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 growth rate per year in actual breaches between this year and 2023, the report said. It also noted that reported breaches will be helped by stronger cybersecurity legislation. Canada is preparing to impose mandatory breach notification requirement rules. The vast majority of these projected...
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 and launch an investigation into the use of facial recognition technology in shopping malls owned by Cadillac Fairview.
“The investigation was initiated by...
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,...
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...
Matt Rapke doesn’t need a map to figure out that identifying...
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 said in a press release Wednesday.
The company has also launched two pop-up stores, in Winnipeg and Brandon, Man. ahead of the launch.
The release said the service...
Rules that force providers to unlock smartphones have led to an increased...
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, according to a study by Markets and Markets. Blockchain, the distributed ledger system which has exploded in popularity after it was used to underpin the bitcoin virtual currency, has been proposed as a solution to many problems in the telecom industry. The current market size, according Markets...
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,...
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 “hundreds” of TV shows, movies and documentaries, said the post. The service will feature a rotating selection of “box office hits and great classic movies” every month. Roku said the advertising time will be a third less than linear television, something previously pointed out by Doug Murphy, CEO of Corus Entertainment Inc., as a boon for advertisers and...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. will invest up to $26 million over a year and a half to build out an open access...
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 including job security, wages and making employees pay for work devices.
The United Steelworkers (USW) Local 1944 said in a Thursday press release that it received...
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,...
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 proposals, it said in a press release Friday.
“The RFP to serve the Delaware Nation at Moraviantown is the first bidding opportunity for local network construction to be...
Eight per cent of Canadians own a smart speaker, which is about in line with adoption of other early...
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 issues” and a “lack of transparency” related to political data harvesting in its interaction with SCL Group Ltd., the regulator issued a notice of intent to fine the...
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...
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 shows wireless service accounted for more than half of telecom industry revenue, which was up 3.7 per cent from the same quarter the previous year.
That’s an acceleration from between 2015 and 2016,...
Canadians are still spending a good amount of time on computers to access...
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 customer. In a letter dated June 29, the CRTC asked large and small service providers to outline how many unlocking requests they’ve received since December 2017, when the CRTC’s rules eliminating locking fees for smartphones came into effect. Later that month, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) filed an application asking the CRTC to mandate service...
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...
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 address technical, policy and regulatory issues related” to the technology, a Monday press release said. The funding is part of the government’s $2.9-million program called Advance Connectivity and Automation in the Transportation System, which looks to help jurisdictions across the country prepare for the next generation of transportation. That funding includes support for research,...
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...
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 principles of net neutrality not only inside the country but abroad, as it has vowed to “address” situations in which Canadian companies are affected by the traffic management practices of United States...
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...
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 connection, according to new research commissioned by the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications...
OTTAWA — The federal government said Tuesday it will hold consultations to look at the issue of data...
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 of music industry groups Thursday, as they asked the MPs to take action on a radio royalty...
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...
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 million for allegedly reneging on contract agreements governing telephone traffic exchange dating...
