Quebecor Inc. subsidiary Videotron will be locking out its unionized workers in Gatineau, Que., the company announced Friday. The action will begin Monday.
“Given the union's intransigence, Videotron management had no choice but to serve a lock‑out notice,” the firm...
Iristel Inc. and two BCE Inc. properties have reached separate agreements with Iristel to suspend disconnection notices in an ongoing dispute that is before the CRTC.
In...
The CRTC has denied an application brought forward...
The CRTC has given the green light to BCE Inc. subsidiary Northwestel Inc....
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...
BCE Inc. is increasing its footprint in outdoor advertising by buying the...
Nokia Corp. has announced a series of layoffs to return it to profitability. The telecom equipment manufacturer said anywhere from 9,000 to 14,000 positions will be affected.
“Nokia targets to lower its cost base on a gross basis (i.e. before inflation) by between €800 million and €1 200 million by the end of 2026 compared to 2023, assuming on-target variable...
The debate over what the future of the wholesale high-speed-access (HSA)...
A pilot project that will see community health workers dispatched to people...
The CRTC has extended an olive branch to Iristel Inc. in its current...
Iristel Inc. has filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC against BCE Inc....
The City of Calgary, on behalf of other stakeholders across the nation, is seeking a CRTC decision in...
Both BCE Inc. and Quebecor Inc. have reacted to the CRTC’s decision that Bell Mobility's offer on...
BCE Inc. came out the winner in a dispute with Quebecor Inc. over mobile virtual network operator (MVNO)...
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...
Canada is a founding member of the Global Coalition on Telecommunications (GCOT), it was announced Thursday. Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States are the other signatories to the agreement.
The bloc has four key objectives: to increase cooperation...
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink announced the purchase of a Northern Ontario telecom service...
Those looking to predict the future of broadcasting and telecommunications...
Sean Cohan will take over as head of BCE Inc.’s Bell Media on Nov. 1, the...
Digital transformation of Canadian businesses can play a fundamental role...
Telus Corp. says the CRTC should review its decision to include revenues from the sale and subordination of spectrum in its contribution regime because it did not take into...
CIK Telecom Inc. has settled an outstanding Part 1 application regarding access to two multi dwelling units in Richmond BC. The company alleged that Rancho Management Services Ltd., acting on behalf of Strata Corp. BCS 1060, had...
by Todd Hofley, vice-president, Policy and Communications, Beanfield
Like many industries,...
BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. reiterated their concerns around the CRTC’s...
The police department of Kingston Ont. wants city council to pass a bylaw...
Beanfield Technologies Inc. has called out Rogers Communications Inc. over...
The governments of Canada and British Columbia have joined together to...
As the CRTC’s review of its broadband fund...
BCE Inc. continues to be plagued by thefts of copper wiring from its telephone structures. The most...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC requesting that a real estate development and management company give it timely access to a multi-dwelling unit (MDU) in Chatham, Ont.
In a Sept. 15 application, posted to the commission website Thursday,...
As the wildfire season continues to spread, Rogers Communications Inc. announced Thursday it has joined...
The province of British Columbia has filed a Part 1 application with the...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. has rolled out its 5G network to the SaskTel Centre in...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has unveiled a new list of parliamentary secretaries as Parliament returns for its fall session.
Taleeb Noormohamed will serve as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage,...
Newfoundland and Labrador will finally be rolling out the 879 numbering plan area (NPA) on Feb. 17, 2024, the CRTC announced Friday. The new area code had initially been approved back in 2017 but the commission discovered number exhaustion would not take place until 2028,...
Cogeco Inc. announced Valéry Zamuner will be taking over as senior vice-president and chief corporate affairs and legal officer, effective this coming Monday.
“Zamuner is a seasoned executive with outstanding experience in...
The CRTC denied Quebecor Inc.’s request for...
Telesat Holdings Inc. announced Monday that it has signed a deal with Space...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has settled a dispute over access to a building in Chatham Ont. The company filed...
All passengers on the Toronto Transit Commission’s (TTC) subway system...
The CRTC announced Friday it will be granting additional funds to ATG Arrow...
BCE Inc. is backing Rogers Communications Inc. in its appeal over a CRTC...
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...
Rogers Communications Inc. is countersuing ex-CEO Joe Natale, arguing he should pay back the severance and other benefits he received from the company now that it has determined cause for his dismissal.
The counterclaim, filed Tuesday in response to Natale’s claims of...
The federal government is spending $1.2 million for high-speed internet service in Cape Breton in Nova...
Xplore Inc. is promoting its president and chief commercial officer, Rizwan Jamal, to president and chief...
By Mark Buell and Phil Steinhauer-Mozejko, Connect Humanity Fund
In its...
In a press release on Thursday, Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink announced the launch of mobile...
ICA Microsystems Inc. is once again a participant in the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-Television Service (CCTS) after being suspended last April. The internet service provider had not supplied a customer with a refund as demanded by the CRTC agency. It later...
TerreStar Solutions Inc. is challenging a CRTC decision which denied the...
The CRTC’s Broadband Fund has granted $1.42 million in additional funding towards Telus Corp.’s...
Rogers Communications Inc. has been awarded nearly $13 million in costs...
As the Toronto subway network access dispute continues, Rogers...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) is partnering with the government...
Returning wildfires have once again knocked out service to BCE Inc. customers in the Northwest...
In a press release Thursday, Xplore Inc. announced that over 27,000 Quebec homes and businesses are now...
The Quebec Court of Appeal has denied an application for leave to appeal...
Rogers Communications Inc. has rolled out its 5G wireless service on some stations on the Toronto Transit Commission’s (TTC) subway network. The move comes as other players decry their lack of access to the grid.
Wednesday the company announced it is making service...
Philip Lind, one of the earliest hires at Rogers Communications Inc., has died at the age of 80, the...
The former CEO of Rogers Communications Inc. Joe Natale is suing the...
Bragg Communication Inc.'s Eastlink and Nokia Corp. announced "a multi-year strategic, access network...
BCE Inc. subsidiary Northwestel is warning residents of the Northwest...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development has added a further $10.3 million in funding for internet rollout in several Indigenous communities in...
Satellite communications company Telesat Corp. has struck a deal with aerospace manufacturer MDA Ltd. to supply satellites for its planned Lightspeed constellation, it announced last Friday, shortly...
By Donna Hokiro, president, Local 1944, United Steelworkers Union
By now,...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has become the latest CLEC calling on the CRTC to...
Quebecor Inc. president and CEO Pierre Karl...
The CRTC has denied a request from Rogers Communications Inc. to delete the...
Incumbent Canadian telecoms say there is no cause for alarm that...
Telus Corp. is cutting 6,000 jobs, the company announced Friday.
Telus...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Charlene Gavel as its new president and CEO who...
The governments of Canada and the Northwest Territories have earmarked $19.7 million for a fibre optic line between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk. This will be the start of high-speed internet service in the latter city.
Canada is investing $14.8 million in the 137-km line with the territorial government putting up $4.9 million.
“Today’s announcement marks another milestone for the north as residents and businesses will soon be able to connect faster to essential...
Cogeco Inc. had its fibre network in North Bay Ont, attacked by vandals Friday. The service outage affected only a small number of customers and was restored by day’s end, the telecom reports.
A similar outage occurred last...
Xplore Inc. anticipates connecting consumers to high-speed internet as early as this fall after...
Rogers Communications Inc. will be reviewing the impact of the CRTC’s...
Industry analysts said it is no surprise that the CRTC selected Quebecor...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner is the third best workplace in the federal public service, a new poll has found. The results of the 2022 Public Service Employment Survey were released earlier this month and published in The Wire Report's affiliated publication The...
Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced that he is...
Telecoms and other stakeholders have had their say on proposed changes to...
The Canadian government is giving the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) $156 million over...
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 Federal Court has issued a site-blocking order against several alleged...
The public broadcasting advocacy group Friends...
The CRTC should not intervene in an ongoing...
By Robert Ghiz, president and CEO, Canadian Telecommunications Association
With the dust having settled on Rogers Communications Inc.’ acquisition of Shaw Communications...
Major telecommunications service providers were...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) told the CRTC that...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. have been hurling verbal bombs...
BCE Inc. told the CRTC that it is prepared to allow Rogers Communications...
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,...
BCE Inc. subsidiary Bell MTS has responded to a report criticizing how the telecom has operated since it...
The federal and Ontario governments are together investing $54 million to roll out high-speed internet in the province. The project was announced Wednesday.
“Today’s announcement is a significant milestone for internet...
The federal and Alberta governments announced a $96 million plan to roll...
The CRTC has opted to keep its cost-based rate setting approach for...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) has set up rules around fixed and...
BCE Inc.’s takeover of MTS six years ago has not proved beneficial to the prairie province, a new study concludes. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives issued For Whom the Bell Tolls: The...
The CRTC rejected a request by BCE Inc. to...
Once again BCE Inc. has filed suit against a copper thief who vandalized...
The governments of Canada and Ontario have announced another shared investment towards deploying high-speed internet in the province, this time providing over $4 million in funding to Mornington Communications and its infrastructure projects in southern Ontario.
On...
