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...
Ericsson Canada announced Tuesday that Jeanette Irekvist has been appointed president of the telecom manufacturer. The appointment is effective immediately.
She will remain as VP and head of customer unit Canada. She succeeds Graham Osborne, VP customer unit at Verizon.
“I am thrilled to take on the responsibilities as president of Ericsson Canada, particularly as we mark our 70-year anniversary of our operations here in Canada,” the 24-year veteran of the...
BCE Inc. subsidiary Télébec is asking the CRTC for permission to...
For the second time this week, Execulink Telecom Inc. has filed an...
Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s...
British Columbia’s Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI)...
The CRTC Wednesday issued a notice of consultation about a telecom service provider (TSP) it says has not joined the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services Inc. (CCTS). Optitel is the brand name of 1174855628 Ontario Inc. and to date has not signed up for...
The CRTC is asking Canadians and interested parties to weigh in on whether...
Ten-digit dialing is coming to a number of...
Yet another competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) is filing a Part 1 application with the CRTC to...
Competitive local exchange carrier CIK Telecom Inc. has once again filed a...
Xplore Inc. has announced that the company's CEO Allison Lenehan will be...
BCE Inc. is implementing a temporary embargo for next-generation 911 (NG911) onboarding and go-live...
Competitive local exchange carrier CIK Telecom Inc. has once again appealed...
The CRTC has granted BCE Inc.'s Northwestel a "disaster waiver" that would allow the company to suspend services, waive charges, provide services at a reduced rate or free of charge, or "provide other...
Quebecor Inc.’s efforts to reach all wholesale and MVNO access agreements with BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. has proved to be difficult according to the company’s president and CEO.
Pierre Karl Péladeau made the comment Thursday on a fourth quarter conference call with...
Thursday the CRTC issued a decision directing wireless service providers...
Shaw Communications Inc. has argued that the type of off-tariff-agreement...
Two U.S. senators are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to...
The CRTC is inviting telecom stakeholders and Canadians to participate in a consultation for the development of a...
Cogeco Inc. announced it is acquiring independent internet service provider (ISP) Oxio.
In a Tuesday release issued by Cogeco, the company stated that Oxio will continue to operate independently and serve customers under its brand.
Oxio in the past has tried to...
The CRTC has denied an application by Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron unit...
There is a consensus forming that the CRTC should...
For the fourth time, the deadline for the proposed merger of Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...
CRTC chair Vicky Eatrides announced in a Wednesday press release that the...
The CRTC set expedited timelines for large telephone companies to provide...
Indigenous leadership is once again pushing the...
Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne says...
Monday the federal government outlined new policy directions for the CRTC, with an emphasis on...
Telus Corp. and Cogeco Inc. are rowing in behind Bell's request for the CRTC to stop collecting money for its National Contribution Fund until the regulator can spend the...
In a Friday decision, the CRTC approved with modifications three tariff notifications submitted by Telus...
Telus Corp. reported a 60 per cent drop in net income for its last quarter...
Telecommunications companies across Canada are waiving fees for texts and...
Public interest lobby group Democracy Watch is urging the establishment of...
While the letter from Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez to newly-appointed CRTC chair Vicky Eatrides contains some encouraging language about consumer protection and...
Lobby group OpenMedia is in the corner of TekSavvy Solutions Inc. over...
The CRTC Friday rejected a review and vary appeal from the Competitive Network Operators of Canada, which...
Rogers Communications Inc. will not need more financing from the capital...
BCE Inc. released its fourth quarter results Thursday, reporting 330,743...
CIK Telecom Inc. has settled a dispute with a landlord in Richmond, BC over access to a group of...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada has...
The provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island were briefly without 911 service...
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez Monday announced the appointment of...
The three companies at the center of one of the biggest mergers in Canadian telecom history have once again extended their "deadline" for the companies to finalize the deal, this time to Feb. 17.
After the Federal Court of Appeal dismissed the Competition Bureau's...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Monday that it is expanding its 5G footprint into...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) has...
The CRTC is asking a number of incumbent telecom companies to report back to the regulator with an update about the ongoing mobile virtual network operator (MVNO)...
All eyes are on Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne, who is the last line of defense for...
Commissioner of Competition Matthew Boswell said Tuesday his agency will not take the fight against the takeover of Shaw Communications Inc. by Rogers Communications Inc. to the Supreme Court. The announcement came hours after the Federal Court of Appeal (FCA) dismissed the Competition Bureau’s (CB) appeal of a Competition Tribunal ruling allowing the merger to proceed....
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) will...
Tuesday afternoon the Federal Court of Appeal dismissed with costs the...
Is last week's Part 1 application from TekSavvy Solutions Inc. a last minute, Hail Mary pass attempt at blocking the all-but assured blockbuster merger of Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. has rapidly changed its mind...
Frustrated in its attempt to buy Freedom Mobile back from Shaw...
The CRTC is starting a fresh chapter with new...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding...
One of Canada’s largest wholesale-based internet...
Tuesday, the CRTC gave Sogetel Inc. the okay to begin offering its services in Lambton, Que., and Courcelles, Que., in 45 days.
Last year Sogetel informed 9315-1884 Québec Inc.’s (Téléphone de Lambton Inc.) that it planned to provide competitive services in those...
All eyes in the telecom world will be focused on the Federal Court of...
Starting Friday, callers across New Brunswick will have to begin using 10-digit dialing, and will have to...
Rogers Communications Inc. announced late-Monday night the passing of...
The CRTC has lifted a prohibition on service to a Toronto multi-dwelling unit (MDU) owned by Lixo...
While Cogeco Inc. says it currently sees "less risk and greater clarity" with regards to the CRTC's mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) framework, the company is still...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is calling on the Minister of Innovation François-Philippe Champagne to block the proposed takeover of Shaw Communications Inc. by Rogers Communications Inc.
In a Tuesday...
A wireless internet service provider serving Outaouais, Que., was found to have contravened the Telecommunications Act...
BCE Inc. filed an application with the commission to review and vary its...
In a Monday decision, the CRTC approved five new disaggregated Ethernet passive optical network...
BCE Inc. announced Friday that the company was partnering with Snap Inc....
E-Comm, the agency which administers British Columbia’s 911 service has issued its top 10 unnecessary calls for 2022. It handled over two million calls last year, an increase of 1.8 per cent from the year before.
“Nuisance...
Former CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein has been appointed a member of the Order of Canada. The honour...
The CRTC approved, on an interim basis, a monthly rate of $49.06 for Rogers...
Ian Scott's tenure as chair of the CRTC comes to a close Thursday. The Wire Report sat down with Scott to reflect on his time leading the organization.
The Wire Report: Have you figured out what's next?
Ian Scott: I haven't. We have, as you know, post-employment...
The CRTC has denied Quebecor Inc.’s request to sanction Coopérative de...
Canada’s Competition Tribunal is dismissing the Commissioner of...
The Superior Court of Quebec has ordered Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron to connect a number of different...
As spectators await the release of a decision in the takeover of Shaw...
The CRTC approved an application by BCE Inc.’s Northwestel to modify the tariff approval process for the company’s terrestrial retail residential internet services by...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez Monday morning announced the...
The Canadian government announced Monday that it is investing up to $31...
The federal government’s Innovation Science and Economic Development...
In the drama that has unfolded in front of the Competition Tribunal over...
The CRTC Thursday approved a revenue-per cent charge of 0.46 per cent to...
A report issued by a Carleton University professor asserts that revenue from communications and internet access services and subscription services far surpass advertising revenues. They outstrip the...
Telus Corp. told the CRTC that it is not charging more for the services it...
The House of Commons Industry committee has summoned Minister of Public Safety Marco Mendicino to appear before the committee for a study regarding an RCMP contract awarded to...
CRTC chair Ian Scott is firing a warning at Canada’s telecommunications company, after Telus Corp. unsuccessfully tried to hand off credit card payment fees to its consumers...
The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday dismissed an appeal in the case of Iristel Inc. v. Telus...
Indigenous telecommunications stakeholders are calling on the government to...
A municipally-owned Thunder Bay , Ont., telecommunications company is...
A retired Queen's University economics professor believes that the CRTC has...
The government of British Columbia is suing Telus Corp.'s Telus Health, claiming that doctors who sign up for its LifePlus program are refusing to see patients unless the patients also sign up for the program. That constitutes extra billing, which is forbidden, the province...
Complaints accepted by the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS) were down 25 per cent this year from last year, while the majority of those complaints had to do with...
The CRTC is now accepting applications for eligible transport...
An expert witness for Shaw Communications Inc. took issue Monday with...
The CRTC is fining telecommunications service provider Net2Web Inc. an administrative monetary penalty...
Canadians are eager to upgrade to 5G services in theory, but are slow to...
The integration of Shaw Communications Inc. properties into the network of...
The CRTC imposed an administrative monetary penalty of $24,927 on a Quebec-based chimney sweep company...
Shaw Communications Inc. CEO Brad Shaw told the Competition Tribunal...
MISSISSAUGA – Criticism of Telus Corp.’s location data program, used by the federal government during the COVID-19 pandemic, was fueled by misinformation because the media...
