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CRTC denies Bell application on Videotron roaming
telecom | 05/27/2022 3:52 pm EDT
BCE Inc.’s Bell Mobility Inc. has lost an application before the CRTC about Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron Ltd. over the Quebec firm’s use of Bell’s wholesale roaming service. In a letter Wednesday, the commission dismissed the filing and urged the parties to negotiate...
ITPA wants national NG911 rate; incumbents tell CRTC not to use, or to limit, funding
telecom | 05/25/2022 6:27 pm EDT
The Independent Telecommunications Providers Association (ITPA) is suggesting to the CRTC that it establish a single low national next-generation 911 (NG911) rate for all...
On Rogers-Shaw, focus shifts to network sharing agreements
Media | 05/25/2022 6:12 pm EDT
As the Competition Bureau takes Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...
Regional wireless carriers seek review of incumbents’ roaming rates
telecom | 05/24/2022 5:43 pm EDT
A consortium of regional wireless competitors have filed an application...
Network sharing deal with Telus strengthens Globalive bid for Freedom: analysts
telecom | 05/20/2022 4:28 pm EDT
The reported network sharing deal inked between Freedom Mobile-hopeful...
Heritage committee calls for rejection of Rogers-Shaw deal
Media | 05/18/2022 4:34 pm EDT
The House of Commons Heritage committee is arguing against the merger of...
Site-blocking can be used for online harms legislation: Rogers
Internet and Governance | 05/17/2022 5:04 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. believes that the site-blocking remedy the company – along with BCE Inc. and Quebecor Inc. – won through the federal courts in recent months can be used in the future application of the government's planned legislation aimed at combating online...
Péladeau says Quebecor will stick to facilities-based model long-term
telecom | 05/13/2022 2:46 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau said “there's no reason at this...
“A very strong opening” to Shaw-Rogers Competition Tribunal proceeding: former Competition Bureau advisor
Media | 05/12/2022 5:49 pm EDT
The recent move by Canada's competition watchdog...
Comp. Bureau moves to block Rogers-Shaw merger; Quebecor “has apparently entered the process”: analyst
Media | 05/09/2022 4:32 pm EDT
The Competition Bureau has filed an application...
Quebecor asks CRTC to punish hotel broadcasters
Media | 05/06/2022 2:53 pm EDT
In the wake of a Federal Court ruling that determined a trio of companies that had established a private...
Distributel’s claims for revised interim rates for disagg regime are unfounded: Rogers, Quebecor
telecom | 05/05/2022 5:35 pm EDT
Distributel Ltd.’s request to revise interim...
Facebook doesn’t rule out blocking news content if C-18 passes, docs reveal telecom opposition to online harms framework
Internet and Governance | 04/26/2022 5:43 pm EDT
Representatives of Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms...
Big 3 oppose Wireless Code CRTC intervention for cancellation fees, PIAC supports it
telecom | 04/22/2022 4:23 pm EDT
Incumbent telecoms are reacting strongly to a...
Little support for CRTC forbearance policy review following Part 1 application
telecom | 04/12/2022 3:53 pm EDT
The Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (FRPC) is the only...
CRTC sides with regional wireless carriers in roaming decision
telecom | 04/06/2022 6:24 pm EDT
The CRTC mostly accepted the arguments of small wireless carriers against the big three in a ruling on seamless handoff and 5G roaming. In a lengthy decision issued Wednesday, the commission sought to make life easier for the regional players by finding in their favour in...
CRTC seeks to clarify Wireless Code after Quebecor files cancellation fee complaint against big 3
telecom | 04/05/2022 5:11 pm EDT
The CRTC issued a show cause proceeding and call...
CRTC approves aggregated and disaggregated Giga service from Quebecor
telecom | 04/05/2022 4:42 pm EDT
Tuesday Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron was granted approval by the CRTC for...
Feds rollout $20 a month internet for low-income families and seniors
telecom | 04/04/2022 1:22 pm EDT
The federal government is providing low-income families and seniors with...
Distributel seeks revised interim rates for disagg regime
telecom | 03/30/2022 6:57 pm EDT
Distributel Ltd. is asking the CRTC to revise the interim rates for...
Supreme Court dismisses TekSavvy appeal of GoldTV site-blocking order
Media | 03/24/2022 1:28 pm EDT
Updated with TekSavvy reaction.
The Supreme Court of Canada Thursday morning dismissed a last effort by TekSavvy Solutions Inc. to challenge Canada's first-ever...
Quebecor cautions regulators on Globalive bid for Freedom
telecom | 03/16/2022 4:55 pm EDT
Asked if the odds of Quebecor Inc. purchasing Shaw Communications Inc.'s...
Rogers still expects Shaw deal to close in Q2
Media | 03/08/2022 5:44 pm EST
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri has said that last week's announcement from Innovation...
INDU ‘frustrated’ with CRTC’s wholesale rates; recommends revamped rate-setting process
telecom | 03/04/2022 6:52 pm EST
The Industry committee – from the last...
Telecom companies waive fees for calls to the Ukraine
telecom | 02/25/2022 5:29 pm EST
Several Canadian telecom companies have responded to the Russian invasion of Ukraine by temporarily...
Quebecor provides no justification or rationale in Vrai pricing dispute: Bell
Media | 02/24/2022 2:58 pm EST
BCE Inc. is arguing to the CRTC that Quebecor Inc. provided no...
ISED failed to show reasons for Quebecor’s set-aside eligibility in 3500 auction: Telus
telecom | 02/23/2022 2:41 pm EST
When it assessed Quebecor Inc. as eligible to bid...
Don’t leave local news in the hands of megacorporations, Heritage committee hears
Media | 02/16/2022 8:45 pm EST
Not-for-profit community news associations are sounding the alarm over the Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. merger, with one stakeholder saying "democracy dies in the dark...
Videotron giving itself undue preference, but unnecessary to suspend BDU Vrai service: PIAC
Media | 02/15/2022 5:24 pm EST
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) is...
Quebecor calls Bell’s Vrai complaint “desperate” and “devoid of any merit”
Media | 02/11/2022 6:10 pm EST
Quebecor Inc. wants BCE Inc.’s request to mandate that Videotron immediately remove its Vrai service to “be rejected outright,” Quebecor told the CRTC, claiming that the...
CRTC poses questions on three-digit suicide number
telecom | 02/11/2022 2:57 pm EST
The CRTC has released a dozen questions it wants stakeholders to answer regarding the establishment of a...
Paper billing for vulnerable customers, not universally: CRTC
telecom | 02/10/2022 5:42 pm EST
The CRTC has determined that all communications service providers (CSPs),...
PIAC, Quebecor, music sector, all oppose Stingray financial relief proposal
Media | 02/01/2022 5:08 pm EST
Quebecor Inc., organizations supporting Canada music and radio sector, as...
Quebecor’s Vrai VOD service violates CRTC regs: Bell
Media | 02/01/2022 5:04 pm EST
The CRTC has opened a proceeding in response to a BCE Inc. November...
Class-action will not shrink despite Videotron arbitration clause, court rules
telecom | 01/31/2022 6:20 pm EST
The Superior Court of Quebec denied an application by Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron to exclude from a class-action group any companies that signed an arbitration clause with the...
Quebec Ag. Commission to reconsider decision to reject Quebecor build
telecom | 01/21/2022 6:15 pm EST
The Commission for the Protection of Quebec’s Agricultural Territory will...
5G and aviation: the Canadian context
telecom | 01/18/2022 5:28 pm EST
On Monday, executives of several U.S. airlines wrote to leadership of the Federal Aviation...
Commission approves POI removal, declines to mandate aggregated regime for Quebec-based Bell subsidiary
telecom | 01/12/2022 5:21 pm EST
The CRTC Wednesday approved a request from BCE...
Intervenors take issue with ISED’s proposed Tier 5 service areas in rural spectrum consultation
telecom | 01/11/2022 5:00 pm EST
Tier 5 service areas are “too large” to meet...
Canada avoids American confusion of 5G impact on airports
telecom | 01/05/2022 4:29 pm EST
Early consultations on regulations to 5G rollout affecting air traffic...
ISED proposes to keep 3500 Mhz set-aside rules in 3800 Mhz auction consultation doc
telecom | 12/20/2021 4:33 pm EST
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) is...
Rogers, Quebecor, Cogeco lag behind in pandemic pick up: analyst
telecom | 12/02/2021 5:48 pm EST
Of Canada’s big three telecom companies, Rogers Communications Inc. is...
Dépatie in as new Rogers home COO
Media | 12/02/2021 5:22 pm EST
Rogers Communications Inc. announced Thursday afternoon that Robert Dépatie is joining the company as...
Quebecor sells its westward expansion
telecom | 11/16/2021 2:30 pm EST
MISSISSAUGA - On the second day of the Canadian Telecom Summit, Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau sought to do away with any uncertainty about whether or not his company was ready to roll out in western Canada. He appeared to properly announce his company as a fourth...
Telus winding down copper network as it releases Q3 results
Media | 11/05/2021 3:41 pm EDT
Telus Corp. expects to have its legacy copper network out of commission...
CRTC lifts local expression conditions for Quebecor, Bragg on-demand services
Media | 11/04/2021 5:40 pm EDT
The CRTC approved applications by Quebecor Media Inc.’s Videotron and...
CRTC rejects EBox undue preference complaint against Oxio
Media | 11/04/2021 5:33 pm EDT
The CRTC found that a Quebec-based independent broadcasting company is in compliance with its broadcasting exemption order despite taking several months to distribute some required local channels and...
Quebecor to rollout wireless despite challenges
Media | 11/04/2021 4:40 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc. will move ahead with its rollout of wireless service in western Canada despite challenges...
Bell posts quarterly profits driven by wireless growth
Media | 11/04/2021 4:25 pm EDT
Bell reported a slight increase in overall revenue of $49 million or 0.8 per cent, up to $5.84 billion versus $5.79 billion for this time last year. The company attributed the results to "greater media advertising and subscriber revenues, and ongoing growth in mobile phones,...
Dynamic site-blocking case gets Nov. 23 hearing date
Media | 11/03/2021 5:51 pm EDT
A test-case for Canada's first-ever "dynamic" site-blocking order is headed...
Delay Rogers-Shaw CRTC hearing until its clear who controls Rogers: PIAC
Media | 11/01/2021 5:35 pm EDT
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre has asked the CRTC to delay a hearing...
Rural, Indigenous, connectivity won’t improve by 2030 if Gov. keeps current goals in place : Report
telecom | 10/29/2021 5:48 pm EDT
Canada’s targets of reaching connectivity speeds...
Bell, Rogers, and Quebecor seek larger damages from set-top box seller
Media | 10/27/2021 5:13 pm EDT
BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., and Quebecor Inc. have turned to...
CNOC files review and vary application on CRTC in-building wire access decision
telecom | 10/26/2021 6:17 pm EDT
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) has filed a review and...
Bell, Rogers, Quebecor apply for extended site-blocking in GoldTV
Media | 10/26/2021 9:30 am EDT
A trio of Canada's biggest broadcasters has asked the Federal Court for a...
Court dismisses Telus request for injunction against Quebecor’s 3500 MHz licenses
telecom | 10/23/2021 11:40 am EDT
The Federal Court has rejected a Telus Corp....
Quebecor’s spectrum winnings an ‘unfair cost advantage,’ Telus tells Federal Court
Media | 10/19/2021 7:16 pm EDT
A Federal Court injunction stopping the Department...
Court grants CIPPIC, Beanfield intervenor status in dynamic site-blocking case
Media | 10/14/2021 5:39 pm EDT
A Federal Court judge has granted intervenor status to the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic at the University of Ottawa (CIPPIC), and...
CRTC to allow CPAC to participate in Rogers-Shaw hearing
Media | 10/13/2021 6:28 pm EDT
The CRTC has granted Cable Public Affairs Channel Inc. -- more widely known...
Court order blocking Quebecor 3500 MHz acquisition would harm competition: ISED
Media | 10/06/2021 6:33 pm EDT
The Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) has...
Man fined $40,000 for selling set-top boxes
Media | 09/30/2021 4:49 pm EDT
A federal court judge has fined a pre-loaded set top box seller $40,000 for being in contempt of an...
Shaw-Rogers deal would decrease competition, even with Freedom divestiture to Quebecor: analyst
telecom | 09/28/2021 6:19 pm EDT
Even if the Competition Bureau forces Shaw...
New ‘dynamic’ site-blocking needs new safeguards: CIPPIC
Media | 09/22/2021 5:56 pm EDT
The site-blocking order that will block a rolling list of pirate streaming sites during NHL games sought by a trio of hockey broadcasters requires new legal safeguards, given...
Telecom regulation more ‘benign’: analyst
telecom | 09/09/2021 6:00 pm EDT
Telecoms shares have continued to track higher thanks to a regulatory backdrop which “has turned much more benign,” according to an industry analyst. Thursday National Bank of Canada analyst Adam Shine issued a note that...
Lower your prices or else, Trudeau tells big telecom at debate
telecom | 09/09/2021 11:22 am EDT
GATINEAU, Que. -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is giving Canada’s...
Broadband blues: the UBF and its discontents
telecom | 09/03/2021 5:50 pm EDT
With a federal election called for Sept. 20, parties have pledged to make Canadians’ lives better in a...
Telecoms say no need for additional accessibility requirements; advocates disagree
telecom | 09/03/2021 5:28 pm EDT
Canada’s telecommunications companies are recommending that the CRTC...
Telecom unions want govt. action on jobs outsourcing
telecom | 09/03/2021 4:33 pm EDT
Two telecommunication workers’ unions, Unifor and the Canadian Union for Public Employees (CUPE), have partnered up to demand the federal government step in to minimize the outsourcing of Canadian jobs overseas in the telecom...
Telus joins Bell’s call for rollback on Quebecor spectrum acquisition
telecom | 08/30/2021 4:51 pm EDT
Telus Corp. has joined BCE Inc. in seeking to block Quebecor Inc. from...
Bell seeks to block Quebecor set-aside 3,500 MHz purchases
telecom | 08/27/2021 2:26 pm EDT
BCE Inc. is going to court to stop Quebecor Inc. from purchasing valuable...
TekSavvy takes GoldTV site-blocking fight to Supreme Court
Media | 08/26/2021 6:11 pm EDT
After Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order survived an appeal from...
Bell misunderstands CRTC toll-trunk order: Telus
telecom | 08/26/2021 6:01 pm EDT
Three companies are disputing claims from BCE Inc. that it would be unduly harmed by the CRTC’s decision to include all competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) in receiving toll-free traffic.
Telus Corp., Quebecor Inc. on behalf of Videotron, and Distributel Ltd....
CRTC sending Cogeco and Wildbrain to mediation over channel drop dispute
telecom | 08/18/2021 5:03 pm EDT
A dispute over Cogeco Inc. dropping children’s television content creator...
Videotron waives long-distance fees to Haiti, Afghanistan in response to international crises
telecom | 08/18/2021 4:01 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron is suspending its long-distance charges for all calls from Canada to Haiti, where a recent earthquake has left many residents homeless, and to...
CRTC orders some incumbent disclosure to CNOC in disaggregated regime consultation
Media | 08/13/2021 11:13 am EDT
In a dispute between a trade organization representing wholesale-based...
Federal Court orders content pirates to pay millions to Bell, Rogers, Videotron
Media | 08/11/2021 5:14 pm EDT
A Federal Court judge ordered three pirate TV services to pay more than $29...
Quebecor calls for swift news media compensation legislation
Media | 08/05/2021 6:14 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc.’s president and CEO is renewing calls for the federal government to implement a news media compensation strategy, to “ensure the sustainability of advertising revenue, and the vitality of competitiveness” and for the CRTC to ensure swift negotiations...
CRTC dismisses Quebecor complaint of CBC undue preference
Media | 08/03/2021 5:22 pm EDT
The CRTC has ruled that the CBC/Radio-Canada is not giving itself an...
Court of appeal dismisses Quebecor challenge in TVA Sports fight with Bell
telecom | 07/30/2021 10:49 am EDT
The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed an attempt by Quebecor Inc. to...
BREAKING: 3500 MHz auction nets $8.9B, $7.3B from incumbents
telecom | 07/29/2021 6:04 pm EDT
Canadian telecom companies -- and wireless service hopefuls -- have spent...
Comp. Bureau asks court for info from Bell, Telus, Quebecor, Xplornet in its review of Rogers-Shaw deal
telecom | 07/26/2021 6:22 pm EDT
The Competition Bureau is asking the Federal Court...
Federal Court of Appeal dismisses BDUs’ appeal of distant signal tariffs
telecom | 07/23/2021 6:34 pm EDT
The Federal Court of Appeal ruled Friday partially in favour of a group...
CRTC seeks more info on how companies comply with Internet Code for people with disabilities
telecom | 07/22/2021 5:25 pm EDT
The CRTC is seeking further information from...
High spectrum costs could be driven by competition for set aside: analyst
telecom | 07/15/2021 6:32 pm EDT
Industry analysts are declining to speculate too much on what caused the...
PIAC disappointed with CRTC SIM swap disclosure
telecom | 07/09/2021 4:59 pm EDT
Six months after it received a request to release the data it collects on a fraud process known as "SIM swapping," the CRTC yesterday sent a letter to parties involved in a proceeding on the matter saying that instances of the...
Bell, Rogers, and Quebecor seek first-ever ‘dynamic’ site-blocking order
Media | 07/08/2021 6:22 pm EDT
Nearly six weeks after a Federal Court of Appeal upheld Canada's first-ever site-blocking order against an anonymous so-called pirate IPTV service, the same trio of rights...
PIAC says no to permanent roaming test, Telus wants new definition
telecom | 07/05/2021 5:37 pm EDT
Telus Corp. wants the CRTC to set an industry-wide definition of...
Hockey broadcasters seek injunction against pirate streamers
Media | 06/17/2021 6:11 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc., BCE Inc., and Quebecor Inc. are asking a...
CRTC upping Independent Local News Fund limit
Media | 06/15/2021 6:40 pm EDT
The CRTC has approved an application from the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) to increase the amount of proceeds from the “Independent Local News Fund” (ILNF) that can be given to any one station or group operated...
Cogeco getting millions more in high-speed funding
telecom | 06/08/2021 5:53 pm EDT
Cogeco Inc. is getting more than $40 million in funding for high-speed internet projects in Quebec. ...
CRTC orders Bell subsidiary to upgrade routers in Quebec
Media | 06/01/2021 5:52 pm EDT
BCE Inc. subsidiary Cablevision du Nord has to finish upgrading its routers in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue of Quebec -- at its own expense -- by Sept. 1 to accommodate a higher capacity of users, as per a Tuesday decision from the CRTC.
The order is the result of a...
Bell renews request for CRTC to intervene on Videotron permanent roaming claims
telecom | 05/28/2021 5:57 pm EDT
Bell Mobility Inc. is asking the CRTC to put in place new measures for...
GoldTV blocking order survives TekSavvy appeal
Media | 05/26/2021 6:41 pm EDT
The Federal Court of Appeal has allowed Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order to stand,...
ISED approves Freedom spectrum licence subordination in British Columbia
telecom | 05/21/2021 4:42 pm EDT
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) has approved the subordination of two spectrum licences held by Freedom Mobile. In its decision released Thursday,...
CRTC chair asserts personal preference for facilities-based competition
telecom | 05/20/2021 5:59 pm EDT
CRTC chair Ian Scott said he believes the commission’s pick of a...
Interventions filed in favour of Bell penalty for delays to support structure access
telecom | 05/19/2021 6:04 pm EDT
BCE Inc. rival Rogers Communications Inc. and a number of other groups are...
ISED triples spectrum available for Wi-Fi
telecom | 05/19/2021 5:59 pm EDT
The federal government is making more spectrum available to increase competition, rural connectivity and the effective deployment of Wi-Fi and 5G technologies. On Wednesday, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry...
Telus appeals seamless roaming in CRTC’s wireless review decision
telecom | 05/14/2021 6:54 pm EDT
Telus Corp. is seeking permission to appeal two provisions of the CRTC's April decision flowing from the commission's wireless review. While Telus is not seeking to appeal the central decision of...
Quebecor “pleased” with CRTC MVNO decision
telecom | 05/13/2021 6:10 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau added his voice to a chorus of...
Bell suing Videotron over permanent roaming claims
telecom | 05/05/2021 6:37 pm EDT
BCE Inc. is suing Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron, escalating their battle over wireless customers allegedly being allowed to roam on Bell’s network without authorization.
Referring to a decision from last year, Bell’s vice chair for Quebec, Karine Moses, said in a...