City Wide Communications Inc.'s lack of growth in Nova Scotia is due to the presence of other third-party internet access (TPIA) competitors in the province, rather than...
Toronto network operator Beanfield Technologies Inc. has acquired another internet service provider, this time adding to its fibre base in British Columbia by purchasing the Vancouver-based Urban Communications Inc., which does business as Urbanfibre.
"This acquisition is part of Beanfield’s ongoing commitment to expanding its residential and commercial network and service offerings across Canada’s major metropolitan areas and, along with its recent acquisition of FibreStream, carves out a path for a stronger and...
The CRTC has added a dozen additional routes to its list of interexchange...
The commission denied an application by City Wide Communications Inc....
An Alaskan company has unveiled a billion-dollar project to run fibre from...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. is rolling out 5G in the City...
The Canadian government is investing nearly $6.6 million in rural Saskatchewan in its effort to connect 98 per cent Canadians to high-speed internet by 2026.
In a Thursday press release, Minister of Rural Economic Development, Gudie Hutchings, announced the millions in...
The trade group Competitive Network Operators of...
Telus Corp. and the University of Ottawa have announced a new partnership aimed at turning the...
Canada has seen “reasonable fibre coverage”...
An Ontario-based labour arbitrator has dismissed a complaint by Unifor...
An Ontario-based independent service provider argued to the CRTC that chair...
The CRTC approved on an interim basis a proposal...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) has filed a review and...
Novus Entertainment Inc., which is fighting for access to a multi-dwelling unit in Coquitlam, British Columbia, has asked the CRTC to pause its application against the developer while they exchange information and negotiate....
The federal government’s Canada Infrastructure Bank and DIF Capital Partners have signed an agreement in principle to spend $130 million each to increase rural broadband connectivity through the Southern Manitoba Fibre project. The federal fund announced the project in a Friday release and said up to 49,000 underserved households will be connected with dedicated fibre-to-the-home in rural areas of Manitoba. The project involves 2,550 kilometres of fibreoptic cabling, including last-mile infrastructure with underground fibre cables and networking equipment. Valley Fiber Limited will...
The Competition Bureau has reached a consent agreement with electronics distribution and services company WESCO International Inc., which will see the company divest its utility and datacom businesses...
U.S.-based investment company Digital Colony has made another major purchase of Canadian telecom-owned assets this year, announcing on Wednesday the acquisition of fibre internet provider Beanfield Technologies Inc. ...
TORONTO — Smaller, wholesale-based internet service providers may be...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron has shut down its 1 Gbps internet service, effective Oct. 11.
The move...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron is in talks with other telecom companies about potentially appealing the CRTC’s new rates for wholesale internet service, CEO Jean-François Pruneau told The Wire Report.
“We’re in discussions currently with our industry counterparts. The...
The federal government is spending $151 million to lay some 1,700...
CloudWifi Inc. has asked the federal court of appeal to dismiss a motion...
The CRTC has suspended the deadlines it set for BCE Inc. to file tariffs on access to its fibre wire inside buildings and for other carriers to file interventions in a related proceeding. In a June decision, the regulator...
The federal government has declined an application by SouthWestern Integrated Fibre Technology Inc. asking for changes to the CRTC’s rural broadband fund. SWIFT -- a non-profit organization that...
Cogeco Inc. will launch its new IPTV service in its entire Canadian footprint by the end of the calendar...
The federal government approved spending on a fibre project in Manitoba...
Iristel Inc. says BCE Inc. has put in place “massive and unprecedented rate increases” for access to some of its infrastructure and is asking the CRTC to intervene. According to a Part 1 application filed with the CRTC in...
The CRTC has sided with a small telecom that was reselling wholesale...
The federal government’s recently-tabled tax strategy allowing telecoms to deduct taxes at a higher rate more quickly on assets may benefit BCE Inc. to the tune of $100 million in 2019, according to analyst Adam Shine of National Bank.
The Accelerated Investment...
Part of Cogeco Inc.’s plan to deliver gigabit internet service to its footprint is to put two fibre...
Canada’s major telecoms have succeeded in getting an Alberta court to rule that a municipal access bylaw in Calgary can’t regulate the building of telecommunications networks. Until 2014,...
A small internet service provider (ISP) is asking the CRTC to order BCE...
With $125.2 million in funds from the Connect to Innovate program and the Quebec government, the Kativik...
BCE Inc. will grow its presence in the fixed wireless space to 30 additional rural communities after a successful trial earlier this year, CEO George Cope said Thursday in a call with analysts.
“We ran a unique wireless trial in some markets, leveraging our footprint in...
To meet the CRTC’s basic service standard, internet service providers (ISPs) must provide a service with a latency of 50 milliseconds (ms) between a customer’s modem and an internet exchange point...
The SouthWestern Integrated Fibre Technology Inc.(SWIFT) project launched its first request for...
BCE Inc. will take over the operation of the entire SuperNet network in...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) is putting $30 million from its Connect to Innovate program toward a 777 kilometre-long fibre cable that will improve internet connectivity for residents in Yukon, the Northwest...
OTTAWA — Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains wouldn’t say Thursday...
Oshawa, Ont. will be the next target for BCE Inc.’s fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network buildout, the...
Executives from Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. don’t see demand for wireless data slowing down, they told an investors conference earlier this week. “We’re still seeing significant data growth in the wireless...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) Canada announced an additional $38 million of funding for rural broadband in British Columbia in a release on Tuesday. The funding is on top of...
BCE Inc. and Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. have successfully tested fixed wireless technology that uses Huawei's 5G tech in rural parts of Southwestern Ontario, according to a Tuesday press release. The trials were done in the Ontario communities of Orangeville, Feversham and Bethany using Huawei’s 5G technology in the 3.5 GHz and 28 GHz spectrum bands. That technology includes massive multiple-in multiple-out (MIMO) antenna systems with eight-branch transmit and eight-branch receive technology (8T8R). The tests involved a service the press release called "wireless to the home" that...
BCE Inc. is advertising unusually low-priced promotional offers in downtown...
BCE Inc. kicked off the new year by acquiring Quebec telecom Groupe Maskatel LP, furthering its fibre...
A motion to investigate the prospect of installing fiber infrastructure simultaneously with its light rail construction, was passed by Hamilton city council on Wednesday, according to documents from the city council. The...
The federal government officially kicked off its Smart Cities Challenge...
Telesat Holdings Inc. will be allowed to offer internet service based on its low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites in the United States market, the company said in a press release...
TORONTO — Owning fibre facilities is the primary way to drive...
Six Northern Ontario communities will receive $4.03 million under the federal government’s Connect to Innovate fund, according to a Tuesday press release. BCE Inc. will be the main recipient of...
BCE Inc.’s top man George Cope said the company likes new CRTC head Ian Scott’s approach to balancing consumer and business interests....
North American adoption of 5G will be as swift as 4G adoption, with about 100 million 5G connections...
Rural Albertans will have access to gigabit internet following an upgrade by Axia NetMedia Corp., the...
The CRTC kickstarted the industry’s move to a disaggregated wholesale...
Two applications by Northwestel Inc. asking the CRTC to exempt two services from regulation in the area...
The increase in Canadian fibre broadband subscriptions slowed in 2016, slipping to ninth in growth among 35 Organization for Co-operation and Economic Development (OECD) countries. According to December 2016 numbers released...
Cogeco Inc. has launched its 1GB Internet service in Quebec for the first time, making gigabit speeds available in Trois-Rivières.
It said in a press release Tuesday that it would “continue expanding its ultra-high speed offering in successive phases in the Ontario and Québec markets where it provides services.”
The Trois-Rivières launch is the first expansion of the service since Cogeco began offering 1GB speeds in Oakville and Burlington, Ont. last November, spokesman Gabriel Beauséjour said in an email....
Montreal will be home to what’s being touted as the country’s first global exchange point for research and education, Canada’s Advanced Research and Innovation Network (CANARIE) announced Wednesday. In a press release,...
The presence of cable infrastructure in locations where there is no telco option for wholesale Internet service is not a sufficient alternative, small Internet service providers (ISPS) are arguing in...
Artificial intelligence is a tool telecoms will increasingly use to manage networks and enhance various products, but its susceptibility to hacking will also pose big security-related concerns,...
As large Internet Service Providers (ISPs) push on with the build of fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks, small providers say they are encountering an increasing number of areas where they have no...
Hydro One Telecom Inc. — a subsidiary of Ontario electricity provider Hydro One Networks Inc. — has expanded its fibre network to connect to 30 data centres in Ontario and Quebec. It said in a press release Thursday that it has further plans for expansion later this year. Hydro One Telecom’s fibre network offers high-speed data networking services to “data centre operators, tenants, cloud providers and companies who want to access the services that are provided within these data centres,” the release said. "We are investing in our network to address the growth of data traffic driven by analytics, mobile devices, big data and the Internet of Things," Hydro One Telecom president and CEO Paul Madore said. In the release, Madore added that Hydro One is also introducing a...
The acquisition of Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. expands the scale at which BCE Inc. operates, which is “becoming one of its most important competitive advantages,”...
Nova Scotia may not be formulating its provincial broadband plan as a direct response to federal inaction, but that doesn’t mean the provincial government isn’t acting out of a need to...
An American acquisition could create an opening in the Canadian fibre market, according to Desjardins Capital Markets. In a Thursday note, analyst Maher Yaghi highlighted the recent...
An application by BCE Inc. asking the CRTC not to require the implementation of meet-me points through which smaller companies could connect to the telco’s network, if granted, would...
The federal and Ontario governments are making available $2.53 million in funding to improve Internet service in two areas of the province, the federal government announced in a press release Monday....
WAKEFIELD, Que. — The federal government’s new rural broadband program will focus on making high-speed connections, as opposed to simply forging Internet connections for rural and remote...
BCE Inc. is asking the CRTC to hold off on requiring the company to build new infrastructure as part of the regulator’s new disaggregated wholesale wireline regime, something small Internet...
The CRTC has told Rogers Communications Inc. it has to keep providing wholesale service for new customers of TekSavvy Solutions Inc. in a building with fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP)...
Alphabet Inc. announced it will pause its fibre rollout to potential cities amid changes that have claimed its broadband division’s CEO. Craig Barratt, CEO of Google Access, announced on the company’s fibre blog Tuesday that Google is undergoing changes to “refine our approaches” and will be pausing the rollout to additional cities. He said work will continue where they’ve already launched fibre or where it’s still under construction. At least eight cities in the United States were slated as potential fibre cities, according to...
The CRTC has missed an opportunity to foster innovation among telecom competitors as it moves forward in the implementation of mandated wholesale access by smaller Internet service providers (ISPs) to...
Gigabit-speed Internet will be introduced to Northern Manitoba under a BCE Inc.-owned Manitoba Telecom Services Inc., the companies announced Monday. The improvement in Churchill,...
The federal and Ontario governments are investing up to $180 million into a new fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network designed to connect about 300 southwestern Ontario communities to high-speed Internet, officials announced Tuesday,...
Axia NetMedia Corp. said it is looking to see if there is enough interest in the United States to extend its fibre network south. The Calgary-based company said in a Monday press release that it’s gathering...
Arctic Fibre Inc., a Canadian company deploying fibre-optic cable in the North, has been purchased by its Alaskan affiliate. Quintillion Subsea Holdings LLC, which provides wholesale capacity to the telecommunications industry, announced the acquisition of Arctic Fibre’s assets in a Wednesday press release, “as part of a plan to build a submarine fibre optic cable from Asia to Europe with the first phase in Alaska.” According to Arctic Fibre’s website, the company was established in 2009 “to explore deploying a fibre optic...
Cogeco Inc. said Friday it is investing about $250,000 to expand its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network to residents in Quebec’s Orford Township. The expansion will serve “several homes in the...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. said in a press release Monday it plans to complete, by the end of June, a three-year, $30-million project to rebuild the backhaul network in the northeastern part of the...
GATINEAU, Que. — On the first day of the CRTC’s hearing on what basic telecom services should be available to all Canadians, small ISP TekSavvy Solutions Inc. asked the CRTC to...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron announced Thursday it has acquired Fibrenoire, a company that provides fibre-optic connectivity services to businesses, for $125 million. It said in a press release that acquiring the company would help “meet the growing demand from business customers for...
Small Internet service providers (ISPs) are asking the government to reject an appeal, filed by BCE Inc., of a CRTC decision that mandated access by smaller competitors to fibre-to-the-home (FTTH)...
Beanfield Technologies Inc., an independent provider of fibre-based Internet, TV and phone services in Toronto, is asking the CRTC to help it gain access to one of the few condominium buildings it isn't already connected to in...
The CRTC has denied TekSavvy Solutions Inc.'s request for interim relief in a situation where Rogers Communications Inc. is slated to replace some legacy cable in a Toronto neighbourhood with...
Newly released survey results show that almost 10 per cent of Canadians still do not have Internet access at home, and more people cite its relevance to their personal lives than affordability as a...
Onewayout.net Society, the only Internet service provider in Stewart, B.C., has shut down its services as it awaits the provision of new connections, courtesy of Telus Corp. and another small British Columbia-based ISP. In a notice posted on the company’s website, Onewayout said: “Onewayout.net has made the decision to discontinue internet service on or before November 30, 2015. It is not our intention to stand in the way of progress. We wish to thank all our customers for your patronage over the last twenty plus years.” The notice indicated that fibre infrastructure is now...
Rogers Communications Inc. announced Tuesday it has acquired Internetworking Atlantic Inc., a Halifax based communications technology company that offers a range of IT products and solutions to government agencies, institutions...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Friday it will be deploying its InfiNet fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network in residential areas of two cities in Saskatchewan by next year. SaskTel said in a press release...
BCE Inc. will cover about 90 per cent of its wireline footprint with fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) in a little less or a little more than a decade, though the issue of whether smaller Internet service providers will get mandated access...
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. said Friday that it has partnered with Telus Corp. to create a lab to help develop 5G technology. It said in a press release that the project, called the 5G Living Lab, will design, test and deploy...
Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc. was set to make its case against BCE Inc.’s appeal of the CRTC’s wholesale wireline decision to officials with Industry Canada on Thursday. Michael Nowlan, CEO of the independent phone and Internet service provider, said in a phone interview that “the entire competitive industry has to be looking into saying, ‘we have to respond,’ so we do need to get our points of view across within Ottawa.” “Having a pathway to access to this fibre-to-the-home is absolutely integral to the future viability of the competitive...
Eastlink said Wednesday that it will begin offering Internet service with gigabit speeds to its residential customers in Halifax next month. The move follows similar launches by companies including Rogers Communications Inc., BCE...
In full election platforms released last week, the NDP is promising to implement changes to Canadian privacy law and look into Internet of Things (IoT) privacy, the Conservatives are pledging funding for rural broadband and...
BCE Inc.’s Bell Aliant announced Tuesday it has enhanced its FibreOP Internet service for Atlantic Canada by increasing download speeds up to 1 Gbps. Bell Aliant said in a press release that the service, called Gigabit...
Axia NetMedia Corp. announced last week it is building fibre-optic Internet connections in additional rural communities in Alberta, which will be operational next year. It said in a press release Thursday that construction is...
Fibrant, a telecom company owned and operated by the City of Salisbury in North Carolina, and Calix Inc., a telecom equipment provider, announced this week that Salisbury, N.C., has become first city in the United States to get...
Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Wednesday that, if re-elected, he will put another $200 million into fibre-based infrastructure for rural and remote locations currently lacking high-speed Internet. “Quite simply, there...
The office of U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced a program to bring broadband Internet to 275,000 low-income households across the country, in partnership with local governments and...
The proportion of Canadians connected to the Internet by fibre is rising and these people are more satisfied with their Internet service than others, according to market research data released...
Telus Corp. said Friday it will be expanding its fibre-optic network in Edmonton to connect directly to more than 90 per cent of homes and businesses in the city over the next six years. The company said in a press release that it will invest $1 billion to expand the network to create better social and economic opportunities. Darren Entwistle, executive chairman of Telus, said in the release that the expansion will connect homes, hospitals, clinics, doctors, pharmacists, businesses, schools, libraries and municipal governments to the network. “Indeed, with less than 10 per cent of...