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 polling released by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) Tuesday. Eight-in-ten respondents to an online panel poll said companies should face fines or other sanctions in instances where ‘fake news’ content isn’t taken down after it’s been reported. Of those in favour, 38 per...
Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube makes up just over 35 per cent of worldwide mobile data traffic, making it the biggest download draw on phones by a wide-margin, according to Sandvine Corp.’s Mobile Phenomena Report released Monday.
“YouTube is still the dominant video...
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 $750-million rural broadband fund is drawing support from a number of rural municipalities and opposition...
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...
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 from Canada’s 5G networks would hamper or delay Bell’s 5G rollout.
President and CEO George Cope moved to reassure investors and analysts on a Thursday earnings call...
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,...
The likelihood Canada will ban Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. equipment from...
Canada’s largest cable companies said they already have existing provisions that allow providers to buy and resell their services to other providers. Late last year, the CRTC asked the cablecos...
The federal government is organizing a working meeting next week in Ottawa involving a broad swath of stakeholders to devise strategies for promoting diversity of digital...
A strong majority of Canadians say the country should ban Chinese investment in “sensitive industries” like telecommunications, according to a new poll by the Angus Reid Institute that focuses on...
OTTAWA — Debate about whether or not to ban Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. from Canada’s future 5G networks has focused largely on backbone infrastructure, but a professor of...
Only about $30 million has made it out the door so far from the Liberal government’s $500 million Connect to Innovate fund that was announced in the 2016 budget, according to documents tabled this...
OTTAWA — The Liberal government has set up a new alert protocol and...
The federal government’s sweeping security review that’s examining whether to ban Chinese telecom...
BCE Inc. wants to inject the Canada Media Fund (CMF) with a potentially...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp.’s acting president and CEO has been named to the role on...
The Prime Minister’s Office has made public the mandate letter for the...
Quebec MP Rémi Massé will replace David Lametti as the parliamentary secretary to the innovation minister, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a press release Tuesday.
Lametti was promoted to justice minister in a cabinet shuffle earlier this month, which also created...
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a highly-anticipated criminal case against Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. Monday, issuing a spate of charges against the company, two affiliates and its chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou,...
Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube says it plans to tamp down on the spread of misleading, fake or conspiratorial video content that gets recommended for its users to watch by limiting the promotion of...
The CRTC has denied an application by the City of Calgary asking the CRTC to approve its municipal rights-of-way bylaw, which governs the telecoms’ access to “city structures, service corridors,...
Netflix Inc. is defending against calls to rope foreign over-the-top...
The Official Opposition may be gearing up to force a debate and vote in the House of Commons on a motion that says the government should ban Chinese-based telecom equipment manufacturer Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. from Canada’s 5G networks.
The Conservatives, who have...
The federal government will give Nokia Corp. up to $40 million for a number of the company’s projects...
The Federal Court has set a spring date to determine how much Voltage Pictures LLC must pay Rogers Communications Inc. to hand over personal subscriber information after the Supreme Court found the telecom was entitled to...
Rogers Communications Inc. is pointing to higher data availability...
OTTAWA — Conflicting municipal 5G policies. Bureaucratic exhaustion from...
Cogeco Inc. is raising caution about the negative impact the government's...
BCE Inc. urged the federal government to make virtual private networks (VPNs) used to circumvent...
Shaw Communications Inc. is asking the government to drop the five per cent revenue contribution TV service providers make to Canadian content, but says if CanCon needs a subsidy then it should be a direct one from government...
The CEO of an independent specialty TV channel is raising concerns that a lack of regulation could let foreign-based digital companies operating in Canada de-monetize or discriminate against types of...
As a rule, when Canadians search keywords on the internet, they should be presented with Canadian content related to those searches, argues the Forum for Research and Policy in Communications.
“New communications legislation must require online programming services to...
Canada’s current laws implicitly protecting net neutrality are sufficient...
A new research paper on smart cities argues municipalities should proceed with caution on ‘smart’ projects and hyper-consult over the ways citizens’ data can be collected and used. “Municipalities should tread...
Iristel Inc. is becoming a provider of cybersecurity services, the company said in a press release...
The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) wants the government to...
Small, wholesale-based internet service providers could be forced out of business within the next few years due to the CRTC’s disaggregated wholesale regime, the Canadian Network Operators’ Consortium (CNOC) is telling the panel in charge of reviewing Canada’s...
Some of Canada’s biggest telecom companies rejected calls to force ISPs...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google already contributes to the Canadian creative...
Electrical utilities and municipalities have arched their backs over...
Shaw Communications Inc. says its wireless business has reaped the fruits...
Telecom companies are largely supportive of Innovation Canada’s efforts to update how it sets licence fees for point-to-point systems, though some are calling for that process to be sped up and...
After the auditor general blasted the government for not having a clear...
One-in-8 Canadians have suspended their TV or paid video streaming service while planning to re-subscribe to it later, according to survey information released to media this week by CBC/Radio-Canada‘s Media Technology Monitor...
Cushioned between a subscriber base that on average doesn’t take gigabit...
Corus Entertainment Inc. reported quarterly results Friday that showed TV ad revenue increasing 3.6 per cent, which Canaccord Genuity analyst Aravinda Galappatthige said came as as a surprise.
He said it’s “especially encouraging given that this is the seasonally largest quarter. It appears that strength in Global [network] drove the beat.”
Corus’ overall revenues increased two per cent in the first quarter to $467.5 million, up from $457.4 million it reported at the same time last year. Overall net income...
Scott Bradley, vice-president of corporate affairs at Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.’s Canadian division, has left the company.
Bradley had been with Huawei for eight...
CBC/Radio-Canada wants the federal government to grant the CRTC the ability...
The CRTC is formally asking the federal government to make one regulatory...
The CRTC has no jurisdiction to determine the outcome of a disagreement over the rates BCE Inc. charges Iristel Inc. for wholesale access, because it chose to forebear from regulating legacy services,...
Andre Leduc recalls introducing Microsoft Inc. Canada president Kevin Peesker to a Montreal-based astrophysicist with a social media analytics company.
The impromptu meeting at a cybersecurity event last year was intended to get Claude Théoret’s Nexalogy, which...
Roughly half of Canadians support banning Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd from Canada’s 5G networks but more than a quarter have yet to make up their minds on the issue, according to a Globe and Mail/Nanos Research poll. Eighteen...
BCE Inc.’s media division has launched a tool allowing its TV advertising clients to more specifically...
Canada’s large internet service providers say granting the Canadian Network Operators Consortium (CNOC) request to lift the CRTC’s speed cap of 100 Mbps for wholesale internet would eliminate the...
BCE Inc. is rolling out to more services a pre-existing program that asks its subscribers to consider giving the company their personal information to better target relevant ads to them. The program is an expansion of a...
CBC/Radio-Canada’s head of sports Greg Stremlaw is leaving the public broadcaster at the end of the...
A regional internet registry is going to walk-back a controversial request...
Jean-François Pruneau, Quebecor Inc.’s chief financial officer, has been appointed the new CEO of its...
BlackBerry Ltd. is stepping in to fill a security gap widely complained about in an emerging space:...
Canadians appear to be generally in favour of the ‘right to be forgotten’, with most showing support for the idea and a majority saying they would support having it set out in Canadian law, according to a poll released Monday by the Angus Reid Institute. Half of Canadians said they believe people should have the right to have certain information about themselves removed from search results, while a quarter oppose the idea and another quarter have yet to make up their minds. Just slightly more than half -- 56 per cent of respondents -- said they would support legislation to put a...
The organization responsible for allocating IP numbers to intermediaries in...
Iristel Inc. says BCE Inc. has put in place “massive and unprecedented rate increases” for access to some of its infrastructure and is asking the CRTC to intervene. According to a Part 1 application filed with the CRTC in...
The current requirements for emergency alert tests, which specify a different schedule for...
As the new year begins, the months ahead promise a new spectrum auction, new CRTC announcements on...
Canadians are increasingly signing up for home internet services that meet the CRTC’s basic service standards of 50 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload, with 36 per cent of...
The prices of higher-speed wireline internet plans increased last year, and...
The SouthWestern Integrated Fibre Technology Inc. (SWIFT) project is...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government will rely on expert...
Telecoms will have to start blocking phone calls from numbers that don’t conform to “established numbering plans,” the CRTC said Wednesday. The new rule affects calls that look like they’re...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron is selling its data centre business, 4Degrees Colocation, for $259 million, with the proceeds likely going to fund future spectrum purchases, analysts say. The telecom announced Tuesday that it...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is taking issue with a request by Telus Corp. to have Parliament change the...
Increases in how long the CRTC takes to pay public interest groups to...
The CRTC has dismissed an appeal by BCE Inc. and ordered it to pay...
The CRTC has chosen not to make changes to lower-cost data plans suggested by telecoms, accepting the plans as envisioned by the companies, in a decision that angered consumer advocates — whose proposals for cheaper alternatives went unheeded.
The regulator said on...
BCE Inc. has dropped a $100-million lawsuit leveled against Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron for allegedly broadcasting CraveTV content without a licence. Bell Media vice-president of communications Scott Henderson said in an email...
A ban on technology from Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. in Canada’s...
Wireless operators will have to begin offering message relay services (MRS) by June 2019, the CRTC said Friday. Message relay serves customers with a hearing or speech disability by allowing them...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) says it doesn’t plan to reallocate...
An industry group has created a code of conduct governing the content and application of beer advertising, which will affect how beer is advertised on TV, radio and online.
Beer Canada created the “Responsible Advertising and Marketing Code,” updated in late...
An application by BCE Inc.’s Northwestel arguing the CRTC’s basic...
OTTAWA — A House of Commons committee is unanimously calling for new rules for social media companies...
The CRTC has sided with a small telecom that was reselling wholesale...
A proposal by Corus Entertainment Inc. to shut down 44 television...
OTTAWA -- Two of Canada’s largest telecoms and CBC/Radio-Canada told the Supreme Court on Monday that it’s “absurd” and “illogical” for a court to force them to ensure the safety of an...
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) says for the first time...
NDP MP Brian Masse is asking Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains to force the CRTC to extend the deadline...
The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) is currently testing radio technology...
The Opposition Conservatives are re-upping calls for a ban on Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.'s participation in the buildout of Canada's 5G networks, following news that Canada...
