TORONTO — An amber alert that resulted in three emergency texts sent to LTE phones in Ontario is a lesson that more training needs to be done to limit their frequency, since...
TORONTO — If there was a single point of agreement among panelists representing both small and big internet service providers (ISPs) on a panel discussing regulatory issues at the Telecom Summit in Toronto, it was on what they said is a redundancy in imposing net...
OTTAWA — The expert panel appointed by the federal government to...
TORONTO — The advent of fully autonomous cars on the road is still further away than some may think, according to an executive at a company that supplies small cells. “I would wager we’re...
The Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks (CENGN) will have a new CEO as Jean-Charles Fahmy takes over the role, according to a release on Tuesday.
Fahmy is...
TORONTO — The telecom industry will need to look beyond the gigabit threshold in the home to take advantage of better technologies and enhance customer experience, speakers told a telecom conference...
TORONTO — A security executive at Telus Corp. told an industry conference on Monday that industry and government must work together to put in place a national framework for cybersecurity in Canada.
“It boggles my mind...that we’re still lacking even a basic...
During its Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on Monday, Apple Inc....
OTTAWA — Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains and Heritage Minister Mélanie...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) said its 2017 survey of Canadian businesses revealed that small businesses are less likely to have considered necessary privacy responsibilities than larger entities. The...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. (SaskTel) announced on...
GATINEAU — The CRTC is recommending the government undertake a bevy of...
The Competition Bureau has an interim replacement for outgoing commissioner...
Ice Wireless, a subsidiary of Iristel Inc., is partnering with a regional...
The federal and Quebec governments are putting roughly half a million dollars into a cybersecurity...
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) will have to weigh the impact its decision could have on online undercover operations pursued without a warrant by law enforcement, as it considers overturning a lower court ruling that found an alleged child predator did not have a...
Iristel Inc. has acquired a small wireless provider with spectrum in eastern Quebec and northern Ontario and plans to launch wireless service in those areas next month, the company said Monday....
The CRTC has changed its mind when it comes to a distinction it initially drew between primary and...
A new organization called the Centre for Digital Rights (CDR) that is...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has unveiled a set...
OTTAWA — Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains wouldn’t say Thursday whether concerns about the security of telecom networks played a part in the reason the federal government decided to block the acquisition of Aecon Group Inc. by a Chinese company.
The government...
A motion asking the government to consider enshrining the concept of net...
The CRTC’s vice-chairwoman of telecom, Christianne Laizner, will stay in her role for a full five-year...
Innovation Canada (ISED) released the results of its 2018 residual spectrum auction Friday, with Cogeco Inc. ending up as the big spender. The Montreal-based telecom picked up seven paired and 16 unpaired licenses in the 2300...
OTTAWA — A media advocacy group calling for changes that would upend the...
Shaw Communications Inc. said in a press release Tuesday that it has successfully completed its first 5G trial.
The company said the tests, conducted with partners...
The CRTC has approved, on a final basis, an application by Rogers Communications Inc. to add a disaggregated point of interconnection (POI) in Argentia, Ontario, for small providers to connect to...
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink has to keep provisioning new...
When paring the first quarter numbers down, Telus Corp.’s smartphone plan...
A federal judge in the United States has denied an attempt to dismiss a case examining whether device searches at the border are unconstitutional, in a decision on May 9....
An anti-internet piracy coalition did not end up meeting with CRTC...
The CRTC could consider further regulations covering the wireless emergency alert system, depending on the answers it gets from the CEO of Pelmorex Corp. The company runs the National Public Alerting System (NPAS) system. The...
Each of the 33 communities in the Northwest Territories (NWT) now has...
The CRTC has issued a call for comments after correcting the data it used to determine wholesale rates during the regulator’s look at mandatory carriage renewals, according to a Friday letter. ...
The FairPlay coalition has responded to the laundry list of criticism directed toward its proposal to implement a website-blocking regime to fight piracy, arguing, among other...
The CRTC won’t consider mandating occasional-use wireless plans until the regulator wraps up its proceeding on low-cost data-only plans, it told the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) in a May 10 letter. PIAC asked the...
OTTAWA — Two sides of the data-use debate squared off at the House ethics...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s repeal of its 2015 net neutrality rules will take effect...
The Competition Bureau launched a market study into the broadband sector Thursday which will look at,...
The House ethics committee said that if the CRTC rules in favour of a...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron said it won’t force the migration of its...
The CRTC has issued broadcast licences for new FM radio stations in Regina, Sask. and the Sydney, Nova Scotia area, it said in a pair of decisions Tuesday. It granted an application by the non-profit United Christian...
In a decision on Monday, a Federal Court judge...
A report by the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI) challenging studies saying Canadian telecommunication prices are comparatively high against the rest of the world is being criticized by Nordicity as an unquantified analysis that misunderstood the scope of its work. The MEI’s annual state of telecom competition report, released Tuesday, challenged assumptions that the Canadian sphere was ruled by unduly high prices and little competition, pointing to the country’s fast wireless speeds, high investment in its networks, increased usage by Canadians and competitive options relative to...
Scheduled tests of the new national emergency alert notification system failed on Monday, after an errant...
The federal government will chip in $17 million of its $500-million Connect to Innovate fund to “bring high-speed Internet access or faster Internet” to 64 communities and up to 80 institutions in Nova Scotia. It said in a...
OTTAWA — The House of Commons ethics committee spoke to a British MP on...
The first three months of 2018 represented one of the most competitive in...
On Tuesday, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) said it is opening an investigation into privacy concerns over Verizon Communications Inc.-owned Yahoo email recently raised by Rogers Communications Inc. customers.
Rogers licences Yahoo’s email...
An annual report evaluating whether trade partners are implementing favourable policies to the United States — traditionally dismissed by the Canadian government — has sunk Canada’s record on piracy this year because of what...
Amazon.com Inc. will add 3,000 new employees in Vancouver, B.C., the company said in a press release on...
A dispute between two internet service providers (ISPs) over the...
A small claims court has decided in favour of a Toronto-area BCE Inc. customer who complained after signing up for a contract term at one price, which Bell proceeded to change unilaterally, according to reports by...
T-Mobile US Inc. is looking to get ahead of the evolution to 5G with a play that would see it absorb...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) is asking the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities to consider how privacy protocols were implemented when selecting smart cities challenge winners....
The House standing committee on international trade is calling on the government to implement sales taxes on “intangible products” sold by foreign companies, improve rural internet access and...
OTTAWA — There is no reason for political parties to be using social...
Canada’s big three wireless carriers have responded to the CRTC’s request to submit proposals on low-cost data-only mobile phone plans, though critics say the plans on offer won’t do much to address affordability.
“By and large, the carriers’ proposed rate plans...
The CRTC will not do anything about a Part 1 application filed by CUPE’s Provincial Council for Communications (CPSC) asking it to drop its regulatory exemptions for digital services because the arguments made in its Part 1 are...
The CRTC has granted Novus Entertainment Inc.’s request to suspend a Part 1 application it filed to set...
OTTAWA — The heads of West Coast-based software developer AggregateIQ...
Oshawa, Ont. will be the next target for BCE Inc.’s fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network buildout, the...
Cogeco Inc. has reached a deal with RNC Media Inc. to acquire 10 of RNC’s radio stations.
The deal, which is worth $18.5 million, will nearly double the number of stations Cogeco owns, which currently stands at 13, the company noted in a press release Tuesday.
“We...
Advertisers on Facebook Inc. should expect changes — like less reliance on third-party data and better consent tools — to the platform after the privacy breach revelations this spring, says...
The federal government has a new job posting for a CRTC commissioner for British Columbia and Yukon to replace Stephen Simpson, whose term ends June 22. The deadline for applications for the Vancouver-based position, which pays...
Rogers Communications Inc. customers spoke out on social media this week...
Canada’s biggest telcos will be able to stop providing wholesale service for payphones, the CRTC has...
Rogers Communications Inc. reported increases in wireless revenue and subscribers in the three months ending March 31, which it said drove its overall revenue up eight per cent over the year to $3.63...
The notice-and-notice regime requires internet service providers (ISPs) to...
Virtual assistants are beginning to take hold in Canada, with almost 40 per...
Telus Corp. is launching 4K high dynamic range (HDR) on-demand content on its Optik TV IPTV service, it said in a release Thursday.
HDR is a feature meant to improve picture quality through better...
A British Columbia court said it will not set aside or change a provincial court decision to force Alphabet Inc. to remove an alleged bad actor from its search results, pointing to weak new evidence brought by Google that experts say made for an unsurprising decision....
OTTAWA — The House of Commons standing committee on industry, science and...
OTTAWA — Canada’s privacy commissioner told the House of Commons ethics...
Rogers Communications Inc. estimates its gigabit-speed LTE network will be available later this, or early next, year following 5G demonstrations at the Rogers Centre in Toronto on Monday, according to an email from a company...
The CRTC should ensure telecoms offer plans for consumers who only need wireless service on an occasional basis, according to the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC). The consumer group filed a...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) has named Anne Bertrand, the former privacy commissioner for New Brunswick, as its new ad hoc privacy commissioner.
Bertrand will be responsible for independent investigation of “any complaints that may be lodged against the...
The rules governing quality of wholesale services provided by large...
Despite qualifying this week for an auction of wireless spectrum, the head...
OTTAWA — So-called Sybil attacks are a significant potential...
On the heels of record wireless subscriber growth in its second quarter,...
A Montreal-based satellite network company will receive $11.5 million of...
The federal government announced money towards the construction of internet backbone infrastructure in a Northern Ontario Indigenous community Tuesday. The feds will use $1.03 million from the...
Complaints by Canadians about their telecom services increased so much in...
Last week, the city of Morden, Manitoba announced a May start date for a utility-like fixed wireless internet service that will be provided to residents at no monthly cost, according to its website. Called Morenet, the service...
The vast majority of households with Kodi in Canada have the software configured to access unlicensed content, according to a report by Sandvine Corp.
Out of the over...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) will participate in an investigation into the activities of AggregateIQ Data Services Ltd. according to a post on its website on Thursday....
As BCE Inc. celebrates the completion of the majority of its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) build out in Toronto on Thursday, it’s already making plans to exceed the network speeds officially unveiled...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is “accelerating” its transformation into a more data-centric company, its...
A proposal to implement a website-blocking system to fight piracy has drawn...
Facebook Inc. released its estimates of how many people were affected by the data scandal rocking the social media company on Wednesday, saying the total amount of Canadians included in the information collection was 622,161.
That’s out of an estimated 87 million...
Despite the impact of cord-cutting on the conventional television space in...
Facebook Inc. announced a series of new measures to harden the platform against misinformation Thursday, saying it has needed to ban a Macedonia-based ring spreading fake news during the late 2017 Alabama senate race, and will now...
OTTAWA — Complex auction and government subsidy application processes are...
Innovation Canada has released its framework for the 600 MHz spectrum auction, now scheduled for March 2019, and it will set aside 43 per cent of spectrum for “regional competitors and potential new market entrants,” according...
The Ontario government is pledging $50 million for a fund that will accelerate the development of next generation technology including artificial intelligence, 5G and autonomous vehicles. Unveiled...
Wireless service providers are required to distribute wireless public emergency alert messages on LTE by April 6, the CRTC said in a Thursday release. The announcement puts an end to uncertainty as to when the service would...
OTTAWA — Members of the federal NDP introduced a sweeping motion...
The Quebec government’s 2018 budget, unveiled Tuesday, includes a measure...
TNW Wireless Inc. is still hopeful the CRTC will rule in its favour in a Part 1 complaint to force BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. to negotiate roaming plans so it can implement its proposed national WiFi-based wireless service, according to company president Lawry...
