OTTAWA — Alphabet Inc.’s Google wants to see the Copyright Board of Canada tariff setting process simplified, its government relations counsel told members of Parliament Thursday, but at the same time he said a legislative overhaul of the Copyright Act isn’t necessary...
BCE Inc.’s head of regulatory, Mirko Bibic, has been named its new chief operating officer.
Bell said in a press release Thursday that in his new role, Bibic will “lead the company's largest customer-facing business units,” while continuing to be in charge of its legal and regulatory strategy.
Prior to Bibic’s promotion, Bell didn’t have a COO in place, Bell spokesman Marc Choma said in an email. CEO George Cope served as chief operating officer before he was named to his current role a decade ago.
The...
OTTAWA — Two senators on the Senate transport and communications...
The CRTC is directing wireless phone service providers to conduct additional “visible” tests of the emergency alert system, after the first tests were plagued with compatibility problems that...
Nearly a dozen content producers have obtained a court order banning set-top box software developed by an individual in Canada that allows users to watch their content for free, according to court...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. are both asking the...
The CRTC is reviewing Canadian ISPs’ traffic management and differential pricing practices for compliance with its net neutrality framework, according to a letter sent out by the commission requesting specific information from ISPs. It’s the first time the CRTC has made a broad inquiry into ISPs’ differential pricing practices since it issued a decision last year effectively banning most forms of the practice, also known as zero-rating. Canadian telecoms have until the end of November to respond to a set of questions the commission sent them regarding their traffic management and...
Internet traffic is “more encrypted than ever,” with a “conservative estimate” suggesting more than half of all internet traffic is encrypted, according to Sandvine Corp.’s 2018 Global...
The upcoming departure of Telus Corp.’s president of consumer and small...
OTTAWA -- There is an “urgent need” for Canadian lawmakers to set out a new communications framework now that Canada has hammered out a new trilateral agreement on trade to replace the North...
The CRTC has no jurisdiction to implement a system to block websites...
OTTAWA -- Fraudulent copyright infringement claims made through Canada’s...
The new trade pact forged by Canada, the U.S. and Mexico to replace the...
The federal government launched the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, the governing body intended to...
Almost 50 million Facebook user accounts have been affected after hackers...
A CRTC decision outlining how its $750 million fund for rural broadband will be administered “looks quite encouraging,” according to the president of the Canadian Network Operators’ Consortium (CNOC). Matt Stein said in a phone interview the “process they’ve laid out stands out to introduce a lot of great options for some Canadians who don’t have a lot of options today.” The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) was more critical, with executive director John Lawford saying that the “comparative selection” approach the CRTC opted for isn’t necessarily simpler than...
The Independent Telecommunications Providers Association (ITPA) has filed a review-and-vary application with the CRTC, asking the regulator to bring back its landline subsidy. When the commission announced its $750 million...
Netflix Inc. says it’s “on track to exceed” its $500 million pledge...
The CRTC revealed Thursday the details of the $750 million rural broadband fund that’s been in the works for nearly two years, prompting criticism from some groups concerned about what they say are...
OTTAWA — Federal privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien says he plans to...
Some of the battles taking place before the CRTC related to site-blocking are now playing out on Parliament Hill, as big telecoms ask MPs studying the Copyright Act to strengthen anti-piracy measures to respond to a new wave of commercial piracy.
BCE Inc. representatives...
Representatives from BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. described a favourable relationship with regulators at a CIBC investors conference Wednesday, where they also addressed competition between...
The Competition Bureau is calling for online video streaming services to review their marketing practices, terms and conditions after it found they’re sometimes unclear and hard to understand....
OTTAWA — The expert panel in charge of reviewing Canada’s...
OTTAWA — Those in charge of the wireless emergency alert system...
The network performance-management company Martello Technologies Group Inc. announced Monday it’s getting up to $2 million in funding from the National Research Council of Canada through the Canada...
The federal government spent at least $190,600 on late-payment fees and...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) should change...
Hélène Laurendeau will be the new deputy minister at Canadian Heritage, the Prime Minister’s Office announced Friday afternoon. Laurendeau is currently deputy minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs, a...
OTTAWA -- Canada’s cyber spy agency is set to soon announce details on its new centralized cybersecurity centre, according to Communications Security Establishment (CSE) officials. The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, announced in the 2018 budget, “stands up in about 10 days from now,” the CSE’s deputy chief of IT security, told MPs Thursday night. The centre has been in the works to consolidate the government’s expertise and response operations to cybersecurity threats under one roof. Jones, who will be leading the centre in Ottawa, said that the CSE has been doing...
Amazon.com Inc. is launching a DVR that will work with a digital antenna to...
OTTAWA -- Officials from Canada’s cyber-spy agency defended the security of Canada’s telecommunications systems and allowing Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd equipment to operate on them, as MPs...
Rogers Communications Inc. and the University of British Columbia are joining forces on a multi-million dollar venture to build out a 5G hub on the university’s campus over the next three years. The telecom said in a...
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has met with creative groups in his first registered lobby...
The CRTC won’t take any punitive actions against six small telecoms for not joining the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS), since they have now become participants. The decision follows a proceeding launched by the CRTC asking BV Communications Inc., Connexio Inc., ICA Microsystems Inc., Mazagan Telecom, Toronto Telecom Inc., and VerseTEL Communications Inc. to show cause why they shouldn’t be found in violation of the Telecommunications Act for not participating in CCTS. The commission said in a decision Tuesday that the companies did violate the...
OTTAWA -- Lawmakers need to make net neutrality a major priority and...
BCE Inc.’s Northwestel says it will begin providing internet service at speeds three times as fast as...
Facebook Inc. is facing another class action suit in Ontario over how it...
As politicians file back into Parliament Hill’s Centre Block for the...
OTTAWA --- In a decision that could serve as a deterrent to copyright...
A new no-frills mobile service provider called Fizz has emerged in Quebec...
BCE Inc. head George Cope said Wednesday that his company is aware of concerns involving Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., though he didn’t indicate Bell has any plans to alter its use of technology from the Chinese telecom...
Rogers Communications Inc. is backing Telus Corp. in its traffic...
The European Parliament passed its copyright directive Wednesday, with some amendments to the controversial articles 11 and 13.
The directive includes measures proposing that internet platforms, like Facebook Inc. or Alphabet Inc.’s Google, pay news companies to link to their content, as well as copyright protections that would see the implementation of systems to detect and block copyrighted material before it appears online.
In a press release Wednesday, the legislative body said it included some amendments in...
BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. have each proposed a set of new-and-improved low-cost wireless data plans to the CRTC that would be available through their flanker brands and...
Five months after ushering the internet into the quality of service regime, the CRTC said Friday it is directing cable incumbents to provide status of service reports to customers of wholesale clients...
In a rare move, the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications...
Opposition Conservative leader Andrew Scheer has shuffled his caucus's shadow cabinet in the lead up to...
The federal government has quietly been testing the security of communications equipment used by Chinese-owned telecommunications company Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., The Globe and Mail reported Friday morning. The Communications Security Establishment told the newspaper it has been running tests on the company’s equipment for 3G and 4G/LTE networks under the Security Review Program, which has been in existence since 2013. CSE spokesperson Ryan Foreman told The Wire Report that the testing is done by third party labs which are accredited by the security and intelligence organization....
A small internet service provider (ISP) is asking the CRTC to order BCE...
As cultural protection emerges as a last-stretch NAFTA sticking point,...
Public Safety officials working on Canada’s public alert systems were...
The CRTC said Thursday it is considering taking action on potential changes it outlined in a May report looking at programming distribution models. The Harnessing Change report recommended a number...
Facebook Inc. filed a suit against BlackBerry Ltd. Tuesday accusing the device-maker of allegedly infringing on six of its patents, including voice messaging technology and security components, following BlackBerry’s suit...
Long-time Liberal insider and Bluesky Strategy Group principal Tim Barber has registered formally to...
The CRTC should focus its efforts on taking action against telecoms that have been directly accused of unethical sales practices instead of applying blanket rules on the entire industry, smaller...
Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ) leader Philippe Couillard is promising more than...
To bolster Canada’s democratic defences before the next election, governmental departments, political organizations, research groups and private industry tasked with that goal need to contend with a menagerie of cyber threats, experts from security field tell the The Wire...
Cogeco Inc. has staked out parts of Ontario for a gigabit expansion that features its DOCSIS 3.1 technology, it said in a Friday release.
The Montreal-based cable company announced the high-speed offerings will now be...
The provinces of New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador will get new relief area codes as well as a switch to ten digit dialling, according to two CRTC decisions published on Thursday. For New Brunswick, a June 2018...
In a blog post on Wednesday, Facebook Inc. announced the global launch of...
In the three years since the last Canadian federal election, emerging...
According to the latest numbers from Statistics Canada, 67 per cent of adult Canadians purchased a digital product, such as a subscription to a streaming service, ebooks or online newspapers, between July 2017 and June 2018. That number grew to 79 per cent of all adults when including free versions, according to StatCan’s inaugural digital economy survey, released on Wednesday. Overall, Canadians spent upwards of $8.1 billion on electronic items over the course of the year, according to the report. StatCan found that computer software, apps and games commanded spending to the tune of...
The CRTC outlined Monday the details of an online public opinion survey concerning the regulator’s efforts to look into the allegedly unethical sales practises of the country’s telecoms. The information the Commission...
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters registered to lobby the federal government on its review of the Copyright Act in July, which was otherwise a sleepy month in telecom and media government...
Conservative MP Maxime Bernier announced Thursday that Montreal Economic...
Canadian Heritage has posted the job application for the CRTC’s regional commissioner for Quebec, a year before the incumbent’s term is up. Yves Dupras, a Quebec lawyer, began a five-year term as the current commissioner...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. (SaskTel) announced the launch of a new TV service using Ericsson AB’s MediaFirst-powered IPTV platform in a press release on Wednesday. Dubbed the maxTV Stream, according to the...
With $125.2 million in funds from the Connect to Innovate program and the Quebec government, the Kativik...
More than a dozen movie studios have sued Canadians in recent months in a...
The CRTC have merged two Part 1 applications filed by Iristel Inc. and Telus Corp. earlier this month...
The Senate transport and communications committee said Tuesday the government should hold a full study into the issue of taxing advertising on foreign online platforms.
“Witnesses representing various segments of Canada’s media industry told the committee that...
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) will hold focus group meetings with Canadian production industry stakeholders...
BCE Inc.’s Northwestel is claiming that due to long distances in its...
Canadian households spent an average of $222.83 a month on communications services in 2016, the CRTC said...
BCE Inc. and Vice Media Inc. have reached a deal that will see new and previously produced content from...
Telus Corp. had the fastest average wireless speeds in the latest measurements by OpenSignal, with an average of 51.05 Mbps. BCE Inc. came in second, with 42.41 Mbps, ahead of Rogers Communications Inc., which had an average of 32.77 Mbps. Those were the same rankings, though lower speeds, than in a report from Ookla released earlier this month. “Canada has received a big injection of 4G speed in the last six months. Average 4G download speeds rose by at least 5 Mbps in our results for all three operators,” the report noted. The report was based on 678 million measurements on...
There is no need to set thresholds for jitter as part of the basic service standard, telecoms said in interventions to a CRTC consultation Monday. The regulator launched the consultation in July, when it issued...
Cogeco Inc. is going with MediaFirst for its first IPTV platform, a move...
The federal government announced over $2 million in funding for a number of cybersecurity and connected car initiatives in press releases Friday. Victoria-based Hyas Infosec Inc. will get $475,000...
BCE Inc. has won the contract to replace Manitoba’s aging public safety communications service, a...
The CRTC has approved the sale of a Fort McMurray, Alta. radio station and granted an exemption to the requirement to pay tangible benefits. It approved an application by United Christian...
Rogers Communications Inc. and BCE Inc. are among a number of organizations...
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) will not hear an appeal from an American movie studio challenging a Canadian court’s decision forcing it to pay court costs upfront for a defendant it is looking to sue for copyright...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) has approved a number of spectrum licence transfers between Shaw Communications Inc. and BCE Inc. ISED said in a pair of decisions that it has OKed the transfer of 11...
Perform Group’s Dazn sports streaming service will licence the NFL Sunday Ticket service to most of the major traditional television providers in Canada, according to a release on Tuesday. The release outlined Rogers Communications Inc., BCE Inc., Shaw Communications Inc., and Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. are amongst the providers which will offer live broadcasts of the football games included in the NFL Sunday Ticket lineup. It also said Telus Corp. will sublicence the rights from Bell, and the service will also be available through other unnamed providers. That's...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron will follow the incumbents’ lead and put in place initiatives to increase its stable of prepaid wireless customers, Videotron CEO Manon Brouillette indicated in a conference call with analysts...
Fines of $25,000 and $5,000 were levied against VOIS Inc. and its director Harpreet Randhawa, respectively, for not rejoining the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS) after being ordered to, according...
In a bid to combat the growing problem of ransomware, BlackBerry Ltd. announced in a release on Monday an...
The Canadian administrator of the video relay service (CAV), which helps hearing-impaired Canadians communicate with others over video, is asking for a budget increase to operate next year. The...
Iristel Inc. and Telus Corp. are sparring in a pair of Part 1 applications this week, stemming from new allegations by Telus that Iristel resumed traffic stimulation...
Over 146 billion records worldwide are expected to be exposed through criminal data breaches over the next six years, a new report from Juniper Research suggests. That constitutes a 22.5 per cent...
The CRTC said it wasn’t moved by an application to relook at a decision...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron announced the promotion of Élodie Girardin-Lajoie to the position of...
Xplornet Communications Inc. plans to introduce “5G-ready Internet...
A Colorado-based company is suing BCE Inc., Telus Corp. and Rogers Communications Inc. for allegedly violating its patents involving technology used to locate mobile phones for 911 service. TracBeam LLC filed a statement of...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) will join Alberta’s provincial privacy watchdog...
The customer service strategy that Telus Corp. has been employing for over...
The federal government announced more rural and remote internet funding for the Îles-de-la-Madeleine,...
The CRTC renewed the licences of a slew of broadcasters in multiple decisions on Thursday, taking a hands-off approach to issues like pricing of standalone channels, but setting conditions of license for community programming, accessibility and a firm deadline for the national set top box data program. It renewed broadcast distribution undertakings (BDU) licenses for Rogers Communications Inc., Shaw Communications Inc., Telus Corp., BCE Inc., Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp., Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink, Cogeco Inc. and Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron in their...
