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 company recently spent on 600 MHz spectrum in a speech to shareholders that effectively doubled as an anti-MVNO message to government on Thursday.
“The race to 5G is not with other carriers,”...
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 enough, according to smaller companies and advocacy groups, who told the government the proposed language...
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...
The House public accounts committee is ordering Innovation Canada to...
BCE Inc. walking away from the 600 MHz spectrum auction with no licences,...
OTTAWA — A Federal Court judge has granted an application by the...
BCE Inc. was among three prospective applicants who didn’t grab licenses for the coveted 600 MHz spectrum, widely considered to be the last chance to get valuable low-band frequencies. The...
Cogeco Inc. has long been a vocal proponent of mandated mobile virtual operators in Canada, so it’s no...
The Competition Bureau is going to court to compel the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-Television Services (CCTS) to hand over information related to its investigation...
An ad launched over the weekend depicting a fictitious version of the big...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner said Tuesday that it has concluded its investigation into the...
OTTAWA — It is now “very likely” that Canadians will face some form...
The Competition Bureau is mostly standing firm on its request to the CRTC...
The panel in charge of reviewing Canada’s communications laws has hired consultants to produce research papers on six topics, most of which have an international focus,...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner considers personal data of Canadians...
OTTAWA — Conservative New Brunswick senator Carolyn Stewart Olsen said...
The CRTC wants to know whether the Vancouver radio market can sustain another radio station, after it received an application from Rogers Communications Inc. for a new broadcasting licence. It said in the notice of consultation...
OTTAWA — Quebec NDP MP François Choquette has filed a judicial review...
The $10 fees on some customer service calls and chats that have been in the headlines in recent weeks may be against the Wireless Code, according to the CRTC. The regulator sent a letter to...
In the lead-up to a meeting with Amazon.com Inc., the government was...
Xplornet Communications Inc. is now offering unlimited internet service plans across the country for...
A request from the Competition Bureau asking the CRTC to require telecoms...
Complaints about TV service to the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services (CCTS) skyrocketed to 18 per cent of all complaints in CCTS’ latest report.
TV service became part of the CCTS mandate in September 2017, meaning the organization could accept...
Amid security reviews of Canada’s 5G infrastructure lays an...
BCE Inc. will finish decommissioning its legacy CDMA wireless network at the end of April, the company said Friday. Customers in areas of Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces that were still on the CDMA network...
There should be a mechanism in place to help resolve disputes between small ISPs and incumbents, an organization representing wireless internet service providers told the panel in charge of reviewing...
GATINEAU, Que. — Innovation Canada did not take a critical report of its...
GATINEAU, Que. — The CRTC is looking at a “late spring, early summer” timeframe to ask for applications for its $750-million Broadband Fund, its executive director of...
BCE Inc.’s media division is asking the CRTC to allow it to shutter 28 of its rebroadcasting...
The Liberal government should expect some amount of industry opposition...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s Fido flanker brand will begin charging...
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is putting cell phone and internet affordability...
OTTAWA — NDP industry critic Brian Masse says the new broadband strategy...
OTTAWA — If a court determines Google’s search engine falls under the country’s private sector privacy law, then that would effectively make the internet company a media regulator, counsel to...
BCE Inc. doesn’t have to implement a freeze on rates it charges Iristel Inc. while the CRTC decides how to settle a dispute between the two regarding the rates, the regulator said Thursday.
In...
The CRTC has quietly informed wholesale-based internet service providers...
Parts of Canada will see “real 5G,” as opposed to just trials, by late 2020, Telus Corp.’s chief financial officer Doug French told an investors’ conference Wednesday. That will only be possible after the conclusion of the 3.5 GHz spectrum auction, slated for 2020, he said. “You can do some pilots in certain areas with the current spectrum you have, but it's not going to be broadly spread,’ French said at the conference, hosted by Desjardins. French noted, according to a transcript, that the exact timing and rules for that auction have yet to be announced. Telus has...
The 2019 federal budget is boosting funding to the office of the privacy...
The CRTC has decided the Timmins, Ontario commercial radio market can’t sustain another station, rejecting an application by Vista Radio Ltd. for another broadcasting licence. Timmins has four...
An illegal radio station that allegedly kept operating despite being shut down by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) has been off the air since last August, the government said in a response tabled on...
OTTAWA — The Liberal government is announcing $1.7 billion in new rural...
As the Liberal government unveils its last budget before the upcoming federal election, companies and industry groups will be watching to see if this is the year they’re finally granted some of the requests they’ve been making for years.
Various parties are suggesting...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has hired a new consultant lobbyist to raise...
Fixed ‘white space’ devices will be permitted to operate on 60-72 MHz spectrum, but they will be banned from 600 MHz commercial mobile bands, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner and the Attorney General of Canada (AGC) have filed appeals challenging Alphabet Inc.’s application to expand the scope of a deindexing case to include questions about whether forcing it to...
The British Columbia Broadband Association (BCBA) says a new legal framework for the telecom sector should simplify regulations and facilitate more regulatory participation by small operators....
A public-private partnership has posted a call for project proposals to develop equipment that can make use of an inactive 5 GHz band for 5G technology. The notice for a whitespace project was...
Quebecor Inc.’s company brass says its Fizz flanker brand is picking up...
All Canadians whose earnings fall below the government’s low-income measure should have access to internet service for $10, an advocacy group is telling the panel reviewing the broadcasting and telecom acts. ACORN Canada also...
Canada’s publicly traded telecom companies added more than one million...
The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) took aim at mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in its submission to the ongoing review of Canada’s communications legislation. “While mandating access to facilities-based carriers’ networks would negatively impact investment by all facilities-based carriers, investment by new entrants and regional providers will be particularly impacted,” the wireless industry group said. It said that effect would be "particularly...
The panel in charge of reviewing the broadcasting and telecom acts received...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s mobile division is expanding to some Eastern Ontario markets as it continues...
The CRTC said it has improved the timely release of data it siphons through its communications monitoring report (CMR) and will continue to pursue shortening those timelines, according to a letter addressed to TekSavvy Solutions...
Canada’s broadcasting and telecommunications legislation should be...
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is suing the U.S. federal government in a bid to overturn a federal ban preventing government institutions from using its telecommunications gear.
Company officials announced the suit from a press conference in Shenzhen, China on Wednesday....
The government of Northwest Territories says the Telecommunications Act should aim to ensure telecom services of the same quality and at the same prices are available across the country. In its...
The CRTC misunderstood the scope of the issues when it denied an application by Calgary to formally...
Bart Yabsley has been appointed as the new president of Sportsnet, filling a role left vacant when Scott Moore stepped down from that position last fall. Yabsley was most recently senior vice-president of sports and...
Alphabet Inc.’s search giant Google plans to ban political advertising from its platforms during the next federal election campaign in Canada, following the introduction of tougher political advertising transparency rules by...
A new app launched by Telus Corp.’s health division will enable users to...
The Liberal government has appointed Matthew Boswell on a full five-year...
The Federal Court has denied the CBC/Radio-Canada’s and the Media Coalition’s application to intervene in a case that will determine whether the privacy commissioner can order search engines to delist certain content -- at...
As the CRTC signals it’s ready to make an about-face on its approach to...
The Shaw Rocket Fund wants CBC/Radio-Canada to expand its focus on children’s content to reflect a broader age range and is asking for new communications legislation to ensure it has the funding required to make that happen. The fund, which invests in Canadian-made children’s content, said the CBC “must provide meaningful, appropriate and relevant programming for all Canadian children under 18 years of age.” “CBC’s primary focus has been on content for preschoolers,”...
The CRTC has reversed its long-held position that mobile virtual network...
There is “general interest” at Innovation Canada in releasing more...
Internet-based video services generated enough revenue in Canada in 2017 to rival the total revenues of private and CBC conventional television stations combined, according to the CRTC’s...
The new policy direction for the CRTC announced by the federal government...
Cogeco Communications Inc. says it’s inked a deal to sell its Cogeco Peer 1 cloud services business for $720 million. The data centre business is being sold to affiliates of the Los Angeles-based investment firm Digital Colony, according to a press release Cogeco issued Wednesday. Cogeco CEO Philippe Jetté said the data centre market had changed and consolidated “significantly” since the company initially bought Peer 1 Hosting back in 2013, which came with a pricatag of $526 million at the time. “In this context, we made the decision to focus Cogeco Communications’...
OTTAWA -- Democratic institutions minister Karina Gould said the government...
BCE Inc., Shaw Communications Inc., and Quebecor Inc. are warning against a...
The Liberal government is proposing a significant departure...
OTTAWA — Facebook Inc.’s head of public policy in Canada said the...
OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says compensation to...
Rural broadband funding programs in Canada suffer from “significant”...
Key evidence relied upon by movie studios in a substantial chunk of copyright infringement cases that have yielded vast sums of money from settlements has been ruled insufficient by a Federal Court...
A group representing the Canadian community TV sector is asking the panel reviewing the broadcasting and...
Parliamentarians who stuck around the House of Commons for a Wednesday evening debate on a Liberal motion to take a hard look at Canada’s rural broadband gap said spending on underserved areas must be high up on the government’s agenda. “The NDP calls on the government to make the overdue, substantial investment in rural connectivity a priority in the 2019 federal budget,” NDP MP Wayne Stetski said on Wednesday, adding the 2018 budget didn’t do enough for rural Canadians who...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is embarking this year on a massive...
The day after it released its report on misleading sales practices, the CRTC is asking for Canadians to...
CRTC Chairman Ian Scott defended the eligibility speeds for the...
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. held a rare press conference in Toronto Thursday to promote new...
Canada’s telecommunications industry suffers from an “unacceptable degree” of misleading and aggressive retail sales practices that are “harming consumers” and...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has updated its lobby files to include discussions on 5G deployment...
A majority of Canadian internet users say the federal government should impose fines or other sanctions on social media companies that don’t remove fake news from their platforms, according to...
Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube makes up just over 35 per cent of worldwide mobile data traffic, making it the...
The CRTC has released an application guide for its $750-million rural broadband fund and is asking for comments on the preliminary document. The guide is meant to help applicants put together and submit their funding...
The head of Telus Corp. says the company would be able to “adeptly”...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has filed a complaint with the CRTC flagging a concern that the regulator’s latest data report doesn’t provide a clear picture of the industry, which could make it more...
The government should create a “sustainability component” to rural broadband funding projects so they don’t dwindle in quality or eventually fail, according to an association representing...
An application to relax eligibility requirements for the CRTC’s...
The CRTC has finally set a threshold for a metric it said will improve the quality of service (QoS) for applications reliant on the rapid transmission of data. The regulator said Tuesday that it will require internet service providers (ISPs) to meet a threshold of five milliseconds (ms) on fixed broadband for “jitter,” a term for data received at irregular intervals, causing lag and slowdown in QoS-sensitive applications such as online gaming, web page loading, and cloud-based software....
