Ahead of its wireless review hearing, the CRTC is asking Canadian telecoms to answer a long list of questions related to the government’s new policy directive to the regulator to enhance competition and affordability.
That includes the question of whether the CRTC...
The CRTC has approved an acquisition by Stingray Group Inc. of the radio station CHOO-FM in Drumheller, Alta. from Golden West Broadcasting Ltd.
In Monday’s decision, the CRTC noted the station hasn’t turned a profit since its launch in 2009, and that Golden West...
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 year, CEO Philippe Jetté said on a call with analysts Thursday.
“We are currently testing our IPTV platform and we are very enthusiastic about the advanced...
The Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS) said...
The CRTC will require wireless providers to send a second visible test of...
Juniper Research is projecting over five billion people will have some form of digital ID by 2024, as the Canadian government seeks information on how it can meet its own goals for the emerging...
Iristel Inc. hasn’t provided enough evidence in a dispute with BCE Inc. to compel the CRTC to re-regulate some transport services, the commission said Wednesday. Iristel had asked the CRTC to...
Artificial intelligence technology allowing videos to be seamlessly...
The wireless service outage that began on Sunday and affected the...
The federal government approved spending on a fibre project in Manitoba...
The CRTC has filled the last of its open commissioner slots, as Yukon lawyer Claire Anderson has been named to the vacant seat representing British Columbia and the Yukon. Anderson, who practices law at the Whitehorse firm...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron will challenge a recent CRTC decision ordering it to turn over information collected from TV set-top boxes to a working group. The CRTC issued that decision earlier this week, after Videotron walked away from the group in April. The working group was set up in the wake of the 2014 Let’s Talk TV hearings, and will collect viewership data in order to help broadcasters better plan their programming and advertisers to better plan their spending. The deadline for the system to be implemented is Jan. 15, 2020. Videotron said in a press release Friday that it...
The federal government will contribute $71 million to a project from the Eastern Ontario Regional Network (EORN) that aims to improve mobile connectivity in the region. “Once completed, the...
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...
A wireless network announced last year that allows small- and medium-sized businesses to test 5G technology is now operational, according to a press release. The ENCQOR 5G test bed, part of a public-private partnership to...
Telus Corp. is making its once promotional “no overage” wireless data plan options a permanent...
John Knubley, who has been deputy minister at Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) for seven years, announced his retirement last week. Knubley has been at ISED since 2012, and before that was deputy Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food from 2009. He has worked in public service since 1980. His last day of work was today, Friday June 28, an ISED spokesperson confirmed....
The imminent departure of BCE Inc. CEO George Cope, announced Friday...
The price of data is coming down and the size of data packages is going up, all thanks to market pressure...
The connectivity strategy released by Rural Economic Development Minister...
Vancouver-based Novus Entertainment Inc. has once again sought help from the CRTC to install transmission facilities and ancillary telecommunications equipment in a multi-dwelling unit development in the Greater Vancouver area. ...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s decision to introduce "no overage" plans will likely negatively impact all wireless carriers, Scotiabank’s Jeff Fan said in a new report. “In this dynamically...
Ending several months of uncertainty and speculations, Twitter Inc. has declared that it will join Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search engine in not selling any political advertisements in Canada in the...
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez said in a social media post Wednesday that the Liberal government plans...
Quebecor Inc. has responded to BCE Inc.’s claim that Quebecor’s Videotron unfairly disadvantaged Bell’s Super Écran by placing the channel in its “Other Specialties” package with a claim of its own: by putting Super...
The blue ribbon panel in charge of reviewing Canada’s communications legislation has released its interim report, which — as expected — offers no indication of what policy positions the seven members might take in their final recommendations.
Earlier this month,...
The CRTC is granting CloudWifi Inc. competitor access to BCE Inc.’s...
Cogeco Inc. said it has hired Marie Ginette Lepage as its new...
Long-standing Quebecor Inc. executive Serge Sasseville has announced he will retire from his position as...
The federal government failed to meet an internal goal by which it aimed to...
The public safety and national security committee of the House of Commons has recommended that the federal government look at ways to make sure that Canadian data stays on Canadian soil. The federal government should, according to the committee, “explore ways to ensure all sensitive data moved within Canada has a domestically routed path, ensuring data packets are not exposed to foreign network infrastructure.” The recommendation comes in a report on cybersecurity in the financial sector, released Thursday, among several other recommendations related to cybersecurity. According...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s reasons for launching a no-overage-fee...
New data released by the CRTC Thursday shows the industry-wide trend of tumbling broadcast sector revenue...
The Federal Court of Appeal will hear an appeal from Telus Corp. that challenges the CRTC’s decision to allow, on an interim basis, smaller providers to provide internet customers over-100 Mbps...
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...
The National Research Council of Canada and the University of Waterloo announced on Monday they will create a new “collaboration hub,” aimed at conducting research on a host of fields related to...
The government’s new policy direction to the CRTC — first proposed in...
In the government’s move to digitize its institutions, the House of Commons ethics committee is recommending that it ensures personal information used for research is anonymized, according to a new...
The federal government expected contributions from its broadband programs,...
A former Astral executive is Quebec’s new representative to the CRTC, with the federal government appointing Alicia Barin to the commission for a five-year term. Barin will join the CRTC in August. She is a former executive at Astral Media who left the company after BCE Inc. purchased it in 2013. Barin has worked in corporate affairs for AECO Project Management Inc. and Barin Architecture + Design since leaving Astral Media, the government said in a press release. “Ms. Barin’s extensive experience in the media industry as well as her expertise in Canadian broadcast policy and...
The conflict between BCE Inc. and Quebecor Inc. that has been simmering since April has again reached the CRTC, this time with the threat of Bell cutting off some Videotron wireless customers. Quebecor filed a Part 1...
As BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. reacted to Rogers Communications Inc.’s offer of a new wireless data plan with no data overage charges, analysts and experts had difficulty predicting how the new plans...
The CRTC has approved a request from Corus Entertainment Inc. to shutter 44 of its television transmitting towers that serve rural customers. The original application from November said that the...
The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal request by MediaTube Corp. to present new evidence in a six-year-old patent infringement case brought against BCE Inc. Judge David Stratus agreed with Bell’s argument that...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s launch of a wireless plan that won’t charge customers for exceeding their data buckets is part of an inevitable move to more affordable...
BCE Inc.-owned Northwestel will invest a fresh $5 million to upgrade its...
A new report by Ericsson AB suggests an accelerated timeline for the...
BCE Inc. confirmed today that several thousand of its Fibe TV and Alt TV...
The New Democratic Party has unveiled Monday a plan to make telecommunications services more affordable,...
A new group made up of businesses and industry associations wants to help...
OTTAWA — Liberal MP William Amos, the MP who brought forward a motion compelling the House industry committee to study the issue of rural broadband, said Thursday that he's "very disappointed" with...
The decision by Innovation Canada to carve-out mobile use licences from the...
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Innovation Canada will give existing holders of 3.5...
TORONTO — Executives from Canada’s biggest carriers defended the country’s wireless prices during a panel discussion Tuesday, saying there is no problem with how much service costs in Canada, despite both the federal government and the CRTC zoning in on affordability...
The House industry committee is asking the Heritage committee to study...
TORONTO — Paul McAleese, president of wireless at Shaw Communications...
TORONTO — During a speech at an industry conference Monday, CRTC chairman...
TORONTO —The CRTC chose to initially target its long-awaited broadband...
TORONTO — The interim report due at the end of this month from the expert panel in charge of reviewing Canada’s communications laws will only summarize the input the members have received so far, chairwoman Janet Yale said at a telecom industry conference.
“The...
OTTAWA — The new rural economic development ministry will release the...
OTTAWA — For the Canadian government to be more effective at legislating on issues including social media and internet of things (IoT) technology, it needs to communicate with technology specialists...
Broadcasters have lobbied the government for years to reimburse them for...
OTTAWA — Facebook Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have both signed on to a...
As Shaw Communications Inc. continues to expand its Freedom Mobile brand, a...
After the CRTC in April denied the Competition Bureau’s request for more specific telecom data for its wireless review, the commission Friday changed course and said it will go ahead and ask...
The CRTC has denied a request by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) to state that CRTC policy...
Cogeco Inc. is lobbying the government to help Canadian radio news...
An ongoing dispute between Novus Entertainment Inc. and multi-dwelling unit (MDU) developer Thind Developments Inc. came to a close earlier this month, according to a letter from the CRTC. Novus’ Part 1 application to the commission has now been closed, after the companies concluded installation agreements for two of Thind’s new developments in Burnaby, B.C., the letter dated May 9 outlined. Novus filed a complaint with the CRTC earlier this year, after what it said were repeated attempts by Novus to contact Thind, dating as far back as January 2016, in order to gain access to their...
Innovation Canada is recommending that the privacy commissioner be vested...
Conservative leader Andrew Scheer said last week he was in favour of a ban...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom, the country’s major fourth wireless player, says it is most susceptible to harm if the CRTC decides to mandate MVNO access to incumbent facilities, and that...
Users of a program that provides free access to conventional TV stations in areas where they’re not available over-the-air are asking the CRTC not to allow Shaw Communications Inc. to shut down the...
OTTAWA — After details emerged last week that 60 per cent of applicants to the federal government’s Connect to Innovate (CTI) program still hadn’t been informed about whether their applications were successful, rural economic development minister Bernadette Jordan said...
The House heritage committee says the government should do more to fight...
Innovation Canada announced the creation Tuesday of a new advisory panel for artificial intelligence made up of members from across academia, the private sector, and government. The panel, announced as Innovation Minister...
Shaw Communications Inc. is getting rid of $548 million in shares in Corus Entertainment Inc.
The...
A class action against BCE Inc.’s controversial 2013 relevant advertising program will be heard in an Ontario Court. The action, which alleges that the program violated the plaintiffs’ privacy...
BCE Inc. is supporting Telus Corp.’s request to appeal a decision by the CRTC that temporarily removed a cap on internet download speeds smaller telecoms can provide customers. Telus said in the Federal Court of Appeal...
OTTAWA — Facebook Inc.’s head of public policy in Canada said Friday the platform’s community guidelines, “in many respects,” go above what is currently prescribed in Canadian law, as the...
OTTAWA — In an at-times tense hearing of the House of Commons ethics committee, executives from the Canada office of Alphabet Inc.’s Google made the case that the company was technologically...
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...
The new Fizz flanker brand launched by Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron is still too small a part of the company’s business to significantly affect its average billing per user (ABPU), Videotron’s CEO said Thursday.
“The impact of Fizz is minimal. We don’t have that...
One year after claiming it registers similar smartphone-specific new...
OTTAWA — As the House industry committee prepares to begin a study on the state of Canada’s rural wireless infrastructure after the passage of the private member's motion M-208, the motion’s...
More than two years after the deadline to apply for funding through the...
Shaw Communications Inc. has confirmed that the data of some 15,000 customers was left exposed on the...
Competition commissioner Matthew Boswell has told the CRTC he needs more location-specific data about Canada’s wireless market to be able to contribute to the upcoming review of the CRTC’s mobile wireless wholesale framework. The bureau had asked telecoms to turn over detailed information about their wireless operations, saying the information is necessary to put together economic analyses -- a request telecoms immediately opposed. In mid-April, the CRTC denied the bureau’s request but issued its own questions to the telecoms that covered much of the same ground. In a letter on...
Nicholas McHaffie, who served as counsel to TekSavvy Solutions Inc. in its long-running legal saga against movie studios looking to get the personal information of Canadians in copyright cases, has been appointed to the Federal...
BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., Telus Corp., and Shaw Communications Inc. have responded to the CRTC’s questions about $10 fees they charge for some customer service tasks. Telecom...
OTTAWA — The newly-minted Ministry of Rural Economic Development will next month release its development strategy for the rural economy, detailing among other things how it plans to spend its...
The expected focus by the country’s largest wireless service providers...
If the Office of the Privacy Commissioner takes Facebook Inc. to Federal...
The Federal Court of Appeal has rejected an application by the City of Calgary asking the court to review a CRTC decision the city said didn’t address whether a new bylaw could govern telecom access to infrastructure. The...
The federal government plans to issue its decision on whether to ban equipment from Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. from Canada’s 5G networks before this year’s federal election. “We understand...
The CRTC has approved a proposed sale of two Quebec radio stations to Leclerc Communication Inc., but not a requested exception to its ownership policy that Leclerc has said would kill the deal if not...
Residents of a New Brunswick town are asking the Federal Court to review the government’s approval of a proposed telecommunications tower by Bragg Communications Inc.’s...
