OTTAWA — The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) will not wait for the government to give it order-making and monetary enforcement powers to move toward proactively raising complaints instead of passively waiting for them to enter the door, it said in its annual...
OTTAWA — Transport Minister Marc Garneau told reporters that the government is working on putting connected car regulations in place, following a ride in a self-driving small bus around Parliament Hill on Wednesday morning.
He said the government was “working with...
Equifax Inc., the credit reporting agency that was the subject of a massive hack earlier this month, said it believes about 100,000 Canadians are affected. The information leak involves personal information including names,...
The provincial governments should get cities together and collaborate on...
OTTAWA — Canada should be cognizant of a potential multi-jurisdictional...
OTTAWA — Canadians should be exercising a fair amount of caution when...
Following funding from the government’s Connect to Innovate program, Nunavut residents will see their internet speeds increase to 15 Mbps, BCE Inc. subsidiary Northwestel specified Monday.
Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains announced last week that all of...
The Competition Bureau is inviting comments on a white paper on big data. “Recent global developments in technology have allowed firms to harness data in ways that drive innovation and quality improvements across a range of...
Everything old is new again when it comes to telecom and media issues...
Former CRTC secretary-general Danielle May-Cuconato is on the team working to help fix the problems plaguing the government’s employee pay system. May-Cuconato joined Public Services and Procurement Canada on Sept. 7 as...
The privacy commissioner’s office is investigating the Equifax Inc. breach. It said in a release Friday it launched the investigation “after receiving several complaints and dozens of calls...
Wearable use in Canada and around the world is trending up, but the numbers for smartwatches are still...
Facebook Inc. is opening an artificial intelligence (AI) centre in Montreal, the company...
Kelly Gillis, the associate deputy minister at Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) Canada, has been appointed as deputy minister at Infrastructure Canada,...
Twenty-five Nunavut communities are the targeted beneficiaries of the latest round of Connect to Innovate...
North American adoption of 5G will be as swift as 4G adoption, with about 100 million 5G connections predicted on the continent by 2023, four years after it launches, according to a recent GSMA report.
In its 2017 report on North America’s mobile economy,...
The federal privacy commissioner’s office has found that while RCMP use of IMSI catchers wasn’t...
Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains has a new chief of staff following internal personnel shuffles.
On...
American civil liberties groups are suing the U.S. federal government over warrantless searches of travellers’ personal devices at the border. In a press release, the American Civil Liberties...
The federal privacy commissioner is urging Canadians who are worried about whether their personal information was affected by the Equifax Inc. hack to contact the company directly. “After...
Mandating wholesale roaming access to Wi-Fi-based mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) will encourage innovation and competition by providing Canadians with more wireless service options, some organizations and small providers told the CRTC, while incumbents argued such a mandate would actually...
Two of Canada’s largest telecom companies aren’t overly enthusiastic...
Apple Inc.’s new iPhone X, iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, announced Tuesday, are compatible with spectrum bands...
Bram Abramson, chief legal and regulatory officer at TekSavvy Solutions Inc., is leaving the company....
Telus Corp. has the fastest national wireless network in Canada, according to PCMag.com’s annual...
Even with an accelerated arrival date for the next generation of wireless...
Canadians are among the millions of consumers whose information was compromised in a massive hack of Equifax Inc., a U.S. company that sells credit monitoring and anti-identity-theft products. Equifax said in a...
CRTC chairman Ian Scott has released his first statement since taking the...
Amazon.com Inc. issued a request for proposals Thursday for North American cities interested in...
The federal government is searching for a replacement for Peter Menzies, following his early departure from his role as vice-chairman of telecom at the CRTC. A job opening was posted to the government’s appointments website Wednesday, advertising the full-time, National Capital Region-based position that comes with an annual salary ranging between $200,900 and $236,300. Christianne Laizner, the CRTC’s senior general counsel, was appointed for a one-year term to fill the vice-chair of telecom role on an interim basis in July. The new vice-chairwoman of broadcasting, Caroline Simard, will begin her five-year term on Sept. 11, which will leave two regional commissioners (for Manitoba/Saskatchewan and Ontario) yet to be named. Interested applicants for the telecom vice-chair role have until Oct. 18 to apply. The...
The CRTC has another opening among its senior officials, following the departure of secretary general...
Former CRTC vice-chairman of telecom Peter Menzies is predicting that new...
Rural Albertans will have access to gigabit internet following an upgrade by Axia NetMedia Corp., the...
Work is underway on technologies that could fundamentally change how...
Organizations that suffer a breach of users’ personal information must conduct a risk assessment to determine if it poses a “real risk of significant harm” to the affected individual and, if so, report it to the federal privacy commissioner and the people involved as...
Rural wireless towers in Saskatchewan are being upgraded to increase their LTE capacity, Saskatchewan...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) Canada is considering making changes to the framework in which new wireless technologies are tested. In a notice posted to its website Thursday,...
The federal government says that it will allocate almost $13 million from its Connect to Innovate program...
More than half of anglophones who own smartphones use the devices to stream audio content, according to a...
The CRTC's goal of fuelling wireline competition by jumpstarting the...
The CRTC said Thursday that it has scheduled a hearing to take place in Toronto on Nov. 27 to consider 11 broadcasting applications. They include three applications for stations in Grimsby and...
Applications by Shaw Communications Inc. and Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Co. has a new minister responsible for the Crown telecom...
BCE Inc. is launching an integrated advanced messaging function that allows subscribers to use features available on third party messaging apps.
“As the first integrated [rich communications services] product available in Canada, Bell Advanced Messaging takes the...
Former Industry Minister Maxime Bernier has regained his position as Innovation critic, Opposition leader...
A group of police departments and emergency authorities that run public safety answering points (PSAPs), or 911 call centres, is telling the CRTC that a distinction it drew between primary and...
The Copyright Board has ruled that the making available right under the...
The CRTC kickstarted the industry’s move to a disaggregated wholesale...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron will launch its IPTV service using the X1 platform from Comcast Corp., the company said in a press release Tuesday.
It didn’t specify when it expects to begin offering the service.
The move follows similar announcements by other Canadian...
Nearly three million viewers around the world watched the much-anticipated boxing match between Floyd...
RBC said Monday it plans to add artificial intelligence (AI) technology to its mobile banking app....
Rogers Communications Inc. has expanded its LTE service in Alberta, improving wireless connectivity in Lethbridge and between Banff and Calgary. The company said in a press release Monday the improvements include a new cell...
The United States’ Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is...
BCE Inc.’s internet service is back up and running in Labrador after an internet service outage Friday, Bell spokesman Marc Choma confirmed. He said in an email late Friday afternoon...
Two applications by Northwestel Inc. asking the CRTC to exempt two services from regulation in the area...
Global wireless data consumption through virtual reality (VR) content will grow ten-fold over the next...
Internet of things (IoT) technology is transforming how many Canadian farms...
The CRTC has renewed the licences of 11 radio stations after it found them in non-compliance with licence conditions. On Friday, it renewed two radio stations for shorter terms — Radio Ville Marie’s French-language CIRA-FM in Montréal, which broadcasts mostly religious content, and community radio station CHPL-FM in Plamondon, Alta, run by the Le Club de la radio communautaire. It said the shorter terms would "allow for an earlier review of the licensee’s compliance with the regulatory requirements." Community radio stations CHMM-FM in Mackenzie, B.C., and CFDY-FM in...
Worldwide sales of wearable devices are forecast to grow 16.7 per cent this year compared to 2016,...
Supporters of the federal Conservative party are more likely than those with other party affiliations to approve of warrantless searches of electronic devices by Canadian border officers, according to...
The CRTC’s 2015 decision to regulate wholesale wireless roaming has made...
The CRTC is seeking comment on whether it should grant regional...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Co. has rolled out a connected-home service, allowing customers to control their door locks, thermostats, lights and more from their personal devices.
In a press release Monday, SaskTel said its new smartHome service lets users...
A Swiss corporation and its subsidiaries have dropped a patent infringement case against Shaw...
Networks operating on 5G will require much more spectrum than current 4G wireless technology, and part of...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) Canada is looking for feedback on proposed changes to the Canadian Table of Frequency Allocations. According to Innovation Canada, the Canadian table “assigns the...
Slightly more than one-tenth of Canadian adults have signed up for the CRTC-mandated skinny-basic TV...
A proliferation of new streaming TV competition in Canada is set to benefit...
The CRTC won’t be reviewing its decision that set rates for Northwestel’s Wholesale Connect service,...
July lobbying activity was affected by the expected summer slowdown that comes with Parliament not...
Following a quarter in which Canada’s telecoms all reported strong...
Fewer Canadians say they feel informed about the CRTC’s role when it comes to their safety and protection than a few years ago, suggests a public opinion survey commissioned by the regulator. Just over a quarter, or 26 per cent of Canadians, said they feel well-informed about the mandate and role of the CRTC when it comes to “ensuring Canadians’ safety and protection in the communication system,” compared to 35 per cent two years ago. The percentage that said they were very well-informed fell from nine per cent to eight per cent over that time. The CRTC-commissioned report, dated...
A controversial CRTC decision that creative groups said would negatively affect the production of Canadian content will be sent back to the CRTC for reconsideration by the federal cabinet, Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly...
Canada’s continued preservation of the provisions in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)...
Fewer people cut their TV subscriptions in the first half of this year compared to the same period last year, according to new research by research and consulting firm Boon Dog Professional Services...
Telus Corp. took some analysts by surprise when it reported postpaid...
Rogers Communications Inc. is looking to the country’s highest court to sort out what exactly internet service providers (ISPs) are obligated to do under Canada’s notice-and-notice regime. In an application dated Aug. 4, Rogers is seeking leave to appeal from the Supreme Court of Canada a May decision handed down by the Appeals Court that said ISPs can’t charge for disclosing customer info in copyright infringement cases. The decision was part of an ongoing copyright...
Quebecor Inc. continued the industry trend of steady gains in wireless this past quarter, with...
The percentage of Canadians who reported being either likely or very likely to get rid of their TV service stood at 23 per cent in the spring of this year, according to a Media Technology Monitor...
Most of Canada’s major wireless providers were of the same mind on an application by TNW Wireless...
The Quebec Superior Court has ruled that aspects of municipal access agreements between telecom providers and Gatineau, Que., are invalid because they impose on Parliament’s jurisdiction over...
Despite recent calls to limit encryption by some government officials and intelligence heads worldwide,...
Stingray Digital Group Inc. will offer free access to its Stingray Music mobile app to Via Rail...
CBS Corp. will launch its CBS All Access streaming service in Canada next year, the company said in a...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron and Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile will be the big winners if Innovation Canada goes ahead with its plans to set aside spectrum for smaller players in the...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) Canada is looking to bolster wireless competition by potentially setting aside spectrum in the 600 MHz auction for a “certain sub-set of entities,” it said in a consultation document released Friday.
“There are...
The CRTC is asking for feedback on whether it should add dispute-resolution provisions to its newly created Discretionary Services Regulations. In a call for consultations posted Friday, the...
A cut cable crippled the shared network of BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. in...
Four United States senators are proposing a bill that would require minimum cybersecurity standards for Internet of Things (IoT) devices bought by federal agencies. The bipartisan Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity...
BCE Inc. is hoping the second half of the year results in a boost for its...
The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices means the technology will need to be included in roaming agreements in the future, according to a new report by Juniper Research. “Juniper anticipates that the IoT market will continue evolving as use cases and connections become progressively mobile, increasing the need for roaming connections,” it said in a white paper published Wednesday. Juniper said it anticipates the number of IoT devices to increase to over 46 billion globally by 2021, compared to roughly 19 billion this year. Monitoring devices, in use by the agricultural...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile says that its decision not to...
Shaw Communications Inc. is adding an unlimited usage option to its...
Without an Edward Snowden-like scandal, exposing inappropriate government access of citizens’ personal...
The first cross-border test in North America involving self-driving vehicles took place Monday with a...
Canada’s largest wireless providers told Innovation Canada that they support its suggested 20-year term for AWS-1 and G Block Spectrum, but asked the department to eliminate a research and...
Canada’s big three wireless providers are now cooperating on a...
The CRTC is asking wireless service providers about whether they’ve been approached by potential mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) and their service offerings for low-income individuals....
Canadian TV providers’ revenues dropped 2.1 per cent in 2016 — a marked increase from the 0.1 per...
A new group focusing on 5G technology in Canada held its first meeting Wednesday.
The objective of the 5G Canada Council is to “promote a vibrant 5G ecosystem in Canada,” Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) spokeswoman Sophie Paluck said in an email.
The idea for the group, which is a CWTA initiative, emerged from a one-day event focusing on 5G technology the association held in November last year, she said.
The group will “bring together CWTA members (both carriers and equipment...
