The House public accounts committee is ordering Innovation Canada to deliver — by this summer — updates tending to rural connectivity issues outlined in a critical auditor...
BCE Inc. walking away from the 600 MHz spectrum auction with no licences, and the amount the winning incumbents ended up paying for the spectrum, came as a surprise to some financial analysts.
National Bank analyst Adam Shine said in a research note that while the...
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...
An ad launched over the weekend depicting a fictitious version of the big three incumbent wireless providers gloating about high prices charged to consumers is another effort by Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom to rile up the industry, its president said on Tuesday.
The...
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...
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 wireless providers Tuesday, in which it said it “is aware of a recent practice whereby some wireless service providers (WSPs) are charging customers for certain client service calls.” Beginning in May, Rogers Communications Inc.’s Fido flanker brand will begin charging customers $10 if they opt to complete some tasks through a customer service representative that they could otherwise do...
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)...
Amid security reviews of Canada’s 5G infrastructure lays an ‘opportunity’ for Canadian companies to enter the space and for the government to incentivize that emergence,...
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”...
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 allocated in the 2019 federal budget is a cobbled-together “Frankenstein” approach to boosting internet connections that falls short on funding and comes with an “outlandish” speed target...
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...
The 2019 federal budget is boosting funding to the office of the privacy commissioner by $22 million over the next five years, following years of requests for more money to deal with new resource pressures.
But the office admits it isn’t totally clear yet on what the...
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...
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 posted Wednesday on the ENCQOR 5G website, sent in by Ericsson Inc.’s Canada division. It calls for project pitches from Ontario small or medium-sized enterprises that find ways to use an unlicensed 20MHz chunk of the 5GHz band while complying with out-of-band emissions requirements in Canada and the U.S. “There are chunks of unlicensed spectrum at 5GHz that go unused due to strict...
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....
The panel in charge of reviewing the broadcasting and telecom acts received comments from a number of non-industry parties, such as provincial governments and police services, while some of the biggest online companies in the world, including Amazon.com Inc., did not submit...
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...
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 video chat with doctors and consult an artificial-intelligence chatbot about their symptoms.
Telus said Tuesday the new smartphone app, launched in partnership with UK-based remote health care...
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...
The CRTC has reversed its long-held position that mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) aren’t entitled to wholesale access to wireless providers’ networks.
It now holds the “preliminary view" that mobile virtual network operators "should have mandated access”...
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...
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 Canadian telcos in the event of a Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. equipment ban from Canada’s 5G networks...
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...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is embarking this year on a massive information and marketing campaign to promote its leadership on, and rollout of, 5G in Canada, according to a high level presentation seen by The Wire Report on Wednesday.
A powerpoint slide with a stated...
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...
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” financially manage a change in supplier dynamics if the federal government moves to ban Huawei...
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...
If the Canadian government eventually decides to ban Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. from Canada’s 5G networks, the financial consequences suffered by Canada’s big telecom companies would likely be negligible, according to a Desjardins analyst. “While we expect issues with Huawei to remain topical in the coming months, we believe the actual financial impact is likely to be non-material,” Maher Yaghi wrote in a Tuesday note. “Given [Telus’] relationship with Huawei, we see it as...
Better representation at the CRTC of official language minority communities is a concern a number of...
Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains weighed sending back the CRTC’s...
OTTAWA — A lawyer for CBC/Radio-Canada who is asking the Federal Court to...
Rogers Communications Inc. said it was surprised to see two motions for disclosure of subscriber information filed by two movie studios late last year and challenged them because they did not include...
The majority of Canadian wireless providers who weighed in on a proposal to...
BCE Inc. says it will grow its rural fixed-wireless plans by 50 per cent, thanks to new tax measures the Liberal government announced last fall aimed at promoting investments in rural areas. Company CEO George Cope announced...
The head of BCE Inc. says he doesn’t expect that a ban on Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.’s equipment...
OTTAWA — Maxime Bernier, the leader of the People's Party of Canada and...
Novus Entertainment Inc. has filed an application to the CRTC alleging a developer of a multi-dwelling unit in British Columbia is not responding to its telecom access proposal. The Vancouver-based company provides internet, TV and home phone and wants to deliver its services to the Lumina project owned by Thind Developments Inc. in Burnaby, BC. But in a Jan. 29 application to the CRTC, posted to the regulator’s website on Tuesday, Novus said Thind is not responding to its proposals to install telecom equipment and facilities, contrary to rules around timely access for telecoms....
