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 francophone groups have raised to the panel reviewing Canada’s communications framework.
The Alliance des Producteurs Francophones du Canada (APFC) is asking the...
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 Thursday morning on a quarterly earnings conference call that Bell will increase its rural fixed wireless expansion -- what it calls its wireless-to-the-home program -- to 1.2 million homes, up from 800,000. Cope said the move is driven by the federal government’s Accelerated Investment Incentive, a capital cost allowance program announced in the fall fiscal...
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,...
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...
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 week in Parliament, but that should soon change. Ottawa expects most of the funding agreements will soon be finalized and signed, and says more money will start flowing into rural broadband development projects. “Negotiations on all 181 announced projects are well advanced, and claims are...
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 freshly-appointed Minister of Rural Economic Development, Bernadette Jordan.
The letter taps her to...
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...
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 outstripping consumption as having a “moderating” influence on its average revenue per subscriber...
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 Canadian content based on cultural values, such as works made by the LGBTQ community. Brad Danks, the CEO of OUTtv Network Inc., a Canadian-based LGBTQ television network, raised the point in his company’s consultation submission to the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review panel -- the expert group studying how to modernize Canada’s communications legal and regulatory...
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...
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 various proposals to streamline or adjust regulatory jurisdiction when it comes to resolving disputes 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 download speeds and a future secure with the latitude to expand to at least 10 gigabit speeds, Cogeco Inc. executives said on Friday that they are comfortable delivering whatever speeds the market...
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,...
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 motivation for providers to adopt its disaggregated wholesale regime. “If granted, CNOC’s requested interim relief would remove any incentive its members have to invest in facilities or move to the Disaggregated [wholesale] service. This would perpetuate the ongoing regulatory uncertainty and instability in the market,” Shaw Communications Inc. said in its intervention. The debate...
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: Internet of Things devices.
The smartphone pioneer, which has focused its efforts on shoring up security for a broad clientele including businesses and governments,...
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...
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 advice and not pollute with politics its decision on whether to ban Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. from Canada’s 5G networks, comments that come amid domestic and international political pressure over the...
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 nearly half a million dollars in tangible benefits an audit found was ineligible for a music festival...
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...
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 internet service from Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink to other internet service providers, despite Eastlink’s objections.
“In the Commission’s view, a competitive provider reselling...
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 mounted on search-and-rescue aircraft that communicates with mobile phones of lost or missing people in areas without cell coverage.
The project is considered by officials to be its “highest...
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...
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 Black Friday weekend once again focused on big bucket data plans, but are more amped up variations of the prior year,” he wrote in an analyst note. “We believe this round of big bucket data promos drove significant volumes during the Black Friday week. However, based on our checks, we believe...
