The CRTC has granted BCE Inc.'s Northwestel a "disaster waiver" that would allow the company to suspend services, waive charges, provide services at a reduced rate or free of charge, or "provide other such relief as may be appropriate to residential and/or small business customers affected by a qualifying disaster event." The company had applied for the waiver from its usual tariff obligations in July, 2022, and noted that in recent years communities in the North have been affected by events...
Thursday the CRTC issued a decision directing wireless service providers (WSPs) to provide better service to people with disabilities. The companies must consult with those...
Shaw Communications Inc. has argued that the type of off-tariff-agreement...
The CRTC is reopening its proceeding into whether or not BCE Inc., Cogeco Inc., Bragg Communications...
The CRTC has denied an application by Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron unit...
There is a consensus forming that the CRTC should...
Indigenous leadership is once again pushing the government toward Indigenous sovereignty over spectrum covering Indigenous territories as part of their responses to a recent...
Telus Corp. and Cogeco Inc. are rowing in behind...
Telecommunications companies across Canada are waiving fees for texts and...
Lobby group OpenMedia is in the corner of TekSavvy Solutions Inc. over...
OTTAWA–Streaming is the way of the future, a panel told the Canadian...
In its first notable broadcasting decision under...
BCE Inc. released its fourth quarter results Thursday, reporting 330,743...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada has...
The provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island were briefly without 911 service...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) has released the list of telecoms that have purchased spectrum in the most recent auction. The spectrum is in the 600 Mhz, 2500 Mhz and 3500 Mhz bands. BCE Inc.’s Bell Mobility Inc. won eight licences...
The CRTC is asking a number of incumbent telecom companies to report back to the regulator with an update about the ongoing mobile virtual network operator (MVNO)...
All eyes are on Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne, who is the last line of defense for...
Is last week's Part 1 application from TekSavvy Solutions Inc. a last minute, Hail Mary pass attempt at blocking the all-but assured blockbuster merger of Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...
Frustrated in its attempt to buy Freedom Mobile back from Shaw...
The CRTC is starting a fresh chapter with new chair Vicky Eatrides who will be making it her top priority to modernize the commission’s internet framework as it has not...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding...
One of Canada’s largest wholesale-based internet...
The CRTC has lifted a prohibition on service to a Toronto multi-dwelling unit (MDU) owned by Lixo...
BCE Inc. filed an application with the commission to review and vary its...
BCE Inc. announced Friday that the company was partnering with Snap Inc....
Former CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein has been appointed a member of the Order of Canada. The honour...
The CRTC approved, on an interim basis, a monthly rate of $49.06 for Rogers...
The CRTC has denied Quebecor Inc.’s request to sanction Coopérative de...
Canada’s Competition Tribunal is dismissing the Commissioner of Competition’s application to block Rogers Communications Inc.’s takeover of Shaw Communications Inc....
The CRTC approved an application by BCE Inc.’s...
Telus Corp. told the CRTC that it is not charging more for the services it...
The House of Commons Committee on Canadian Heritage finished...
Despite concerns about CBC/Radio-Canada muscling private media out of competition for advertising dollars in the news sector, the House of Commons Heritage committee defeated...
A retired Queen's University economics professor believes that the CRTC has mandated low cost cellular plans for consumers and that they have been successful. Roger Ware was testifying Wednesday before the Competition Tribunal which is hearing the case of Rogers...
BCE Inc. subsidiary Bell Canada is accusing Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron division of reneging on its...
An expert witness for Shaw Communications Inc. took issue Monday with...
The integration of Shaw Communications Inc. properties into the network of...
Supporters and opponents of the Online Streaming Act alike have their eyes...
MISSISSAUGA – When it comes to CRTC chair Ian Scott's Monday announcement of the regulator's upcoming proceeding on network outages, Rogers Communications Inc.’s chief regulatory officer Ted...
The start of another hockey season brings another federal court site-blocking order for a trio of telecom...
Freedom Mobile is less likely to be a strong national player under Quebecor...
In a series of rulings issued on Thursday morning, the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed appeals in three...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s profit fell 24 per cent for the three months ending Sept. 30, compared to last year, with customer credits and the Shaw Communications Inc....
Service and sales improved when Shaw Communications Inc. bought Wind Mobile...
Canada’s Online News Act could serve as a template for countries around...
BCE Inc. reported what it said were record subscriber additions in the third quarter of 2022, according...
The CRTC announced Thursday it was extending the deadline for interventions...
WINNIPEG-One of Canada’s leading experts in spectrum policy says ISED is finally opening up good chunks of spectrum to be used for rural, remote and Indigenous connectivity which will in turn open the door for smaller regional players. “Even with set-asides and spectrum caps some of the small wireless players were never going to be involved for two reasons: one: the...
Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne...
The emerging ad-hoc regime of site-blocking in...
Telus Corp. and BCE Inc. have accused Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...
BCE Inc. says it would be inappropriate and...
The CRTC determined that 911 governing authorities can designate...
The CRTC will not force BCE Inc. and Rogers...
There’s no need for BCE Inc.’s Northwestel to introduce wholesale...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre and Telus...
by Jenna Cocullo At the frontier of the future Indigenous communities want to go from subscribers to owners Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4...
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston wrote to...
Four telecom companies are asking the CRTC to increase the price of basic...
Hurricane Fiona wreaked havoc on Atlantic Canada and eastern Quebec last...
BCE Inc.’s Bell Canada has filed a Part 1 review and vary application...
The Rouyn-Noranda market cannot support another commercial radio station, the CRTC wrote in a decision released Thursday as it denied an application for a broadcasting license...
BCE Inc. is introducing a new speed tier to its North American customers and subsequently filed a new...
BCE Inc. has once more gone to the federal court seeking an injunction against a number of unidentified, John Doe pirate streamers. In a statement of claim filed with the court on Thursday, Bell...
BCE Inc. is planning to maintain recently acquired Distributel Ltd. as a standalone company, but will...
Rogers Communications Inc. is arguing to the CRTC...
The Federal Court of Appeal found that the CRTC was correct in allowing Québecor Inc. to bring forward an undue preference complaint against BCE Inc. over sports packaging,...
Wednesday Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe...
The CRTC has opened a Part 1 proceeding after BCE...
Friday the CRTC approved a report from the CRTC Interconnection Steering...
In the latest in a series of acquisitions in the ISP sector this year, BCE Inc. is seeking to acquire one of Canada's largest independent ISPs, Distributel Ltd., for an undisclosed number. The deal, which is subject to approval by the Competition Bureau, is expected to...
Following months of discussion, the CRTC has finally implemented the use of...
BCE Inc. has filed a review and vary application seeking to overturn a May...
The federal government announced two projects on Friday that will increase...
The CRTC has issued a request for information from the incumbent wireless...
Television revenues are rebounding from the pandemic slump while revenues in radio continue to take a hit, the CRTC said Tuesday in its annual report on the broadcast industry. The greatest increase was for digital media broadcasting undertakings (DMBUs). The report...
The CRTC is once again dealing with a service outage from a major carrier, in this case BCE Inc. property...
Thursday the CRTC renewed the licence of OUTtv Network Inc. for five years...
Canada should look to Britain and Australia for lessons on how to regulate...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has told the Competition...
BCE Inc. property Bell MTS had an outage on Monday that cut off internet and television services to...
Submissions to the Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic...
The National Pensioners Federation and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre...
BCE Inc. announced revenues of $5.86 billion for the second quarter of 2022...
Canadians will be able to participate in public consultations regarding the installation or modification of antenna systems in the official language of their choice, after the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) determined that consultations must be communicated in both official languages in communities located in census subdivisions that have...
A consortium of broadcasters and rights-holders have won an opening salvo of a fight against a television...
Thursday the CRTC added five interexchange private line (IXPL) routes to the list of routes it is...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) says...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) approved several...
Tuesday the CRTC issued approvals of several statements of work for projects covered by the Broadband Fund. The projects are in western Canada and the Atlantic provinces. Telus Corp. was granted additional funding for a project in northern Alberta. It discovered changes...
BCE Inc. is claiming that “ongoing record...
Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne...
A Quebec-based hotel accused of copyright infringement is asking the CRTC...
The CRTC had decided to allow BCE Inc. to keep...
BCE Inc. is asking the CRTC to rescind its order to make seamless handoffs...
In 2021, consumer mobile wireless fell by as much...
A Federal Court judge has dismissed an attempt by BCE Inc. and Ericsson AB...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) issued the rules for its next...
The federal government and Quebec announced $8.2 million in joint funding to bring high-speed internet to 25 communities in rural areas of the province. Sogetel Inc., BCE Inc., Coopérative de câblodistribution de l'arrière-pays (CCAP), Coopérative de...