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 connectivity in rural Ontario,” federal Minister of Rural Economic Development Gudie Hutchings said in a statement. “Working with Rogers, we will help connect more than 20,000 underserved homes in 83 rural and remote communities in Ontario.”...
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...
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 company’s property. This time the action has been launched in Fredericton NB against Stuart...
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...
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 thoughtful review, we have removed the credit card processing fee on bill payments,” the company said in a statement to the Wire Report. “We want our customers to know that we heard their concerns, and we thank them for sharing their...
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...
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 incumbent carriers over filings on the high speed access framework currently before the CRTC.
BCE Inc. is asking for an extension to file case studies to the commission. The current deadline is June...
The CRTC has denied TerreStar Solutions Inc.’s...
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 (POR) research on telecommunication services in the Far North so late in its ongoing consultation process that BCE Inc. 's...
Residents of northern Ontario are still underserved when it comes to internet rollout, a new study...
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 announced a nationwide mobile plan.
The $50 plan includes unlimited calls and text messages and 40 GB of data anywhere in Canada or the United States. The company...
Tuesday the CRTC announced it was beginning a proceeding into emergency...
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 in the right direction", Canada's federal privacy watchdog has called for a number of changes to Bill C-27, or the Digital Charter Implementation Act.
Chief among the...
The CRTC “must implement a reasonable test” for fibre-to-the-premise...
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 Eastlink division announced Thursday that they had signed a three-year extension to an existing 10-year contract for 5G deployment. The European firm will supply 3500 MHz mid-band radios and enhanced...
BCE Inc.’s CEO said that the government’s job...
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 release.
"Rizwan has terrific experience at leading Canadian telecommunications companies, and I am excited to partner with him at Xplore as we work together to bring high quality broadband services to more and more rural Canadians," interim...
Former Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains has been appointed Rogers Communications Inc.'s chief corporate...
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 to the CRTC that they be included on the list of authorities that must be notified by carriers when a major network outage...
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...
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 Inc. have both rowed in behind Quebecor Inc. in a complaint the regional competitor filed against BCE...
The Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS) found...
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 from BCE Inc. to throw out a complaint from Quebecor Inc. in a long-running dispute between the two companies on pole...
OTTAWA–Innovation, Science and Industry Minister...
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, as well as feedback on a proposal to open a separate funding stream for Indigenous communities....
The CRTC said Thursday it was going to look into recently-announced hikes...
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 of 10-digit dialing in its area. The regional telecom had made the application late last year.
Telecoms across the country must migrate to 10-digit dialing to...
Conservative MP Dan Mazier’s private member’s bill on internet service...
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 force spectrum licence holders to deploy service to at least 50 per cent of its geographic population within three years of...
