OTTAWA — The proliferation of internet of things (IoT) devices will foist an extraordinary amount of legal responsibility on telecommunications companies in their encounters...
OTTAWA — Questions around telecom, intellectual property and media aren’t going to determine whether renegotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) succeed or fail, Sarah Goldfeder, principal at Earnscliffe Strategy Group, said during a lunchtime...
On Wednesday, Amazon.com Inc. made a move to introduce its intelligent personal assistant Alexa into this...
OTTAWA — If BCE Inc.’s suggestion in September that the federal...
A large majority of Canadians are aware of the dangers of keeping their personal information online, but it might not stop their online shopping habits, according to survey data released by the...
The CRTC has ordered VOIS Inc. to pay the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) a little over one thousand dollars for work done that eventually led to a non-compliance ruling against the Alberta-based telecom. The costs were...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada has chosen a U.S. company, Key Bridge Wireless LLC, as the administrator of TV white space in Canada. The department said back in 2015 that it was moving forward with plans to make underused spectrum traditionally used for TV broadcasting available for internet service. It also said it was looking for companies to become administrators responsible for ensuring "the appropriate protection of licensed radio systems and services within the same frequency bands for the purpose of managing the operation of white space devices." The system...
The board of directors of mobile chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. has unanimously rejected an unsolicited proposal to be purchased by Broadcom Ltd. “It is the Board’s unanimous belief that Broadcom’s proposal significantly...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. released the first edition of a quarterly transparency report on Friday, which...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) is in danger of having to close...
Quebecor Inc. said its wireless division has eclipsed one million subscribers since posting higher revenues and profits in its third-quarter earnings Thursday. “In the space of 7 years,...
BCE Inc.’s first pilot project to run on its recently-announced LTE-M network will power the internet...
Telus Corp. reported revenue of $3.36 billion, up four per cent from the same quarter last year, in its third-quarter results released Thursday, while net income also increased 4.2 per cent to $370 million over that time....
The CRTC’s annual Communications Monitoring Report, released in full...
TORONTO — The federal government and the CRTC must pick up the pace and...
Rogers Communications Inc. is asking for more time to implement updates to its bill management systems in order to fulfill requirements in the Wireless Code.
“Since the Decision was released, Rogers has had a team working full-time to implement the many changes. Through...
TORONTO — The CRTC’s new disaggregated wholesale regime will bring with...
Telesat Holdings Inc. will be allowed to offer internet service based on...
Amazon.com Inc. is making available its Fire TV Stick Basic Edition plug-in streaming device available...
BCE Inc. is making a bigger play for the home-security arena with the $166...
TORONTO — Owning fibre facilities is the primary way to drive competition, panelists told a conference on the first day of the annual ISP Summit in Toronto, and having to lease those last mile facilities would put competitors at a disadvantage.
“If I'm forced to use...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the creation of a new National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians in a press release on Monday. This new body will “have the authority to review national security and intelligence activities carried out across the Government of Canada,” according to the...
Networking giant Broadcom Ltd. announced a proposal to purchase all outstanding shares of mobile chip maker Qualcomm Inc. on Monday morning. It could be one of the largest tech deals ever,...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) approved on Friday the issuing of four subordinate licences from Rogers Communications Inc. to Ecotel Inc. on Thursday. This agreement will be for communities in Eastern and...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google does not have to comply with an order from...
In its quarterly results released on Friday, Cogeco Inc. reported overall revenues for the three-month...
Cell phone only households, meaning those that use only mobile phones and no landline, are growing across Canada and are a good indication of a series of modern habits, said a report published...
OTTAWA — Privacy Commissioner of Canada Daniel Therrien does not think...
OTTAWA — Opposition MPs continued their criticism of Heritage Minister...
Piracy of live TV is expected to increase, according to Sandvine Corp., which says it poses “enormous” risks to TV providers.
The company said in a report released Wednesday that those risks include “increased cordcutting, significantly impacting top-line revenue, overall profitability, and — by extension — undermining an important aspect of the business model of [service providers].”
The report estimated that 6.5 per cent of households across North America are accessing subscription TV piracy services,...
BCE Inc. CEO George Cope said the company needs to do a better job of finding opportunities in emerging advertising technology, as the company seeks additional revenue growth...
Distributel Communications Inc. has received the OK from the CRTC to acquire IPTV service...
Users of the national video relay service (VRS) for hearing-impaired Canadians can now access the service...
Around the world, speeds of 4G connections have stopped increasing, according to a new report from OpenSignal. The Wednesday report said that “the once impressive growth in 4G speeds seems to have ground to a halt.”...
OTTAWA — Technologies that allow doctors to diagnose and treat patients remotely are among the innovations set to change our health care system, senators said at an event...
In a release on Monday, the federal government announced a call for proposals with a focus on enhancing defense and security, which includes $19 million to tackle public safety and security challenges...
Canada will be the testbed for Facebook Inc.’s new advertising transparency policies, according to a...
Telus Corp.’s outsourcing and call centre operation Telus International...
The CRTC has told BCE Inc. it has to provide the city of Hamilton, Ont....
The CRTC has ordered landline and wireless service providers to implement new recommendations regarding 911 service outage notifications. They have three months to implement the recommendations...
OTTAWA — Telecoms should be able to block “bad data” and share...
Shaw Communications Inc. announced Thursday that it would move to redeploy...
Interested parties now have an extra week to submit comments in the CRTC’s consultation on content distribution models. The regulator said in a notice Thursday it is extending the deadline for comments from Nov. 24 to Dec. 1....
As the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology gears up for a study of rural broadband, a number of participants are pointing out that the...
Creative organizations stepped up and added to a surge in lobbying activity...
Some applications used by children in the classroom didn’t receive top...
Rural internet service provider Xplornet Communications Inc. has announced the purchase of Brandon,...
Rogers Communications Inc. has enabled LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) network access in “many” Manitoban communities, the company announced on Monday. LTE-A enables a feature called carrier aggregation, which “combines two or...
On the final day of the CRTC’s broadcast distribution licence hearing, Shaw Communications Inc. told commissioners it’s not planning to sell its IPTV service without a...
Facebook Inc. is teaming up with Ottawa-based digital literacy group,...
Canada’s Communications Security Establishment (CSE) is stepping up its efforts to combat malware by allowing the public to use one of its security tools. The organization will release its cyber defence tool, called...
The CRTC has postponed, by a day, its hearing to consider 11 broadcasting applications scheduled for later this month. It will begin on Nov. 28, instead of the previously-announced Nov. 27....
Joe Natale isn’t worried about Shaw Communications Inc.’s move to offer its Freedom customers 10...
Canada’s two largest telcos are part of three groups vying to be chosen...
Alphabet Inc.’s Sidewalk Labs have won a City of Toronto request for proposals to create a development...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile has announced a new set of...
Music Canada is asking the government to address the disparity between the value of creative content and the revenues that are generated from it. “The Value Gap challenges the livelihood and...
The federal government reiterated a previously held position that it will not implement taxes on internet service providers (ISP) in favour of Canadian content in a review of an earlier Heritage report that recommended just that. “The Committee’s recommendation to generate revenue by expanding broadcast distribution levies so that they apply to broadband distribution would conflict with the principle of affordable access,” read the review, which is dated Monday and addressed to Hedy Fry, chairwoman of the standing committee on Canadian Heritage. “The Government does not intend to...
BCE Inc. is looking to strengthen cybersecurity and web performance for its...
A new report from Gartner Inc. is predicting the Nov. 2017 release of Apple Inc.’s iPhone X combined with component shortages will cause a dip in ability to meet smartphone demand in 2017 and push...
GATINEAU, Que. — There are still some problems with the implementation...
GATINEAU, QUE. — Some companies in a working group crafted to measure how...
The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) announced the hiring of Eric Smith as the vice-president of regulatory affairs in a release on Monday.
Previously responsible for developing and implementing strategy and tactics for regulatory and public affairs...
OTTAWA — Kanata, a suburb of Ottawa, is now home to the first Canadian autonomous vehicle demonstration...
Canadian audience measurement organization Numeris said in a press...
The Federal Court has made its first major disclosure orders for subscriber...
In an announcement on Friday, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. said it is partnering with the University of...
Today, approximately 70 per cent of consumers watch TV and video content on their smartphone devices, double the number from 2012, according to the eighth edition of Ericsson AB’s annual ConsumerLab TV and Media report. The...
Distributel Communications Ltd. is acquiring “selected assets” of a...
Sabrina Geremia is the new country director for Alphabet Inc.’s Google Canada.
She has been in the...
Six Northern Ontario communities will receive $4.03 million under the federal government’s Connect to Innovate fund, according to a Tuesday press release. BCE Inc. will be the main recipient of...
Sports remains one of the last bastions of defence for traditional TV against a wave of over-the-top (OTT) services that continue to push audiences toward cord-cutting, though for now at least, they appear to form a stronger barrier in Canada than south of the border....
The Attorney General of Quebec is appealing an August decision which ruled that a municipal access agreement between the city of Gatineau and telecom providers is invalid. An Oct. 3 judgement in Quebec’s Court of Appeal...
Innovation Canada is initiating a consultation on its approach to spectrum...
A $69.2-million investment toward high-speed internet in the Ring of Fire...
BCE Inc. could see its average revenue per user (ARPU) fall after winning a...
OTTAWA — The federal government will pay Telus Corp. $176 million over seven years to replace 80,000 legacy landlines, the two parties announced at an event in Ottawa Thursday.
Those landlines will be replaced with “modern, cost-effective and fully managed...
The Canadian Cable System Alliance (CCSA) said Thursday that Lori Rosenberg will join its executive team...
United States cloud-based phone company Dialpad Inc. has launched in...
Shared Services Canada (SSC) announced a $432.1 million, six-year deal with BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. for mobile devices and service contracts in a press release on Tuesday. These...
The number of Canadians affected by Equifax Inc.’s privacy breach has been determined to be significantly lower than originally reported, the company said Monday in a press release. Initial...
Just over half, or 53 per cent, of Quebec households with internet access watch streaming video services,...
The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) has filed an appeal in Federal Court arguing that a Copyright Board decision that established the making available right under the Copyright Act applies to...
The United States Senate confirmed Monday current Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Ajit...
Telus Corp. has become the second Canadian telecom to launch a service that allows customers to track...
Because some aspects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) raise privacy concerns, the Canadian government should bring border search and related privacy matters to the trade negotiating table, University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist told the committee...
Rogers Communications Inc. is growing its wireless service and making improvements to its networks in parts of Manitoba. The company said in a Thursday press release that customers of Rogers and its flanker brand Fido will...
Promoting Canadian content and supporting creators, service affordability and encouraging competition and investment by companies are among the priorities outlined in the federal government’s...
OTTAWA — While the response to the long-awaited results of Heritage...
Canada, Mexico and the United States have made “meaningful...
BCE Inc.’s top man George Cope said the company likes new CRTC head Ian Scott’s approach to balancing consumer and business interests.
“He said he’s working in the public interest,” Cope told an investors' conference hosted by CIBC Wednesday. “We’re heartened by that because the public...
Independent internet service provider (ISP) EBox Inc. wants the CRTC to help solve a carriage dispute with BCE Inc., which it says is refusing to allow EBox to carry its TV channels. EBox said...
Telus Corp. has achieved nearly 1 Gbps speeds on LTE as part of a test, it said in a press...
BCE Inc. has said it thinks Canada can tackle piracy by mandating that...
Telus Corp. was far and away the busiest industry stakeholder when it came to...
BCE Inc. issued a press release Friday to let customers with Apple Inc.’s new Apple Watch know that...
The federal government has denied a petition to the governor-in-council to overturn a June licence decision by the CRTC regarding Indigenous radio stations. In late June, Wawatay Native Communications...
After a rough first week, Perform Group’s sports streaming service Dazn will partially refund...
As the head of an organization that must hear and decide on issues that...
Facebook Inc. will cooperate with the U.S. Congress on its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 United States election by handing over advertisements and related information linked to a Russian entity.
That entity is known as the Internet Research Agency,...
