies and advocacy groups, who told the government the proposed language...

Cogeco offering no details on MVNO strategy

telecom | 04/10/2019 4:14 pm EDT

Cogeco Inc. has long been a vocal proponent of mandated mobile virtual operators in Canada, so it’s no...

Gov’t criticized by tech companies on cloud strategy for sensitive data

telecom | 04/03/2019 1:17 pm EDT

In the lead-up to a meeting with Amazon.com Inc., the government was...

Complaints to CCTS increase again, TV issues up 500%

Media | 04/02/2019 6:00 am EDT

Complaints about TV service to the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services (CCTS)...

ACORN asks review panel for low-income $10 internet

telecom | 03/13/2019 2:44 pm EDT

All Canadians whose earnings fall below the government’s low-income measure should have access to internet service for $10, an advocacy group is telling the panel reviewing the broadcasting and telecom acts. ACORN Canada also...

Telecoms added over 1.4 million new wireless subs in 2018

telecom | 03/13/2019 12:20 pm EDT

Canada’s publicly traded telecom companies added more than one million total wireless customers last year, putting an exclamation point on a year of explosive growth in the sector. The five largest wireless carriers added 1,454,180 new subscribers to their base in...

Cogeco selling Peer 1 data centre business for $720M

telecom | 02/27/2019 3:29 pm EST

Cogeco Communications Inc. says it’s inked a deal to sell its Cogeco Peer 1 cloud services business for $720 million. The data centre business is being sold to affiliates of the Los Angeles-based investment firm Digital...

Radio interference, 5G delays raised in new spectrum tier consult

telecom | 02/26/2019 6:10 pm EST

BCE Inc., Shaw Communications Inc., and Quebecor Inc. are warning against a...

CRTC sets 5 ms threshold for ‘jitter’ in basic service standard

telecom | 02/12/2019 5:41 pm EST

The CRTC has finally set a threshold for a metric it said will improve the quality of service (QoS) for applications reliant on the rapid transmission of data. The regulator said Tuesday that it...

ISPs can already resell incumbent internet to other providers, cablecos say

telecom | 02/04/2019 2:33 pm EST

Canada’s largest cable companies said they already have existing provisions that allow providers to buy and resell their services to other providers. Late last year, the CRTC asked the cablecos...

Might be ‘late’ for regional wireless competitors: Cogeco

Media | 01/23/2019 5:05 pm EST

Cogeco Inc.  is raising caution about the negative impact the government's...

Cogeco says it’s not worried about internet speed coverage

telecom | 01/11/2019 5:18 pm EST

Cushioned between a subscriber base that on average doesn’t take gigabit...

ISPs can resell wholesale service to other providers: CRTC

telecom | 12/11/2018 5:59 pm EST

The CRTC has sided with a small telecom that was reselling wholesale...

Cogeco won’t be among bidders for 600 MHz spectrum

telecom | 12/06/2018 6:29 pm EST

Cogeco Inc. isn’t among the list of participants in the 600 MHz auction, released by Innovation Canada...

Small ISPs welcome ISED consults for fifth tier spectrum licensing area

telecom | 11/29/2018 4:48 pm EST

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) has launched a consultation on a newly proposed category of smaller service areas for spectrum licensing, a moved...

Cogeco wants to put fibre cables in Ottawa River

telecom | 11/23/2018 3:05 pm EST

Part of Cogeco Inc.’s plan to deliver gigabit internet service to its footprint is to put two fibre...

Cogeco expands gigabit to Quebec, Wi-Fi service in Ontario

telecom | 11/22/2018 4:56 pm EST

Just as it did in Ontario, Cogeco Inc. is now expanding its gigabit...

Marie-Hélène Labrie new Cogeco SVP of communications

telecom | 11/21/2018 2:01 pm EST

Cogeco Inc. has a new senior vice-president of public affairs and communications, the telecom announced Tuesday, following the retirement of René Guimond. Marie-Hélène Labrie will replace...

ISED’s low-income internet program launches

telecom | 11/16/2018 1:20 pm EST

A government program intended to connect low-income families with affordable internet launched Friday. In June, Innovation Canada announced it is investing $13.2 million over five years into the Connecting Families program to “help bridge the digital divide for...

Former CRTC commissioners criticize Harnessing Change report

Media | 11/07/2018 7:15 pm EST

TORONTO —  The idea of cross-subsidization of industries did not find...

Cogeco’s transition to new customer system drags down Q4

Media | 11/02/2018 4:52 pm EDT

Cogeco Inc.’s implementation of a new customer management system, which...

Quebecor blames bigger providers for sales practices hearings

telecom | 10/25/2018 6:26 pm EDT

GATINEAU — Telecom providers who appeared before the CRTC Thursday said...

Cogeco gets CRTC go-ahead for acquisition of RNC stations

Media | 10/11/2018 1:54 pm EDT

The CRTC has approved Cogeco Inc. to purchase 10 radio stations from RNC Media Inc., it said in a decision Thursday. “The Commission considers that the RNC stations integrated into Cogeco could...

Quebecor focused on convergence with new radio offering: Desjardins

Media | 10/09/2018 3:50 pm EDT

A new online radio service from Quebecor Inc. indicates the company is...

CRTC requiring next-day status of service reports to TPIA subscribers

telecom | 09/10/2018 5:43 pm EDT

Five months after ushering the internet into the quality of service regime, the CRTC said Friday it is directing cable incumbents to provide status of service reports to customers of wholesale clients...

Cogeco gigabit service expands in Ontario

telecom | 08/31/2018 3:36 pm EDT

Cogeco Inc. has staked out parts of Ontario for a gigabit expansion that features its DOCSIS 3.1 technology, it said in a Friday release. The Montreal-based cable company announced the high-speed offerings will now be...

SaskTel now offers IPTV service

Media | 08/22/2018 5:58 pm EDT

Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. (SaskTel) announced the launch of a new TV service using Ericsson AB’s MediaFirst-powered IPTV platform in a press release on Wednesday. Dubbed the maxTV Stream, according to the...

Don’t set metrics for jitter, telecoms tell CRTC

Media | 08/15/2018 12:36 pm EDT

There is no need to set thresholds for jitter as part of the basic service standard, telecoms said in interventions to a CRTC consultation Monday. The regulator launched the consultation in July, when it issued standards governing latency, data packet loss and jitter -- the rate at which packets of data arrive to their destination out of the correct order and cause slowdown and disruption -- all as part its basic service standard, which sets out the minimum internet service that should be available to all Canadians. The CRTC declined to set a standard for jitter, instead launching a...

Cogeco bucks the cableco X1 trend with MediaFirst pick

telecom | 08/14/2018 6:28 pm EDT

Cogeco Inc. is going with MediaFirst for its first IPTV platform, a move...

BDUs need to have STB data ready for Sept. 2019: CRTC

telecom | 08/03/2018 2:31 pm EDT

The CRTC renewed the licences of a slew of broadcasters in multiple decisions on Thursday, taking a hands-off approach to issues like pricing of standalone channels, but setting conditions of license for community programming,...

Xplornet lobby blitz fights 3.5 GHz clawback proposal

telecom | 07/23/2018 10:16 am EDT

Xplornet Communications Inc. will not be able to service thousands of its rural customers with...

CRTC to hold sales practices hearing in October

telecom | 07/16/2018 1:57 pm EDT

The CRTC will question telecoms about their sales practices at an October hearing in Gatineau, Que., the regulator said Monday as it launched a consultation. The proceeding is in response to an order by the federal government...

Blank slate in wireless tech an opportunity: Cogeco’s Audet

telecom | 07/12/2018 6:00 pm EDT

Cogeco Inc.'s renewed interest in entering the wireless market is partly driven by the opportunity to jump directly into building an entirely new type of cellular network, said CEO Louis Audet. “At this point in time, the opportunity exists to start with a blank sheet...

Cogeco hires lobbyist with wireless spectrum expertise

telecom | 07/03/2018 11:54 am EDT

Amir Bigloo, who has a history of successful spectrum purchases as CEO of...

CRTC opens consultation on Cogeco-RNC radio station deal

Media | 06/28/2018 2:34 pm EDT

The CRTC is now accepting interventions in its review of Cogeco Inc.’s plans to buy 10 radio stations from RNC Media Inc. Cogeco is proposing a tangible benefits package of six per cent of the...

Bell tops broadband speed tests, but falls in customer satisfaction survey

Media | 06/22/2018 5:06 pm EDT

In a pair of studies measuring home internet service this week, BCE Inc. was positioned at the two ends of the spectrum, topping out the list of fastest connections in Canada, but falling to near the...

Cogeco could opt for ‘hybrid’ arrangement with new spectrum: Canaccord

telecom | 06/22/2018 2:40 pm EDT

An announcement Thursday that Cogeco Inc. has bought more spectrum makes it clear the company is “exploring a viable economic model for a wireless service,” Canaccord Genuity analyst Aravinda...

Cogeco buys $8M of additional 2500 MHz spectrum

Media | 06/21/2018 5:53 pm EDT

Cogeco Inc. has bought $8 million worth of the 2500 MHz paired spectrum band from Kian Telecom Inc.,...

Bains says spectrum auction dates to give industry predictability

telecom | 06/06/2018 6:51 pm EDT

TORONTO — Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains announced Wednesday the...

Cogeco picks up 2300 MHz, 2500 MHz spectrum

telecom | 05/22/2018 6:18 pm EDT

Innovation Canada (ISED) released the results of its 2018 residual spectrum auction Friday, with Cogeco Inc. ending up as the big spender. The Montreal-based telecom picked up seven paired and 16 unpaired licenses in the 2300...

New CEO announced for Cogeco, Audet vows family to retain control

telecom | 05/15/2018 7:36 pm EDT

MONTREAL — Despite a generational change at the helm of Cogeco Inc., the...

New numbers emerge in mandatory carriage renewal consultation

Media | 05/15/2018 4:31 pm EDT

The CRTC has issued a call for comments after correcting the data it used to determine wholesale rates during the regulator’s look at mandatory carriage renewals, according to a Friday letter.  Originally, the consultation which prompted a hearing on the matter used data indicating that the rate of subscription losses had declined in the 2015-2016 year, from the previous 2014-2015 period. But the letter said numbers supplied by Suzanne Blackwell of Giganomics Consulting Inc., on behalf of Cogeco Inc., Quebecor Inc., and Shaw Communications Inc., showed the subscription decline...

Don’t increase carriage fees for 9(1)h services: TV providers

Media | 05/03/2018 5:33 pm EDT

TV service providers told the CRTC this week that cord-cutting by Canadians shouldn’t be the reason to give channels with mandatory carriage on basic packages higher monthly carriage fees. Shaw Communications Inc., Quebecor Inc. and Cogeco Inc. told the CRTC in a joint presentation during a hearing this week that they...

Frontier-Eastlink tariff tiff could affect other ISPs, CNOC warns

telecom | 04/30/2018 5:13 pm EDT

A dispute between two internet service providers (ISPs) over the...

Cogeco picking up 10 RNC radio stations for $18.5M

Media | 04/24/2018 2:25 pm EDT

Cogeco Inc. has reached a deal with RNC Media Inc. to acquire 10 of RNC’s radio stations. The deal,...

It’s not ‘notice-and-Norwich,’ SCC to hear in disclosure costs case

Media | 04/20/2018 11:33 am EDT

The notice-and-notice regime requires internet service providers (ISPs) to...

Cogeco qualifies for wireless auction, CEO says no more

telecom | 04/13/2018 5:17 pm EDT

Despite qualifying this week for an auction of wireless spectrum, the head of Cogeco Inc. refused to answer questions about the company’s intentions on wireless going forward. “I would like to point out that this is congruent with the company’s previously announced...

FairPlay regime ineffective, counter to Telecom Act: opponents

Media | 04/05/2018 4:39 pm EDT

A proposal to implement a website-blocking system to fight piracy has drawn...

Few surprises in 600 MHz auction framework: analysts

telecom | 03/29/2018 4:15 pm EDT

Innovation Canada has released its framework for the 600 MHz spectrum auction, now scheduled for March 2019, and it will set aside 43 per cent of spectrum for “regional competitors and potential new market entrants,” according...

ISP coalition stands up to proposed hydro pole price

telecom | 03/22/2018 5:53 pm EDT

A coalition of internet service providers (ISPs) is taking the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) to task over a proposal to significantly raise the cost of hydro pole installation across the province, which they say will inevitably lead...

In telecoms’ year-end, cord-cutting slows, wireline grows

Media | 03/21/2018 12:14 pm EDT

Canada’s publicly-traded telecoms lost fewer TV subscribers in 2017 than...

iHeartRadio files for bankruptcy in U.S.

Media | 03/15/2018 5:17 pm EDT

The owner of iHeartRadio Media Inc., the company that aggregates radio content through its app, has filed...

TiVo expands patent suit to include Bell

telecom | 01/31/2018 5:49 pm EST

TiVo Corp. is going after a second Canadian telecom for patent infringement, claiming in a lawsuit filed...

Citing gov’t signals, Cogeco CEO indicates renewed interest in wireless

Media | 01/11/2018 5:55 pm EST

MONTREAL — Cogeco Inc. is feeling more optimistic about the possibility...

Sidewalk Labs, civil liberties group register to lobby

Media | 01/08/2018 4:14 pm EST

Alphabet Inc.’s Sidewalk Labs kicked off the new year by registering to...

BPF registers to lobby amidst consumer group funding concerns

Media | 12/14/2017 2:25 pm EST

A few months after the emergence of a proposal asking the CRTC to shift funding away from the Broadcast Participation Fund (BPF), the organization that helps bring consumer interests in front of the commission has filed its first registrations to lobby the regulator and the...