The federal government has appointed a panel of experts who will lead roundtable discussions during the upcoming national data consultation. According to a Friday press release, the panel includes Janie Béïque, the executive vice-president of Investments, Fonds de solidarité FTQ, Arvind Gupta, professor of computer science at the University of Toronto, Sarah Lubik, the director of Entrepreneurship for Simon Fraser University, Carole Piovesan, a lawyer with McCarthy Tétrault, Mark Podlasly, founder of Brookmere Management Group and Ilse Treurnicht, former CEO of MaRS Discovery District....
Matt Rapke doesn’t need a map to figure out that identifying ‘unnamed’ rural and remote places is a fundamental aspect of deploying broadband in those areas, because he comes from one such town.
“If you looked at my house on a map, it's not part of any...
BCE Inc. will grow its presence in the fixed wireless space to 30...
Internet speed test service Speedtest by Ookla announced the mobile network results from the first and second quarters of 2018 in a report on Wednesday, and Telus Corp.’s connection rate takes the crown, with BCE Inc. close...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile will highlight its lack of...
Xplornet Communications Inc. will call its wireless service Xplore Mobile when it launches this fall, it...
Rules that force providers to unlock smartphones have led to an increased level of crime targeting the supply chain and retail elements of their businesses, BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. told the CRTC.
“We have seen an increase in illegal and fraudulent...
The CRTC has declined a request from the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) to offer protection against litigation to current and former employees who offer submissions to the regulator’s...
Heritage shadow minister Peter Van Loan will no longer be an MP as of Sept. 30, according to a statement...
The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) has launched a Canada-wide...
The global telecom blockchain market could grow to an estimated $993.8 million by 2023, driven by increased use of the trustless databases in billing, number portability, fraud and eSIM provisioning,...
Three years after a number of big companies first announced they would...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. saw a declining number of government requests for its subscriber information over...
Rogers Communications Inc. outlined some of the locations of new cell towers which include upgrades to its mobile network capability in a series of press releases released Thursday morning. Customers of the Toronto-based...
The CRTC wants the Big Three to submit options for lower-priced data plans...
Despite the impact over-the-top (OTT) streaming services have had on the television market for sometime in Canada, a new report by Think TV suggests that linear is still dominating those services. The report said that, regardless of age, gender or language, linear TV still eclipses viewership on Netflix Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube, and Facebook Inc. in average weekly hours. Throughout the document, the word “dominates” was used to describe the viewership difference. It also measured the time people spent using Facebook’s photo-sharing app Instagram, Snap Inc.’s camera app, and...
The radio market in Lloydminster, on the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, can’t sustain another radio station, the CRTC said Wednesday. “While Lloydminster`s population is growing and average...
Xplornet Communications Inc. plans to build up fibre facilities in Eastern...
The Quebec Superior Court has ruled against a plan by the Quebec government...
Roku Inc. is launching its no-cost ad-supported video-on-demand service (AVOD) The Roku Channel in Canada, according to a blog post Monday. People who own Roku TVs or the Roku streaming box will have immediate access to...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. will invest up to $26 million over a year and a half to build out an open access fibre-to-the-premises network in the Chatham-Kent, Ont. area, according to a press release on Monday.
The municipality, also home to TekSavvy’s headquarters, will...
Telesat Holdings Inc. said Monday that the launch of its new Telstar 19...
BCE Inc. announced that its low-cost prepaid mobile service, Lucky Mobile, has launched in Quebec and all...
Xplornet Communications Inc. will not be able to service thousands of its rural customers with...
The members of a union at Shaw Communications Inc. in British Columbia have voted to strike due to issues...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) has approved the leasing of wireless spectrum from Telus Corp. to crown corporation Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. The sharing of the AWS-1 spectrum will...
A company that copied and reused information posted on Facebook Inc.’s social media site violated the privacy of “potentially some” 4.5 million Canadians, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner...
Shaw Communications Inc. has launched low-cost wireless data plans that trump offers proposed by its competitors to the CRTC, after the telecoms told the regulator that it should accept no substitutes what they proposed. The...
Explaining the relentless pace of growth in Canada’s wireless industry,...
Former chief government whip Pablo Rodriguez is the new heritage minister, replacing the embattled Mélanie Joly, after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shuffled his cabinet on Wednesday.
Rodriguez has “a lot” of previous experience with this portfolio, independent...
To meet the CRTC’s basic service standard, internet service providers (ISPs) must provide a service with a latency of 50 milliseconds (ms) between a customer’s modem and an internet exchange point...
Broadcasters with multiplatform properties are expected to benefit from a...
Canadian operators drive the highest revenues per wireless gigabyte in the...
The SouthWestern Integrated Fibre Technology Inc.(SWIFT) project launched its first request for...
Eight per cent of Canadians own a smart speaker, which is about in line with adoption of other early technology, according to a Media Technology Monitor (MTM) report published on Thursday.
The CBC/Radio-Canada project said that Alphabet Inc.’s Google Home product, as it...
Cogeco Inc.'s renewed interest in entering the wireless market is partly...
Due to actions which constituted “malvertising,” or the dissemination of malicious software in online ads, the CRTC issued notices of violations to two companies under the Canadian anti-spam legislation (CASL) Wednesday,...
BCE Inc.’s Bell MTS in Manitoba is dropping its province-wide wireless unlimited data plan option and increasing prices for upgrading or new customers, it announced Tuesday. New customers will...
After the British Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) found that Facebook Inc. had “security...
The 26 GHz band will be one of the most critical and earliest-adopted bands for 5G services, telecoms said in reply to an Innovation Canada consultation on millimetre (mmWave) wave spectrum, but...
Nearly three quarters of Canadians, or 73 per cent, reported having ever watching livestreamed video, according to an Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) study published in June. The activity is trending up, as half of the...
Shaw Communications Inc. said Tuesday the company is offering a residential internet plan with 300 Mbps...
There is no legal or regulatory obligation on telecoms to offer paper bills, BCE Inc. said in a filing to the CRTC, responding to an application asking the regulator to ensure companies must provide a paper bill to customers who...
According to the latest data from the CRTC, the Canadian broadcasting and broadcast distribution industry’s loss of revenue continues to accelerate, mostly due to ongoing “significant” declines in TV provider revenue in the broadcast year ending Aug. 31, 2017.
The...
BCE Inc.’s Northwestel is on its way to successfully completing its...
Twitter Inc. wants to make sure the government understands how online...
TV producer and former Liberal candidate Joanne Levy will be the new CRTC commissioner for the Manitoba...
The CRTC released new data Thursday for the fourth quarter of 2017 that...
Canadians are still spending a good amount of time on computers to access content online, though 11 per cent of the country uses smartphones and tablets exclusively, according...
BCE Inc. will take over the operation of the entire SuperNet network in...
In May, Canada’s smartphone users relied on an average of 2.7 GB in mobile data, but ended up using an average 8.4 GB of WiFi data, according to new results from Tutela Technologies Inc. network...
The Federal Court of Appeal has turned away an attempt by MediaTube Corp. — in its already-dismissed patent infringement case against BCE Inc. — to introduce potential new evidence in its appeal based on allegations its...
The CRTC is asking wireless service providers to outline their current practices on phone unlocking, following an application asking the regulator to require carriers to unlock all devices, even if the individual isn’t a...
Amir Bigloo, who has a history of successful spectrum purchases as CEO of...
Subscriptions to a fibre-based fixed broadband service in Canada jumped 27...
The big three wireless providers doubled down on their proposed low-cost,...
Former British Columbia premier Christy Clark has joined Shaw Communications Inc.’s board of directors,...
Shaw Communications Inc. blamed a third quarter of soft consumer internet performance more on its own execution than on hyper-competitive activity during a conference call with analysts Thursday.
Shaw’s third quarter results reflected a loss on the consumer internet...
The panel appointed to lead the review of the Broadcasting Act and Telecommunications Act has met for the first time this week, and will continue to meet regularly over the summer, the federal...
Christa Dickenson will be the next executive director of Telefilm Canada, the office of Heritage Minister...
The CRTC is initiating intertwining reviews of two regimes, one which governs local exchange service price caps and the other on rules around exclusion from rate regulation in areas with sufficient competition. The regulator...
The federal government is infusing the University of Alberta with $500,000 for a pilot on enhanced privacy for connected and autonomous car communications. The government’s goal is to “help...
In a pair of studies measuring home internet service this week, BCE Inc. was positioned at the two ends of the spectrum, topping out the list of fastest connections in Canada, but falling to near the bottom of the pack in customer satisfaction. Results of reports from PC Magazine and J.D. Power, the first measuring speed and the other customer satisfaction, were announced on Tuesday and Thursday, respectively. Bell came in with the fastest speeds on average, with a 115 Mbps PCMag “speed...
Sony Corp.’s ad-supported video-on-demand (AVOD) service Crackle will cease existence in Canada next...
A public-private partnership on 5G technology research offered more details Friday about where its “innovation hubs,” or research centres, will be located, outlining locations at Montreal’s...
An announcement Thursday that Cogeco Inc. has bought more spectrum makes it clear the company is “exploring a viable economic model for a wireless service,” Canaccord Genuity analyst Aravinda...
The federal government is affirming its commitment to enforcing the...
Cogeco Inc. has bought $8 million worth of the 2500 MHz paired spectrum band from Kian Telecom Inc.,...
The government has responded to a House industry committee report that, among other recommendations, said the government should tackle the problem of rural broadband access in Canada and called for...
One in eight Canadians have watched pirated TV or movie content online in...
A newly-minted data rights group spearheaded by former BlackBerry Ltd. co-CEO Jim Balsillie met with privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien in late May, according to the federal lobbying registry....
Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) is putting $30 million from its Connect to Innovate program toward a 777 kilometre-long fibre cable that will improve internet connectivity for residents in Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and northern British Columbia. The fibre network will stretch between Dawson City in Yukon and Inuvik in the Northwest Territories. The release said it will help close a 4,000 kilometre-long northern fibre loop, meaning the new line will add redundancy that will reduce outages to critical services, such as hospitals and debit and credit...
OTTAWA — As the House of Commons rose for summer break Wednesday...
Just over a quarter of Canadians surveyed by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) said they don’t know how much broadband data they have, a concern a CIRA spokeswoman said could be...
Thousands of Canadians have signed separate petitions created by Democracy Watch, with one calling for a strengthening of the elections law body that could compel media sites to remove false ads....
Nearly half of the Canadian mobile connections by 2026 will be on a 5G...
OTTAWA — The federal government said Tuesday it will hold consultations to look at the issue of data and privacy in an increasingly data-driven economy.
“As much as Canadians enjoy new digital platforms, recent data breaches have made Canadians rightfully more anxious...
The Canadian Network Operators’ Consortium (CNOC) has named its spokesman and vice-chair Matt Stein the new president and chairman of the organization, CNOC said in a press release Monday.
Stein, who is also the CEO of...
Following nine public meetings that began in March, the House committee...
A joint venture of the big three telecoms announced a partnership on Monday with U.S.-based Payfone Inc. to support the Canadian roll out of an app that could replace passwords in the future....
The House industry committee heard some familiar suggestions from a number...
TORONTO — Smart cities will require a proper framework that respects both...
The Competition Bureau is among those who are telling the CRTC that mandated low-cost, data-only plans should have more data on offer, in a move that raises the stakes of the regulator’s proceeding...
OTTAWA — Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains said Thursday afternoon that...
U.S.-based video services like Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube TV and Amazon.com...
Corus Entertainment Inc. CEO Doug Murphy is refusing to comment on a media report that Shaw Communications Inc. is looking to sell its stake in Corus.
“Our focus will be [to] continue to build a very highly tuned media company in Canada,” he told the Scotiabank TMT...
OTTAWA — The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS) now has a leader...
TORONTO — There are ways to regulate artificial intelligence and the...
Rogers Communications Inc. confirmed on Monday it started a targeted roll out of its Ignite TV IPTV service to select customers in Ontario. While Rogers initially planned on developing its own platform, that system was...
Iristel Inc. is suing Rogers Communications Inc. to the tune of nearly $150...
Rogers Communications Inc. is launching additional TV-subscription authenticated, ad-supported over-the-top (OTT) services for two of its channels, FX and CityTV.
“We're making it easier for viewers and empowering them to watch ... when, where, and on whatever device...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile said more phones with Apple Inc.’s iOS and Alphabet...
The federal government and Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding...
The federal government released the findings of a 2018 public-opinion survey meant to assess the effectiveness of the Wireless Code this week, revealing that one out of two Canadians have paid...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) is seeking comments, during a consultation on the 3.5 Ghz spectrum, about timelines related to the deployment of the spectrum, including the...
BCE Inc. will launch two new ad-supported video-on-demand (AVOD) services, rebrand its entertainment...
TORONTO — Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains announced Wednesday the...
Telecom companies should have to offer paper bills to customers who ask for them, the Public Interest...
A Supreme Court of Canada ruling in an online libel case won’t change much about how court jurisdiction over online content currently works in Canada, according to legal experts. “The SCC did...
Former CRTC commissioner Raj Shoan filed an appeal on Tuesday of a May Federal Court decision which dismissed an application for a judicial review of his second firing from the communications regulator. Federal Court Judge James Russell found that there were enough grounds to fire Shoan, but according to a notice of appeal, Shoan is arguing that there were a number of errors made by the judge. Citing the previous decisions, Shoan says that he was actually due a new termination process, that relevant evidence was ignored, and the judge didn’t take into account he was hired as a...
