The federal and Alberta governments announced a $96 million plan to roll out high-speed broadband in the province Tuesday. Each government will invest $48 million. This is the latest in a series of funding announcements across the nation.
“Today’s announcement in...
The CRTC has opted to keep its cost-based rate setting approach for wholesale telecom services but made a few enhancements such as directing wholesale service providers to provide market-level information with its rate-setting applications, ensuring regular updates are...
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...
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...
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. access to the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) network is not an urgent matter because critical 911 services continue to be...
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...
The rapid pace of change in the technology sector has led a group of Parliamentarians to form an emerging technology caucus where members of all parties can learn about the brave new world.
The...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) is fighting with two...
The CRTC has denied TerreStar Solutions Inc.’s request that spectrum licensing be declared a non-telecommunications service, effectively blocking the company’s attempts to...
A town in Alberta is condemning Telus Corp. for slowing down the rollout of...
Approximately 1,300 BCE Inc. employees will be...
The airline industry must do more to protect its flights from 5G...
Incumbent carriers are opposed to the expedited review of the CRTC’s...
The CRTC released its biannual report on Canada’s anti-spam legislation...
The CRTC has issued a request for information on the rates Canadian wireless carriers charge as roaming...
It remains unclear if Cogeco Inc. will debut an MVNO offering in its Canadian cable footprint by the end...
The CRTC presented its public opinion research...
Residents of northern Ontario are still underserved when it comes to internet rollout, a new study maintains. The Blue Sky Economic Growth Corp. has released its Northern Ontario Broadband Report 2023.
It cites the federal auditor general’s report which found that while...
Wednesday was the deadline for interested intervenors to file their comments on the CRTC’s...
Monday the CRTC approved a request by ATG Arrow Technology Group Ltd....
Vandals attacked the network of Cogeco Communications Inc. in the...
In its first major promotion since acquiring Freedom Mobile from Shaw Communications, Quebecor Inc. has...
Tuesday the CRTC announced it was beginning a proceeding into emergency calls from multi-line telephone systems (MLTS). These networks are mostly used by outlets with multiple telephone lines such as offices, hotels or hospitals and frequently require dialing a prefix to get...
An Ontario-based carrier has filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC after...
The commission should not regulate the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) markets in the same...
The Montreal Economic Institute has released a paper finding that adoption...
In a press release Tuesday Xplore Inc. said it reached 16,000 premises to...
When the cabinet of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ordered China Mobile...
OTTAWA–The Federal Court of Appeal and the Competition Tribunal did not...
OTTAWA–The CRTC is improving its process to be more responsive to its...
While calling it an "improvement" over both the current existing private-sector privacy law and a "step...
The CRTC “must implement a reasonable test” for fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) rates to prevent situations where providers offer prices significantly below approved wholesale rates, according to Quebecor Inc.’s CEO.
Pierre Karl Péladeau made the comments Thursday...
The CRTC has announced that it expects incumbents to have their mobile...
Friday the CRTC issued approvals for several claims under the Broadband Fund. Three companies will receive money to roll out infrastructure across the country.
ATG Arrow...
Telus Corp. reported profits of $224 million for the three months ending March 31, a 45 per cent dip...
Swedish telecom manufacturer Ericsson AB and Bragg Communications Inc.’s...
BCE Inc.’s CEO said that the government’s job is done in terms of achieving its wireless policy objectives.
“If you take a step back and you look at the industry in...
OTTAWA–As the Liberal Party of Canada gathers in the capital for its...
The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association is dropping the “wireless” from its name and will henceforth be known as the Canadian...
Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced Wednesday that the...
Less than two months after the launch of an...
Conservative MP Dan Mazier’s private member’s bill that requires...
MPs from both sides of the House of Commons were upset that 911 service was not available to a...
Rogers Communications Inc. released its first quarterly report since it was granted approval to take over...
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...
Former Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains has been appointed Rogers Communications Inc.'s chief corporate affairs officer as part of a larger executive level shakeup at the company in the wake of receiving final approval from the department of Innovation, Science, and...
In a decision several years in the making, a Federal Court judge has rejected an application from Canada's federal privacy watchdog, which alleged that the social media giant had violated the Personal...
The CRTC has again extended its deadline for comments and replies on a...
The government of Canada announced Monday it was investing $470 million in...
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 Canada’s other major telecom companies more involved.
“This is a step in the right direction,” said Matti Siemiatycki, director of the Infrastructure Institute at...
The Federal Court of Appeal has rejected a Telus...
Cogeco Communications Inc. plans to aggressively enter the mobile virtual...
To mark National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, the Ottawa Police Service issued a news release...
According to the analytics firm Opensignal, when it comes to fixed...
Three BCE Inc. subsidiaries are suing a man and his co-conspirators for...
The government is in the process of checking into how many phone numbers in...
Jay Thomson will be stepping down as CEO of the Canadian Communications Systems Alliance (CCSA) following the group’s annual conference in September.
Thomson, who has led the CCSA since 2017, is a lawyer with past experience at the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA), the Canadian...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) and TekSavvy Solutions...
The Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS) found that complaints were up 12 per cent for the six months ending Jan. 31, according to its report released Tuesday.
Rogers Communications Inc. was tagged with the most complaints, 1,294, a 29 per cent...
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 Quebec Superior Court has rejected a request...
OTTAWA–Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne is permitting the transfer of Freedom Mobile licences from Shaw Communications Inc. to Quebecor...
The new regime at the CRTC met with general approval Wednesday from...
Canadian carriers that offer fixed broadband...
Public broadcasting advocacy group Friends is “frustrated” that the...
The CRTC has denied a request from a number of incumbents, chief among them...
Execulink Telecom Inc. has withdrawn a Part 1 application before the CRTC...
Auditor General Karen Hogan released a quartet of reports on the...
BCE Inc. division Bell Canada is filing a Part 1 application with the CRTC seeking to align 911 fees in territories serviced by Bell affiliates that are not the dominant carrier. The three carriers...
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 in international roaming fees after a complaint by Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne. BCE Inc. subsidiary Bell Mobility and Telus Corp. said earlier this month they...
The CRTC is worried about telephone number depletion and is suggesting that number pools be reduced to...
Rogers Communications Inc. has given an undue preference to itself by...
A working group composed of Canadian telecommunication service providers (CTSPs) and experts from the department of Innovation Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)...
The CRTC Wednesday approved a proposal by TBayTel Inc. that it be permitted to delay the implementation...
Conservative MP Dan Mazier’s private member’s bill on internet service quality metrics got a smooth ride in the House of Commons industry committee on Monday. MPs from all parties backed the bill and all the witnesses who appeared before the panel spoke in favour of the...
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) will hear Iristel Inc.’s appeal over millions of dollars in denied tax credits the company wants restored.
Last Thursday the SCC accepted Iristel’s application for leave to appeal over...
The government of Canada announced Friday that it is spending $37 million to roll out broadband service in Saskatchewan. Over 5,000 homes will see their internet service improve in areas like Prince...
The governments of Canada and Ontario have announced two projects that will...
The 2022 edition of the department of Innovation,...
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) is seeking comments on the...
Monday the CRTC granted SSi Micro Ltd. an extension of the deadline for...
Monday the CRTC approved a review and vary application from Rogers Communications Inc. over a series of...
Telecom experts say that a Senate bill that would...
The CRTC Wednesday made good on newly-minted chair Vicky Eatrides' January promise to reassess the wholesale broadband market, and launched a notice of consultation that will...
