Ten-digit dialing is coming to a number of different areas of the country starting Apr. 1, a body representing Canada's major telecommunications service providers announced...
Yet another competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) is filing a Part 1 application with the CRTC to gain access to multi-dwelling units (MDUs). This time the CLEC is Execulink Telecom Inc., a company operating in Ontario.
The firm alleges that JLC Homes Ltd. of...
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 such relief as may be appropriate to residential and/or small business customers affected by a qualifying disaster event." The company had applied for the waiver from its usual tariff obligations in July, 2022, and noted that in recent years communities in the North have been affected by events...
Quebecor Inc.’s efforts to reach all wholesale and MVNO access agreements...
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...
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 Communications Inc. and the corresponding sale of Freedom Mobile by Shaw to Quebecor Inc. has been extended. Most recently set for Feb. 17, the new deadline is Mar. 31.
The...
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 competition, affordability, consumer interests and innovation. Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne first declared his intention to bring in the new measures last May....
Telus Corp. and Cogeco Inc. are rowing in behind...
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...
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 markets in order to close its deal to acquire Shaw Communications Inc., according to Rogers' chief...
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 telecom and technology lawyer Bram Abramson as the regional commissioner for Ontario at the CRTC.
Abramson's five-year term will begin on Feb. 15.
The lawyer comes to the commission after a...
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...
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...
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 Communications Inc.? Or is it a significant intervention that heralds a shift in Canadian telecom regulatory policy?
This is the million – or $26.2 billion – dollar question...
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 service providers (ISPs) is making a last ditch appeal to the CRTC to stop certain elements of the pending merger of Rogers...
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...
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...
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 decision to make $150 million available for its Broadband Fund in 2022, and in 2023 on an interim...
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 Communication Inc.’s speed band ranging from 1025 to 1500 Mbps and its associated 1.5 Gbps...
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...
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...
The Canadian government announced Monday that it is investing up to $31...
The federal government’s Innovation Science and Economic Development (ISED) department reported on its rollout of internet service through the Universal Broadband Fund (UBF)...
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 a firm with ties to China.
MPs also voted to have Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne "be called before the committee to answer all questions deemed relevant before [the] committee and...
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...
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...
The CRTC is now accepting applications for eligible transport...
An expert witness for Shaw Communications Inc. took issue Monday with earlier testimony from Competition Bureau experts over the proposed takeover of the western telecom by...
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 Wednesday that it was an “extremely difficult” decision to sell his family company to Rogers...
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...
MISSISSAUGA — Telus Corp.’s vice president...
MISSISSAUGA – CRTC chair Ian Scott said he does not know what the state of the CRTC’s finances will look like in future but the commission is “fine” for the moment as it prepares to take on a...
CanWISP, the trade organization that represents fixed wireless and rural...
The takeover of Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile unit by...
MISSISSAUGA — Beanfield Technologies...
MISSISSAUGA — Canada made progress with its upcoming spectrum auction...
Respective lawyers representing Rogers Communications Inc. and Quebecor Inc. sought to challenge and call into question the expert testimony of one of the Competition Bureau's...
