During the first French-language debate of the federal election campaign, party leaders promised to take on digital giants, even as they dodged answering how they would do so without angering U.S. president Donald Trump.
Moderator Pierre Bruneau asked how the parties that...
Six years after first filing suit alleging BCE Inc. infringed on its patent in the making of the telecom’s Fibe TV — and along the way suffering a number of decisions against it — MediaTube Corp. is asking the Supreme Court of Canada to review its case.
The...
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...
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 telecoms are saying such a process is not necessary to grant a stay of the decision. Bell said in a letter to the court late Wednesday afternoon that it only asked for an oral hearing due to the fast-approaching CRTC deadline to file significantly lower wholesale rates on the same day. “In our view, an oral hearing is not necessary to determine whether Bell is entitled to the relief sought,”...
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...
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 regulator to base its decisions to the “maximum extent feasible” on market forces. The CRTC’s August decision established a new pricing regime for the selling of wholesale internet rates that dramatically lowers the rate at which the companies are allowed to sell wholesale internet to...
Allarco Entertainment 2008 Inc.’s Super Channel...
The Green Party election platform includes promises to ensure only...
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...
The country’s largest wireless service providers have “significant room for improvement” when it comes to providing important and timely information to customers who are elderly or live with...
The NDP’s promised telecom service price caps would apply to all wireless plans and the CRTC would be the body charged with setting up the regime, an NDP source confirmed...
OTTAWA — On the second and final day of a potentially precedent-setting court hearing on site-blocking, a Federal Court judge gave the parties until Wednesday to negotiate a revised draft site...
OTTAWA — Lawyers representing BCE Inc., Quebecor Inc.’s Groupe TVA, and Rogers Communications Inc. asked a Federal Court judge this morning for a court order that would force a number of internet...
Whatever the outcome of next month’s federal election, there will be no...
Even before the federal election campaign officially kicked off, telecom...
As analysts predict the CRTC’s decision on wholesale internet rates is likely to be appealed, they are divided on what impact the new rates would have on the industry as a whole. In a note released Monday morning,...
The CRTC has set guidelines for how the country’s largest telecoms and the city of Gatineau should...
The Conservative Party is promising new rules for electronic data collection and technologies like the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence if it wins in this fall’s federal election....
The CRTC has served a web hosting provider with an order to produce a...
OneWeb’s constellation of low-earth orbit satellites will offer service in Canada’s North starting in 2020, the company said Wednesday. It will launch with 16 hours of service a day by the end of 2020, with 24 hours of continuous coverage expected by the first quarter of 2021, according to a company spokesperson. OneWeb said in a press release the system will have a capacity of 375 Gbps, which it says will be enough to give “fiber-like connectivity to hundreds of thousands of homes, planes, and boats, connecting millions across the Arctic.” “The dense, flexible coverage...
Quebecor Inc. announced in a release Tuesday that Patrick Jutras would take over as senior vice-president and chief advertising officer of Quebecor and its TVA Group subsidiary. Jutras was previously vice-president of digital...
In the latest development in the months-long conflict between BCE Inc. and Quebecor Inc., the CRTC has decided that Bell cannot suspend its wholesale roaming service to Quebecor subsidiary Videotron,...
If the CRTC finds that device financing options beyond two years do not...
As major spectrum auctions considered important for 5G networks grow nearer, Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) wants to know more about how spectrum is used in Canada, and is looking at Victoria, B.C.-based...
The Federal Court of Appeal has decided that it will delay making a decision on whether or not to grant BCE Inc.’s leave to appeal a June CRTC decision giving CloudWifi Inc. access to Bell wiring inside multi-dwelling units. On August 19, Bell had asked the court to stay its decision on the company’s appeal until after the CRTC decided on Bell’s “review and vary” application with the regulator. CloudWifi had argued that the two processes -- both within the CRTC and in the Federal Court of Appeal -- could not proceed simultaneously, and that it was “premature” to file in...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron is in talks with other telecom companies about...
The NDP is already throwing cold water on reports that the Liberals are considering a price cap and mandated access for mobile virtual network operators as part of the incumbent party’s campaign plank. In a Tuesday evening...
Analyst notes published this week confirm much of what was already known about the impact of new CRTC wholesale broadband rates on incumbent carriers. Namely, the new wholesale rates will hit the...
Telus Corp. told the federal government that prohibiting Huawei...
The Office of the Prime Minister announced late last week that Simon Kennedy would become deputy minister of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development starting September 3. Kennedy will be replacing John Knubley, who retired in June after seven years at ISED and 39 years in public service. Kennedy has been deputy minister of health since...
The price of wireless plans is going down slightly, but the price of phones is skyrocketing, according to Consumer Price Index data released last week by Statistics Canada. In July, telephone...
Telus Corp. is contemplating asking the Supreme Court of Canada to review a...
BCE Inc. still wants the Federal Court of Appeal to grant it leave to appeal a June CRTC decision, but the company is content to wait until the CRTC concludes its own internal process, according to an...
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink followed public consultation protocol when it advised New Brunswick residents that it was planning to build a cell tower in a residential area, according to court documents. The prospective Zack Road tower in Moncton was opposed by residents who claimed the infrastructure would reduce property values and present a health risk. In April, they asked the Federal Court to look into its complaint that they weren’t properly consulted. But in a...
Counsel to Voltage Pictures LLC and a number of movie studios is asking the Federal Court of Appeal to review a case that found Rogers Communications Inc. is owed $67.23 to disclose the personal...
Quebecor Inc. hasn’t established that it actually owns the set-top box data at the centre of a new...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron and Shaw Communications Inc. added their voices...
Innovation Canada is asking Canadians to use a tool designed to test internet performance in order to inform how it designs its $1.7-billion Universal Broadband Fund. The initiative, announced...
Shueisha Inc., a Japanese publisher of comic books, has filed an application in Federal Court to compel two Canadian internet service providers to fork over the personal...
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...
The federal government is spending $151 million to lay some 1,700...
The country’s biggest telecoms are asking the Supreme Court of Canada to review a decision by a lower...
BCE Inc. has responded to lower wholesale rates for internet service...
The new wholesale tariffs for internet service announced by the CRTC Thursday are unlikely to have a large impact on the big publicly traded telecoms, though their profits will be affected marginally,...
Wholesale-based ISPs are praising a decision by the CRTC to lower the rates...
The union representing employees at Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. has rejected the latest contract offer from the telecom and are in a legal strike position. That means Unifor can...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) has endorsed a number of petitions to the Governor in Council, joining the call for the government to send the CRTC’s June decision granting a mandatory...
BCE Inc. has quietly dropped prices for its new “unlimited” data plans across the country, with residents of Quebec and, to a lesser extent, Saskatchewan and Manitoba seeing even lower prices. Bell is offering its new data plans in Quebec at a base monthly price of $65 for 15 GB, 20 GB for $85, and 50 GB for $115, all so long as the customer brings their own device, plans known as BYOD. In Saskatchewan and Manitoba, a customer can get the same BYOD plans, except only 10 GB for $65 a month, rather than 15 GB. In every other province in the country, the BYOD plans are available at...
Continuing its expansion into the digital health services sector, Telus...
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is seeking assistance in moving...
The federal government announced on Monday the creation of the CyberSecure Canada program, a new certification program for Canadian businesses to further promote cyber security as a central tenet of commercial enterprise. In a release from Innovation, Science, and Economic Development, the department describes the...
Rogers Communications Inc. said its flanker brand Fido would begin offering what the company is calling...
CloudWifi Inc. has asked the federal court of appeal to dismiss a motion from BCE Inc.’s Bell for leave to appeal a June CRTC decision.
Bell is currently simultaneously appealing the CRTC’s decision from late June with the CRTC, as well as in the federal appeals...
Prices for communications services are on a downward trend, according to new data from the CRTC, but spending on those goods are also on the rise. Those services are made up of mobile wireless (with unlimited voice and SMS...
Quebecor Inc.’s CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau said he’s “happy” that...
The Federal Court is setting at $35 the hourly rate that Rogers...
OTTAWA — A Federal Court judge has granted an interim ban on what the big telecom companies are...
The CRTC has directed telecom companies to disclose an additional set of...
The big three telecoms are telling the CRTC that their practice of slowing...
Removing wireless data caps and giving customers the option of financing...
The CRTC said Friday afternoon that it thinks the 36-month smartphone financing plans that have entered...
A week after Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains announced an $85-million investment and a memorandum of understanding that tips as much as $600 million in federal government investments over the next 10 years into its low-earth orbit satellite [LEOS] division, Telesat Holdings Inc. is poised to make a “very disruptive offering” in the wireless broadband market, according to CEO Dan Goldberg. The details of that offering could also come this year. The comments came in a second quarter...
Shaw Communications Inc. is blasting the move by the wireless industry’s...
BCE Inc. said the race to “unlimited” wireless...
Just as it allowed Corus Entertainment Inc. to do last month, the CRTC has given approval to BCE Inc. to...
The country's largest telecoms are siding with BCE Inc. in its fight against a CRTC decision that ruled providers including CloudWifi Inc. can access only its fibre wires in multi-dwelling buildings. Earlier this month, BCE...
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...
Rogers Communications Inc. is lobbying the City of Montreal to be involved in the city’s 5G pilot...
Telus Corp. has followed in the footsteps of rival Rogers Communications Inc. in making its device...
BCE Inc. is asking the CRTC for permission to conduct a 90-day-trial using artificial intelligence and machine learning for call blocking “certain known, verified, fraudulent scam voice telephony...
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...
The launch of new plans from Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom will...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom is responding to the wireless...
OTTAWA — As part of its strategy to tackle rural broadband in Canada,...
The federal government will create over 600 smaller spectrum licensing areas across the country, which...
The Ontario government’s $315-million plan to improve connectivity in the province includes a promise to review hydro pole attachment rates, which was praised by the Canadian Communication Systems Alliance (CCSA) in a press release Wednesday.
“We are particularly...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s CEO Joe Natale said there has been a 50 per...
BCE Inc. is asking for leave to appeal the CRTC’s June decision granting CloudWifi Inc. competitor access to Bell’s service wires in multi-dwelling units (MDUs). That decision allowed internet...
Canaccord Genuity analyst Aravinda Galappatthige said the wireless frenzy unleashed by the new no-overage plans will negatively impact Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp., while benefiting Shaw...
OTTAWA — With the federal government’s decision on whether to ban...
Three of the nation’s largest broadcasters are suing the owners of a service that is allegedly selling live TV service packages and on-demand content without a licence or authorization.
Quebecor Inc.’s Groupe TVA Inc., BCE Inc., and Rogers Communications Inc. are...
The Liberal government plans to have the CRTC be the body in charge of developing and then enforcing telecom regulation related to future cybersecurity laws, according to a memo for Heritage Minister...
WireIE Holdings International Inc., a wholesaler of enterprise telecom services, has been helping telecoms across the country deliver internet and TV services to underserved areas, an effort that will...
The CRTC has suspended the deadlines it set for BCE Inc. to file tariffs on access to its fibre wire inside buildings and for other carriers to file interventions in a related proceeding. In a June decision, the regulator...
As facial recognition becomes increasingly accessible to police and other...
Rogers Communications Inc. Monday announced what it is calling a 5G “innovation lab” with the Waterloo-based Communitech. “Our partnership with Communitech is part of our work to bring...
Despite being “saddened” by the exit of one of its members, the panel reviewing Canada’s communications laws said it was forging ahead with its final recommendations, due in January 2020. Hank Intven, a lawyer and...
The CRTC has asked the country’s wireless providers for information about new device financing plans that have appeared on the market in the last few weeks. In a letter signed by CRTC chief of consumer, research and...
Conservative and NDP MPs criticized the Liberal government Tuesday for what...
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink is bringing in a program that encourages customers to upgrade their phones after 12 months -- bucking an industry trend of switching at the end of the standard two-year contract term. The “easyUP” program will allow users to return their existing device and upgrade to another after a year on a two-year contract. The eligible phones are Apple Inc.’s iPhone XS Max, XS and XR and the Samsung Corp.’s 9, 10, 10+, 10e, A20, A50, A70 and Note9. The devices cost $0 up-front on contract. The new offer comes after Rogers Communications Inc. last...
