The CRTC will require wireless providers to send a second visible test of the wireless emergency alert system in November if an alerting authority opts to execute such a test,...
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 technology. The U.K.-based research firm said in a whitepaper this week that is multiples more than the expected 1.7 billion people who will have some form of digital identification document with them this year. Despite this, Juniper said national efforts on digital ID do not necessarily translate to a successful system, pointing to the Finnish example, where deployment did not equate to adoption. ...
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 Lackowicz & Hoffman, will begin her term on Aug. 26, according to a press release. She is also a member of Taku River Tlingit First Nation, and will be the sole Indigenous commissioner, and only the second Indigenous person appointed to the CRTC since 1968. There have long been calls for increased Indigenous representation at the CRTC. The appointment of...
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...
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...
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 Bernadette Jordan Thursday morning reiterated the Liberals’ commitment to the promises made in the federal budget, but offered no new information about how those funds will be spent.
What the...
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 Écran into its basic service Alt TV IPTV package on its own service, Bell has disadvantaged Videotron. Quebecor’s Part 1 submission to the CRTC, filed Monday, alleges that by placing Super Écran in its basic package, Bell gives itself an “undue advantage,” forbidden by section 9 of the Broadcasting Distribution Regulations. By placing the channel in the...
The blue ribbon panel in charge of reviewing Canada’s communications legislation has released its...
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...
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 download speeds under a new regime. Telus filed the appeal request in April, a month after the CRTC decided that the Canadian Network Operators Consortium (CNOC) had a legitimate case to be concerned about not being able to provide those higher speeds if it didn’t move to the new disaggregated regime -- which allows smaller players to lease last-mile fibre at the expense of providing their own...
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, including Connecting Canadians and Connect to Innovate (CTI), to slash by half the number of...
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...
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...
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 IPTV customers lost access to the game during the crucial final 30 seconds of last night’s NBA Finals Game 5 between the Toronto Raptors and Golden State Warriors.
The Raptors lost as Kyle Lowry’s...
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 GHz spectrum an opportunity to apply for flexible use of the spectrum based on their proportional holdings of the frequencies, it said in a new document outlining how the band, said to be crucial for...
TORONTO — Executives from Canada’s biggest carriers defended the...
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...
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 having to switch channels when the 600 MHz spectrum is repurposed for mobile wireless use, but all such requests have so-far been rebuffed, The Wire Report has learned.
In 2016, Innovation Canada...
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 broadcasters qualify for a media tax credit and to have radio representation on a panel of experts vested with administering those benefits.
The Montreal-based telecom last month registered a new subject...
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...
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...
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 company said in a press release that after the deal closes -- which is expected to happen on May 31 -- the company will no longer have an equity interest in 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 regulator and some ISPs are asking Canadians to voluntarily and temporarily connect a device called a Whitebox to their modems or routers in order to measure “actual” connection speeds compared to what they advertise. The project is done in collaboration with internet performance assessment...
The new Fizz flanker brand launched by Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron is still...
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...
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 portion of the $1.7 billion announced in March for rural connectivity. The announcement came this morning at an event hosted by the Canada 2020 think tank with Bernadette Jordan, who was named the first rural development minister when the post was created in January. Her portfolio includes rural broadband, though Jordan’s office would not specify Thursday just how much of the rural broadband fund...
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 approved. Leclerc had asked the CRTC to allow it to buy French-language commercial stations CHOI-FM Québec and CKLX-FM Montréal from RNC Media Inc., but also for an exception to the CRTC’s ownership policy that would allow it to retain control of CHOI-FM -- which would mean Leclerc would own...
Residents of a New Brunswick town are asking the Federal Court to review...
An Innovation Canada consultation asking for comment about whether it should begin adjusting spectrum licence fees to keep up with the consumer price index has drawn opposition from BCE Inc., Rogers...
BCE Inc. has hit Quebecor Inc. with a $150-million lawsuit over Quebecor’s decision to cut the signal for its TVA Sports channel from Bell customers earlier this month. Quebecor pulled the TVA Sports signal at the start of the Stanley Cup playoffs in a dispute with Bell over carriage fees. The CRTC has since issued a mandatory order to keep the...
The CRTC has denied an application by SouthWestern Integrated Fibre...
Before a second wireless emergency alert test went out in November, a group...
BCE Inc.’s Northwestel wasn’t able to convince the CRTC that its basic...
OTTAWA — The Office of the Privacy Commissioner said Thursday it is...
The Ontario Superior Court has put a lawsuit launched by Iristel Inc. against Telus Corp. on hold while the CRTC settles a related dispute. The court granted a temporary stay in a decision Monday, stating that “the court has...
The tech giant Microsoft Corp. last week added “elections” to its lobbying files. The move comes as the government rolls out a new regime governing the selling of political ads on tech platforms ahead of this fall’s federal election, and tech companies decide whether they will comply or forgo election advertising altogether. In December, the passage of the Elections Modernization Act mandated that big tech companies would have to make it clear who was paying for political advertisements on their platforms by linking to a public registry. Elections Canada today released a new...
