If Canada is to have a viable wholesale market, high speed access needs to rely on fibre to the premises (FTTP), a CRTC panel was told Monday. It was the first day of a week-long proceeding into the future of the high speed access framework.
The morning began with the...
The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed BCE Inc.’s motion for a stay against the CRTC’s decision to mandate access to fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) facilities over aggregated wholesale high-speed access (HSA) services but will still hear the incumbent's challenge in...
The CRTC has declined an application from BCE...
The CRTC announced Monday an expansion in forbearance from regulating...
Representatives from major tech companies warned...
Telus Corp. reported a 17 per cent increase in...
Reaction has been swift and condemnatory to the announcement Thursday by BCE Inc. that it is laying off 4,800 workers, selling 45 radio stations and slashing news programming...
BCE Inc. announced Thursday that it will be...
The CRTC has denied an application by TerreStar Solutions Inc. for a stay...
Telus Corp. is being called upon by the CRTC to justify its proposal to...
Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron and Freedom Mobile divisions have been granted a...
CIK Telecom is arguing to the CRTC that the...
BCE Inc., filed a petition to cabinet Friday urging it to reverse a ruling...
The CRTC has issued a call for comments on the attachment of wireless...
Galaxy Broadband Communications Inc., a subsidiary...
The CRTC is implementing thousand-block pooling (TBP) as a proactive measure to manage the growing demand for telephone numbers.
On Monday the commission directed local...
Rogers Communications Inc., in partnership with Ericsson AB, announced it...
Quebecor Inc.’s request for the CRTC to set new...
Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne...
A 911 operator in Calgary has had three charges laid against her in a corruption investigation, local...
CRTC chair Vicky Eatrides has promised to look into recent problems with 911 callers unable to access services in their language of choice.
A recent series of news articles outlined how people wanting service in French could not receive it. Industry Minister...
Stakeholders have sent their final replies on telecom service in the Far North to the CRTC. The incumbent telecoms are at odds with most other applicants when it comes to the remedy for competition in the region.
BCE Inc....
The access dispute between BCE Inc. and the owner of a multi-dwelling unit (MDU) in Kitchener, Ontario continues as Bell stands by its claims that it is blocking the company from accessing its facilities. Bell’s response in the Part 1 proceeding, filed last Friday, said that although the MDU owner claims to acknowledge...
Quebecor Inc.'s Part 1 application to the CRTC for...
The CRTC has sent letters on Jan. 22 to interested parties to try to get to the bottom of two incidents...
Ericsson AB and Telus Corp. have linked up to roll out a 5G standalone network, it was announced Monday....
Best Buy Canada Ltd. and BCE Inc. have joined forces to rebrand 165 small-format consumer electronics stores under the banner "Best Buy Express."
The Source (formerly Radio Shack), a wholly-owned...
Beanfield Technologies Inc. has named Michael Massie as its new SVP, residential services, the firm announced Thursday. Massie is a veteran telecom executive, having done stints with BCE Inc. Cincinnati Bell Inc. (now known as...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Wednesday the...
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...
