The governments of Canada and Ontario announced on Monday a broadband rollout project covering northern Ontario. For the executive director of the Blue Sky Economic Growth...
TORONTO – Connectivity is not only a tool for good, it is a human right, the president of Ericsson AB’s Canadian division told the Canadian Telecom Summit Tuesday. Jeanette Irekvist spoke about the digital divide plaguing much of Canada.
“Those that are not...
A New Democratic Party MP attacked BCE Inc. for not knowing its customers...
The Senate Committee on Transport and Communications began its study of...
Northern Ontario is lagging behind the rest of the province when it comes...
The federal government is spending an additional $2.8 million to advance clean energy and roll out...
Minister of Rural Economic Development Gudie Hutchings continued her tour doling out cash from the Universal Broadband Fund. Wednesday saw her in Thompson, Man. handing out $7.5 million for internet and mobile connectivity.
The money will allow Broadband Communications...
The governments of Canada and Alberta announced Tuesday that they are...
The Government of Canada announced Friday that it...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Wednesday the...
BCE Inc.’s Northwestel announced to the CRTC...
As the Federal Communications Commission in the United States announced it...
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink announced the purchase of a Northern Ontario telecom service...
The governments of Canada and British Columbia have joined together to...
As the CRTC’s review of its broadband fund...
The federal government is spending $1.2 million for high-speed internet service in Cape Breton in Nova Scotia, it was announced Tuesday. The money, from the Universal Broadband Fund, will see 1,600 households in 16 communities receiving service. Indigenous households account...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development has added a...
The CRTC has published some of the interventions for its proceeding into the Broadband Fund. Most of the...
The federal and Alberta governments announced a $96 million plan to roll...
The governments of Canada and Ontario have announced another shared...
A town in Alberta is condemning Telus Corp. for slowing down the rollout of broadband in the community. But the telecom denies that St. Albert is suffering any such pause....
The CRTC presented its public opinion research...
Residents of northern Ontario are still underserved when it comes to internet rollout, a new study...
Friday the CRTC issued approvals for several claims under the Broadband Fund. Three companies will receive money to roll out infrastructure across the country.
ATG Arrow...
Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced Wednesday that the...
Canadian carriers that offer fixed broadband...
Auditor General Karen Hogan released a quartet of reports on the...
The CRTC is looking for feedback on how it can improve its Broadband Fund,...
Conservative MP Dan Mazier’s private member’s bill on internet service...
The governments of Canada and Ontario have announced two projects that will see a total of $15 million invested in the deployment of high-speed broadband. The two governments...
Telecom experts say that a Senate bill that would...
There is a consensus forming that the CRTC should...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Co. announced the retirement of its president and CEO Doug Burnett.
Burnett will be leaving at the end of May to early June,...
The Canadian government announced Monday that it is investing up to $31...
The federal government’s Innovation Science and Economic Development (ISED) department reported on its rollout of internet service through the Universal Broadband Fund (UBF)...
Indigenous telecommunications stakeholders are calling on the government to...
"Stringent" limitations proposed for the non-competitive licensing (NCL)...
The CRTC is now accepting applications for eligible transport...
Thursday the federal government announced it was rolling out $2.6 million...
Xplore Inc.’s residential and business customers...
Thursday the Nova Scotia government tabled amendments to two laws which it...
There’s no need for BCE Inc.’s Northwestel to introduce wholesale...
Heads of Canada's major telecommunications companies met with federal...
by Jenna Cocullo
At the frontier of the future Indigenous communities want to go from subscribers to owners
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Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston wrote to...
Hurricane Fiona wreaked havoc on Atlantic Canada and eastern Quebec last...
Xplornet Communications Inc. is rebranding to Xplore Inc. “to better...
The Canadian government has partnered with the government of British...
The federal government announced two projects on Friday that will increase connectivity for rural residents in Quebec and Ontario.
In the morning, Innovation Minister...
Canada should look to Britain and Australia for lessons on how to regulate...
Tuesday the CRTC issued approvals of several statements of work for...
Telus Corp. unveiled a $23 billion investment in broadband and related technologies across Ontario...
Monday the CRTC approved claim forms for four projects under the Broadband Fund. The payment orders went...
The CRTC announced it was initiating a proceeding to improve telecommunications services in Canada’s...
The governments of Canada and of Quebec are each investing $199,305 in...
Players in the low-earth orbit satellite (LEOs) space are casting doubt...
A Saskatchewan senator called on the government to do more to ensure...
Friday, the governments of Canada and Ontario announced which projects will be allocated a combined total of more than $163 million in funding to bring high-speed internet to...
In an announcement Thursday, the department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) said...
The governments of Canada and Ontario are jointly investing $56 million for...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. is investing approximately $337 million of capital in...
The federal government is providing low-income families and seniors with...
The CRTC has issued $19.5 million from the regulator's Broadband Fund for seven projects that will bring internet connectivity to 10 communities in Alberta and British Columbia. In a series of decisions released Tuesday, the commission said the plan would bring service to...
The federal government is investing $41 million to deliver high-speed...
An Alaskan company has unveiled a billion-dollar project to run fibre from...
The federal government is earmarking $240 million in matching funds to...
The federal government has partnered with the government of British...
The province of Alberta will spend $390 million over four years to provide...
The federal government and the government of Newfoundland and Labrador are...
The federal government is investing $41 million to roll out broadband in...
The CRTC cannot impose fines on either Iristel Inc. and Telus Corp. after...
The Government has awarded a Toronto-based analytics company that uses artificial intelligence to collect data a contract to map out rural broadband access across the country....
The CRTC has granted Base Technology Ltd. up to $750,000 Wednesday to roll out broadband in rural British...
Telus Corp. Monday unveiled a program to connect Indigenous communities to...
The federal government’s Universal Broadband Fund (UBF), by having rural...
Indigenous stakeholders in Canadian telecoms are renewing their calls for...
Canada’s targets of reaching connectivity speeds of 50 Mbps for downloads and 10 Mbps for uploads with unlimited monthly data transfer (50/10 unlimited) “are...
Satellite operator, Telesat Corp. appointed an executive in the...
Two telecom companies can start work on their Broadband Fund projects now...
Quebec-based telecom company CoopTel wants the...
BCE Inc. and Saskatchewan Telecommunications...
Rural broadband provider Xplornet Communications...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) is extending the...
Xplornet Communications Inc. announced Dennis Steiger as its new chief technology officer in a Wednesday press release.
Steiger will lead the architecture, planning,...
Telus Corp. is expanding its 5G network in four British Columbia communities as part of its $13 billion...
New Brunswick-based rural broadband provider Xplornet Communications Inc. announced Wednesday it’s rolling out a rural 5G standalone network, starting with its home province and expanding over the coming months.
Xplornet, which bills itself as the leading...
In order to achieve better spectrum sovereignty for Indigenous communities in Canada, the government has...
Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole said during a press conference on...
With a federal election called for Sept. 20, parties have pledged to make Canadians’ lives better in a...
Rogers Communications Inc. has made a deal to acquire Seaside Communications, a long-time local internet...
After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally called Sunday for a widely-expected election to take place on Sept. 20, the political machinery across Canada's parties has whirred into action, making promises and plans in the hopes of attracting voters. Here's your early guide...
Telesat Corporation, a newly-public satellite company with plans to connect...
The government has announced more than $17.3 million of funding for four high-speed internet projects in rural British Columbia in an effort to close the digital divide in...
Approximately 3,625 households will benefit from the CRTC’s Broadband Fund, after a Wednesday announcement of 10 projects selected to receive a total of $20.5 million....
BCE Inc. is objecting to proposed changes to the procedures for the operation of the National Contribution Fund, saying that a proposed system for payment forecasts does not allow contributors to the fund to plan properly. In...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. is requesting a stay in the distribution of $9.5 million in funding the CRTC awarded to BH Telecom Corp. for a Saskatchewan project that BH Telecom says that would connect more than 26...
Internet speeds for rural Canadians continue to remain “well below” the recommended CRTC speeds, even during the COVID-19 pandemic, when people “are counting more than ever on reliable broadband...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. has asked the CRTC to overturn its decision to award $9.5 million in funding to BH Telecom Corp. for a project in Saskatchewan that would connect some 26...
The federal government’s Universal Broadband Fund is in high demand, according to a speech from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) senior director David Willis Wednesday at...
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...