Telus Corp. says the CRTC should review its decision to include revenues from the sale and subordination of spectrum in its contribution regime because it did not take into...
by Todd Hofley, vice-president, Policy and Communications, Beanfield
Like many industries, telecommunications has its share of good and bad behaviour. Good, from Beanfield’s perspective, means transparent, fair, reliable and always putting the customer first. Bad means...
The CRTC has determined that online services that...
BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. reiterated their concerns around the CRTC’s...
Beanfield Technologies Inc. has called out Rogers Communications Inc. over...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC requesting that a real estate...
The province of British Columbia has filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC over the rollout of next-generation 911 (NG911) service. Conceding that its jurisdiction is limited, the government stressed that emergency service must be of the highest quality and available at...
The CRTC denied an application by CBC/Radio-Canada to delay consultations...
The CRTC will review the carriage of Fox News as a non-Canadian programming...
The CRTC denied an application brought forward by TekSavvy Solutions Inc....
Newfoundland and Labrador will finally be rolling out the 879 numbering...
BCE Inc. is arguing to the CRTC that WildBrain...
The CRTC denied Quebecor Inc.’s request for...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has settled a dispute over access to a building in Chatham Ont. The company filed...
The CRTC Friday granted an FM licence to Four Senses Entertainment Inc. to...
The CRTC announced Friday it will be granting additional funds to ATG Arrow Technology Group Ltd. Partnership for three of its internet infrastructure projects in northern Alberta.
It also approved, in a separate announcement, a statement of work from BCE Inc. for a...
BCE Inc. is backing Rogers Communications Inc. in its appeal over a CRTC...
The CRTC denied an application by BCE Inc., Bragg Communication Inc.’s...
The CRTC said Tuesday that it was altering the rules for commercials on discretionary services. The...
The government has named Konrad von Finckenstein as the interim...
ICA Microsystems Inc. is once again a participant in the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-Television Service (CCTS) after being suspended last April. The internet service provider had not supplied a customer with a refund as demanded by the CRTC agency. It later...
TerreStar Solutions Inc. is challenging a CRTC decision which denied the...
The CRTC issued another short-term broadcasting licence renewal after it...
The broadcasting licence for Cogeco Inc.’s...
The CRTC announced its action plan to implement the Online News Act which...
The CRTC has launched a consultation for its...
The CRTC will defer new applications and complaints relating to radio as it...
A community radio station in Parrsboro, Nova...
The CRTC is being directed to include modified...
Once again the CRTC has decided to issue a short term renewal licence to a broadcaster over non-compliance with commission rules. In this case, the culprit is Radio...
Two radio stations in British Columbia have been granted short-term...
The CRTC has denied a request from Rogers Communications Inc. to delete the...
WildBrain Ltd. is accusing BCE Inc. of breaching its regulatory obligations...
Canadian public broadcasting advocacy group...
The Commission for Complaints for Telecom-Television Service (CCTS) was forced to suspend one participating service provider (PSP) for non-compliance with its directives, it noted in its 2022 annual report Thursday.
ICA Microsystems Inc. refused to issue a customer a...
Rogers Communications Inc. will be reviewing the impact of the CRTC’s...
Industry analysts said it is no surprise that the CRTC selected Quebecor...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner is the third best workplace in the...
Telecoms and other stakeholders have had their say on proposed changes to...
The CRTC has published some of the interventions for its proceeding into the Broadband Fund. Most of the...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s proposal to change...
Streaming platforms are saying it is too early to be discussing...
Major telecommunications service providers were...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) told the CRTC that Canada’s incumbents are proposing “unconscionable” rates for aggregated wholesale high-speed access (HSA) service over fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) that “are inflated above the just and reasonable...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. have been hurling verbal bombs...
BCE Inc. told the CRTC that it is prepared to allow Rogers Communications...
Rogers Communications Inc. is asking the CRTC to mandate Telus Corp., BCE...
The Forum for Research and Policy in...
The CRTC is seeking comments on whether it should consolidate several broadcasters’ requests to alter its conditions of licence (COLs) into one proceeding.
Earlier this...
The CRTC has opted to keep its cost-based rate setting approach for...
APTN has applied to the CRTC to consolidate its four channels into two, one...
Local independent news stations want to exclude...
The CRTC rejected a request by BCE Inc. to...
Lobby group OpenMedia has been polling the public about what the major issues in broadcasting and telecom...
BCE Inc. says in order for it to be competitive the CRTC must amend its...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada...
The CRTC received a raft of responses on its notice of consultation on 911...
CIK Telecom Inc. has filed five new Part 1 applications with the CRTC alleging that Strata Corp. has denied it access to multiple dwelling unit (MDU) buildings in British Columbia. These are the latest in a series of Part 1 filings by the competitive carrier.
All of the...
Quebecor Inc. has reversed itself and will not be suspending TVA’s newscasts in Quebec City on weekends...
The CRTC denied SiriusXM Canada Inc.’s request for relief from its...
A Toronto condominium manager is arguing to the...
Rogers Communications Inc. says giving BCE Inc....
Quebecor Media Inc. is asking the CRTC to remove some of the conditions of licence (COL) and reporting requirements for its subsidiary Groupe TVA Inc., calling the current...
Several trade unions representing Canadian media...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) is fighting with two...
Social media companies are asking the CRTC to be added to the list of...
The proposed financial threshold for exemption for online streaming...
The CRTC has denied TerreStar Solutions Inc.’s...
Approximately 1,300 BCE Inc. employees will be...
CRTC Commissioner Nirmala Naidoo urged members of the National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA) to participate in consultations...
Friday the CRTC extended the deadlines for interventions on its consultation on a modernized framework...
In a Thursday ruling, the Federal Court of Appeal sided with Société Radio-Canada (SRC) and ordered the CRTC to reconsider a decision chastising the public broadcaster for...
The Competition Bureau, CRTC, and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner...
Incumbent carriers are opposed to the expedited review of the CRTC’s...
The federal government is directing the CRTC to...
The CRTC released its biannual report on Canada’s anti-spam legislation...
The CRTC has issued a request for information on the rates Canadian wireless carriers charge as roaming fees for international coverage. In a June 1 letter the commission set out four questions it wants answered by the various players in the market.
First up it wants a...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is not impressed by Meta...
The CRTC presented its public opinion research...
Wednesday was the deadline for interested intervenors to file their comments on the CRTC’s...
A group of consumer advocacy organizations have received some support for...
The editors and executives of Canada's largest newspapers were on...
Quebecor Inc. has won a copyright infringement case against a trio of...
Monday the CRTC approved a request by ATG Arrow Technology Group Ltd....
Vandals attacked the network of Cogeco Communications Inc. in the...
Corus Entertainment Inc. has written to the CRTC asking whether or not that the company will be allowed to avail of the Independent Local News Fund in the wake of Rogers Communications Inc.'s acquisition of Shaw Communications.
Corus was founded as Shaw Radio in the...
The CRTC has given parties until Monday, May 29 to respond to a request from 12 groups to lengthen the timeline for the regulator's consultation...
According to the CEO of one of Canada's largest regional internet service providers, the recent state of...
CBC/Radio-Canada has received several letters of support in its attempt to delay a mandated consultation...
Tuesday the CRTC announced it was beginning a proceeding into emergency...
In a back-and-forth between CBC/Radio-Canada on when the broadcaster should have to launch a consultative process with Indigenous peoples as part of the CBC’s conditions of...
An Ontario-based carrier has filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC after...
The commission should not regulate the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) markets in the same...
OTTAWA–The government’s cybersecurity legislation, Bill C-26, is...
OTTAWA–The CRTC is improving its process to be more responsive to its...
Now that the Online Streaming Act has become law, the CRTC is launching a...
Wednesday the CRTC announced it had allowed new area code overlays for...
The Senate Committee on Transport and Communication continued its study of...
The CRTC has announced that it expects incumbents to have their mobile...
On the day the CRTC released its timeline for the public consultations that will shape how the regulator will implement the newly passed Online Streaming Act, Quebecor Inc....