In the latest twist in an increasingly public rift in one of Canada's largest telecommunications, Edward Rogers -- chair of the Rogers Communications Inc. Board of Directors until he was removed from the position Thursday -- has announced that he will seek to remake the...
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Joe Natale said he’s “got strong unequivocal support from the board to direct the strategy of the company," after the Board of Directors...
BCE Inc. and Saskatchewan Telecommunications...
The CRTC denied Rogers Communications Inc.’s request for several...
Rogers Communications Inc. extended its 5G network in Quebec which now reaches more than 90 communities...
The CRTC has granted Cable Public Affairs Channel Inc. -- more widely known...
A Quebec judge Tuesday decided the majority of the $7.2 million left over from a $26.8 million class action judgement paid by Rogers Communications Inc. will be distributed to...
A federal court judge has fined a pre-loaded set top box seller $40,000 for being in contempt of an...
Rogers Communications Inc. announced Wednesday evening that CFO Tony Staffieri has left his post after...
Even if the Competition Bureau forces Shaw...
Rogers Communications Inc. has expanded its 5G network in the Halifax, N.S., region. Rogers said in...
Rogers Communications Inc. has told the CRTC the pandemic has slowed work down after it was asked by the...
BCE Inc. and Telus Corp., considered to be two of...
Whatever the outcome of the vote after polls close in the Sept. 20 federal election, it won't have much of an effect on regulatory approval of the proposed acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc. by...
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is the first party leader to explicitly oppose the proposed acquisition of Shaw...
Telecoms shares have continued to track higher thanks to a regulatory backdrop which “has turned much more benign,” according to an industry analyst. Thursday National Bank of Canada analyst Adam Shine issued a note that Telus Corp. shares have continued to track steadily higher since the end of March due to the trajectory of the vaccine rollout, economic recovery and several regulatory developments that have helped stimulate the shares of Canadian telecoms companies.. The CRTC’s April MVNO decision to requiring incumbent telecom companies to sell access to their mobile...
Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole said during a press conference on...
Canada’s telecommunications companies are recommending that the CRTC...
Two telecommunication workers’ unions, Unifor and the Canadian Union for Public Employees (CUPE), have partnered up to demand the federal government step in to minimize the outsourcing of Canadian jobs overseas in the telecom...
Rogers Communications Inc. is calling out a Toronto developer’s so-called...
A number of film groups and companies have submitted nearly identical letters to the CRTC in support of Rogers Communications Inc.’s plan to acquire Shaw Communication Inc....
After Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order survived an appeal from...
In its response to a Rogers Communications Inc. request to the CRTC asking...
The CRTC will hold hearings on whether Rogers Communications Inc. may...
A Federal Court judge ordered three pirate TV services to pay more than $29...
Rogers Communications Inc. is asking the CRTC to force a high-rise building owner in Toronto, ON, to give...
As the dust settles on the results of the 3,500 MHz auction announced Thursday, much of the initial...
Canadian telecom companies -- and wireless service hopefuls -- have spent...
The Competition Bureau is asking the Federal Court...
The Federal Court of Appeal ruled Friday partially in favour of a group that challenged a tariff increase by the Copyright Board of Canada for over-the-air distant signal...
The return of the Toronto Blue Jays has caused Rogers Communications...
In its ongoing effort to gain access to multiple apartment buildings in...
The telecom sector is on track to rebound following a bleak 2019 and 2020, according to an analysis of the industry halfway through the 2021 financial year. “Halfway through the year, we see...
Quebec’s Superior Court has granted an increase in the number of total...
Work to upgrade the wireless networks of communities in British Columbia and homes and businesses in rural Ontario is coming along according to two of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies. On Wednesday, BCE Inc. announced its services now reach more than 25,000 homes and businesses in Clarington, ON, with all-fibre high-speed internet connections, and 5,000 rural locations with its Wireless Home Internet service. Additionally, Rogers Communications Inc. announced that in the past 18 months it enhanced its wireless networks in more than 250 communities British Columbia, with plans...
Shaw Communications Inc. reported a large spike in profit for its third quarter of the year on...
Rogers Communications Inc. has voiced its support for Telus Corp.'s Federal...
Rogers Communications Inc. is repeating its request that the CRTC help it...
The Federal Court of Appeal has allowed Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order to stand,...
BCE Inc. rival Rogers Communications Inc. and a number of other groups are...
A coalition of four separate advocacy groups Tuesday delivered a 62,000 signature-strong petition to the Competition Bureau, asking the regulator to block Rogers Communications Inc.'s proposed acquisition of Shaw Communications...
Quebec’s Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal from the province’s attorney general over its desire to have telecoms block access to illegal gambling sites. In July...
In an escalation of an ongoing fight over upgrades to a new modem, the Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) has accused Rogers Communications Inc. of failing to comply with a CRTC directive...
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...
Canada’s big-three telecoms are doubling down on their assertions that...
The CRTC has denied an order requested by Iristel Inc. after it found that...
Data on Tap Inc., one of the country's hopeful mobile virtual network operators, has filed a petition to the governor in council, asking the government of Justin Trudeau to review the April decision of the CRTC to only mandate...
The CRTC has asked Rogers Communications Inc. to stop requiring its third-party internet access customers to use a particular kind of modem until the regulator makes a decision on a complaint about...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) have requested a 90-day delay to the 3,500 MHz spectrum auction, currently scheduled to take place in June. In a Monday letter addressed to Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne, CNOC points to both Rogers Communications Inc.'s proposed acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc. and the CRTC's decision last week restricting access to incumbent wireless networks to regional facilities-based competitors as reasons for delaying the auction. "The combined effect of the Wireless Decision coming after the deadline to participate in...
Rogers Communications Inc. is in the midst of a wireless outage, with reports of service dropping early...
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...
The CRTC has floated the idea of penalizing BCE Inc. after Quebecor Inc....
The competition bureau is “flying blind” when it comes to understanding the cumulative effects of mergers—such as the proposed Rogers Communications Inc. acquisition of Shaw Communications...
Shaw Communications Inc. reported an increase of 1.8 per cent in revenue...
Incumbent telecom companies will be required to...
The federal government has launched a consultation document to solicit feedback on whether or not it...
Several large telecom companies have argued that the CRTC shouldn’t...
The CRTC has rejected a request from a number of large facilities-based internet service providers for the regulator to extend the Internet Code to smaller ISPs and resellers. In a decision released Thursday, the CRTC wrote that, in its determination, the large ISPs had...
Allowing a merger to proceed on the basis of the...
Without a regime for mandated access for mobile virtual network operators...
Quebecor Inc. has indicated that, should the Competition Bureau force...
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...
On the opening day Monday of hearings into Roger's proposed acquisition of Shaw, MPs on the House of Commons Industry Committee sought answers from the companies' executives on whether or not the two companies seek to hold on to Shaw's discounted spectrum, and how the merger...
Despite the uncertainty surrounding the potential impacts of Rogers Communications Inc. acquiring Shaw...
Organizations representing smaller Canadian broadcasters and telecoms have...
After surviving a hostile takeover bid by Rogers Communications Inc. in...
Following the $26.2 billion deal between Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. announced last week, citizen advocacy group Democracy Watch says a consumer-run telecom watchdog group should be created to protect...
As the House of Commons Heritage committee hearings on the government's proposed update to the...
The Eastern Ontario Regional Network (EORN), the Province of Ontario, the federal government, and Rogers Communications Inc. Friday announced a $300 million project with the goal of connecting 99 per...
The Quebec Superior Court has granted the group handling claims related to a $26 million class-action lawsuit against Rogers Communications Inc. permission to target thousands more people who may be...
Monday’s announcement of a deal for Rogers Communications Inc. to acquire...
As news of Roger’s Communications Inc.’s deal to acquire Shaw Communications Inc. sparks discussions on what it may mean for the wireless market in Canada, advocates say competition and other considerations will be important for the public’s best interests in the future. During an “Affordable Internet Day of Action” panel discussions hosted by multiple groups Tuesday, the day’s conversations centred around affordable Internet access for all and the state of the national market,...
From the perspective of Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Joe Natale,...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and National Pensioners...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) has asked the CRTC to publicly disclose the information it...
Rogers Communications Inc. announced a seven-per-cent fall in revenues and...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. have the support of two regional telecom companies in a joint Part 1 that they filed, requesting that the CRTC force...
Rogers Communications Inc. has cut an unspecified number of jobs from its sports and media divisions, citing the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In a statement emailed to The Wire Report, a Rogers Sports & Media...
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...
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...
Rogers Communications Inc. showed a rebound in its third-quarter earnings report Thursday, with media and...
Whether or not there is a pandemic, large broadcasters want to do away with...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Altice USA Inc. upped their offer in a joint takeover bid of Cogeco Inc. from $10.3 billion to $11 billion over weekend, a bid that was rejected by the controlling shareholder of the company, the...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. have asked the CRTC...
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...
In an ongoing dispute between Rogers Communications Inc. and some of its third party internet access (TPIA) wholesale customers over COVID-19-related internet traffic management practices (ITMPs), TekSavvy Solutions Inc. says Rogers is being too vague about its use of ITMPs, and should put the practice on hold until the CRTC reviews it. Rogers had originally filed a tariff application with the CRTC in May, informing the regulator that it would be applying an ITMP, as “a result of the current emergency situation and to safeguard the access of all retail and wholesale end users to...
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...
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...
Iristel Inc. is sticking to its guns in its claim that the CRTC should look into the problem of caller ID manipulation, and in a reply to a response from Rogers Communications Inc. rejected Rogers’...
In a Wednesday afternoon press release, the board of directors for Cogeco Inc. accused the CEOs of both...
As Cogeco Inc.’s CFO speculated Tuesday that a bid for his company’s Canadian division by Rogers Communications Inc. was driven in part by an attempt to take Cogeco out of...
The CRTC has extended its deadline for telecom providers to implement an anti-call-spoofing protocol known as STIR/SHAKEN by nine months, until June 30, 2021. Telecoms had initially been required to launch the protocol by the...
The Federal Court of Appeal dismissed Thursday the large telecom...
Louis Audet, former CEO of Cogeco Inc. and current executive chairman of...
Rogers Communications Inc. says if its proposed acquisition of Cogeco Inc.’s Canadian division went through, it wouldn’t move the headquarters, management team or operations of Cogeco’s media...
Iristel Inc.'s complaint to the CRTC that it thought Rogers Communications Inc. might have been involved in a scheme where some Canadian customers have had their caller ID tweaked to make it seem like...
The controlling shareholder of Cogeco Inc. — the Audet family — has...
Rogers Communications Inc. Tuesday announced a flurry of expansions to its 5G network, extending coverage to new cities and towns in British Columbia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Quebec. In January, Rogers announced it was...
Iristel Inc. has asked the CRTC to issue an order explicitly prohibiting...
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 -- which is based on advertised prices from January to June for post-paid, bring your own device (BYOD), unlimited talk and text 4G/LTE plans in the 2 to 6 GB range -- shows that only 2 GB plans on the three main flanker brands in Quebec are meeting the government's objective. BCE Inc.'s Virgin, Telus Corp.'s Koodo, and Rogers Communications Inc.'s Fido are all offered at...