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 Inc.’s Android platform can make WiFi calls on its network in a post on Twitter Inc.’s platform Friday.
This comes after the wireless carrier announced the feature in...
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 timing of the next three spectrum auctions — including the much talked-about 3.5 GHz — as well as a...
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...
TORONTO — An amber alert that resulted in three emergency texts sent to...
TORONTO — If there was a single point of agreement among panelists representing both small and big...
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 on Monday. “In reality, the speed in the home needs to go up,” Michael Weening, executive vice-president of sales and marketing at United States-based telecom access provider Calix Inc., said Monday morning. “A gig isn’t enough, not even close...we actually need two gig, three gig, five gig and every single one of those [home] devices need to go at a higher speed.” Weening...
TORONTO — A security executive at Telus Corp. told an industry conference...
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 Wednesday plans to deploy a new, long-distance wireless backhaul system that will bring transport layer speed increases to remote communities.
Picking Nokia Corp.’s Wavence microwave platform, SaskTel...
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...
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 of guidelines for getting meaningful consent to collect user data, as well as outlining six inappropriate uses of personal data on Thursday.
The privacy watchdog said that the inappropriate data use...
OTTAWA — Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains wouldn’t say Thursday...
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 ability for Canadian organizations to deduct taxes on foreign digital advertising admitted Tuesday...
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...
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. Originally, the consultation which prompted a hearing on the matter used data indicating that the rate of subscription losses had declined in the 2015-2016 year, from the previous 2014-2015 period. But the letter said numbers supplied by Suzanne Blackwell of Giganomics Consulting Inc., on behalf of Cogeco Inc., Quebecor Inc., and Shaw Communications Inc., showed the subscription decline...
The FairPlay coalition has responded to the laundry list of criticism...
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, among other questions, how regulators and policymakers could foster competition.
The study will focus on four main themes, the Bureau said, looking at “the ability of...
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...
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 the wireless business that BCE Inc. head George Cope has seen, he said Thursday, alluding to the...
On Tuesday, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) said it is opening an investigation...
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 CBC/Radio-Canada. After starting a two-year term for internet and television services for $112.93 a month with a phone representative, David Ramsay was subsequently told that the price was going up for his services two months later, read the CBC’s report. According to the CBC, the judge said the verbal agreement over the phone was binding, ruling in Ramsay’s favour. Ramsay...
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...
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 company said in a press release Tuesday.
Earlier this month, Bell celebrated completing the majority of its Toronto network, and Rizwan Jamal, its president of residential...
Cogeco Inc. has reached a deal with RNC Media Inc. to acquire 10 of RNC’s radio stations.
The deal,...
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 determined.
The decision Friday was concurrent with denying two 2016 applications from BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. to avoid some of the regulations surrounding pay...
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...
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 Part 1 application with the regulator asking it to direct telecoms to offer the plans in the same way as low-cost data-only plans. The application, dated April 13, follows a March decision in which the CRTC told Canadian wireless carriers they had to offer low-cost data plans and asked them to file proposals on how they plan to do so. PIAC asked for its application to be combined with that...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) has named Anne Bertrand, the former privacy commissioner for...
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, Shaw Communication Inc.’s Freedom is on a path to steady growth, its president said on a conference...
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...
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 opposition from academics and advocacy groups in Canada, as well as input from international players and unusually high engagement from the public.
Nearly 10,000 total comments, the vast majority...
