Customer complaints against telecom and TV service providers surged by 43 per cent between Aug. 1, 2023 and Jan. 31, 2024, according to the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services’ (CCTS) most recent mid-year report. The report, released Thursday,...
The CRTC is making headway in improving the telecommunications landscape, a conference in western Canada was told. Claire Anderson, commissioner for British Columbia and the...
A wealth of intervenors have told the CRTC that the large established telecoms should not be allowed to...
BCE Inc.’s appeal against the CRTC’s November decision to require the...
Canadian broadcasters are encouraging the CRTC to...
Major broadcasters are opposed to Accessible Media Inc.’s (AMI) request...
The CRTC has ordered Cogeco Inc. to maintain TekSavvy Solutions Inc.’s access to internet facilities scheduled to be decommissioned and upgraded to fibre technologies at two...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. are...
The CRTC issued follow-up numbers to an earlier decision on broadcasting fees. The initial ruling was...
The CRTC issued a series of decisions providing addenda to...
In the wake of recent controversy surrounding BCE Inc.’s restructuring...
Bethlehem Housing and Support Services denies...
BCE Inc. asked the CRTC to lighten licensing requirements for ExpressVu,...
The CRTC has approved Rogers Communications Inc.’s funding application...
The CRTC has issued a call for comments as part of Phase 2 of the...
After months of consultations, the CRTC has issued its Broadcasting Fees Regulations for all broadcasting undertakings in Canada. The decision, released late Thursday, stems from the provisions of the Online Streaming Act. “Under the new Broadcasting Fees Regulations,...
The CRTC is issuing a call for applications from interested parties wishing...
The CRTC is delaying transition of next-generation 911 (NG911) services in...
The CRTC has decided to look at whether the town of Yellowknife, NWT can support another FM radio...
The CRTC launched its first public consultation on the Online News Act’s regulatory framework to gain...
The CRTC has dismissed BCE Inc.’s application challenging the regulator’s preliminary view that the attachment of wireless facilities to support structures owned or...
BCE Inc. is the subject of a Part 1 application before the CRTC over access...
Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) submitted an application to the CRTC for an...
BCE Inc. is disputing the CRTC’s preliminary...
Revenues were robust in the telecommunications sector, a new CRTC study has...
Quebecor Inc. reported a successful fourth-quarter as it closed out the 2023 fiscal year, which it said...
The government has named Natalie Théberge as vice-chair at the CRTC, it was announced Thursday. Her...
Corus Entertainment Inc., Stingray Radio Inc., and...
The CRTC is upset with Telus Corp. over its proposal to eliminate home...
The crisis in competition when it comes to internet connectivity is longstanding and will only get worse, a CRTC panel heard. The commission held its final day of a week-long proceeding Friday. Bob Allen, president of the BC Broadband Association, read a statement into...
Representatives from Cogeco Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. told the...
Two large incumbent telecoms told the CRTC that broadband resellers are not...
To bring affordable internet and consumer choice to rural communities, the...
The CRTC will initiate public consultation on Canada's Online News Act, formerly known as Bill C-18, next...
Cogeco Inc. is adamantly defending its right to upgrade infrastructure for the benefit of its customers in response to TekSavvy Solutions Inc.'s recent Part 1 application regarding decommissioning its coaxial facilities. Cogeco argued that transitioning from coaxial to...
If Canada is to have a viable wholesale market, high speed access needs to...
The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed BCE Inc.’s motion for a stay against the CRTC’s decision to...
The CRTC has declined an application from BCE...
The CRTC announced Monday an expansion in forbearance from regulating...
Reaction has been swift and condemnatory to the announcement Thursday by...
The CRTC has forensic investigative tools but deploys them rarely, the...
BCE Inc. announced Thursday that it will be...
The CRTC has denied an application by TerreStar Solutions Inc. for a stay...
Telus Corp. is being called upon by the CRTC to justify its proposal to disconnect home telephone service in the Kamloops BC region. The telecom wishes to halt service by March 8. “Commission staff is concerned that Telus’ plans could jeopardize access to telephone...
Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron and Freedom Mobile divisions have been granted a...
CIK Telecom is arguing to the CRTC that the...
The CRTC has issued a call for comments on the attachment of wireless...
The CRTC is implementing thousand-block pooling (TBP) as a proactive...
CRTC chair Vicky Eatrides has promised to look into recent problems with 911 callers unable to access services in their language of choice. A recent series of news articles outlined how people wanting service in French could not receive it. Industry Minister...
The CRTC has initiated a special consultation...
A coalition of nine advocacy groups and community...
As it gears up to launch several public consultations aimed at modernizing...
The Commission for Complaints for...
BCE Inc. filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC seeking clarity on three...
The owner of a multi-dwelling unit (MDU) in Kitchener, Ontario denies BCE...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. lodged a formal Part 1 complaint with the CRTC against Cogeco Inc., to address...
A consortium working toward the successful implementation of...
The CRTC’s interim vice-chair of broadcasting and commissioner for Quebec, Alicia Barin, stepped down from her position last week. In a statement provided to The Wire Report, Barin said she is taking a break from her professional career to focus on family. “My...
The Canadian Telecommunications Contribution...
The CRTC has denied a BCE Inc. application to...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and the...
The federal government released the details of the implementation of the...
Gatineau, Que. – Telus Corp. asked the CRTC to go easy on virtual broadcasting distribution undertakings (vBDUs) during the commission’s hearings regarding contributions...
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) will hear Telus...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge faced a barrage of questions...
Several proposals from deaf and hard of...
Gatineau, Que. - CBC/Radio-Canada's decision to slash 600 jobs and leave...
Foreign streamers must pay their fair share of contributions to the Canadian broadcasting system, but...
BCE Inc. has responded to a commission staff letter regarding Rogers...
Netflix Services Canada ULC says it has invested large amounts of money...
Those who stand to benefit from the Online...
Major broadcasters think that there should be a flexible contribution regime for Canadian programming – just so long as they don’t have to pay into it. The CRTC is continuing its hearings into the ramifications of the Online Streaming Act. Tuesday’s session began...
On a day in July, 2016, a man received eight long-distance collect calls...
Renewal of the Canadian broadcasting system should not rely on one rigid...
The Bloc Québécois is continuing its fight for a fund to help Canadian...
The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) on Friday called for the...
The deadline for interventions and replies to the CRTC proceedings into service in the Far North has been extended, the regulator announced Friday. The initial deadline for interventions was June of this year. That was later extended to Nov. 29. The Government of Nunavut...
BCE Inc. has asked the CRTC for urgent relief in a dispute with a building...
Representatives from several community radio stations emphasized their role as a third-pillar of the...
In a House of Commons heritage committee meeting that was marked more by partisan feuding than for what...
Canada’s news media are in crisis and the government is taking too long to respond, the House of...
The Indigenous Screen Office (ISO), newly certified as an independent...
As part of what it says is an effort to reduce the cost of living for...
BCE Inc. revealed more details on Tuesday on its proposal for how base contributions from online...
The long-awaited hearing on how the CRTC should...
As the Federal Communications Commission in the United States announced it was finally revising its internet connectivity speeds, the CRTC is playing coy about its future plans. At the beginning of November, the American regulator said it would take another look at...
Quebecor Inc.'s Fizz went live in Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton, the...
The CRTC has reopened a Part 1 application originally submitted by Rogers...
City Wide Communications Inc., Frontier Networks...
Quebecor Inc. president and CEO Pierre Karl...
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri said, during the company’s third quarter conference call on Thursday, that he supports the CRTC’s decision to “level the...
UPDATED: CTS regulatory blockbuster react to CRTC FTTP decision...
MISSISSAUGA, Ont.— The CRTC is mandating large incumbent telephone...
A New Brunswick senator is alarmed by the lack of francophone presence among CRTC commissioners. René...
In a Thursday quarterly earnings conference call, BCE Inc.'s president and...
In response to growing concerns over the exhaustion of telephone numbers in Canada, the CRTC has...
BCE Inc.’s Bell Canada and Northwestel have...
In an answer submitted to the CRTC last Thursday, Rogers Communications Inc. defended its multiple...
Interventions coming in from the CRTC show...
As the CRTC works out how it is going to wrangle streaming platforms and bring them into the regulatory sphere, France’s media production industry could provide a window...