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Rogers seeks Saint John MDU access in CRTC complaint
telecom | 05/10/2021 6:41 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC asking the regulator to help it get access to a number of apartment complexes in Saint John, N.B., in another dispute involving a multi-dwelling unit (MDU). In the application filed with the regulator May 6, Rogers wrote that it was given access to the first two buildings in a four-building development, after which the developer said he was "satisfied with only having one service provider (BCE Inc.) in these properties." The developer persisted in denying Rogers access to the building despite being advised of CRTC...
Telecoms emphasize concerns, support for CRTC’s botnet blocking proposal
telecom | 05/06/2021 7:19 pm EDT
Canada’s big-three telecoms are doubling down on their assertions that the CRTC does not need to implement a proposal that would require them to block malicious botnet...
Bell suing Videotron over permanent roaming claims
telecom | 05/05/2021 6:37 pm EDT
BCE Inc. is suing Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron, escalating their battle over wireless customers allegedly...
CRTC grants Fibernetics access to Bell facilities
telecom | 05/04/2021 5:45 pm EDT
The CRTC is directing BCE Inc. to allow Ontario-based home phone and internet provider Fibernetics Corp....
MVNO decision consistent with traditional facilities-based policy: Bell’s Bibic
telecom | 04/29/2021 5:41 pm EDT
BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic told shareholders...
CRTC directs public disclosure of some Bell call blocking info
telecom | 04/28/2021 6:05 pm EDT
The CRTC directed BCE Inc. to put on the public record responses to a...
Bell wants more notice for payments into NCF
telecom | 04/22/2021 6:02 pm EDT
BCE Inc. is objecting to proposed changes to the procedures for the operation of the National Contribution Fund, saying that a proposed system for payment forecasts does not allow contributors to the fund to plan properly. In an intervention filed April 19, Bell wrote that the proposal by the Canadian Telecommunications Contribution Consortium Inc. (CTCC), which is responsible for establishing the procedures necessary for the operation of the NCF, "does not provide sufficient time for each contributor to determine and arrange for the amount payable as part of their obligations." The CTCC...
Incumbents “should be comforted”, Rogers could move first on mandated access: analysts
telecom | 04/16/2021 5:11 pm EDT
Industry analysts are calling Thursday's decision to mandate access to incumbent wireless networks for a limited number of regional wireless competitors a "moderate net...
CRTC seeks to penalize Bell for support structure access delays
telecom | 04/16/2021 3:43 pm EDT
The CRTC has floated the idea of penalizing BCE Inc. after Quebecor Inc....
UPDATED – CRTC rejects broad MVNO model, will mandate limited access for regional players
telecom | 04/15/2021 4:01 pm EDT
Incumbent telecom companies will be required to...
Feds considering site-blocking proposal
Media | 04/14/2021 6:20 pm EDT
The federal government has launched a consultation document to solicit feedback on whether or not it...
Accessibility reporting should apply to resellers: Bell, Shaw
Media | 04/06/2021 5:57 pm EDT
BCE Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. are taking issue with TekSavvy...
Canadian radio broadcasters ask CRTC for space to compete with streamers
Media | 03/30/2021 5:35 pm EDT
The CRTC needs to do away with restrictive regulations, argue multiple...
While Rogers and Shaw are merging, we’ll be building: Bell CEO
telecom | 03/30/2021 5:24 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc.'s proposed acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc. doesn't change anything for one of their biggest competitors, according to BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic. Speaking Tuesday...
GoldTV site-blocking order runs “roughshod” over parliament’s authority: TekSavvy
Media | 03/25/2021 7:57 pm EDT
Is a Nov. 2019 court order mandating a number of...
Bell not sweating over Rogers-Shaw deal: CFO
telecom | 03/24/2021 5:41 pm EDT
Despite the uncertainty surrounding the potential impacts of Rogers Communications Inc. acquiring Shaw Communications Inc., BCE Inc. CFO Glen LeBlanc does not seem incredibly fazed.
During day two of the Desjardins Industrials, Telecom, Media & Tech, Diversified and...
Smaller broadcasters, telecoms fret over CRTC’s accessibility reporting proposals
Media | 03/23/2021 6:19 pm EDT
Organizations representing smaller Canadian broadcasters and telecoms have...
Local news funding needed in C-10: Bell
Media | 03/22/2021 6:07 pm EDT
As the House of Commons Heritage committee hearings on the government's proposed update to the...
Regulatory approval of Rogers-Shaw deal will hinge on wireless: Execs, analysts
Media | 03/15/2021 8:30 am EDT
From the perspective of Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Joe Natale,...
Telesat needs proceeds from 3800 MHz to compete: CEO
telecom | 03/11/2021 6:11 pm EST
If Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada doesn't approve Telesat Holdings Inc.'s proposal...
CRTC seeks comments on national video relay service
telecom | 03/11/2021 5:46 pm EST
The CRTC has launched a consultation into the quality of the national video relay service for Canadians with hearing impairments.
The national service was launched four and half years ago to offer hearing-impaired Canadians the ability to use sign language in a video...
Bell partners with car manufacturer for new hotspot project
telecom | 03/11/2021 5:09 pm EST
BCE Inc. has announced a new partnership with Honda Canada inc. to provide in-built Wi-Fi hotspots in newly-manufactured cars. The hotspots, billed as “Bell Connected Car” will be installed in...
Focus turns back to CRTC as SCC rejects incumbent wholesale challenge
telecom | 02/25/2021 5:46 pm EST
As the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed an incumbent challenge to an...
PIAC reiterates demands for CRTC to impose paper billing rules
telecom | 02/16/2021 5:06 pm EST
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and National Pensioners...
Northern TPIA access for SSi should be expedited: competitors
telecom | 02/10/2021 4:35 pm EST
The CRTC should move quickly to set wholesale prices in the North for SSi Canada's access to BCE Inc.’s Northwestel, according to an intervention by TekSavvy Solutions Inc. In an intervention...
CRTC should release data on fraud calls: PIAC
telecom | 02/09/2021 5:58 pm EST
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) has asked the CRTC to publicly disclose the information it...
Bell says it will spend an extra $1B on networks
Media | 02/04/2021 4:56 pm EST
BCE Inc. announced Thursday morning that it would increase its typical capital expenditure by between $1...
CRTC hears divided opinions about internet service in North
telecom | 01/27/2021 9:56 am EST
Local governments and advocacy groups are urging the CRTC to take action to...
Bell joins call for centralized rural broadband fund
telecom | 01/26/2021 4:39 pm EST
Spectrum auction revenues should be reinvested in rural broadband initiatives and the multiple broadband...
Court certifies TVA Sports class action
Media | 01/14/2021 5:54 pm EST
Quebec’s Superior Court has certified a class action lawsuit on behalf of BCE Inc. TV subscribers who lost access to Quebecor Inc.’s TVA Sports after Quebecor cut the signal in the spring of 2019. La Presse reported Thursday that the court had certified the suit brought forward by Montreal firm Calex Legal. The decision was not yet available online Thursday. In April 2019, Quebecor pulled the signal for TVA Sports from Bell’s TV service, just as the Stanley Cup playoffs began. The CRTC quickly convened a hearing and ordered Quebecor to reinstate the signal. In the court...
Intervention deadline extended for commercial radio review
Media | 01/11/2021 5:37 pm EST
The CRTC has extended its deadline for interventions to its commercial radio policy framework review following a procedural request from various associations representing the music sector....
Big changes at Bell Media as six execs depart their jobs
Media | 01/06/2021 5:46 pm EST
BCE Inc.’s Bell Media division is starting off the year with significant changes to its executive roster, including the departures of its vice-president of regulatory affairs Kevin Goldstein,...
Bell rate increases for Primus would hurt low-income consumers: interventions
telecom | 01/05/2021 6:18 pm EST
A BCE Inc. price increase on the unbundled local loop (ULL) service it...
Bell launches initiative for faster pole access
telecom | 12/18/2020 3:08 pm EST
BCE Inc. announced Friday that it has established a number of new protocols to simplify access for service providers to the company's support structures in Quebec. In a release, Bell said that service providers will now be...
Government asks court to throw out Bell challenge to CRTC fine
Media | 12/15/2020 6:17 pm EST
In seeking to appeal a $17.9 million fine imposed by the CRTC in October for misallocating local programming spending, BCE Inc. has failed to demonstrate that the CRTC denied it a level of procedural fairness, and the regulator did in fact give it adequate notice before it imposed the fine, the Attorney General's office told the Federal Court of Appeal this week. In arguments filed with the court on Monday, the Attorney General's office points to correspondence between the regulator and Bell, which it said demonstrates that "Bell was aware of and had the opportunity to respond to the...
Telecom complaints down 19%, CCTS says
telecom | 11/30/2020 12:50 pm EST
The number of complaints from Canadians about their telecom services fell 19 per cent last year, the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS) said in its annual report Monday. It’s the first time...
Bell seeks to challenge CRTC community programming fine in court
Media | 11/25/2020 6:48 pm EST
BCE Inc. has filed an application for leave to appeal a $17.9-million penalty imposed by the CRTC last month for violations of its broadcasting license, arguing that the CRTC failed to give the...
Quebec ISPs say Bell approach to pole access still ‘anti-competitive’
telecom | 11/25/2020 3:22 pm EST
A trio of Quebec internet service providers released a statement Wednesday claiming that BCE Inc. continues to impede their access to its poles. Quebecor Inc., Cogeco Inc., and non-profit...
Bell’s Bibic gives a ‘tip of the hat’ on Broadcast Act update
Media | 11/05/2020 6:26 pm EST
BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic praised the updates to the Broadcasting Act...
CRTC consulting on how to improve access to poles
telecom | 10/30/2020 5:17 pm EDT
The CRTC has launched a consultation on improving access to poles owned by Canadian telecom companies. It said it heard during its proceeding on barriers to rural broadband rollouts that “untimely and costly access to poles...
ISED: flanker brands prices falling, but not yet at 25% drop target
telecom | 10/29/2020 7:04 pm EDT
The federal government released its second quarterly check-in on wireless prices across Canada Thursday morning, as a follow up to the Liberal government’s plan to lower wireless prices 25 per cent...
Don’t force release of disaggregated configurations, incumbents tell CRTC
telecom | 10/26/2020 6:22 pm EDT
Incumbent telecoms are asking the CRTC to deny a request from the Competitive Network Operators of Canada to require the large telecoms to release more detailed information about the structures of...
CRTC says Bell ‘misallocated’ $35.9M of community TV funds
Media | 10/23/2020 5:43 pm EDT
BCE Inc. misclassified a number of self-promotional productions as community programming, and misallocated $35.9 million to its CTV networks, the CRTC said Thursday. In its decision renewing a...
Broadcasters shouldn’t use COVID to change CanCon obligations: WGC
Media | 10/21/2020 6:28 pm EDT
Whether or not there is a pandemic, large broadcasters want to do away with their Canadian content obligations, and they should not be allowed to use the COVID-19 crisis as an...
Proposed Quebec privacy law overhaul ‘concerning’: Bell lawyer
Media | 10/20/2020 6:17 pm EDT
Speaking Tuesday morning at an online event, Bell assistant general counsel...
Randy Lennox to leave Bell Media, Wade Oosterman to take over
telecom | 10/19/2020 6:06 pm EDT
President of BCE Inc.'s Bell Media Randy Lennox will step down on Jan. 4,...
CRTC hears differing pitches to fix lagging disaggregated regime
telecom | 10/13/2020 6:04 pm EDT
In order to make its disaggregated wholesale regime work, the CRTC should...
Broadcasters sign up to BIPOC hiring directory
telecom | 10/05/2020 6:41 pm EDT
Canada’s largest broadcasters have committed to making the use of a Black, Indigenous, and people of colour (BIPOC) hiring database a prerequisite to giving original productions the green light. The broadcasters are...
Bell asks CRTC to make AI scam call blocking permanent
telecom | 10/02/2020 2:40 pm EDT
BCE Inc. has officially asked the CRTC to make its artificial intelligence-based call blocking system permanent, weeks after asking for an interim extension of the originally temporary scheme. “The overwhelming benefits of our trials are undeniable. Through the operation of our blocking system we prevented more than 200 million Fraudulent and Scam Calls from reaching our own customers and, equally importantly, the customers of other [telecoms] whose calls transit our network,” Bell said in the application posted to the CRTC website Thursday. “The Commission now has a...
Quebecor turns to Competition Bureau, court over Bell structure access
telecom | 09/30/2020 5:38 pm EDT
An ongoing dispute between BCE Inc. and Quebecor Inc. has escalated as the...
Cablevision offer to increase wholesale capacity not good enough: Videotron
telecom | 09/29/2020 5:16 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron told the CRTC that a proposal by BCE Inc. subsidiary Cablevision du Nord in response to Videotron’s request to increase the wholesale capacity it buys from Cablevision is...
TekSavvy will count bills from Bell, Rogers against debts until it receives retroactive payments
telecom | 09/25/2020 5:10 pm EDT
Beginning with its next invoice, TekSavvy Solutions Inc. will not be paying its wholesale fees to BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. as invoiced, instead "setting off...
Bell says TPIA delays are Videotron’s fault
telecom | 09/24/2020 5:34 pm EDT
In response to a complaint to the CRTC from Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron that BCE Inc. was unduly delaying Videotron's arrival in the Abitibi region, Bell subsidiary Cablevision du Nord says the delay is Videotron's fault. In a...
VMedia, Bell resolve IPTV carriage fight
telecom | 09/24/2020 3:52 pm EDT
VMedia Inc. co-founder George Burger says his company has been able to launch apps for its new IPTV service on several new devices after a dispute with BCE Inc. was resolved. VMedia last month lodged a Part 1 application...
Bell says it is free to withhold new services in dispute with CCSA
telecom | 09/21/2020 5:29 pm EDT
BCE Inc. is not unduly preferring its own TV service and is simply...
Cogeco wireless plans ‘probably part of the equation’ for Rogers: Ouimet
telecom | 09/15/2020 5:09 pm EDT
As Cogeco Inc.’s CFO speculated Tuesday that a bid for his company’s...
Federal Court dismisses incumbents’ wholesale rates appeal
telecom | 09/10/2020 10:55 am EDT
The Federal Court of Appeal dismissed Thursday the large telecom...
SkyChoice urges Federal Court to throw out Bell’s trademark injunction suit
telecom | 09/09/2020 3:36 pm EDT
A small Ontario telecommunications provider has told Federal Court it should be able to continue to market its wireless home internet service as “WiFibe,” urging it to deny a trademark injunction request filed by BCE Inc. SkyChoice Communications Inc. said in a statement of defence filed Sep. 4 that its WiFibe wireless service was not in direct competition with Bell’s Fibe IPTV service, which is bundled together with a home internet package, and any similarities between the two...
Bell argues site-blocking doesn’t need CRTC approval
Media | 09/04/2020 5:18 pm EDT
BCE Inc. has asked a Federal Court of Appeal judge to throw out an appeal of Canada's first ever site-blocking court order, saying that TekSavvy Solutions Inc.'s appeal of the order is grounded in...
Bell applies for indefinite extension of AI call blocking scheme
telecom | 09/04/2020 4:37 pm EDT
BCE Inc. has applied to the CRTC for an interim extension of its “very...
Videotron accuses Bell subsidiary of delaying access to infrastructure
telecom | 09/04/2020 2:24 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron has filed another complaint with the CRTC over wholesale access in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Que., this time accusing BCE Inc. subsidiary Cablevision du Nord de Québec of...
CCSA alleges undue preference by Bell over TV channels
telecom | 08/19/2020 5:27 pm EDT
The Canadian Communication Systems Alliance has filed a formal complaint with the CRTC, alleging that BCE Inc. has conferred an undue preference to its own TV service offerings and "other distribution...
Bell rebranding V as Noovo
Media | 08/19/2020 1:36 pm EDT
The French-language conventional TV network BCE Inc. acquired this year will be rebranded as “Noovo,” to coordinate with an existing digital platform.
“Viewers will be able to access the integrated brand's content at any time, on any screen,” Bell said in a press release Wednesday.
Noovo, an ad-supported video-on-demand platform, was included in the purchase of V, a deal the CRTC approved in April.
"We are taking the innovative step of transforming an existing local digital brand into an integrated...
VMedia alleges bad faith by Bell in delaying app approval
telecom | 08/13/2020 5:39 pm EDT
VMedia Inc. has filed a complaint with the CRTC alleging that it is being unduly disadvantaged by BCE Inc.'s delay in approving the distribution of Bell programming over VMedia's streaming apps. ...
Bell’s prison phone rates violated telecom act, lawsuit argues
telecom | 08/11/2020 6:10 pm EDT
An updated version of a class action lawsuit against BCE Inc. and the...
CRTC tells Bell it is still giving undue preference to RDS over TVA Sport
telecom | 08/07/2020 10:23 am EDT
The CRTC has sent a letter to BCE Inc. informing the company that its...
Network outage impacts services in Ontario, Quebec
telecom | 08/06/2020 6:52 pm EDT
A network outage left wireless, internet and TV customers in Ontario and Quebec without service for about 45 minutes on Thursday. Consumers, mostly with BCE Inc., began reporting the outage on social media soon after 12 p.m. A...
Bell’s Q2 profit plunges by 64 per cent
telecom | 08/06/2020 3:51 pm EDT
BCE Inc.’s second quarter profit dropped to $294 million, a 64 per cent decrease on a year before, with...
ISED says wireless prices goals still mostly unmet
telecom | 07/28/2020 6:00 pm EDT
Following on the Liberal election campaign promise to lower wireless prices by 25 per cent, the federal government released on Tuesday the first of its quarterly check-ins on wireless prices across the country. The data --...
UBF should focus on both backbone, last mile, ISPs told ISED
telecom | 07/28/2020 2:22 pm EDT
At a discussion about Ottawa’s now-delayed Universal Broadband Fund with...
Telecoms back Quebecor over Bell support structure access
telecom | 07/23/2020 5:42 pm EDT
Small telecommunications providers, the Canadian Communications Systems...
Bell upping internet speed for some rural customers to 50 Mbps
telecom | 07/23/2020 4:25 pm EDT
BCE Inc. announced today that it is increasing the speed of its fixed wireless home internet service for some 300,000 rural homes, and will expand the service into parts of Atlantic Canada. Fixed wireless customers will be boosted to speeds "up to" 50 Mbps for download, and 10 Mbps for upload, which is the CRTC's universal service objective — the minimum speeds it said in 2016 that all Canadians should have access to. Both rollouts are set to begin this fall, according to a Thursday release. "The intense usage of Wireless Home Internet and positive feedback from our rural...
Technical issue disrupts Maritime 911 services
telecom | 07/22/2020 2:38 pm EDT
All three Maritime provinces experienced 911 outages on Wednesday morning, with an as-yet-unknown technical issue disrupting the emergency phone line. The RCMP in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island all...
Force Bell to sign IXPL lease agreement, CRTC urged
telecom | 07/20/2020 5:36 pm EDT
Ontario-based home phone and internet provider Fibernetics Corp. is calling on the CRTC to compel BCE Inc. to allow it to lease facilities so it can expand its landline phone service to eight new areas. In a Part 1 application...
CRTC denies Bell’s toll-free trunk R&V
telecom | 07/15/2020 3:01 pm EDT
The CRTC has denied BCE Inc.’s application for a decision requiring it to install trunk connections to carry toll-free traffic between its network and that of Rogers Communications Inc. to be rescinded. In its review and vary...
CRTC says no to interim fibre in-building wire access
telecom | 07/09/2020 5:01 pm EDT
The CRTC has denied a CloudWifi Inc. request for an interim scheme to allow small internet service...
Bell files for trademark injunction against SkyChoice’s WiFibe
telecom | 07/08/2020 5:54 pm EDT
BCE Inc. has asked Federal Court to order a small Ontario telecom to stop using the name “WiFIBE” for its wireless fibre internet service. Bell argued in a claim filed Monday that SkyChoice Communications Inc.'s WiFIBE wireless sounds close enough to BCE Inc.'s Fibe IPTV service that it directs customers away from the latter toward the former. It’s asking the court for an injunction against the Oakville, Ont.-based SkyChoice, which offers home phone, television, and wireless fibre...
Quebecor drops court case challenging Bell V acquisition
Media | 06/29/2020 3:39 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc. has informed the Federal Court of Appeal it won’t pursue its appeal of a CRTC decision allowing BCE Inc. to buy Groupe V Media Inc.’s conventional TV network V. Bell rival...
Experts say 5G will eventually deliver, but a speed boost for now
telecom | 06/29/2020 2:53 pm EDT
Experts are unanimous in saying Canada’s 5G networks will eventually...
Videotron accuses Bell of undue preference over access to support structures
telecom | 06/22/2020 5:09 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc. has filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC over access to BCE Inc. support structures. The June 16 French-language application, which is not yet available on the CRTC website, says...
Even as Bell removes its gear, Bell, Telus say Huawei still in play for 5G
telecom | 06/19/2020 11:42 am EDT
Both Telus Corp. and BCE Inc. still won’t rule out partnering with Huawei...
Telus calls for small cell attachment ruling to be postponed
telecom | 06/17/2020 5:45 pm EDT
The CRTC should not rule on a Quebecor Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. application for the regulator to compel BCE Inc. to allow small cell technologies to be attached to Bell’s poles at rates...
Bell names new V Media head
Media | 06/17/2020 5:12 pm EDT
BCE Inc. Wednesday announced that Jean-Philippe Pineault will lead up the news division at Groupe V Media Inc., the Francophone broadcaster Bell was approved to purchase in April. The position -- general manager, news and information -- is a new one, and will be created June 27. "The...
Bell to argue retroactivity of wholesale rate appeal is unconstitutional
telecom | 06/16/2020 5:17 pm EDT
BCE Inc. has signalled its intention to argue in the upcoming Federal Court of Appeal hearing on the CRTC's Wholesale internet rates that the CRTC's decision to apply the rates retroactively...
CRTC considering changes to disaggregated wholesale regime
telecom | 06/11/2020 5:47 pm EDT
Five years after it announced a move to a new system for wholesale internet...
Bell partners with Western University for 5G research centre
telecom | 06/11/2020 5:08 pm EDT
Western University’s London campus will be transformed into a “living lab” as part of a partnership with BCE Inc. to test applications for the 5G network. Bell will spend $2.7 million on the advanced 5G research centre and deploy 5G infrastructure and equipment on the campus, with the hope the partnership will bolster drone security and shape smarter cities and communications systems. 5G applications set to be studied include industrial Internet of Things use, virtual and augmented reality technology, autonomous vehicles, multi-access edge computing, battery and small cell...
CRTC approves Bell’s AI call-blocking application
telecom | 06/09/2020 1:19 pm EDT
The CRTC has told BCE Inc. it can go ahead and trial using artificial intelligence for call blocking fraudulent calls on its networks. It said the Tuesday decision would “will help ensure that the potential benefits of the...
CRTC approves use of Bell’s deferral funds in accessibility consultation
telecom | 06/04/2020 1:43 pm EDT
The CRTC Thursday approved BCE Inc.'s request to use the $125,000 sitting in its deferral account to pay the costs of public interest and accessibility intervenors in an upcoming consultation on...
Questions remain about Huawei gear as Bell, Telus pick Ericsson, Nokia
telecom | 06/02/2020 6:03 pm EDT
On Tuesday, BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. announced new partnerships with...
Bell selling 25 data centres for $1.04 billion
telecom | 06/01/2020 5:28 pm EDT
BCE Inc. is selling 25 data centres located at 13 sites to California-based Equinix Inc for $1.04 billion, the company announced Monday. "Our strategic redeployment of capital further underscores Bell's commitment to champion...
Rogers protests Bell’s toll-free trunk time extension
telecom | 05/29/2020 3:57 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. is protesting the CRTC's decision to extend a deadline it had previously set for BCE Inc. to install trunk connections to carry toll-free traffic between their networks. In a Part 1 application dated May 20, and uploaded to the commission's website on Wednesday, Rogers says that the regulator should have given it a chance to comment before it pushed back Bell's deadline. The commission had initially required Bell to install the trunk connections within 150 days of the December 2, 2019 decision, a deadline now pushed back to August 17. The CRTC's "failure...
Telecoms not obligated to give rights-of-way to Calgary: Alberta court
telecom | 05/25/2020 5:46 pm EDT
Telecom companies operating in Calgary will not have to abide by a...
IBW access is unnecessary if small ISPs can install their own: Bell
telecom | 05/25/2020 4:22 pm EDT
Two small internet service providers who install their own fibre...
Rogers, Quebecor ask CRTC to intervene in small cell dispute with Bell
telecom | 05/21/2020 4:20 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. and Quebecor Inc. have asked the CRTC to compel BCE Inc. to allow them to attach small cell technologies to Bell’s poles at rates set by the Support Structure Service...
V sale in public interest: CRTC
Media | 05/19/2020 5:55 pm EDT
The CRTC has issued the reasoning behind its April 3 decision to allow BCE Inc. to buy Groupe V Media Inc., saying the transaction will serve the public interest. “In fact, the Commission considers that the transaction would...
Complaints to CCTS decrease by 12 per cent
telecom | 05/12/2020 4:25 pm EDT
Consumers lodged 8,621 complaints with the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS) in the six months leading up to Jan. 31, a 12 per cent decrease on the previous year. The decrease, detailed in the...
Bell calls for delayed payments in 3.5 GHz spectrum auction
telecom | 05/07/2020 5:59 pm EDT
While BCE Inc.'s first quarter results showed a decline in profits and...
CRTC denies Bell’s request to suspend in-building wire consultation
telecom | 04/30/2020 4:01 pm EDT
A request by BCE Inc. to freeze the process to create an access regime for in-building wire in multi-dwelling units (MDUs) has been denied by the CRTC, in the latest development of Bell’s...
Quebecor claims Bell’s Super Écran rates caused it undue disadvantage
telecom | 04/28/2020 5:59 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc. has lodged another complaint with the CRTC in its long-running fight against BCE Inc., alleging Bell placed it at an undue disadvantage by unreasonably increasing the rate for its Super...
Bell speeding up rural broadband rollout
telecom | 04/23/2020 3:30 pm EDT
BCE Inc. will be delivering its fixed wireless internet to some 137,000 more homes than it had planned to by this point in its 2020 rollout, according to a Thursday release.
The company said it was increasing the speed of the rollout because of the COVID-19 pandemic,...