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Quebec hotel company asks CRTC to mandate negotiations with Bell
Media | 07/11/2022 5:43 pm EDT
A Quebec-based hotel accused of copyright infringement is asking the CRTC to order BCE Inc. to enter into good faith negotiations with the company regarding the terms of distribution of Réseau des sports (RDS) and its other discretionary services, claiming that the...
In-footprint seamless handoffs hurt competition: Bell to CRTC
telecom | 07/06/2022 5:36 pm EDT
BCE Inc. is asking the CRTC to rescind its order to make seamless handoffs available for in-footprint coverage gaps, arguing that the order is harming competition by mandating Bell, Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. to make the revised changes in its wholesale...
Rovi Guides infringement case against Bell, Ericsson companies will move ahead
Media | 07/05/2022 5:23 pm EDT
A Federal Court judge has dismissed an attempt by BCE Inc. and Ericsson AB...
Feds, Quebec, announce funding for rural high-speed internet
telecom | 06/29/2022 5:02 pm EDT
The federal government and Quebec announced $8.2 million in joint funding...
CRTC fines Bell for delaying access to support structures
telecom | 06/15/2022 4:03 pm EDT
The CRTC has imposed an administrative monetary penalty (AMP) of $7.5...
CRTC denies Bell’s review and vary on toll-trunk tariff language
telecom | 06/09/2022 12:58 pm EDT
The CRTC has denied a request from BCE Inc. to stay a 2021 commission order...
Punish hotel broadcaster who infringed on copyright: Bell tells CRTC
Media | 06/07/2022 3:31 pm EDT
BCE Inc. is supporting a Quebecor Inc. application for the CRTC to revoke the Coopérative de câblodistribution Hill Valley’s status as an exempt broadcasting distribution...
C-11 needs to incentivize a new era of foreign-domestic partnerships: Bell
Media | 06/02/2022 2:54 pm EDT
BCE Inc. wants the government to incentivize foreign-domestic partnerships...
CRTC dismisses Bell complaint that Videotron Vrai HVOD service violates regulations
Media | 05/30/2022 4:53 pm EDT
The CRTC has found that Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron did not contravene its...
Stakeholder reaction to CRTC policy direction mixed
telecom | 05/27/2022 5:33 pm EDT
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
BCE Inc.’s Bell Mobility Inc. has lost an application before the CRTC about Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron...
Comp. laws are too focused on price: Lawson Hunter
Media | 05/16/2022 7:21 pm EDT
Canada's competition laws have become too sensitive to price, particularly in mergers, and should instead...
Rogers-Shaw merger benefiting wireless industry as a whole in 2022: Bell CEO
Media | 05/05/2022 4:35 pm EDT
When it comes to Canada's wireless market this year, there are a number of...
Integrity Commissioner refers TekSavvy’s Scott complaint to Ethics Commissioner
Media | 05/05/2022 3:20 pm EDT
Public Sector Integrity Commissioner Joe Friday...
Bell, Amazon announce launch of mobile edge computing retail business
telecom | 04/26/2022 1:14 pm EDT
BCE Inc. announced the launch of its partnership with Amazon Inc. to deploy...
Big 3 oppose Wireless Code CRTC intervention for cancellation fees, PIAC supports it
telecom | 04/22/2022 4:23 pm EDT
Incumbent telecoms are reacting strongly to a preliminary finding by the CRTC that the regulator will peg the early cancellation fees (ECFs) on certain mobile devices to the...
Telecom consultant says Rogers-Shaw merger, inflation, enough to spark forbearance reassessment
telecom | 04/21/2022 12:20 pm EDT
A Toronto-based telecom and broadcasting consultant is arguing to the CRTC that Rogers Communications Inc.’s pending...
Little support for CRTC forbearance policy review following Part 1 application
telecom | 04/12/2022 3:53 pm EDT
The Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (FRPC) is the only...
CRTC sides with regional wireless carriers in roaming decision
telecom | 04/06/2022 6:24 pm EDT
The CRTC mostly accepted the arguments of small wireless carriers against...
Bell announces 3 Gbps service
telecom | 04/06/2022 5:47 pm EDT
BCE Inc. Wednesday announced the launch of a new three gigabit service. The service boasts both download...
Supreme Court dismisses TekSavvy appeal of GoldTV site-blocking order
Media | 03/24/2022 1:28 pm EDT
Updated with TekSavvy reaction.
The Supreme Court of Canada Thursday morning dismissed a last effort by TekSavvy Solutions Inc. to challenge Canada's first-ever...
Delay 3,800 Mhz auction until altimeter issues resolved, Sasktel tells ISED
telecom | 03/03/2022 9:52 am EST
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. has a “simple”...
Rogers “not putting a dime” in middle tier news market: Conservative MP
Media | 03/02/2022 7:16 pm EST
Community-owned television outlets “are not producing local news that...
TekSavvy asks for investigation by Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of CRTC comish
telecom | 03/02/2022 6:09 pm EST
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has asked the Office of...
Bell acquires Quebec-based provider Ebox
Media | 02/24/2022 4:23 pm EST
BCE Inc. has acquired Quebec-based internet, telephone and television provider Ebox Inc., the incumbent...
Quebecor provides no justification or rationale in Vrai pricing dispute: Bell
Media | 02/24/2022 2:58 pm EST
BCE Inc. is arguing to the CRTC that Quebecor Inc. provided no...
ISED failed to show reasons for Quebecor’s set-aside eligibility in 3500 auction: Telus
telecom | 02/23/2022 2:41 pm EST
When it assessed Quebecor Inc. as eligible to bid...
CRTC rejects CNOC request for Scott’s recusal
telecom | 02/16/2022 11:07 am EST
The CRTC has decided that it will not consider a request from the Competitive Network Operators of Canada...
Videotron giving itself undue preference, but unnecessary to suspend BDU Vrai service: PIAC
Media | 02/15/2022 5:24 pm EST
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) is...
Quebecor calls Bell’s Vrai complaint “desperate” and “devoid of any merit”
Media | 02/11/2022 6:10 pm EST
Quebecor Inc. wants BCE Inc.’s request to mandate that Videotron immediately remove its Vrai service to “be rejected outright,” Quebecor told the CRTC, claiming that the...
Quebec court authorizes class-action against Bell’s Télébec, Câblevision
telecom | 02/09/2022 6:09 pm EST
A Superior Court of Quebec judge has authorized a class-action lawsuit...
CRTC orders Bell to stop service in Saint John MDU until Rogers gains access
telecom | 02/08/2022 2:55 pm EST
The CRTC denied BCE Inc. the right to market to tenants in a multi-dwelling...
Bell reports slight revenue uptick
Media | 02/03/2022 4:36 pm EST
BCE Inc’s overall revenue crept up 1.8 per cent, up to $6.21 billion from $6.1 billion, from this time...
Quebecor’s Vrai VOD service violates CRTC regs: Bell
Media | 02/01/2022 5:04 pm EST
The CRTC has opened a proceeding in response to a BCE Inc. November...
Class-action will not shrink despite Videotron arbitration clause, court rules
telecom | 01/31/2022 6:20 pm EST
The Superior Court of Quebec denied an application by Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron to exclude from a class-action group any companies that signed an arbitration clause with the...
ISED touts lower wireless bills, lobby group says gov. using backward looking targets
telecom | 01/28/2022 4:47 pm EST
The Government of Canada said it has delivered on...
Canada’s fibre coverage, speeds, growing marginally compared to other countries: Study
telecom | 01/20/2022 5:34 pm EST
Canada has seen “reasonable fibre coverage”...
CRTC asks Eastlink to propose NG 911 rates and submit cost study
telecom | 01/17/2022 6:10 pm EST
The CRTC has requested that several telecoms companies send it more...
CRTC orders apartment owner to permit Rogers access
telecom | 01/14/2022 5:03 pm EST
The CRTC has told a Saint John, New Brunswick real estate developer he must offer “timely access” for...
Commission approves POI removal, declines to mandate aggregated regime for Quebec-based Bell subsidiary
telecom | 01/12/2022 5:21 pm EST
The CRTC Wednesday approved a request from BCE...
Arbitrator dismisses Union complaint against Bell Technical Solutions
telecom | 01/06/2022 4:52 pm EST
An Ontario-based labour arbitrator has dismissed a complaint by Unifor...
Canada avoids American confusion of 5G impact on airports
telecom | 01/05/2022 4:29 pm EST
Early consultations on regulations to 5G rollout affecting air traffic...
Ontario judge keeps Bell evidence on record in prison class-action lawsuit against incumbent
telecom | 01/05/2022 3:47 pm EST
An Ontario Superior Court judge has ruled that...
Lawson Hunter appointed to Order of Canada
telecom | 01/04/2022 12:59 pm EST
Lawson Hunter, a former Commissioner of the Competition Bureau and a one-time BCE Inc. executive, has been made a member of the Order of Canada, the Governor-General’s office announced in late December.
Hunter, now a counsel at Stikeman Elliot, was honoured for “his...
Revenues dropped in 2020, EBITDA margins increased in 2020: CRTC CMR report
telecom | 12/15/2021 6:00 pm EST
Overall, telecommunications companies pulled in some $53.4 billion in 2020,...
Northwestel wants price floor test lifted, citing Starlink competition
telecom | 12/13/2021 5:58 pm EST
Faced with what it says is increasing competition from Space Exploration...
CRTC makes Bell AI call blocking permanent, declines to establish regulatory framework
telecom | 12/09/2021 5:28 pm EST
The CRTC has given approval to BCE Inc. to make...
Class action lawyers seek to have Bell affidavit stricken in prison phones case
telecom | 12/07/2021 6:52 pm EST
In a would-be class-action lawsuit against BCE Inc. and the province of...
Bell says CRTC should leave dispute with competitive pay-telephone service provider to the courts
telecom | 12/07/2021 5:05 pm EST
BCE Inc. is arguing to the CRTC that it has correctly implemented a 2019 decision which stipulated that the incumbent must pay an Ontario-based pay-telephone owner and...
Big three worry generic licensing for earth stations in motion will affect rural, remote 5G deployment
telecom | 12/01/2021 5:35 pm EST
Canada’s big three telecommunications companies...
Scott should recuse himself from MDU in-building access review and vary: TekSavvy
telecom | 11/29/2021 5:44 pm EST
An Ontario-based independent service provider argued to the CRTC that chair...
No evidence suggests foreign streamers will enter into exclusivity with Rogers, incumbent tells CRTC
Media | 11/26/2021 5:08 pm EST
Rogers Communications Inc. executives told the...
Safeguards can’t justify Rogers-Shaw merger: Bell to CRTC
Media | 11/25/2021 6:35 pm EST
No amount of proposed remedies will undo the damage of Rogers...
At CRTC, Cogeco cites Rogers opposition to Bell-Astral merger
Media | 11/25/2021 10:05 am EST
On the third day of CRTC hearings into the proposed takeover of Shaw...
Bell subsidiary says resources to implement local competition in Que. area scarce, even for incumbent, justifying 5-month delay
telecom | 11/24/2021 2:04 pm EST
A BCE Inc. subsidiary told the CRTC that approving...
Rogers-Shaw merger will result in content exclusivity, “force” consumer to switch services: Telus
Media | 11/23/2021 6:10 pm EST
Telus Corp. executives told the CTRC that if the...
Bell wireless service restored to B.C. customers
telecom | 11/16/2021 7:21 pm EST
BCE Inc.’s Bell Mobility has restored service to its wireless customers following an outage caused by...
Quebecor sells its westward expansion
telecom | 11/16/2021 2:30 pm EST
MISSISSAUGA - On the second day of the Canadian Telecom Summit, Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau sought to do away with any uncertainty about whether or not his company was ready to roll out in western Canada. He appeared to properly announce his company as a fourth...
Competitive pay-telephone service provider tells CRTC Bell should pay its bills
telecom | 11/08/2021 9:49 am EST
An Ontario-based pay-telephone owner and competitive pay-telephone service...
Bell posts quarterly profits driven by wireless growth
Media | 11/04/2021 4:25 pm EDT
Bell reported a slight increase in overall revenue of $49 million or 0.8...
Please don’t delay merger hearing: Rogers to CRTC
Media | 11/03/2021 5:59 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc.'s regulatory team can present the company's...
Rural, Indigenous, connectivity won’t improve by 2030 if Gov. keeps current goals in place : Report
telecom | 10/29/2021 5:48 pm EDT
Canada’s targets of reaching connectivity speeds...
CNOC files review and vary application on CRTC in-building wire access decision
telecom | 10/26/2021 6:17 pm EDT
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) has filed a review and vary application with the CRTC, in which the trade group representing smaller independent and...
Court dismisses Telus request for injunction against Quebecor’s 3500 MHz licenses
telecom | 10/23/2021 11:40 am EDT
The Federal Court has rejected a Telus Corp....
CoopTel says Bell subsidiary doesn’t need 5 months to implement competition changes
telecom | 10/21/2021 5:36 pm EDT
Quebec-based telecom company CoopTel wants the...
Bell, SaskTel, not buying ISED proposal to reintroduce deployment requirements for cellular bands
telecom | 10/20/2021 12:04 pm EDT
BCE Inc. and Saskatchewan Telecommunications...
Quebecor’s spectrum winnings an ‘unfair cost advantage,’ Telus tells Federal Court
Media | 10/19/2021 7:16 pm EDT
A Federal Court injunction stopping the Department...
CRTC plans to monitor technical surveys for small BDUs, dismisses CCSA undue preference complaint against Bell
Media | 10/15/2021 5:42 pm EDT
The CRTC will be keeping an eye on technical...
Man fined $40,000 for selling set-top boxes
Media | 09/30/2021 4:49 pm EDT
A federal court judge has fined a pre-loaded set top box seller $40,000 for being in contempt of an...
CRTC wants more info from Bell on certain retroactive wholesale payments
telecom | 09/27/2021 5:30 pm EDT
The CRTC wants BCE Inc. to clarify why the company wants to make payments...
Class members defined in suit against Bell over prison phone contract
telecom | 09/24/2021 4:20 pm EDT
A would-be class-action lawsuit filed against BCE Inc. and the province of...
Telecoms say no need for additional accessibility requirements; advocates disagree
telecom | 09/03/2021 5:28 pm EDT
Canada’s telecommunications companies are recommending that the CRTC refrain from mandating additional accessible plans for Canadians with disabilities and discounts to...
Telecom unions want govt. action on jobs outsourcing
telecom | 09/03/2021 4:33 pm EDT
Two telecommunication workers’ unions, Unifor and the Canadian Union for Public Employees (CUPE), have partnered up to demand the federal government step in to minimize the outsourcing of Canadian jobs overseas in the telecom...
TekSavvy takes GoldTV site-blocking fight to Supreme Court
Media | 08/26/2021 6:11 pm EDT
After Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order survived an appeal from...
Bell layoffs highlight need for tougher regs for foreign broadcasters: Unifor
Media | 08/17/2021 5:15 pm EDT
Unifor is calling on the government to introduce legislation that will...
Federal Court orders content pirates to pay millions to Bell, Rogers, Videotron
Media | 08/11/2021 5:14 pm EDT
A Federal Court judge ordered three pirate TV services to pay more than $29...
TekSavvy’s wholesale appeal uses failed incumbent arguments from 2019: Bell
telecom | 08/09/2021 5:41 pm EDT
TekSavvy Solutions Inc.'s arguments in its June challenge to the CRTC's final decision on wholesale internet access rates -- that the CRTC breached its duty of procedural...
Quebecor calls for swift news media compensation legislation
Media | 08/05/2021 6:14 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc.’s president and CEO is renewing calls for the federal...
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...
Eyes on Quebecor following 3500 MHz auction
telecom | 07/30/2021 6:25 pm EDT
As the dust settles on the results of the 3,500 MHz auction announced Thursday, much of the initial...
Court of appeal dismisses Quebecor challenge in TVA Sports fight with Bell
telecom | 07/30/2021 10:49 am EDT
The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed an attempt by Quebecor Inc. to...
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...
CRTC’s fibre wire access decision ‘nail after nail after nail in the coffin of competition’: CNOC
telecom | 07/28/2021 7:42 pm EDT
The CRTC’s decision against mandating access to...
Companies must negotiate with Bell for MDU fibre IBW access or install their own, CRTC decides
telecom | 07/27/2021 7:24 pm EDT
Companies using BCE’s Inc.’s fibre in-building...
Federal Court of Appeal dismisses BDUs’ appeal of distant signal tariffs
telecom | 07/23/2021 6:34 pm EDT
The Federal Court of Appeal ruled Friday partially in favour of a group...
Rogers claims Saint John developer ignoring CRTC proceeding
telecom | 07/21/2021 6:11 pm EDT
In its ongoing effort to gain access to multiple apartment buildings in Saint John, N.B., Rogers Communications Inc. said in a reply filed with the CRTC Tuesday that a representative of IronGate Developments has not officially responded to its application.
The...
Bell expands Canadian 5G network; now offering 5G roaming in the United States
telecom | 07/21/2021 6:04 pm EDT
BCE Inc. has expanded its 5G network in Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec and...
Bell wary of New Brunswick’s proposed NG911 system
telecom | 07/14/2021 6:34 pm EDT
BCE Inc. has filed an intervention with the CRTC saying New Brunswick’s plan for how it would like to adapt its next-generation 911 (NG911) services may not be the best approach. According to Bell’s intervention, the...
Q2 telecom earnings could be sign of recovery: Analysis
telecom | 07/13/2021 6:46 pm EDT
The telecom sector is on track to rebound following a bleak 2019 and 2020, according to an analysis of the industry halfway through the 2021 financial year. “Halfway through the year, we see...
Bell, Rogers announce rural connectivity investments
telecom | 07/07/2021 4:48 pm EDT
Work to upgrade the wireless networks of communities in British Columbia and homes and businesses in rural Ontario is coming along according to two of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies....
PIAC says no to permanent roaming test, Telus wants new definition
telecom | 07/05/2021 5:37 pm EDT
Telus Corp. wants the CRTC to set an industry-wide definition of “permanent roaming,” especially after its decision to allow MVNO services to be available to some...
Bell offering 5G service in Atlantic Canada
telecom | 06/29/2021 4:35 pm EDT
BCE Inc. is expanding its 5G network into Atlantic Canada, with service launching in Nova Scotia and...
Hockey broadcasters seek injunction against pirate streamers
Media | 06/17/2021 6:11 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc., BCE Inc., and Quebecor Inc. are asking a...
CRTC orders Bell subsidiary to upgrade routers in Quebec
Media | 06/01/2021 5:52 pm EDT
BCE Inc. subsidiary Cablevision du Nord has to finish upgrading its routers...
Rogers renews request to CRTC for building access in N.B.
Media | 05/31/2021 2:40 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. is repeating its request that the CRTC help it...
Bell renews request for CRTC to intervene on Videotron permanent roaming claims
telecom | 05/28/2021 5:57 pm EDT
Bell Mobility Inc. is asking the CRTC to put in place new measures for...
GoldTV blocking order survives TekSavvy appeal
Media | 05/26/2021 6:41 pm EDT
The Federal Court of Appeal has allowed Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order to stand,...
Interventions filed in favour of Bell penalty for delays to support structure access
telecom | 05/19/2021 6:04 pm EDT
BCE Inc. rival Rogers Communications Inc. and a number of other groups are...
CRTC rejects Xplornet request to make non-payer disconnection easier under Internet Code
telecom | 05/19/2021 5:21 pm EDT
The CRTC has rejected a request from Xplornet Communications Inc. to repeal certain language from the regulator's Internet Code that raised the barrier for cutting off...
Quebec Appeal Court upholds decision finding Quebec site blocking law unconstitutional
telecom | 05/14/2021 5:10 pm EDT
Quebec’s Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal from the province’s attorney general over its desire to have telecoms block access to illegal gambling sites. In July 2018, a Quebec Superior Court judge found an article of the Consumer Protection Act that says Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have to block web users in Quebec from accessing unauthorized online gambling sites within 30 days of receiving notice from the Société des Loteries du Québec to be out of the province’s...