The City of Calgary, on behalf of other stakeholders across the nation, is seeking a CRTC decision in support of Next Generation 911 (NG911) testing that will affect public safety answering points (PSAPs). It filed a Part 1 application in late September that was only...
Both BCE Inc. and Quebecor Inc. have reacted to the CRTC’s decision that Bell Mobility's offer on mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) should be adopted by arbitration. The decision was released Tuesday.
Bell said the commission has recognized that Canadians are...
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...
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink announced the purchase of a Northern Ontario telecom service...
Those looking to predict the future of broadcasting and telecommunications should expect the unexpected, CRTC chair Vicky Eatrides told the C. D. Howe Institute on Tuesday....
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...
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 spend $2.6 million on internet infrastructure, it was announced Tuesday. The action will bring high-speed broadband to more than 400 households in rural communities.
Most of the $2.23 million will be...
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...
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 CRTC over the rollout of next-generation 911 (NG911) service. Conceding that its jurisdiction is limited, the government stressed that emergency service must be of the highest quality and available at...
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...
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 Technology Group Ltd. Partnership for three of its internet infrastructure projects in northern Alberta.
It also approved, in a separate announcement, a statement of work from BCE Inc. for a...
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...
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 executive officer, the company announced.
The transition will take place effective immediately, according to its Tuesday release. Jamal has been serving as CCO since...
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...
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 Territories.
Thursday morning Northwestel said all coverage had been restored in the district. But a few hours later, it reported that wildfires had started up again,...
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...
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 company for $24 million, claiming it is in breach of contract and that he was wrongfully dismissed,...
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...
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 lead-sheathed copper wiring is deployed in their networks. The amount of copper wire left is very small and is...
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...
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 successfully launching its Jupiter 3 satellite.
According to its Monday press release, the company's new broadband service will provide speeds of 100 Mbps. The pricing will...
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...
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 unauthorized MLB live streams, continuing its crackdown on online piracy.
The court order,...
The public broadcasting advocacy group Friends...
The CRTC should not intervene in an ongoing...
By Robert Ghiz, president and CEO, Canadian...
Major telecommunications service providers were...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) told the CRTC that Canada’s incumbents are proposing “unconscionable” rates for aggregated wholesale high-speed access (HSA) service over fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) that “are inflated above the just and reasonable...
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...
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 Privatization of Manitoba Telecom Services and its Impacts in late June.
MTS had been a publicly-held provincial Crown Corporation until 1996 when the Progressive Conservative...
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...
Lobby group OpenMedia has been polling the public about what the major issues in broadcasting and telecom...
BCE Inc. says in order for it to be competitive the CRTC must amend its conditions of licence (COL) to cut Canadian content obligations.
In a Part 1 application published...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada...
The CRTC received a raft of responses on its notice of consultation on 911...
CIK Telecom Inc. has filed five new Part 1 applications with the CRTC...
Lobbying commissioner Nancy Bélanger called for...
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...
Rogers Communications Inc. says giving BCE Inc....
BCE Inc. is asking the CRTC to prohibit Rogers...
The CRTC has sent a letter to BCE Inc.’s Bell Canada demanding to know why the telecom imposed an embargo on next generation 911 (NG911) onboarding and go-live activities.
According to the June 15 letter, Bell told the commission in March that it had implemented the...
