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 recent years, the medium was the source of more complaints about advertisements than any other,...
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 mandated. The regulator initially intended for April 6 to be the official date, but in February it was still working out the kinks. A nationwide test will start between May 6 and 12, and is intended to give Canadians an opportunity to “become familiar with how public alert messages will be delivered...including the tone and vibration cadence that will distinguish...
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...
GATINEAU — The next generation of WiFi will incorporate LTE technology...
A decades-old organization that is pushing for a multilateral approach to decision-making on the future...
The government has spent years consulting on connected and autonomous cars...
SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. and Carleton University have signed a memorandum of...
The CRTC said Monday it is asking for input on next-generation 911 (NG911) network design efficiencies...
An Ontario lawmaker is pushing for consent-based privacy legislation focused on governing the collection, use and disclosure of personal information by the private sector. On Wednesday, the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), or Bill 14, had its first reading in the province’s legislature. Sponsor and Liberal member of provincial parliament Harinder Takhar said it would be the province’s own privacy law for the private sector. “We are lagging behind provinces such as British Columbia, Alberta and Quebec in creating provincial legislation to regulate the collection, use and...
Executives from Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. don’t see demand for wireless data slowing down, they told an investors conference earlier this week. “We’re still seeing significant data growth in the wireless...
There is high awareness of cyber threats among businesses with .ca registrations, but a sizeable sum of small and large organizations surveyed by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA)...
OTTAWA — Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan couldn’t tell MPs or reporters...
Having facilities-based carriers offer low-cost data-only plans is a better way to fulfill the government’s goals of more affordable wireless options for consumers than mandating roaming access by...
OTTAWA — Revelations over the weekend that Facebook Inc. data was used inappropriately for political purposes are now being formally investigated by the privacy...
Default accounts on hospital systems using free software contributed to a significant increase in publicly-reported security incidents at medical centres around the world, a new report from computer...
Canada’s publicly-traded telecoms lost fewer TV subscribers in 2017 than...
OTTAWA — A public-private partnership to foster 5G technology research in...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) is looking into reports data of 50 million Facebook Inc....
Organizations in Alberta will receive $22.5 million in federal and private...
Advances in fixed wireless technology could make it a more viable option...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron is working on deploying its new IPTV service as quickly as possible, Manon...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) Canada announced an additional $38 million of funding for rural broadband in British Columbia in a release on Tuesday. The funding is on top of...
Microchip producer Broadcom Ltd.’s proposed takeover of chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. was blocked Monday via an executive order by United States president Donald Trump. The order referred to “credible evidence” that led Trump to believe that Broadcom, through the acquisition, “might take action that threatens to impair the national security of the United States.” It ordered the two parties to “immediately and permanently abandon” the proposal. The news is the latest salvo...
Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains called reports of internet service price hikes by two large telecoms...
A British Columbia court will not delay hearing a challenge brought by...
BCE Inc.’s low-cost prepaid brand Lucky Mobile is now available in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, the...
The percentage of anglophones subscribing to TV service fell to 73 per cent in 2017 from 75 per cent a year earlier, according to the latest numbers from CBC/Radio-Canada’s Media Technology Monitor (MTM) project. Continuing...
OTTAWA — Any amendments to Canada’s privacy law for the private sector should include measures to enhance transparency, which include the privacy commissioner naming bad actors in investigations and mandating organizations report details of personal information being...
The former chairman of the CRTC, Jean-Pierre Blais, is staying in the...
In a decision on Thursday, the CRTC has said that while the launch of Canada’s upcoming wireless public alerting (WPA) system has yet to be announced, it intends for the start date to be the...
OTTAWA — Tools to better inform consumers of their rights when purchasing wireless services are under...
The CRTC said in a pair of decisions Wednesday that BCE Inc. and Telus...
Citing its early developments in timestamp interfaces, encryption...
Researchers at American universities have found a number of security vulnerabilities on the 4G LTE network, which could expose citizens to tracking, impersonation and fake text messages. The paper, which was presented at a...
OTTAWA — Experts praised the idea of stricter standards for imported...
Novus Entertainment Inc. has filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC asking for access to multi-dwelling units under construction by a real-estate developer in the Vancouver area, Ledingham McAllister.
Novus said it needs...
OTTAWA — Representatives from Apple Inc. faced down members of the House committee on industry, science and technology on Thursday afternoon, telling MPs that while the company didn’t mean to mislead consumers about its slowing down of some older smartphones, it had...
The government should consider including frameworks for a right to erasure...
As the federal government announced schemes to bolster Canadian...
Canada’s major telecoms are among the leading players in the creation of...
Despite indications deployment of 5G is being accelerated, a report from GSMA says 4G connections will still dwarf those of 5G into 2025. The Mobile Economy 2018 report, released Tuesday, noted...
OTTAWA — The 2018 federal budget, released Tuesday afternoon, includes half a billion dollars in funding for cybersecurity initiatives, in addition to smaller investments in...
BCE Inc. and Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. have successfully tested fixed wireless technology that uses Huawei's 5G tech in rural parts of Southwestern Ontario, according to a Tuesday press release....
Canada’s telecoms are taking sides on how Innovation Canada should approach the release of more licence-exempt spectrum, including whether more should be allocated for WiFi use, as it prepares for...
BCE Inc. is advertising unusually low-priced promotional offers in downtown...
Customers of Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron can now make free voice calls and ...
The CRTC is encouraging emergency operators to harden next generation 911...
Only 45 per cent of cybersecurity alerts are investigated in Canada, according to Cisco Systems Inc.’s 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Report. That puts Canada in second-lowest place behind China in a list of 17 countries and...
Data insights and programmatic advertising that could disrupt digital...
Innovation Canada (ISED) is hearing from both telecoms and broadcasters that it should go ahead with its proposal to limit white space devices to bands below 608 MHz, though for very different...
Global smartphones saw a year-over-year decline in sales for the first time in the fourth quarter due to a preference for quality feature phones and users holding onto their smartphones longer, according to Gartner Inc.
Unit sales of smartphones in the final quarter last...
Over six years after it was established, a government-funded non-profit initiative seeking to deliver...
The CRTC has told Telus Corp., Rogers Communications Inc. and TBayTel Inc. that they can have the extra time they requested in order to implement certain requirements of the Wireless Code. The two companies told the regulator...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) Canada has decided against assigning additional...
BCE Inc.’s Alt TV service is its “underappreciated driver for broadband growth,” Barclays Capital analyst Phillip Huang said in a research...
The United States Senate Intelligence Committee heard from six high-ranking intelligence community officials who spoke out against the use of telecommunications hardware produced by Chinese companies on Tuesday.
“We’re deeply concerned about the risks of allowing any...
Innovation Canada is extending both licence terms and coverage requirements following a consultation on AWS-1 spectrum renewals, it said in a decision Friday. In 2008, ISED — then Industry...
OTTAWA — Two “superclusters” involving BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. are...
Shaw Communications Inc. has revealed that 3,300 employees, or a quarter of...
OTTAWA — Representatives from the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), when asked Tuesday about...
A group of municipalities is asking the CRTC to take a second look at a...
The CRTC has approved the purchase of four Ontario radio stations by BCE Inc.’s Bell Media from Larche Communications Inc. The deal, announced last year, will see Bell buy the stations for $15.6...
The CRTC has told the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) that Canadians have other outlets for complaints about telecom sales practices in response to a request from the consumer group to open an...
In a decision on Monday, the CRTC ruled that BCE Inc. did not subject independent telecom Ebox Inc. to an undue disadvantage during carriage negotiations. In a Part 1 application in September, Ebox alleged that Bell was putting...
Financial barriers and complex responses still deter individuals from accessing their information held by companies, including telecoms, in Canada, according to a report by...
Customers’ drive to track precise data will push specific kinds of...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) is asking the CRTC to declare that telecoms cannot expire balances left on customers’ prepaid accounts in cases where customers continue to top off their...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s moves to take a larger share of Canada’s...
OTTAWA — The Canadian Security Establishment (CSE) could inadvertently be...
BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. both reported quarterly results for the three months ending on Dec. 31 Wednesday, and while both had significant increases in wireless customer additions, Bell especially appeared to benefit from December’s week of heightened competition....
Kingston, Ont., is partnering with BCE Inc. to integrate the company’s Internet of Things (IoT)...
The House of Commons standing committee on industry, science and technology has approved a motion to launch a study looking into the slowing down of Apple Inc.’s older mobile devices. NDP MP Brian Masse, who is the vice-chairman of the committee, asked it to look into a change to Apple’s mobile operating system that...
OTTAWA — The idea of of explicitly making net neutrality part of...
OTTAWA — Following a wireless emergency alert in the United States that...
Telus Corp. is now the third Canadian telecom to be sued by TiVo Corp. over...
BCE Inc. said it will unlock all devices that are restricted to its network, helping relieve concern among consumer groups who are currently asking the CRTC to clarify that policy in the new Wireless Code. Bell spokeswoman...
As part of its government-ordered proceeding on future content distribution models, the CRTC is asking a number of companies — including Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Netflix Inc. — for information...
Japanese cyber security company Trend Micro Inc. and Telus Corp. have...
BCE Inc. said Friday it has achieved gigabit-per-second mobile network speeds during tests near Mississauga, Ont., according to a release on Friday. Claiming it was the "first wireless provider in Canada to achieve Gigabit LTE speeds," Bell said it used an LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) wireless network which is combined with carrier aggregation and a 4x4 multiple input multiple output (MIMO) technology to achieve those speeds. Bell has previously used it’s quad band LTE network to provide speeds of up to 750 Mbps. It said Friday that it plans on leveraging Licensed Assisted Access (LAA), which...
In a decision on Friday, the CRTC ruled that the Canadian Network Operators Consortium’s (CNOC) application for transitional access to fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) facilities belonging to large...
OTTAWA — The Canadian television industry is behind the curve when it...
OTTAWA — A Canada Media Fund-backed initiative to implement blockchain...
TiVo Corp. is going after a second Canadian telecom for patent infringement, claiming in a lawsuit filed...
The CRTC has officially launched the Part 1 process for an application asking the regulator to set up an anti-piracy website-blocking system. The Part 1 was posted on the CRTC's website Tuesday with a March 1 deadline for interventions. The FairPlay coalition, whose membership includes telecoms, broadcasters and creative groups, is arguing that piracy is a growing threat to the industry and wants the CRTC to create an agency that would identify websites hosting pirated content, which would then be blocked. Internet advocacy group OpenMedia has begun a public campaign against the...
Earmarked spectrum, cybersecurity improvements and increased privacy...
Shaw Communications Inc. said Tuesday it is offering voluntary buyouts to 6,500 of its employees and...
Creative groups are standing their ground on spending for programs of national interest (PNI), suggesting that a marginal increase in funding for those programs proposed by the large English-language broadcasters last month is not...
Following reports that the United States government was considering building its own 5G network, Ajit...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has become the “first independent Canadian telecom service provider” to offer...
Canada and the Netherlands are teaming up to test a system for identifying...
Telus Corp. has a new Telus Health product that promises parents a way to track the health of their baby...
The CRTC said Thursday that by March 31, 2019, it expects that telecoms in Canada will have a technical solution to authenticate caller IDs and an industry administrator to combat nuisance phone...
Canadians have the right to ask search engines to remove links to results in some cases, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) said in a report released Friday, which concluded individuals can challenge the accuracy and completeness of, as well as the extent...
