Canada has been “pushing hard” to speed up development of a plan for the G20 to “make sure that digital companies pay their fair share of tax,” Canada’s Finance...
Iristel Inc. has acquired Télécommunications de l’Est (TDE), a small Quebec telecom that provides service to industries operating in remote areas with limited cellular service, such as forestry and mining. Iristel CEO Samer Bishay said in a press release Thursday that much of TDE’s infrastructure overlaps with that of I-Mobileca Inc., a small provider of machine-to-machine communications Iristel bought in May. Iristel said at the time it would use I-Mobileca’s spectrum in eastern Quebec and northern Ontario to launch wireless service in those areas. “Cellular connectivity has...
Members of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee are prodding the Canadian government to block Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd from Canada’s next generation network infrastructure, warning it might...
Internet service providers (ISPs) in rural and remote communities are trying to keep up with the appetite...
TeraGo Inc. will repurpose spectrum it bought nearly a decade ago for a 5G fixed wireless trial in the Greater Toronto Area, the company said Thursday. It bought the 24 GHz spectrum in 2010, aiming to use it for a backhaul...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner’s (OPC) draft reporting guidance...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) said it is gathering more information about whether the personal information of Canadians was implicated in a leak involving an Alphabet Inc. social network. “Google has contacted us regarding the incident and we will be following up to gather more information about this incident, including whether it affected any Canadian users,” OPC spokesman Corey Larocque confirmed in an email to The Wire Report. On Monday, a Wall Street Journal report revealed that the search engine behemoth had a software bug that possibly gave third-party developers access to the private data of up to 500,000 Google+ accounts via 438 applications. It’s unclear if Canadians were implicated in the leak. On the same day the Journal report was published, Google said in a blog post the bug gave third-party apps...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile has begun deploying the 700 MHz spectrum it bought last year,...
Seventeen of 34 government departments are “non-compliant” with private sector payment card industry standards they are required to follow to prevent data breaches and fraud, according to a June...
The Canadian government took part in a coordinated international effort...
OTTAWA — Alphabet Inc.’s Google wants to see the Copyright Board of Canada tariff setting process...
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...
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 federal government to make it easier for telecoms to access infrastructure such as roads and utility poles as they deploy 5G networks.
“As we face the dawn of the 5G era, it is in the best...
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...
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 allegedly engaging in piracy, it said in a highly-anticipated decision Tuesday, cracking open another...
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...
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 ask the Federal Court for a reference on whether the private sector’s privacy law applies to search engine de-indexing.
In the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s (OPC) annual report...
Some of the battles taking place before the CRTC related to site-blocking...
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 overestimated how many Canadians had compatible phones that allow them to receive the alerts, Patrick Tanguy, assistant deputy minister of emergency management and programs at Public Safety Canada said...
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,...
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 communications since being sworn into the Liberal cabinet three months ago and taking over an often-contentious portfolio.
The communications were with the Fédération nationale...
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...
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 start of the fall sitting Monday, some new faces will be working on files affecting Canadian media and telecom, as long-awaited legislative reviews that could have seismic effects on those sectors get...
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...
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 Parliament returning for its fall sitting –- including two MPs with key critic roles tasked with watching communications and cultural policy.
Quebec MP Steven Blaney...
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...
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 of changes to the Canadian content system, including a new approach to funding content that would include contributions from telecom service providers and see online services make “equitable” contributions. In its forecast for 2019-2020, released Thursday, the CRTC confirmed it will consider implementing some of the changes identified in that report over that time frame. That includes...
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,...
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 technologies such as automated bots have rapidly evolved to make it easier to spread misinformation on...
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...
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 in August 2014, which is coming to an end next August. The government is encouraging all applicants to get their applications in before the review process on September 25. After that date, the application will be held “and may be considered up until an appointment to the position is made,” it said in the job description, posted last week....
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...
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 the millennial-focused media brand be available on Bell’s platforms, the companies said in a press release Thursday.
That means that content from Viceland, Vice’s...
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...
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 project that’s expected to cost $380 million and take three years, the provincial government said in a press release.
The company will be responsible for replacing the...
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...
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 organization is asking for $22.5 million from the CRTC’s national contribution fund (NCF) -- a fund that collects money from telecoms and lists CAV as an eligible recipient -- for its 2019 budget, it said in a request filed with the regulator in July. That’s an increase from the roughly $20 million it received for this year’s budget. Additionally, the service says it had a surplus of $1.9...
