Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Wednesday the deployment of 5G technology across more than 40 additional cell sites, extending its reach to rural...
Melinda Rogers-Hixon and Martha Rogers are retiring from the telecom company’s board of directors, announced Rogers Communications Inc. on Wednesday.
The two sisters are stepping down as part of a private settlement in the family feud that has rocked the company since...
Rogers Communications Inc. has become Canada’s most complained-about service provider, according to the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services’ (CCTS) annual report released on...
The governments of Canada and British Columbia have announced a joint...
The Commission for Complaints for...
After almost two hours of deliberation last Thursday, the House industry and technology committee failed...
BCE Inc. filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC seeking clarity on three key areas of uncertainty identified by the Ontario Court of Appeal, in response to a proposed class...
The owner of a multi-dwelling unit (MDU) in Kitchener, Ontario denies BCE...
Revenue and profits declined at Cogeco Inc. as the Quebec firm released...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. lodged a formal Part 1 complaint with the CRTC against Cogeco Inc., to address...
Misuse of 911 continues to be a problem for emergency service providers...
A consortium working toward the successful implementation of...
The Minister of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) has...
The Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry is calling on Canadian...
Terago Inc. announced the appointment of Jason Toledano as its new CFO, effective last Tuesday.
The telecommunications industry veteran succeeds Phil Jones, who is...
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) has launched a group of satellites which will facilitate its direct-to-cell services, it was announced Wednesday. The Falcon 9 rocket carried Starlink satellites which will allow several companies around the world to connect to...
The Canadian Telecommunications Contribution...
This story has been updated with comment from BCE Inc.
Quebecor Inc., representing Videotron and Freedom Mobile, has lodged a formal complaint with the CRTC against BCE Inc., alleging...
Bragg Communications Inc.'s Eastlink is...
The CRTC has denied a BCE Inc. application to...
BCE Inc.’s Northwestel announced to the CRTC that it has successfully transitioned telecommunications services in Atlin, B.C., from Telus Corp as of Nov. 23rd, following a...
The CRTC has told several telecommunications providers it will not be able...
BCE Inc. customers in New Brunswick have been without telephone and...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and the...
Rogers Communications Inc. has activated three...
Rogers Communications Inc. and satellite-to-phone telecom provider Lynk...
Rogers Communications Inc. has divested itself of all of its shares in...
Quebecor Inc. submitted an application to the CRTC...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Monday that it was providing state of the art WiFi across the prairie province. SaskTel is joining forces with Eero, a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc., to deliver...
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) will hear Telus Corp.’s appeal of the CRTC’s decision not to oversee wireless access to municipal infrastructure.
On Thursday, the SCC...
Several proposals from deaf and hard of...
Rogers Communications Inc. is responding vehemently to the Competition...
BCE Inc. has responded to a commission staff letter regarding Rogers...
Canada’s telecom industry have spent some $2.16 billion on the 3,800 MHz band of spectrum, according to...
Members of the NDP and the United Steelworkers (USW) Local 1944 union, representing over 225,000 Canadian workers, held a joint news conference on Wednesday urging the government to improve protections for workers in the telecom sector.
“We've seen telecommunications giants increase fees, cut costs, and throw Canadians out of work,” said union president Donna Hokiro. “This hurts the services Canadians rely on, the communities in which we live, and obviously, the...
The federal government made its three-digit suicide crisis helpline, 988, officially available across Canada on Thursday.
According to a press release, the helpline, is now available to call or text, in English and French, 24...
On a day in July, 2016, a man received eight long-distance collect calls...
The deadline for interventions and replies to the CRTC proceedings into service in the Far North has been...
BCE Inc. has asked the CRTC for urgent relief in a dispute with a building...
As part of what it says is an effort to reduce the cost of living for...
Quebecor Inc.’s Freedom Mobile announced its new roaming plan, Roam...
As the Federal Communications Commission in the United States announced it...
Quebecor Inc.'s Fizz went live in Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton, the...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. continues to roll out its 5G network across the province. The latest communities to receive the service are Lloydminster and Meadow Lake. Deployment began on Friday and should be completed by the end of the year.
“We’re...
Rogers Communication Inc.’s 5G network is now available in all remaining...
BCE Inc. is asking the Federal Court of...
The CRTC has reopened a Part 1 application originally submitted by Rogers...
City Wide Communications Inc., Frontier Networks...
The major telecommunications companies in Canada oppose suggestions that they pay for pre-production testing of next-generation 911 (NG911) technology. They laid out the specifics in interventions regarding two Part 1 applications.
The City of Calgary filed its...
Public safety networks in Canada need to be...
Quebecor Inc.’s Fizz will be available outside of Quebec in the “coming weeks”, CEO Pierre Karl...
BCE Inc. announced Tuesday that in Q1 of 2024 it will be launching new data...
Telesat Corp. announced Tuesday that it has entered into a 10-plus-year...
Earlier this month, TerreStar Solutions Inc. announced it successfully...
Service was restored Friday to customers of Northwestel following a six-hour outage. The BCE Inc. company...
by Paul Andersen, president and chair, The...
The largest telecom lobby group and the union that represents most telecom...
Geoff White of the Competitive Network Operators of Canada will be stepping down as executive director, general counsel, and secretary.
White joined the organization in July 2020 as director, legal and regulatory affairs and stepped into his current position in May 2021.
“He has been a cornerstone of CNOC's influence and achievements in a dynamic industry era,” according to an internal memo obtained by The Wire Report Friday.
“I am proud of the work we have done in service of Canadians and competition and...
Quebecor Inc. president and CEO Pierre Karl...
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri...
UPDATED: CTS regulatory blockbuster react to CRTC FTTP decision...
MISSISSAUGA, Ont.--Programs to bridge the digital divide experienced in...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is no longer up for sale, the independent telecom service provider confirmed to The Wire Report Tuesday.
In June it was reported that the ISP...
BCE Inc. has announced its decision to cut capital expenditures and reduce...
MISSISSAUGA, Ont.--There is a disconnect between telecom providers and...
MISSISSAUGA, Ont.— The CRTC is mandating large incumbent telephone...
MISSISSAUGA, Ont.--Although media articles of sustainability tend to focus...
Telesat Corp. announced its financial performance for the three month period ended Sept. 30, posting a...
MISSISSAUGA, Ont.— The Canadian...
Telus Corp. reported a 75 per cent drop in profits for the three months...
A New Brunswick senator is alarmed by the lack of francophone presence among CRTC commissioners. René...
Cogeco Inc. does not plan to roll out its Canadian MVNO operations anytime soon, president and CEO Philippe Jetté told analysts in a Thursday fourth quarter earnings call.
According to the CEO, the company will be able to provide an update on its mobile progress in both...
In a Thursday quarterly earnings conference call, BCE Inc.'s president and...
BCE Inc. and Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. have enhanced...
In response to growing concerns over the exhaustion of telephone numbers in Canada, the CRTC has...
BCE Inc.’s Bell Canada and Northwestel have...
Treasury Board President Anita Anand announced Monday that the federal government is banning WeChat and Kaspersky apps from government-issued mobile devices. The ban begins immediately.
Chief Information Officer Catherine Luelo determined that the suites have an unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security. WeChat and Kaspersky will be deleted from devices that currently have them and new users will be blocked from downloading the apps.
“The government of...
The CRTC has fined a Quebec man $40,000 for sending unwanted emails to thousands of phone numbers, it was...
In an answer submitted to the CRTC last Thursday, Rogers Communications Inc. defended its multiple...
Interventions coming in from the CRTC show...
Quebecor Inc. subsidiary Videotron will be locking out its unionized workers in Gatineau, Que., the...
Iristel Inc. and two BCE Inc. properties have reached separate agreements...
The CRTC has denied an application brought forward...
The CRTC has given the green light to BCE Inc. subsidiary Northwestel Inc....
The governments of Quebec and Canada are contributing more than $10 million in funding toward setting up non-profit organization Numana’s quantum communication test bed, which businesses and...
BCE Inc. is increasing its footprint in outdoor advertising by buying the Canadian operations of Outfront Media Inc., it was announced Monday. The $410-million deal is expected to close next year, subject to regulatory approval.
The sale will add 9,325 displays to Bell...
Nokia Corp. has announced a series of layoffs to return it to profitability. The telecom equipment manufacturer said anywhere from 9,000 to 14,000 positions will be affected.
“Nokia targets to...
The debate over what the future of the wholesale high-speed-access (HSA)...
A pilot project that will see community health workers dispatched to people...
The CRTC has extended an olive branch to Iristel Inc. in its current...
Iristel Inc. has filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC against BCE Inc. properties that are threatening the competitive carrier with disconnection. The company is seeking an expedited process so as to avoid disruption of services to its customers.
On Sept. 21 Bell...
The City of Calgary, on behalf of other stakeholders across the nation, is seeking a CRTC decision in...
Both BCE Inc. and Quebecor Inc. have reacted to the CRTC’s decision that Bell Mobility's offer on...
BCE Inc. came out the winner in a dispute with Quebecor Inc. over mobile virtual network operator (MVNO)...
The CRTC is sending out requests for information on a pair of Part 1 applications brought to it by CIK Telecom Inc. The competitive carrier alleges it has been shut out of multi dwelling units (MDUs) in Richmond B.C. The company claims that Strata Corp., through its property management firm Rancho Management Services Ltd., has denied it access to...
Canada is a founding member of the Global Coalition on Telecommunications (GCOT), it was announced...
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink announced the purchase of a Northern Ontario telecom service...
Those looking to predict the future of broadcasting and telecommunications...
Sean Cohan will take over as head of BCE Inc.’s Bell Media on Nov. 1, the...
Digital transformation of Canadian businesses can play a fundamental role in Canada’s fight against climate change, but is a strategy often overlooked, according to a new...
