The likelihood Canada will ban Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. equipment from the country’s 5G networks has gone up in recent months, and if that happens, the deployment of those networks will be delayed, National Bank analyst Adam Shine said in a research note.
“Plans...
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 to show why its decision to allow Frontier Networks Inc. to resell Bragg Communications Inc.’s internet service to other providers on a wholesale basis didn’t apply to them. In fact, the bigger players -- Rogers Communications Inc., Shaw Communications Inc., Cogeco Inc. and Quebecor Inc. --...
The federal government is organizing a working meeting next week in Ottawa...
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 created a crack-team of top bureaucrats that can warn political parties and the public during an election...
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...
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 players into Canada’s broadcasting framework — which could require the company to abide by CanCon...
The Official Opposition may be gearing up to force a debate and vote in the House of Commons on a motion...
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 telecom companies’ next generation deployment sales pitches. ‘Backlash’ against carriers from tearing up city streets.
Telecom companies face a range of challenges from some Canadian...
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...
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 immediately launch a review of the CRTC’s enforcement powers when it comes to regulating over-the-top (OTT) streaming services like Netflix Inc., according to its submission to a government-appointed...
Small, wholesale-based internet service providers could be forced out of...
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 of a strategy — in the form of a sub base that pays more — that focused its efforts on making data-related issues a thing of the past.
Freedom president Paul McAleese said on a conference call...
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...
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, Bell is arguing. Iristel filed a complaint with the regulator in December, saying that Bell put in place “massive and unprecedented rate increases” covering circuits used for voice legacy transport services. In its reply filed Wednesday, Bell said the CRTC doesn’t have the authority to fulfill Iristel’s request for interim relief, which is to order Bell to keep the old rates in...
Andre Leduc recalls introducing Microsoft Inc. Canada president Kevin...
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 marketing initiative that Bell launched for its wireless customers in 2016 -- now available to TV, internet and phone customers, spokesman Marc Choma said in an email. The current iteration of the program is on an opt-in basis, in contrast to a similar unsuccessful initiative called the relevant advertising program in 2013. That version faced stiff opposition,...
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,...
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 high-profile files like telecom sales practices, and even potentially a new federal government — to be determined in an election in which the danger of hacking and social...
Canadians are increasingly signing up for home internet services that meet...
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 from numbers with more than 15 digits or numbers that can’t be dialed, such as 000-000-000, and will be effective by next Dec. 19. The CRTC noted in a press release that spoofing technology gives callers “the ability to display any caller identification information. Rogue actors can conceal their true identity or deceive Canadians into believing that the call is from a known or trusted...
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...
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 air-to-ground spectrum bands in the 800 MHz range for mobile use or issue them on short-term licenses, rejecting a suggestion from Rogers Communications Inc. — at least for...
An industry group has created a code of conduct governing the content and application of beer...
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 rebroadcasting transmitters in small rural markets hasn’t found support among intervenors, though content-production industry groups were opposed to the requested exemption to the CRTC’s tangible benefits...
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...
Cogeco Inc. isn’t among the list of participants in the 600 MHz auction, released by Innovation Canada...
OTTAWA — Efforts to stanch online misinformation campaigns will not eliminate the very real situation that may see Canadians fall victim to attempts to influence their political opinions, the...
The Chinese embassy in Canada is demanding the release of telecom Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.’s chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou (Sabrina Meng), who was arrested in Canada last weekend and faces extradition to the U.S....
The federal privacy watchdog is warning the Liberal government against approaching its national data consultations as if privacy protection is “at odds” with innovation.
Privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien’s office released a letter Wednesday that he sent to...
OTTAWA — The Canadian Bar Association told MPs Monday Parliament should introduce a new regime to deal with online piracy in the Copyright Act because the current notice-and-notice regime is...
OTTAWA — The CRTC can’t decide what commercials broadcasters can show...
In a trio of decisions Monday, the CRTC approved a broadcast licence application for a new station in Cochrane, Alta., and declined both an application for a new station in Lachute, Que. and to renew...
There doesn't appear to be a clear winner among Canadian telecoms after the intense sales period around Black Friday, according to Barclays Capital analyst Phillip Huang. “Deals for this year's...
U.S. telecom Verizon Communications Inc. plans to have device manufacturer Samsung Electronics Co.’s 5G-compatible smartphones in the U.S. market within the first half of next year, the two companies announced Monday. That would appear to give Samsung a jump on Apple Inc. for early 5G customers by about a year. Apple is holding off until at least 2020 before offering a 5G iPhone, Bloomberg reported Monday, citing sources familiar with the company’s plans. Verizon and Samsung are going to unveil a prototype for the new 5G phone at the annual Qualcomm Snapdragon Technology Summit in...
The CRTC has closed a Part 1 file, once suspended, involving two parties embroiled in a condo access issue that emerged when the property owner allegedly didn’t answer a telecom’s calls to connect its services. Novus...
The list of consumer groups that say they won’t take part in the CRTC’s...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) has launched a...
Rogers Communications Inc. is planting more cell towers in parts of Manitoba as wireless activity in the...
Existing customers on Shaw Communications Inc.’s top internet packages, and new customers on those...
Ottawa-based think tank the Public Policy Forum says it’s launching a new project to track, analyze and eventually find a way to counter "fake news." It’s digital democracy project will start by studying the effects of...
The CRTC is asking telecoms and satellite broadband providers for feedback on broadband maps and data...
VMedia Inc. recently launched its full suite of services in all four Atlantic Canada provinces, meaning it now operates in all 10 provinces. CEO George Burger confirmed that the company “started rolling out services as...
The federal government’s recently-tabled tax strategy allowing telecoms to deduct taxes at a higher rate more quickly on assets may benefit BCE Inc. to the tune of $100 million in 2019, according to analyst Adam Shine of National Bank.
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