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 charge to resellers. Judge Yves de Montigny issued a direction on Wednesday asking Bell to provide reasons by Thursday morning as to why such a hearing should take place and that, if a hearing is allowed to proceed, it would occur on Friday afternoon. If respondents intend to oppose the motions, they have until Friday at noon to do so, the judge said. The Federal Court direction comes at the...
Even if the large telecoms satisfy the court’s threshold to move forward with forcing internet service providers (ISPs) to block a website involved in alleged copyright infringing activity, it should not grant the application because it would usurp the authority of the...
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 making in Federal Court as part of its appeal of a decision by the regulator to force the company to continue to allow BCE Inc. to broadcast its sports channel.
On April 10, on the first night of...
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...
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...
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 mandated access by mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) to incumbent wireless networks, BCE Inc.’s outgoing CEO George Cope predicted while speaking to investors Tuesday at the BMO Media and...
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 series of documents identifying the perpetrators who posed as the nation’s tax agency in a phishing scam last fall.
The regulator had fielded complaints about text messages, received in September and...
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...
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...
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 large telecom companies for one-time retroactive charges to resellers, small hits to telecom bottom lines going forward, and reduced spending in rural markets as a result. Referring to the new rates announced by the CRTC August 15, National Bank analyst Adam Shine writes that the reaction of 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 August 19 court filing from the company. In late July, Bell had filed for leave to appeal the original CRTC decision granting the internet service provider (ISP) CloudWifi Inc. -- and by extension other ISPs -- access to Bell’s wires in multi-dwelling units “for a reasonable fee.” Bell said that it would suffer “irreparable harm if the Commission were to decline the stay and...
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...
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...
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 court that determined the companies were not entitled to a reimbursement of fees they paid under municipal rights-of-way bylaws that were subsequently invalidated. ...
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 carriage license to Rogers Communications Inc.’s OMNI channel back to the CRTC.
Since the June decision, four of the groups that had also applied for the license and were rejected when the CRTC chose Rogers for the license have filed petitions to the Governor in...
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. ...
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...
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 Communications Inc. can charge rightsholders for the work it takes to identify and disclose the personal...
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 the market in recent weeks may be out of line with the wireless code.
In a press release, the regulator is asking all wireless service providers to “stop offering...
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...
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...
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 calls” on its networks. The Part 1 submission to the regulator, filed Monday, also keeps the details of the call blocking mechanism confidential, so as not to “[signal] to bad actors our detection mechanisms,” the filing reads. In December, the CRTC ordered telecom companies to start blocking numbers that did not correspond to “established numbering plans,” meaning calls coming...
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 will theoretically give smaller players easier entry into the wireless market -- possibly including Cogeco Inc.
Before Tuesday’s decision announcing the new tier 5...
The Ontario government’s $315-million plan to improve connectivity in the...
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...
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 granted CloudWifi Inc. competitor access to Bell’s service wires in multi-dwelling units. It asked Bell to file access rates within 30 days of the decision, and said it is of the “preliminary view” that all internet service providers and “potentially” all telecommunications service providers must also allow access to inside wires. It launched a separate...
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 appears to be a delay in announcing its decision about whether or not to allow Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.’s equipment to be used in Canada’s 5G networks.
Monday, after months of...
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. ...
Ahead of its wireless review hearing, the CRTC is asking Canadian telecoms...
The CRTC has approved an acquisition by Stingray Group Inc. of the radio station CHOO-FM in Drumheller,...
The federal government has declined an application by SouthWestern Integrated Fibre Technology Inc. asking for changes to the CRTC’s rural broadband fund. SWIFT -- a non-profit organization that...
BCE Inc. is challenging the CRTC's decision to allow internet service...
The average Canadian household spent $233 a month on communication services in 2017, a $10.17 or 4.6 per cent increase from a year earlier, according to data from Statistics Canada released late last...
The same week that concerns were raised about new device financing plans...
Cogeco Inc. will launch its new IPTV service in its entire Canadian footprint by the end of the calendar...
The Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS) said Wednesday that new phone financing plans introduced by Rogers Communications Inc. may run afoul of the Wireless Code.
“The fact that customers are not free to shop around for a new plan while...
