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Bell MTS continues to experience outages in Manitoba

telecom | 08/16/2022 4:59 pm EDT

Bell MTS continues to experience outages in Manitoba

BCE Inc. property Bell MTS had an outage on Monday that cut off internet and television services to customers. The incident was centered around Winnipeg and surrounding areas and lasted about two hours.  In an email to The Wire Report, the western telecom reported that...

Major non-compliance issues decreased, insufficient information sharing increased in 2021: CCTS

telecom | 08/15/2022 5:53 pm EDT

Major non-compliance issues decreased, insufficient information sharing increased in 2021: CCTS

The Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS) issued its 2021 compliance monitoring report on Monday. It found 2,400 alleged violations arising from...

Quebecor inks agreement to buy Shaw’s Freedom Mobile

telecom | 08/12/2022 4:33 pm EDT

Freedom opening in Eastern Ontario markets

Quebecor Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., and Shaw Communications Inc....

CRTC seeks to confirm Rogers-Shaw deal on cable lines

telecom | 08/12/2022 2:30 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

The CRTC is asking Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. to confirm that they have...

Big 3 fight back against ISED’s efforts to protect wholesale regime

telecom | 08/11/2022 5:50 pm EDT

Big 3 fight back against ISED’s efforts to protect wholesale regime

Submissions to the Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development’s (ISED) consultation on a new draft policy direction for the CRTC reveal some of the legal...

ISED auctioning off 42 licences left up for grabs

telecom | 08/11/2022 5:28 pm EDT

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The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) is auctioning off 42 spectrum...

OneSoccer demands carriage on Rogers

telecom | 08/10/2022 4:22 pm EDT

OneSoccer demands carriage on Rogers

An independent soccer channel is petitioning the CRTC to force Rogers Communications Inc. to carry its...

Canadian politicians subject to police surveillance, Ethics committee told

telecom | 08/09/2022 6:32 pm EDT

Canadian politicians subject to police surveillance, Ethics committee told

The Parliamentary committee looking at so-called on device investigation...

PIAC, CNOC detail disclosure request on Rogers outage 

telecom | 08/08/2022 6:54 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre has asked the CRTC to mandate that...

RCMP not using Pegasus, Ethics committee upset with lack of information

telecom | 08/08/2022 6:50 pm EDT

RCMP not using Pegasus, Ethics committee upset with lack of information

The RCMP are not deploying the Pegasus system to conduct surveillance on...

Telus posts big profits on strength of customer additions

telecom | 08/05/2022 5:24 pm EDT

Roaming revenue not expected to fully recover until 2022: Telus CFO

Telus Corp.’s profits shot up by almost 45 per cent after it reported its...

VMedia purchase will sweeten Freedom deal for regulators: Quebecor’s PKP

Media | 08/04/2022 5:37 pm EDT

Videotron still actively pursuing Freedom Wireless, Péladeau says

Quebecor Inc.’s president and CEO has said the company’s recent...

Bell revenues up, profits down as company releases Q2 numbers

telecom | 08/04/2022 3:51 pm EDT

Bell revenues up, profits down as company releases Q2 numbers

BCE Inc. announced revenues of $5.86 billion for the second quarter of 2022...

China Mobile still seeking evidence from Gov. banning order

telecom | 08/03/2022 5:24 pm EDT

China Mobile still seeking evidence from Gov. banning order

China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. is seeking to challenge a court decision allowing the federal government to keep secret certain materials it used in ordering the Chinese state-backed telecom company to vacate the country. In an application for judicial review...

Cogeco gets approval for TPIA speeds and rates from CRTC

telecom | 08/02/2022 4:27 pm EDT

Cogeco gets approval for TPIA speeds and rates from CRTC

Monday the CRTC granted approval of a change in speeds for third party...

CRTC approves $30M in CAV funding

telecom | 08/02/2022 4:09 pm EDT

CRTC approves $30M in CAV funding

The Canadian Administrator of VRS Inc. (CAV) received $30 million in funding from the National...

City Wide is the victim of competition, not anti-competitive practice: Eastlink

telecom | 07/29/2022 4:44 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

City Wide Communications Inc.'s lack of growth in Nova Scotia is due to the...

Parties may request additional disclosure from Rogers on outage: CRTC

telecom | 07/28/2022 5:57 pm EDT

Price most critical factor when choosing telecom services: report

The CRTC has said it may ask for additional information from Rogers Communications Inc. on the July 8 nationwide outage that the commission is...

Beanfield acquires Urbanfibre

telecom | 07/28/2022 3:52 pm EDT

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Toronto network operator Beanfield Technologies Inc. has acquired another internet service provider, this time adding to its fibre base in British Columbia by purchasing the Vancouver-based Urban Communications Inc., which does business as Urbanfibre.  "This acquisition is part of Beanfield’s ongoing commitment to expanding its residential and commercial network and service offerings across Canada’s major metropolitan areas and, along with its recent acquisition of FibreStream, carves out a path for a stronger and...

Rogers profit soars based off roaming and subscriber adds in second quarter

Media | 07/27/2022 4:59 pm EDT

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise division

Rogers Communications Inc. reported a soaring profit margin for the...

Telus Ag expands focus, changes name of division

telecom | 07/26/2022 5:45 pm EDT

Telus Ag expands focus, changes name of division

Telus Corp. announced Tuesday that its agricultural division will be expanding its scope, resulting in...

Ethics committee to study RCMP’s use of ‘device investigation tools’

telecom | 07/26/2022 5:42 pm EDT

Wireless Code, home Internet, helping with data overage fees: Research

The House of Commons Ethics committee will hold...

Canadian, U.S., STIR/SHAKEN authorities sign MoU on robocalling

telecom | 07/26/2022 3:57 pm EDT

Ontario’s increasing social media advertising worries AG

Two Canadian and American governing authorities responsible for...

ISED approves Bell, Telus, spectrum licence swap

telecom | 07/19/2022 4:08 pm EDT

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The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) approved several...

CRTC approves statements of work for several broadband projects

telecom | 07/19/2022 3:54 pm EDT

CRTC approves statements of work for several broadband projects

Tuesday the CRTC issued approvals of several statements of work for projects covered by the Broadband Fund. The projects are in western Canada and the Atlantic provinces. Telus Corp. was granted additional funding for a project in northern Alberta. It discovered changes...

CNOC supports proposed policy direction, with “minor changes”

Media | 07/19/2022 10:38 am EDT

STB data measurement complex task, group says

The Competitive Network Operators of Canada has lent its full-throated...

Doherty demands 988 service in Canada as US rollout begins

telecom | 07/18/2022 5:07 pm EDT

Doherty demands 988 service in Canada as US rollout begins

Conservative MP Todd Doherty continued his fight for a national three-digit...

Xplornet to shut down Xplore Mobile, blaming CRTC delays in MVNO regime

telecom | 07/16/2022 11:34 am EDT

Xplornet to brand wireless service Xplore Mobile

Xplornet Communications Inc.'s Xplore Mobile will shut down at the end of...

INDU to hold hearings into Rogers outage, CIRA backs full public hearing at CRTC

telecom | 07/15/2022 5:20 pm EDT

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise division

The House of Commons Industry committee will launch hearings into the...

Quebecor’s Freedom deal doesn’t change MVNO plans;  CRTC framework is ‘first step’: Cogeco CEO

telecom | 07/14/2022 5:20 pm EDT

Cogeco reports higher revenues and profit in Q3

Cogeco Inc. president and CEO Philippe Jetté said that he would not speculate on his company’s next moves when asked by analysts if Quebecor Inc. would be a more willing...

CRTC demands answers on Rogers outage

telecom | 07/12/2022 4:57 pm EDT

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise division

In an uncommonly strongly worded letter, the CRTC has asked Rogers Communications Inc. to provide a broad...

Champagne demands mutual assistance agreement from telecom companies after Rogers outage

telecom | 07/11/2022 5:55 pm EDT

Champagne demands mutual assistance agreement from telecom companies after Rogers outage

Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne...

Quebec hotel company asks CRTC to mandate negotiations with Bell

Media | 07/11/2022 5:43 pm EDT

Quebec hotel company asks CRTC to mandate negotiations with Bell

A Quebec-based hotel accused of copyright infringement is asking the CRTC...

Quebecor wants to make its case for Freedom divestiture to Competition Tribunal

telecom | 07/08/2022 2:15 pm EDT

Videotron still actively pursuing Freedom Wireless, Péladeau says

Quebecor Inc. is asking the Competition Tribunal for permission to...

In-footprint seamless handoffs hurt competition: Bell to CRTC

telecom | 07/06/2022 5:36 pm EDT

In-footprint seamless handoffs hurt competition: Bell to CRTC

BCE Inc. is asking the CRTC to rescind its order to make seamless handoffs...

Mobile prices down but high internationally, broadband prices up and still high internationally: ISED report 

telecom | 07/06/2022 5:30 pm EDT

Mobile prices down but high internationally, broadband prices up and still high internationally: ISED report 

In 2021, consumer mobile wireless fell by as much as 15 per cent, fixed broadband prices increased by as much as 13 per cent, while mobile internet prices have remained...

Competition Bureau not satisfied with Freedom divestiture to Quebecor

Media | 07/06/2022 9:55 am EDT

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise division

In a Wednesday morning joint statement, Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...

Telus invests $23 billion in Ontario over four years

telecom | 07/05/2022 4:00 pm EDT

Telus invests $23 billion in Ontario over four years

Telus Corp. unveiled a $23 billion investment in broadband and related technologies across Ontario...

ISED issues rules for 3800 MHz spectrum auction

telecom | 06/30/2022 5:55 pm EDT

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The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) issued the rules for its next...

City Wide appeals Eastlink POI decision at CRTC

telecom | 06/30/2022 5:51 pm EDT

As CRTC rejects FairPlay, proposal could move to legislative reviews

City Wide Communications Inc. is appealing the CRTC's decision not to force Bragg Communications Inc. to...

CRTC yearly telecom fees increase by 24 per cent

telecom | 06/29/2022 5:38 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

The CRTC is estimating that its telecommunications fees for the 2022-2023 fiscal year will total just more than $47.5 million, according to its telecom order released Wednesday. The Telecommunications Fees Regulations provide for the payment of annual telecommunications...

Corus revenue up, profit down

Media | 06/29/2022 5:18 pm EDT

Corus revenue up, profit down

For the three months that ended on May 31, Corus Entertainment Inc.'s overall revenue was up to $433.5...

Feds, Quebec, announce funding for rural  high-speed internet

telecom | 06/29/2022 5:02 pm EDT

ISED’s low-income internet program launches

The federal government and Quebec announced $8.2 million in joint funding...

CSE discovers more than 2000 cyber security incidents last year

telecom | 06/29/2022 5:01 pm EDT

Public Health Agency among most targeted for cyber threats: CSE

There were nearly half a dozen cyber security incidents targeting federal institutions each day in the last fiscal year, the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) revealed Wednesday in its...

NorthwesTel details NWT outage

telecom | 06/28/2022 5:10 pm EDT

CRTC denies Northwestel Wholesale Connect application

In response to a CRTC request for information from BCE Inc.-subsidiary NorthwesTel, the company detailed...

CRTC approves claims for broadband rollout in North

telecom | 06/27/2022 4:18 pm EDT

CRTC approves claims for broadband rollout in North

Monday the CRTC approved claim forms for four projects under the Broadband Fund. The payment orders went...

CNOC back regional carriers’ call for roaming rates review

telecom | 06/24/2022 5:00 pm EDT

Resistance to tower builds shows need to ‘rethink’ consultations: MP

The Competitive Network Operators of Canada has filed an intervention in...

CRTC outlines framework to block botnets from internet traffic

telecom | 06/23/2022 5:48 pm EDT

CRTC outlines framework to block botnets from internet traffic

In a Thursday decision, the CRTC announced it was implementing regulations...

ISED launches Phase 2 of Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy

telecom | 06/22/2022 3:52 pm EDT

BREAKING: Feds ban Huawei from 5G networks

Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne announced the launch of the second phase of the Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy in...

Cell phone border search bill, with higher search threshold, passes Senate

telecom | 06/21/2022 5:24 pm EDT

Telecoms added over 1.4 million new wireless subs in 2018

Late Monday night the Senate passed a reformed version of a bill that seeks...

Lack of network sharing arrangement “notable” in Quebecor Freedom deal: analyst

telecom | 06/20/2022 5:34 pm EDT

Freedom opening in Eastern Ontario markets

The biggest piece of Friday night's blockbuster...

Feds invest $500,000 in broadband rollout in Alberta

telecom | 06/20/2022 4:50 pm EDT

Feds invest $500,000 in broadband rollout in Alberta

The federal government is putting nearly $500,000 into broadband infrastructure in West Bragg Creek,...

Tory MP takes second stab at bill mandating ISPs publicize service quality metrics

telecom | 06/17/2022 3:46 pm EDT

Tory MP takes second stab at bill mandating ISPs publicize service quality metrics

Conservative MP Dan Mazier introduced a private members bill to the House...

Gov. tables three-headed private sector privacy reform bill

Media | 06/16/2022 5:45 pm EDT

BREAKING: Feds ban Huawei from 5G networks

Touting it as a "historic day" at an afternoon press conference, Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne Thursday announced the launch of a suite of privacy reforms aimed at updating Canada's private sector privacy law, the Personal Information Protection and...

Telus Health buys LifeWorks in $2.3B deal, analysts upbeat

telecom | 06/16/2022 4:02 pm EDT

Roaming revenue not expected to fully recover until 2022: Telus CFO

Telus Corp. announced Thursday it is purchasing digital health company...

CRTC fines Bell for delaying access to support structures

telecom | 06/15/2022 4:03 pm EDT

CRTC fines Bell for delaying access to support structures

The CRTC has imposed an administrative monetary penalty (AMP) of $7.5...

Government introduces two-part cybersecurity bill

telecom | 06/14/2022 6:45 pm EDT

Government introduces two-part cybersecurity bill

The government’s new cybersecurity bill, introduced on Tuesday, is taking a two-pronged approach. One...

Senate committee rejects Gov. threshold for border cell phone search bill 

Media | 06/13/2022 5:56 pm EDT

Senate committee rejects Gov. threshold for border cell phone search bill 

The Senate's National Security and Defence Committee has pushed back...

CRTC issues notice on 2022-2023 estimated telemarketing regulatory costs

telecom | 06/13/2022 2:32 pm EDT

STB data measurement complex task, group says

The CRTC is estimating that its telemarketing regulatory costs for the...

ILECs and CLECs spar over telecom fees amendments

telecom | 06/10/2022 4:33 pm EDT

ILECs and CLECs spar over telecom fees amendments

Rogers Communications Inc. and Cogeco Inc. are among competitors protesting proposed changes to the...

Philippe Dufresne appointed Privacy Commissioner

telecom | 06/09/2022 2:19 pm EDT

Big telecoms fight calls for an ‘ISP tax’, pitch new OTT rules

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed Philippe Dufresne as Privacy Commissioner Wednesday.  Dufresne had served as law clerk and Parliamentary counsel in the House of Commons since February 2015. He previously worked at the Canadian Human Rights Commission and has...

CRTC denies Bell’s review and vary on toll-trunk tariff language

telecom | 06/09/2022 12:58 pm EDT

CRTC denies Bell’s review and vary on toll-trunk tariff language

The CRTC has denied a request from BCE Inc. to stay a 2021 commission order...

CRTC looks at improving telecom services in Far North

Media | 06/08/2022 4:21 pm EDT

CRTC looks at improving telecom services in Far North

The CRTC announced it was initiating a proceeding to improve telecommunications services in Canada’s...

Building owner ordered to give Rogers access to Toronto facility

telecom | 06/08/2022 2:53 pm EDT

Rogers files another MDU access complaint

The CRTC gave Rogers Communications Inc. permission Wednesday to access a...

Rodriguez slams Tories for misinformation on Online Streaming Act

Media | 06/07/2022 3:45 pm EDT

Election 2019: watch for price caps, Netflix regs, Huawei ban

Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez attacked the opposition for spreading misinformation about the provisions of Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act. The minister...

ISED launches mmWave consultation

Media | 06/06/2022 5:21 pm EDT

ISED launches mmWave consultation

The Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development has launched its consultation on the...

Appeal court strikes Iristel application for judicial review on tax audit

telecom | 06/06/2022 5:16 pm EDT

Freedom cites ‘suspicious patterns’ in Iristel traffic pumping case

The Federal Court of Appeal has sided with the attorney general of Canada...

OPC calls for higher threshold on border cell phone search bill

telecom | 06/06/2022 5:01 pm EDT

OPC calls for higher threshold on border cell phone search bill

When it comes to the government's plan to lower the threshold governing the...

Rogers, Telus, want CRTC to deny TekSavvy TPIA tariff changes 

telecom | 06/03/2022 5:34 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. are asking the CRTC to deny a...

OPC needs budget doubled, Therrien says in swan song

telecom | 06/03/2022 5:19 pm EDT

Experts say there is no road map for a Facebook-OPC court fight

If the government reintroduces its online privacy bill, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) will...

Tim Hortons app violated privacy laws: privacy watchdogs

Media | 06/01/2022 5:48 pm EDT

Tim Hortons app violated privacy laws: privacy watchdogs

Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons violated national privacy law because...

Videotron still actively pursuing Freedom Wireless, Péladeau says

telecom | 06/01/2022 4:06 pm EDT

Videotron still actively pursuing Freedom Wireless, Péladeau says

OTTAWA–Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron service is still eager to buy Freedom...

Next CRTC chair must be bilingual: Rodriguez

Media | 05/31/2022 6:42 pm EDT

Election 2019: watch for price caps, Netflix regs, Huawei ban

The Minister of Canadian Heritage has assured the House of Commons that the next chair of the CRTC will be fluent in both of Canada’s official languages. The government has been taking heat for appointing a unilingual anglophone as Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick and...

Rogers-Shaw deal on hold until Competition Tribunal proceeding

Media | 05/30/2022 5:20 pm EDT

Rogers sued by Competition Bureau over alleged false advertising in ‘unlimited’ data plans

Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. have reached an...

Stakeholder reaction to CRTC policy direction mixed

telecom | 05/27/2022 5:33 pm EDT

Stakeholder reaction to CRTC policy direction mixed

Amongst those independent internet service providers (ISPs) who had been pleading with the federal...

CRTC denies Bell application on Videotron roaming

telecom | 05/27/2022 3:52 pm EDT

CRTC denies Bell application on Videotron roaming

BCE Inc.’s Bell Mobility Inc. has lost an application before the CRTC about Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron...

Canada and Quebec invest $200K each in broadband rollout

telecom | 05/26/2022 5:27 pm EDT

CRTC awards additional funding to northern Quebec broadband project

The governments of Canada and of Quebec are each investing $199,305 in broadband rollout in three Quebec communities. BCE Inc. will add an additional $132,000. The governments are investing $134,130 in Boucherville; $37,050 in Bromont and $28,125 in L’Épiphanie. All...

New legislation needed to cover growing privacy issues: Therrien

Media | 05/26/2022 4:07 pm EDT

Privacy commish vows more ‘proactive enforcement’

Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien is calling for new legislation that...

Gov. issues new CRTC policy direction with guidance for wholesale regime

telecom | 05/26/2022 4:02 pm EDT

Gov. issues new CRTC policy direction with guidance for wholesale regime

The federal government is seeking to issue a new policy direction to the...

On Rogers-Shaw, focus shifts to network sharing agreements

Media | 05/25/2022 6:12 pm EDT

Rogers aims to improve churn, ‘reset’ enterprise division

As the Competition Bureau takes Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...

Regional wireless carriers seek review of incumbents’ roaming rates

telecom | 05/24/2022 5:43 pm EDT

Resistance to tower builds shows need to ‘rethink’ consultations: MP

A consortium of regional wireless competitors have filed an application...

Network sharing deal with Telus strengthens Globalive bid for Freedom: analysts

telecom | 05/20/2022 4:28 pm EDT

Freedom opening in Eastern Ontario markets

The reported network sharing deal inked between Freedom Mobile-hopeful...

BREAKING: Feds ban Huawei from 5G networks

telecom | 05/19/2022 5:12 pm EDT

BREAKING: Feds ban Huawei from 5G networks

The federal government Thursday announced that it would be banning equipment from "high risk vendors",...

Telus backs Rogers paper billing cost complaint against Bell

telecom | 05/19/2022 4:11 pm EDT

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPs

After Rogers Communications Inc. complained to the CRTC that it had incorrectly determined the cost awards in a decision mandating paper billing for certain customers, Telus Corp. has filed an intervention in support of the complaint.  In a Monday intervention, Telus...