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 jointly spending $112 million to roll out high-speed internet service to 22,500 households in 166 communities. Indigenous communities make up 3,400 of the total. Federal Minister of Rural Economic...
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 provider NeoTech in a Thursday press release. "We are delighted to welcome NeoTech customers to the Eastlink family," said Eastlink CEO Jeff Gillham. "This purchase is a...
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...
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...
The CRTC presented its public opinion research (POR) research on telecommunication services in the Far North so late in its ongoing consultation process that BCE Inc. 's...
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 government’s spending priorities Monday. One report, looking at internet connectivity, found that rural and...
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...
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...
Indigenous telecommunications stakeholders are calling on the government to incorporate them into its consultation requirements, and develop a participatory and inclusive...
"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 says will make telecoms more responsive to their customers in the event of an emergency. The changes to the Emergency Management Act and to the Emergency 911 Act will require telecom companies to be...
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...
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...
Canada should look to Britain and Australia for lessons on how to regulate internet advertising, a new study by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre maintains. The consumer...
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 broadband rollout in three Quebec communities. BCE Inc. will add an additional $132,000. The governments are investing $134,130 in Boucherville; $37,050 in Bromont and $28,125 in L’Épiphanie. All...
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...
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...
The federal government is investing $41 million to deliver high-speed broadband to 5,806 households in Alberta, the Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development announced Tuesday. The funds are coming out of the Universal Broadband Fund's Rapid Response...
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 collaborating to bring high-speed internet to the remainder of the province. In a Monday release,...
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...
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...
Satellite operator, Telesat Corp. appointed an executive in the communications industry in its newly created chief commercial officer and moved its former vice-president of...
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 deadline to submit comments and replies to an ongoing consultation on an updated licensing framework aimed...
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...
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...
Telesat Corporation, a newly-public satellite company with plans to connect Canadian communities to broadband internet using a low earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation,...
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 service” according to a report from the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA). A report released by the CIRA on Tuesday revealed that during the year of the pandemic, the gap in rural versus urban internet performance has grown with urban speeds reaching a median speed of 51.09 Mbps compared to 9.74 Mbps for rural areas. In 2016, the CRTC established a Universal Service...
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...
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 CRTC is handing out $57.7 million through its Broadband Fund for the construction of thousands of kilometres of network transport infrastructure. The commission announced Friday that seven...
Telus Corp. will receive more than $5 million in funding through the Rapid Response Stream of the federal government’s Universal Broadband Fund for projects bringing high-speed Internet to rural...
If Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada doesn't approve Telesat Holdings Inc.'s proposal...
Telesat Holdings Inc. announced a new agreement with satellite communications technology developer SatixFy Israel Ltd. Wednesday morning, as Telesat moves towards launching its Lightspeed satellite...
Rural Economic Development Minister Maryam Monsef said that the federal government is hoping to promote competition within the telecommunications sector as it awards funding for projects from the Universal Broadband Fund (UBF). “Our government also believes in competition...and connecting as many Canadians as quickly as possible, we’re working very closely with communities themselves to move this forward,” Monsef said during a press conference on Thursday at which she announced the funding of $6.75 million worth of broadband projects in southern British Columbia. Monsef pointed...