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Xplore launching ultra-high density satellite in first half of 2023, expecting speeds of 100Mbps
telecom | 11/03/2022 4:04 pm EDT
Xplore Inc.’s residential and business customers in rural and remote regions will have access to download speeds up to 100 megabits per second (Mbps) as the company prepares...
Facebook denounces Online News Act as it finally appears at committee
Media | 10/28/2022 6:02 pm EDT
Meta Platforms Inc., parent company of Facebook, came out swinging against Bill C-18, the Online News Act, on Friday. The firm finally appeared before the House of Commons...
Cogeco plotting next steps on MVNO: CEO
telecom | 10/28/2022 4:39 pm EDT
While Cogeco Inc. is pleased to finally see the terms and conditions of the MVNO framework from the CRTC,...
Facebook threatens to leave Canada, MP wants it to testify on C-18
Media | 10/25/2022 4:08 pm EDT
OTTAWA–Meta Platforms Inc., parent company of Facebook, is so upset that...
Telecom sector surpasses 2020 investments and GDP, workforce, contributions: Report
telecom | 10/25/2022 2:02 pm EDT
Canada’s telecommunications sector contributed $4.3 billion more in...
Rodriguez, Scott, given rough ride on C-18 in appearance before Heritage committee
Internet and Governance | 10/21/2022 7:21 pm EDT
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and CRTC chair Ian Scott were...
CRTC should force Rogers to engage in dispute resolution: Building owner tells CRTC
telecom | 10/21/2022 3:10 pm EDT
A Toronto-building owner in dispute with Rogers Communications Inc. told the CRTC that it should force the incumbent to participate in a dispute resolution process, which is...
CRTC will take over 2 years to determine scope of Bill C-11: ex-Vice Chairperson
Media | 10/20/2022 2:11 pm EDT
The former Vice Chairperson of the CRTC and a media company president...
Wholesale HSA service not needed in Far North; LEOs will do: Northwestel
telecom | 10/12/2022 4:59 pm EDT
There’s no need for BCE Inc.’s Northwestel to introduce wholesale...
Thomas makes heritage critic, Perkins moves to industry in CPC shadow cabinet shuffle
Media | 10/12/2022 2:51 pm EDT
New Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre...
Unregulated algorithms is “privatized discoverability regulations” not consumer choice, Senate hears
Media | 10/06/2022 6:22 pm EDT
The question over the place of algorithms and...
Pandemic has altered cybersecurity landscape: CIRA survey
telecom | 10/05/2022 4:29 pm EDT
Just over half of IT security professionals feel their organization in more...
Senator claims privilege over Digital First lobbying letter
Media | 10/05/2022 12:08 pm EDT
An Alberta Senator is claiming his privileges as a parliamentarian were...
Cabinet should not intervene in non-mandated service: Rogers
telecom | 10/03/2022 4:55 pm EDT
Rogers Communication Inc. is asking the federal government to reject City...
C-18 would harm trust in Canadian media: former CRTC chair; secrecy of deals harms trust: Tyee publisher
Internet and Governance | 09/27/2022 5:44 pm EDT
As the House of Commons Heritage committee Tuesday...
Bell will fold EBox into Distributel: Bell CFO
telecom | 09/13/2022 6:15 pm EDT
BCE Inc. is planning to maintain recently acquired Distributel Ltd. as a standalone company, but will incorporate it with its other fresh acquisition, EBox Inc., and will treat them both as part of the incumbent's "value segment."
Bell chief financial officer Glen LeBlanc...
Relocation of Eastlink’s TPIA point of interconnection chance for gov. to redeem itself: PIAC
telecom | 09/12/2022 3:58 pm EDT
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and the...
CNOC takes issue with Shaw’s proposed costs for new 1.5 gigabit service
telecom | 09/07/2022 4:07 pm EDT
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada is taking issue with a costing...
BREAKING: Bell to acquire Distributel
telecom | 09/02/2022 4:00 pm EDT
In the latest in a series of acquisitions in the ISP sector this year, BCE Inc. is seeking to acquire one...
CNOC displeased with Rogers’ secrecy in outage
telecom | 08/31/2022 4:58 pm EDT
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) is calling on the CRTC to force Rogers Communications...
Senator hopes ‘nonpartisan’ committee study of C-11 will clear up ‘misinformation’ around Online Streaming Act
Internet and Governance | 08/30/2022 5:34 pm EDT
The Senate’s upcoming review of the Online Streaming Act will be a good opportunity to clear up "misinformation" circulated by opponents of the bill and dive into concerns...
Rogers disclosure on outage, CRTC process not good enough: PIAC
telecom | 08/26/2022 4:57 pm EDT
Again dissatisfied with the redactions in Rogers Communications Inc.'s...
Rogers answers CRTC request for information on July outage
telecom | 08/24/2022 5:44 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. filed a second response to a confidential Aug. 5...
CRTC investigating Northwestel outage in Nunavut
telecom | 08/22/2022 2:52 pm EDT
The CRTC is once again dealing with a service outage from a major carrier, in this case BCE Inc. property...
Britain and Australia provide example for internet ads, PIAC says
telecom | 08/17/2022 6:52 pm EDT
Canada should look to Britain and Australia for lessons on how to regulate...
Comp. Bureau’s silence on anti-competitive complaint allowing abuse of dominance to persist: TekSavvy
telecom | 08/17/2022 6:13 pm EDT
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has told the Competition...
Bell revenues up, profits down as company releases Q2 numbers
telecom | 08/04/2022 3:51 pm EDT
BCE Inc. announced revenues of $5.86 billion for the second quarter of 2022...
Bell, Rogers and TV creators triumph over pirates
Media | 08/03/2022 5:25 pm EDT
A consortium of broadcasters and rights-holders have won an opening salvo of a fight against a television...
City Wide is the victim of competition, not anti-competitive practice: Eastlink
telecom | 07/29/2022 4:44 pm EDT
City Wide Communications Inc.'s lack of growth in Nova Scotia is due to the...
Quebecor’s acquisition of VMedia exciting for competition says co-founder, CNOC
telecom | 07/28/2022 5:38 pm EDT
VMedia Inc. can expand its national footprint with resources from Quebecor Inc., as part of the Quebec-based company's national expansion, according to VMedia co-founder...
Beanfield acquires Urbanfibre
telecom | 07/28/2022 3:52 pm EDT
Toronto network operator Beanfield Technologies Inc. has acquired another internet service provider, this...
After outage, Rogers vows to separate wireless and wireline networks; critics not impressed with CRTC response
Media | 07/25/2022 7:45 pm EDT
The July 8 nationwide Rogers Communications Inc....
Gov. announced 11 projects, with $2.4M funding, to combat disinformation
Internet and Governance | 07/21/2022 4:11 pm EDT
The ministers of Canadian Heritage and Intergovernmental Affairs,...
After Rogers outage, Interac failure highlights need for more risk oversight, competition in payments space, observers say
telecom | 07/21/2022 4:03 pm EDT
On July 8, when Rogers Communications Inc.'s...
INDU to hold hearings into Rogers outage, CIRA backs full public hearing at CRTC
telecom | 07/15/2022 5:20 pm EDT
The House of Commons Industry committee will launch hearings into the Friday, July 8 Rogers Communications Inc. outage, the committee voted Friday.
The committee will...
CRTC demands answers on Rogers outage
telecom | 07/12/2022 4:57 pm EDT
In an uncommonly strongly worded letter, the CRTC has asked Rogers Communications Inc. to provide a broad...
Online harms panel finds diverging opinions on content removal for planned legislation
Internet and Governance | 07/08/2022 5:11 pm EDT
The removal of problematic content online remains...
City Wide appeals Eastlink POI decision at CRTC
telecom | 06/30/2022 5:51 pm EDT
City Wide Communications Inc. is appealing the CRTC's decision not to force Bragg Communications Inc. to...
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...
NorthwesTel details NWT outage
telecom | 06/28/2022 5:10 pm EDT
In response to a CRTC request for information from BCE Inc.-subsidiary NorthwesTel, the company detailed...
ISED launches Phase 2 of Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy
telecom | 06/22/2022 3:52 pm EDT
Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne...
C-11 heads to Senate, over Conservative objections, after passing third reading in the House of Commons
Media | 06/21/2022 6:15 pm EDT
With the NDP and the Bloc Québécois supporting...
Tory MP takes second stab at bill mandating ISPs publicize service quality metrics
telecom | 06/17/2022 3:46 pm EDT
Conservative MP Dan Mazier introduced a private members bill to the House...
Rogers, Telus, want CRTC to deny TekSavvy TPIA tariff changes
telecom | 06/03/2022 5:34 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. are asking the CRTC to deny a request by TekSavvy Solutions Inc. to speed up the regulatory process by which new speed tiers are introduced and become available to wholesale-based internet service providers (ISPs).
“The...
Intent of C-11 is to exclude digital creators: CRTC chair
Media | 06/01/2022 6:01 pm EDT
CRTC chair Ian Scott told the House of Commons Heritage Committee Tuesday...
Tim Hortons app violated privacy laws: privacy watchdogs
Media | 06/01/2022 5:48 pm EDT
Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons violated national privacy law because...
C-11 will “hang over the system until Supreme Court has spoken” over jurisdiction: Palmer
Media | 05/31/2022 6:29 pm EDT
A former senior general counsel at the Department...
Online harms panel looking to adopt U.K’s duty of care model, won’t prioritize freedom of expression: Co-chair
Internet and Governance | 05/17/2022 5:10 pm EDT
Canada’s online harms panelists are looking at...
Site-blocking can be used for online harms legislation: Rogers
Internet and Governance | 05/17/2022 5:04 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. believes that the site-blocking remedy the company – along with BCE Inc. and Quebecor Inc. – won through the federal courts in recent months can be used in the future application of the government's planned legislation aimed at combating online...
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...
Freedom of expression regulation concerns on C-11 are “silly”: CRTC’s Scott
Media | 05/16/2022 6:55 pm EDT
CRTC chair Ian Scott told conference attendees...
Tories put forward motion to kill Bill C-18, send “subject matter” to committee
Media | 05/13/2022 5:12 pm EDT
Conservative MP John Nater wants the Liberal government to withdraw its...
Tories denounce Bill C-11 while Bloc defends it
Media | 05/06/2022 4:08 pm EDT
Debate continued in the House of Commons Thursday on the Online Streaming Act, known as Bill C-11....
Quebec and French Canadian artists will be the losers if social media is unregulated, conference hears
Media | 05/04/2022 6:15 pm EDT
A Canadian cultural policy that adopts a...
TekSavvy calls for TPIA tariff changes to stop delayed access to new offerings
telecom | 05/03/2022 5:13 pm EDT
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is asking the CRTC to speed up the regulatory...
Hydro Ottawa reenters telecom market with Hiboo Networks
telecom | 04/28/2022 6:11 pm EDT
Hydro Ottawa is returning to the telecom market with the launch of Hiboo...
Facebook lied in Security Committee: Rodriguez
Media | 04/27/2022 4:28 pm EDT
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has said the Government is not backing down from its legislative effort...
Facebook doesn’t rule out blocking news content if C-18 passes, docs reveal telecom opposition to online harms framework
Internet and Governance | 04/26/2022 5:43 pm EDT
Representatives of Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook have acknowledged that the companies have serious concerns about a pair of Government legislative efforts...
Government announces more internet connectivity projects funded in Ontario
telecom | 04/22/2022 5:14 pm EDT
Friday, the governments of Canada and Ontario announced which projects will...
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...
Rogers boss won’t confirm Xplornet ‘rumours’
Media | 04/20/2022 4:59 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri declined to comment on what...
SaskTel announces $337M investment in province
telecom | 04/13/2022 4:29 pm EDT
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. is investing approximately $337 million of capital in...
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 intervener in a CRTC proceeding that supports a Toronto-based attorney’s request to consider whether...
Google says online age verification difficult to implement, up to content providers not search engines
Media | 04/06/2022 6:20 pm EDT
The implementation of age verification online is a...
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...
CRTC approves aggregated and disaggregated Giga service from Quebecor
telecom | 04/05/2022 4:42 pm EDT
Tuesday Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron was granted approval by the CRTC for...
UPDATED: Gov. launches Online News Act, will mandate bargaining between outlets and web giants for compensation
Media | 04/05/2022 1:06 pm EDT
New legislation from the Government of Canada will...
Xplornet buys internet business of Full Throttle Networks
telecom | 04/04/2022 3:14 pm EDT
Xplornet Communications Inc. purchased the high-speed internet business of...
Feds rollout $20 a month internet for low-income families and seniors
telecom | 04/04/2022 1:22 pm EDT
The federal government is providing low-income families and seniors with...
Hate groups need legislative stops on fundraising, security committee hears
Media | 03/31/2022 7:50 pm EDT
Extremist groups are able to propagate their message and raise funds...
Panelists tell government to reform the CRTC
Media | 03/30/2022 7:14 pm EDT
GATINEAU, Que.--The CRTC came in for a drubbing at two panels Wednesday at the annual conference of the...
Distributel seeks revised interim rates for disagg regime
telecom | 03/30/2022 6:57 pm EDT
Distributel Ltd. is asking the CRTC to revise the interim rates for disaggregated wholesale high-speed access (“HSA") services to help jumpstart the lagging disaggregated wholesale regime.
In a Mar. 28 Part 1 application posted to the commission's website Wednesday,...
CRTC won’t order Bragg to relocate its TPIA point of interconnection
telecom | 03/25/2022 4:17 pm EDT
The commission denied an application by City Wide Communications Inc....
NDP still committed to telecom affordability, despite absence in confidence and supply agreement
telecom | 03/23/2022 6:37 pm EDT
On the heels of its announcement this week of a...
Bell subsidiary given 5 months to implement local competition plan in Upton, Que.
telecom | 03/17/2022 5:08 pm EDT
The CRTC approved a BCE Inc. subsidiary’s request to implement its plan...
ISED approves spectrum licence transfer in Northern Ontario
telecom | 03/11/2022 4:17 pm EST
Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) has approved a transfer...
Canadian, BC governments invest $830M in high-speed internet
telecom | 03/08/2022 12:01 pm EST
The federal government has partnered with the government of British Columbia on the rollout of high-speed internet in rural, remote and Indigenous communities. The announcement was made Tuesday in Mission, British Columbia by Gudie Hutchings, federal Minister of Rural...
ISED releases consultations on licence-exempt spectrum in 95 GHz and 5.9 GHz bands
telecom | 03/04/2022 7:11 pm EST
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED)...
INDU ‘frustrated’ with CRTC’s wholesale rates; recommends revamped rate-setting process
telecom | 03/04/2022 6:52 pm EST
The Industry committee – from the last...
Appeal court dismisses Iristel application to release $21.85m in tax refunds
telecom | 03/03/2022 5:09 pm EST
The Federal Court of Appeal dismissed an application by Iristel Inc. to...
Net neutrality prevents CRTC from ordering ISPs verify age online: CRTC to Senate
Media | 03/03/2022 9:10 am EST
The CRTC cannot direct internet service providers (ISPs) to implement age...
Alberta invests nearly $400 million in rural broadband rollout
telecom | 03/02/2022 4:31 pm EST
The province of Alberta will spend $390 million over four years to provide...
Gov. announces funding to connect remaining Newfoundland rural households
telecom | 02/22/2022 5:44 pm EST
The federal government and the government of Newfoundland and Labrador are...
Gov. allocates $6.6 million in UBF to Saskatchewan
telecom | 02/17/2022 2:11 pm EST
The Canadian government is investing nearly $6.6 million in rural Saskatchewan in its effort to connect...
NDP and Bloc support C-11, with concerns; Conservatives will seek to amend at committee
Media | 02/17/2022 12:30 pm EST
Members of Parliament from the Bloc Québécois...
Telesat provides satellite lessor capacity
telecom | 02/14/2022 4:26 pm EST
Telesat Corp. provided satellite lessor Anuvu satellite capacity in what the companies said is the largest yet of such a deal.
In a Monday press release, Anuvu and Telesat announced that the latter will be providing Anuvu with new Ka-band connectivity over the...
Witnesses raise issues with Senate bill restricting youth online access to porn
Internet and Governance | 02/10/2022 2:03 pm EST
Internet and criminal justice experts sounded the alarm on a proposed...
Government spends $41M to bring broadband to rural Alberta
telecom | 02/09/2022 5:27 pm EST
The federal government is investing $41 million to roll out broadband in...
Scott defends CRTC decisions, and himself, at Industry committee
telecom | 02/08/2022 6:44 pm EST
In an at-times testy exchange between CRTC chair Ian Scott and MPs on the...
B.C. court greenlights 1 of 3 class actions against Google for non-consensual data collection
Media | 02/04/2022 5:57 pm EST
A Supreme Court of British Columbia judge has...
Few stakeholders fully support Heritage proposal for online harms: report
Internet and Governance | 02/03/2022 7:12 pm EST
The government needs to rethink its approach to regulating harmful content online, the majority of submissions to a consultation process argue, according to a summary of those...
Gov. reintroduces Broadcasting Act update, with social media exemption
Media | 02/02/2022 7:32 pm EST
OTTAWA -- Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodríguez called previous...
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...
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”...
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...
Shaw reports $33M increase in profit for Q1 2022
Media | 01/12/2022 4:41 pm EST
Shaw Communications Inc. saw a 20.2 per cent increase in its net earnings this quarter, jumping from $163...
B.C. Appeal Court rules provincial court has jurisdiction over defamation suit against Twitter
Media | 12/21/2021 2:56 pm EST
The Court of Appeal for British Columbia upheld a...
OpenMedia criticizes Libs for abandoning promise to lower connectivity bills
telecom | 12/17/2021 3:10 pm EST
Lobby group OpenMedia chastised Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Friday for...
Rodriguez told to introduce news compensation by early 2022, Champagne to focus on spectrum “use it or lose it”
Media | 12/16/2021 4:45 pm EST
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez is...
Lightbound takes over chair of Industry committee
telecom | 12/14/2021 6:28 pm EST
The House of Commons Industry committee selected Joël Lightbound as its chair by a unanimous vote Tuesday. It is the first chairmanship for the Liberal MP for Quebec’s Louis-Hébert riding.
Conservative Michael Kram and the Bloc’s Sébastien Lemire were elected as...