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 foster 5G technology research in Ontario and Quebec, is the “first pre-commercial fifth-generation wireless network for open innovation in Canada,” the Ontario Centres of Excellence said in Wednesday’s release. The project received $400 million in funding from the federal, Quebec and Ontario governments, as well as five global communications companies --Ericsson...
Telus Corp. is making its once promotional “no overage” wireless data plan options a permanent fixture and is allowing customers to finance any device for no cost upfront, though the new financing models still appear to include device subsidies, conditional on the phone...
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...
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. The telecom wants to access one of Marcon Developments LTD.’s buildings, known as 567 Clarke + Como in Coquitlam, BC, but alleges that its communications have gone ignored by Marcon. Under the MDU access framework set out by the CRTC, telecom providers have to be granted timely access to developments in order to be able to provide services to the tenants. ...
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...
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 have nearly all of the contribution agreements signed for its Connect to Innovate (CTI) rural...
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...
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 GHz spectrum from providers that offer fixed-wireless internet in rural areas. The committee recommended that the “federal government put in place means to ensure that when allocating spectrum licenses, the interests of rural areas are considered, which may include … retaining the licenses already allocated for fixed wireless Internet in rural areas.” But the recommendation comes two...
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...
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 the fresh new evidence MediaTube was hoping to present was “already apparent” in the record before the court and MediaTube could’ve investigated the issue during the previous proceedings. Stratus dismissed MediaTube’s submission following oral arguments on Tuesday. At most, Bell said, the supposedly new evidence would have only supplemented the...
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...
The New Democratic Party has unveiled Monday a plan to make telecommunications services more affordable, including imposing price ceilings, eliminating data caps and ending bad sales practices.
“In this market, Canadians are being forced to pay more than $20 more than...
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...
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 fund on Canada’s North because that’s the area with the most need for improvement when it comes to...
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...
OTTAWA — Facebook Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have both signed on to a declaration of principles around the promotion of electoral integrity online, aimed at combatting the spread of disinformation on social media sites in the run up to the 2019 federal election....
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...
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 program. The CRTC received more than a hundred interventions from individuals, with many users of the local television satellite solution (LTSS) program outlining that it’s the only way they’re able to access free OTA channels, especially the public broadcaster CBC/Radio-Canada, and urging the regulator to keep the program in place. The program offers free satellite services and...
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...
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 rights “by using the personal information of its data service customers for its own marketing initiative,” was certified in a decision from Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice Monday. Bell began tracking subscribers’ habits -- including the websites they visited, their web searches and...
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...
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 internet, though the company says there is no evidence any of it was misused.
The data breach was discovered when two cybersecurity researchers contacted Shaw to inform...
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...
The expected focus by the country’s largest wireless service providers this year to keep the spoils of last year's record postpaid wireless subscribers has so-far propelled...
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...
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 consisting of major emergency management agencies across Canada sent a letter to Public Safety...
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...
The country’s largest telecoms are telling the Federal Court that the City of Calgary shouldn’t be allowed to appeal a CRTC decision on whether the city’s new bylaw binds the carriers on infrastructure builds, while the city is arguing that the telecoms are still getting the issues wrong. In February, the city filed an application asking the Federal Court to relook at a case that seeks to determine whether a new city bylaw setting out access to telecom infrastructure builds would allow the municipality to give consent for that access. The CRTC denied the application earlier this year...
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Joe Natale emphasized the $1.7 billion the...
The CRTC has told the Competition Bureau it won’t be compelling telecoms to turn over a slew of detailed information the bureau was asking for — though the telecoms will effectively have to...
Telus Corp. is going to court over the CRTC’s decision last month to grant smaller internet providers a...
The CRTC will register a mandatory order with the Federal Court forbidding Quebecor Inc. from withholding the signal for TVA Sports from BCE Inc. subscribers — meaning that if Quebecor chooses to...
Gatineau, Que. — Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau was unrepentant...
The CRTC’s new, consumer-focused policy direction doesn’t go far...
The City of Calgary says the government should develop a “modernized” national digital strategy that addresses open access infrastructure policies, municipal rights-of-way, smart city urban design...
Twitter Inc. has added a timely subject matter to its lobby files: educating federal officials on social media use during elections. The social media company updated its files last week to include...
Canada’s four largest wireless providers are asking the government to incorporate references to “investment” and the previous, market-focused policy direction in its proposed new directive, meant to foster affordability and consumer interests.
“Now is not the time...
