Quebecor Inc. submitted an application to the CRTC on behalf of Videotron and VMedia challenging the interim disaggregated access rates for high-speed access (HSA) services...
Gatineau, Que. – Telus Corp. asked the CRTC to go easy on virtual broadcasting distribution undertakings (vBDUs) during the commission’s hearings regarding contributions...
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) will hear Telus...
Several proposals from deaf and hard of...
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...
Quebecor Inc.'s Fizz went live in Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton, the company announced Monday morning. Fizz is currently in beta testing.
The flanker brand is...
BCE Inc. is asking the Federal Court of...
The CRTC has reopened a Part 1 application originally submitted by Rogers...
The major telecommunications companies in Canada oppose suggestions that they pay for pre-production...
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri...
UPDATED: CTS regulatory blockbuster react to CRTC FTTP decision...
MISSISSAUGA, Ont.— The CRTC is mandating large incumbent telephone...
MISSISSAUGA, Ont.--Although media articles of sustainability tend to focus...
A quartet of civil society groups appeared before the House of Commons...
Interventions coming in from the CRTC show competitor internet service providers (ISPs) and other independents backing up Beanfield Technologies Inc. in its claims against...
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...
The debate over what the future of the wholesale high-speed-access (HSA)...
Iristel Inc. has filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC against BCE Inc....
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...
APTN says its proposal to shift the terms of its licence will be good for the state of Canadian broadcasting and the five major broadcast distribution undertakings (BDUs) are wrong to quibble about it.
“It is time to act. Indigenous languages are in crisis around the...
Telus Corp. says the CRTC should review its...
BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. reiterated their concerns around the CRTC’s...
As the CRTC’s review of its broadband fund...
The province of British Columbia has filed a Part 1 application with the...
The CRTC denied Quebecor Inc.’s request for...
All passengers on the Toronto Transit Commission’s (TTC) subway system...
Cogeco Inc. is appointing Tim Dinesen, experienced tech executive and telecommunications consultant, as its senior vice president and CTO.
According to the company’s Thursday release, he will be taking up the new position at...
The CRTC denied an application by BCE Inc., Bragg Communication Inc.’s...
The CRTC’s Broadband Fund has granted $1.42 million in additional funding towards Telus Corp.’s internet infrastructure project in the B.C. Central Interior region.
In an announcement on Monday, the commission said it approved Telus’ statement of work, which...
As the Toronto subway network access dispute continues, Rogers...
Rogers Communications Inc. has rolled out its 5G wireless service on some stations on the Toronto Transit...
By Donna Hokiro, president, Local 1944, United Steelworkers Union
By now,...
Incumbent Canadian telecoms say there is no cause for alarm that...
Telus Corp. is cutting 6,000 jobs, the company announced Friday.
Telus International will see 2,000 losses while its main business will cut the remaining 4,000 positions. The company says it is offering packages for early retirement and voluntary departure.
The news...
Battles over money and how to allocate it are at the forefront as the CRTC...
By John Lawford, executive eirector and general counsel of the Public...
Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced that he is...
Telecoms and other stakeholders have had their say on proposed changes to...
The CRTC has published some of the interventions for its proceeding into the Broadband Fund. Most of the...
Telus Inc. has lent its support to BCE Inc.’s complaint about Rogers Communications Inc.’s handling of connectivity in the Toronto Transit Commission’s (TTC) subway system, calling for the commission to approve Bell’s...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) told the CRTC that...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. have been hurling verbal bombs...
Rogers Communications Inc. is asking the CRTC to mandate Telus Corp., BCE Inc. and its affiliates Bell MTS, Télébec, and Northwestel, to attach small cells to their poles,...
The CRTC has now received reply comments in its ongoing proceeding into how to implement the Online Streaming Act. As with the original interventions, proposals vary depending on the group submitting...
The CRTC has issued its annual telecommunications survey for 2021. Coming out of the pandemic shutdown, the numbers are generally good.
The sector experienced a 3.4 per cent jump in total revenues...
After months of controversy, Telus Corp. has cancelled its plans to implement a 1.5 per cent surcharge on clients who pay with a credit card. The western telecom announced Tuesday it was discontinuing the practice.
“After...
BCE Inc. is asking the CRTC to prohibit Rogers...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) is fighting with two incumbent carriers over filings on the high speed access framework currently before the CRTC.
BCE Inc. is asking for an extension to file case studies to the commission. The current deadline is June...
The proposed financial threshold for exemption for online streaming...
A town in Alberta is condemning Telus Corp. for slowing down the rollout of...
The airline industry must do more to protect its flights from 5G...
Incumbent carriers are opposed to the expedited review of the CRTC’s...
A group of consumer advocacy organizations have received some support for...
In its first major promotion since acquiring Freedom Mobile from Shaw Communications, Quebecor Inc. has...
The commission should not regulate the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) markets in the same...
OTTAWA–The Federal Court of Appeal and the Competition Tribunal did not...
The CRTC has announced that it expects incumbents to have their mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) service "operational and ready for use" no later than June 8, and...
Telus Corp. reported profits of $224 million for the three months ending March 31, a 45 per cent dip...
Xplore Inc. Tuesday announced the appointment of Rizwan Jamal as president and chief commercial officer starting on May 1.
Jamal will be responsible for sales, marketing, and product development functions, according to a...
Provincial public safety agencies are requesting...
Rogers Communications Inc.'s announcement to extend cell service to Toronto’s entire subway system is getting universal praise from experts, activists and elected officials – but they want to see...
The Federal Court of Appeal has rejected a Telus Corp. court challenge, supported by BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. that sought to do away with certain elements of...
According to the analytics firm Opensignal, when it comes to fixed...
The Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS) found...
Telus Corp. has gotten an extension -- though not as long as the company...
After a two-year struggle, Rogers Communications Inc. has successfully completed its takeover of Shaw...
On the same day the Innovation Minister...
The CRTC has denied a request from a number of incumbents, chief among them...
The CRTC is looking for feedback on how it can improve its Broadband Fund,...
The CRTC said Thursday it was going to look into recently-announced hikes...
A working group composed of Canadian telecommunication service providers (CTSPs) and experts from the department of Innovation Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) is asking the government to expand the CRTC’s authority over passive infrastructure and provincially regulated support structures.
Earlier this month the Canadian Telecommunications Network...
Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne was the most-lobbied...
Conservative MP Dan Mazier’s private member’s bill on internet service...
Monday the CRTC approved a review and vary application from Rogers Communications Inc. over a series of...
The CRTC Wednesday made good on newly-minted chair...
Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s office has denounced plans by BCE Inc.’s Bell Mobility and Telus Corp. to hike roaming charges...
BCE Inc. is arguing to the CRTC that it is...
British Columbia’s Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI)...
BCE Inc. is implementing a temporary embargo for next-generation 911 (NG911) onboarding and go-live...
Thursday the CRTC issued a decision directing wireless service providers...
Shaw Communications Inc. has argued that the type of off-tariff-agreement...
Two U.S. senators are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to...
The CRTC is reopening its proceeding into whether or not BCE Inc., Cogeco Inc., Bragg Communications...
Indigenous leadership is once again pushing the...
Telus Corp. and Cogeco Inc. are rowing in behind Bell's request for the CRTC to stop collecting money for its National Contribution Fund until the regulator can spend the...
In a Friday decision, the CRTC approved with modifications three tariff notifications submitted by Telus...
Telus Corp. reported a 60 per cent drop in net income for its last quarter...
Telecommunications companies across Canada are waiving fees for texts and...
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 opponents of the pending merger between Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc.
“It's going to wind up like an albatross -- an albatross around one’s...
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...
Ian Scott's tenure as chair of the CRTC comes to a close Thursday. The Wire Report sat down with Scott to...
Canada’s Competition Tribunal is dismissing the Commissioner of...
The CRTC approved an application by BCE Inc.’s...
Telus Corp. told the CRTC that it is not charging more for the services it...
CRTC chair Ian Scott is firing a warning at...
A retired Queen's University economics professor believes that the CRTC has...
The government of British Columbia is suing Telus Corp.'s Telus Health, claiming that doctors who sign up for its LifePlus program are refusing to see patients unless the patients also sign up for the program. That constitutes extra billing, which is forbidden, the province...
