In a dispute between a trade organization representing wholesale-based internet service providers (ISPs) and facilities-based ISPs over the amount of information the latter...
The CRTC has decided it will not open proceedings into creating a strengthened Broadcast Participation Fund, after being asked to do so by a pair of public interest advocacy...
The CRTC will hold hearings on whether Rogers Communications Inc. may...
Civil groups and Canadian telecoms companies agree that the CRTC should...
The CRTC has determined that, unless a telecommunications service provider...
Canadian telecom companies -- and wireless service hopefuls -- have spent...
Companies using BCE’s Inc.’s fibre in-building wire (IBW) must now reach a commercially negotiated agreement for access after the CRTC determined access to fibre IBW in...
The Competition Bureau is asking the Federal Court...
The Federal Court of Appeal ruled Friday partially in favour of a group...
The CRTC is seeking further information from...
The return of the Toronto Blue Jays has caused Rogers Communications...
Industry analysts are declining to speculate too much on what caused the...
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...
Work to upgrade the wireless networks of communities in British Columbia and homes and businesses in rural Ontario is coming along according to two of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies....
Shaw Communications Inc. reported a large spike in profit for its third quarter of the year on...
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, ISED said it reviewed an application from Freedom, a subsidiary of Shaw Communications Inc., and mining company Teck Resources Limited to subdivide two spectrum licences held by freedom in British Columbia and to subordinate one subdivided licence in each band to Teck. The first licence is in the...
CRTC chair Ian Scott said he believes the commission’s pick of a...
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...
A coalition of four separate advocacy groups Tuesday delivered a 62,000 signature-strong petition to the Competition Bureau, asking the regulator to block Rogers Communications Inc.'s proposed acquisition of Shaw Communications...
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 Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau added his voice to a chorus of telecom CEOs who have praised the CRTC's April decision which mandated access for a limited number of facilities-based regional mobile virtual network operators. "We're pleased with the CRTC decision...
Canada’s big-three telecoms are doubling down on their assertions that...
The Asian Television Network International Limited is asking the CRTC to authorize the “Mirror Now” channel for distribution as programming. The network, which says on its website that it...
The CRTC granted a request by Shaw Cablesystems Ltd. to revoke its broadcasting licence for the Sault Ste. Marie area of Ontario on Wednesday. Shaw Communications Inc. said in its application its...
The average Canadian mobile wireless prices rank the second highest internationally in four of seven service “baskets,” and remains in the middle-high range for the...
Data on Tap Inc., one of the country's hopeful mobile virtual network operators, has filed a petition to the governor in council, asking the government of Justin Trudeau to review the April decision of the CRTC to only mandate...
The Supreme Court of Canada has decided it will hear an appeal from Music Canada and the Society of...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and the Forum for Research and...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) have requested a 90-day delay to the 3,500 MHz spectrum auction, currently scheduled to take place in June. In a Monday letter addressed to Innovation Minister...
The competition bureau is “flying blind” when it comes to understanding the cumulative effects of mergers—such as the proposed Rogers Communications Inc. acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc.—according to policy experts who testified before the House of Commons’ Industry committee Thursday as it continued its study on competitiveness in Canada. “Competition policy reviews should go beyond assessing consolidation solely in terms of price increases to consider, for example,...
Shaw Communications Inc. reported an increase of 1.8 per cent in revenue...
Cogeco Inc. announced another increase in revenue with its second-quarter results Tuesday as it awaits...
Several large telecom companies have argued that the CRTC shouldn’t...
The CRTC has rejected a request from a number of large facilities-based...
Allowing a merger to proceed on the basis of the so-called "efficiencies defense" is "a very, very serious exercise of enforcement discretion to approve an otherwise...
Without a regime for mandated access for mobile virtual network operators...
BCE Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. are taking issue with TekSavvy...
Quebecor Inc. has indicated that, should the Competition Bureau force...
Rogers Communications Inc.'s proposed acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc. doesn't change anything for one of their biggest competitors, according to BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic. Speaking Tuesday...
On the opening day Monday of hearings into Roger's proposed acquisition of...
Despite the uncertainty surrounding the potential impacts of Rogers Communications Inc. acquiring Shaw...
Organizations representing smaller Canadian broadcasters and telecoms have...
After surviving a hostile takeover bid by Rogers Communications Inc. in...
Following the $26.2 billion deal between Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. announced last week, citizen advocacy group Democracy Watch says a consumer-run telecom watchdog group should be created to protect the public interest in dealing with telecoms. The non-profit said in a release Monday that “strengthening rules, enforcement and competition won’t stop gouging and abuse by telecom companies — empowering consumers with their own watchdog group will.” “Telecom consumers pay all the costs for telecom companies’ ads, lawyers, lobbyists and other advocacy...
Monday’s announcement of a deal for Rogers Communications Inc. to acquire...
As news of Roger’s Communications Inc.’s deal to acquire Shaw Communications Inc. sparks discussions on what it may mean for the wireless market in Canada, advocates say competition and other...
Shadow minister for jobs and industry Pierre Poilievre announced Tuesday afternoon that the Conservatives...
From the perspective of Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Joe Natale,...
If Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada doesn't approve Telesat Holdings Inc.'s proposal to auction off spectrum it holds in the 3700-3900 MHz band, the company won't be able to compete with its competitors in the United States, the company's CEO told the...
The Independent Telecommunications Providers Association (ITPA) is asking the CRTC to force large telecom service providers to give the association a list of the wireless service numbers with...
The federal government’s proposal to open up the 6 GHz spectrum band for WiFi use has received broad support in an Industry, Science and Economic Development Canada consultation. Every...
As the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed an incumbent challenge to an...
Mitel Networks Corp. has delivered a blunt reply to incumbents over their approaches to implementing the STIR/SHAKEN anti-fraud-call technology, suggesting that larger companies are seeking...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and National Pensioners...
Incumbent telecom providers have pushed back against a recent Part 1 from Mitel Networks Corp., which asked the CRTC to mandate inclusion for resellers in the STIR/SHAKEN anti-fraud-call technology. ...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) has asked the CRTC to publicly disclose the information it...
The Internet Society’s Canada Chapter (ISCC) has endorsed a call from Mitel Networks Corp. for the CRTC to instruct the agency in charge of implementing the anti-fraud-call protocol known as STIR/SHAKEN to allow resellers to...
While Shaw Communications Inc. posted a substantial loss in wireline subscribers for the three months ending Nov. 30 of last year, executives encouraged those scrutinizing the numbers to cut the company some slack, and recognize the long-term strategy Shaw is pursuing to...
The wireless sector will be buoyed in 2021 by the likely end of the competitive skirmishes brought about by the introduction of unlimited data across the industry, according to Canaccord Genuity analyst Aravinda Galappatthige. ...
Mitel Networks Corp. has filed a Part 1 application requesting that the CRTC instruct the agency in charge of implementing the anti-call-spoofing protocol known as STIR/SHAKEN to allow all resellers to participate in the...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. have the support of...
Both BCE Inc. and large cable companies have turned to the Supreme Court...
In response to a CRTC call for comments, Canadian telecommunications providers have indicated that they generally agree with new deadlines for the rollout of next-generation 911 networks across Canada. In April, the CRTC pushed back a number of deadlines for the rollout of NG911 services, and for the decommissioning of the existing 911 system, due to the impacts of COVID-19. The CRTC delayed several key deadlines by nine months — under the new plan, providers are to have their...
A number of Canadian wireless providers have objected to a proposal that...
The lack of pricing "discipline" in the wireless market could have negative...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. have asked the CRTC...
The Federal Court of Appeal dismissed Thursday the large telecom...
The CRTC has asked telecoms to indefinitely refrain from starting or relaunching any measures to block unauthorized SIM swapping or porting, after Quebecor Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. reported...
In almost all cases, Canadian internet consumers are receiving service at...
BCE Inc. and a coalition of cable companies have submitted letters to the...
The Liberal government has sided with Canada’s largest telecoms in their...
Telus Corp. posted a 39.4 per cent drop in profit in the second quarter of the year, the first quarter to fully capture the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The company's net income fell to $315 million, down from the $520 million it recorded in the same quarter a year...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s new wireless brand is likely to initially...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s first Shaw-branded wireless service has...
At a discussion about Ottawa’s now-delayed Universal Broadband Fund with...
Shaw Communications Inc. president Paul McAleese said that while there has...
BCE Inc.'s argument that retroactive payments mandated by the CRTC in its August wholesale rate decision are an unconstitutional tax is a "disguised attack" on the "entire rate setting regime" laid out in the Telecommunications Act, according to lawyers representing TekSavvy Solutions Inc. Under section 27 of the Telecommunications Act, "every rate charged by a Canadian carrier for a telecommunications service shall be just and reasonable," and is the basis upon which the CRTC regulates...
The CRTC's wholesale rates ruling from last August ignored the intentions of a 2006 Maxime Bernier-era policy directive, and the decision to slash wholesale rates for third-party internet service...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. will become the second Canadian telecom to resume charging overage fees to home internet customers who go over their data caps, with the company announcing it will end the COVID-19...
The performance of networks in other countries during the COVID-19 crisis...
A Federal Court of Appeal judge has rejected the argument made by the incumbent telecom companies last week that their appeal of the CRTC's wholesale broadband rates decision is too complicated to be...
Incumbent cable companies have asked a Federal Court of Appeal judge to delay their appeal of the CRTC's wholesale rates decision until the proceeding can be conducted in person. In a letter...
Shaw Communications Inc. plans to permanently lay off about 100 field technicians in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland, stating the COVID-19 pandemic had “only accelerated” the company’s...
Cogeco Inc. will again start charging overage fees to its home internet customers who exceed their data limits as of Friday, with the company instead focusing on other measures it considers to “be more essential” to its...
In a Tuesday filing with the Federal Court of Appeal, the Canadian Network Operators Consortium (CNOC) said that the appeal of the CRTC's August wholesale rate decision by some six companies should be...
The CRTC has responded to a letter from The Canadian Network Operators Consortium (CNOC) and TekSavvy Solutions Inc. taking issue with changes to incumbent installation and repair procedures, saying it won’t require the filing of additional information in response to the...
While it’s too early to tell what impact COVID-19 will have on Shaw...
Canada’s publicly-traded wireless service providers added just under 1.29 million wireless subscribers...
Shaw Communications Inc. founder JR Shaw has passed away at the age of 85, the company said Tuesday....
Canada's wireless service providers will send out text messages to their...
Telecommunication providers are closing retail stores, offering complimentary TV channels and continuing to waive overage fees on home internet plans as they respond to COVID-19. Xplornet Communications Inc. and Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. were the latest providers to announce a temporary pause to wireless internet overage charges on Monday, joining a number of telecommunications companies who announced similar moves on March 13. BCE Inc.’s Northwestel announced in a...
Multiple Canadian internet providers have suspended caps on data usage as they prepare for a huge...
Mobile wireless prices are lower or have stayed the same across all service "baskets" compared to last year, but the higher data plan prices remain stubbornly higher than most other countries, a new...
Shaw Communications Inc.'s president Jay Mehr will retire in April after four years in the role and be...
GATINEAU, Que. — The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic and Open Media have unveiled...
GATINEAU, Que. — How threatening the prospect of mandated MVNO access is...
GATINEAU, Que. — The CRTC’s two-week wireless policy review kicked off...
Canada’s telecommunications providers have united to delay the...
Telecom providers both big and small have unanimously rejected a...
After taking credit over the summer for the reduction in wireless pricing in the Canadian market, Shaw Communications Inc. is now blaming the incumbents for driving down the market with “erratic” pricing competition over the summer and through to the holiday period. ...