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ISED issues regulations on airport 5G interference
telecom | 07/06/2023 4:07 pm EDT
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) has set up rules around fixed and mobile broadband systems operating near airports. The move comes after a months-long consultation process with interested stakeholders. Nineteen participants gave their...
Up to aviation industry to protect airports from 5G interference, telecoms say
telecom | 06/12/2023 4:55 pm EDT
The airline industry must do more to protect its flights from 5G interference, telecoms have told the department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED). The...
3500 auction should result in “careful consideration” by gov: Bell’s Bibic
telecom | 08/05/2021 6:07 pm EDT
For BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic, the high cost of the...
BREAKING: 3500 MHz auction nets $8.9B, $7.3B from incumbents
telecom | 07/29/2021 6:04 pm EDT
Canadian telecom companies -- and wireless service hopefuls -- have spent...
3500 MHz auction finally launches; valuable mid-band spectrum to come with new deployment requirements
Media | 06/15/2021 6:30 pm EDT
Bidding opened Tuesday morning in what will be a...
ISED rejects request to delay 3500 MHz auction following MVNO decision
telecom | 04/29/2021 6:31 pm EDT
Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne has rejected a call by the...
Delay 3500 MHz auction: CNOC to ISED
telecom | 04/19/2021 6:10 pm EDT
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) have requested a 90-day delay to the 3,500 MHz spectrum auction, currently scheduled to take place in June. In a Monday letter addressed to Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne, CNOC points to both Rogers Communications Inc.'s proposed acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc. and the CRTC's decision last week restricting access to incumbent wireless networks to regional facilities-based competitors as reasons for delaying the auction. "The combined effect of the Wireless Decision coming after the deadline to participate in...
ISED delays 3500 MHz auction by six months
telecom | 06/05/2020 1:45 pm EDT
The 3500 MHz spectrum auction, originally scheduled for December of this year, will now take place in...