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 restructure its residential customer service charges to align with the way Bell bills its residential customers in its service territory in Quebec and to be exempted from the price floor test.
“While...
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...
The CRTC is asking Canadians and interested parties to weigh in on whether or not the regulator should include the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) retail...
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...
Thursday the CRTC issued a decision directing wireless service providers (WSPs) to provide better service to people with disabilities. The companies must consult with those...
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...
The CRTC has denied an application by Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron unit seeking final offer arbitration (FOA) with BCE Inc.’s Bell Mobility over mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) access service rates. In a Friday letter to both parties, the regulator questioned the...
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...
In a Friday decision, the CRTC approved with modifications three tariff notifications submitted by Telus Corp. The trio of applications were filed in January 2022.
Two of the applications sought to change digital network access and inter-exchange digital channels. The...
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...
Lobby group OpenMedia is in the corner of TekSavvy Solutions Inc. over off-tariff agreements between Rogers Communications Inc. and Quebecor Inc. The organization has...
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...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Monday that it is expanding its 5G footprint into 11 rural sections of the province. This will further wireless connectivity in Saskatchewan.
“Saskatchewan people will continue to benefit from some of the best...
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...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) will begin consulting with stakeholders over the use of drones in the 5030-5091 Mhz bands.
“Drones are currently permitted to operate in Canada in certain licence-exempt bands, such as the 2.4 Ghz and...
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...
All eyes in the telecom world will be focused on the Federal Court of Appeal (FCA) next Tuesday when it hears the appeal from the Commissioner of Competition over the proposed...
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"...
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 news release, the Ontario-based independent telecom said approval of the merger would lead to rate-fixing and higher prices. The Competition Tribunal dismissed an application by the Competition Bureau to disallow the deal late last month.
TekSavvy is particularly...
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...
The CRTC has denied Quebecor Inc.’s request to sanction Coopérative de câblodistribution Hill Valley, and to remove it from the list of exempted broadcasting distribution...
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...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez Monday morning announced the appointment of Vicky Eatrides as the incoming chair of the CRTC.
Eatrides' five-year term is...
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...
The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday dismissed an appeal in the case of Iristel Inc. v. Telus Communications Inc., Rogers Communications Inc. and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre. Costs were awarded to Telus and Rogers.
The case began in August 2018 when 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...
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 wireless services, according to the CCTS annual report released Wednesday morning.
Altogether, the CCTS accepted some 12,790 claims from customers against telecoms companies,...
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...
MISSISSAUGA – When it comes to CRTC chair Ian Scott's Monday announcement of the regulator's upcoming proceeding on network outages, Rogers Communications Inc.’s chief regulatory officer Ted Woodhead said that the CRTC needed to demonstrate "regulatory humility."
The executive spoke Tuesday at a “regulatory blockbuster” panel for 2022 Canadian Telecom Summit. ...
