Canada's competition laws have become too sensitive to price, particularly in mergers, and should instead focus more on the role of innovation and change, according to a Canadian competition and regulatory lawyer.
Lawson Hunter, a former senior civil servant involved in...
The recent move by Canada's competition watchdog to block the pending acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc by Rogers Communications Inc. shows that the bureau is "aiming...
A joint petition to cabinet from the National Pensioners Federation and the...
The Competition Bureau has filed an application...
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh called once again for the government to disallow...
A Toronto-based telecom and broadcasting consultant is arguing to the CRTC that Rogers Communications Inc.’s pending...
Shaw Communications Inc. announced a fall in revenues and earnings for the second quarter of 2022, the company reported Wednesday. The results were announced through a news release rather than a conference call.
Revenues for the three months that ended Feb. 28 were $1.35...
The Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (FRPC) is the only...
The Canadian Communication Systems Alliance (CCSA) is calling on the CRTC to reverse a planned service...
The CRTC mostly accepted the arguments of small wireless carriers against...
Tuesday the CRTC approved an application by Shaw Communications Inc. to...
The CRTC has approved Rogers Communications Inc.'s acquisition of Shaw...
Asked if the odds of Quebecor Inc. purchasing Shaw Communications Inc.'s...
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri has said that last week's announcement from Innovation...
The House of Commons Industry committee has said...
Updated on March 3 at 5:46 p.m.
Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne has indicated that his department will not allow the "wholesale transfer" of spectrum owned...
Community-owned television outlets “are not producing local news that...
In reviewing mergers and acquisitions Canada's Competition Act should do...
The addition of Shaw Communications Inc.'s Freedom Mobile brand, should Shaw be forced to sell it off by...
Shaw Communications Inc. saw a 20.2 per cent increase in its net earnings this quarter, jumping from $163...
Overall, telecommunications companies pulled in some $53.4 billion in 2020, a 1.4 per cent decrease in overall revenues compared to 2019, according to the most recent edition...
The CRTC denied a Quebec organization representing...
Numerous interveners of the CRTC's Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...
Shaw Communications Inc. was given approval by the CRTC Friday for a new...
OTTAWA – NDP leader Jagmeet Singh reiterated his party’s call for lower...
Rogers Communications Inc. has declined to adjust its calculation of the...
No amount of proposed remedies will undo the damage of Rogers...
On the third day of CRTC hearings into the proposed takeover of Shaw...
The CRTC approved on an interim basis a proposal...
Telus Corp. executives told the CTRC that if the commission approves its acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc.'s broadcasting assets, Rogers Communications Inc. will...
Cable Public Affairs Channel Inc. (CPAC) is...
Top brass from Shaw Communications Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc....
The Tuesday night announcement of the departure of Rogers Communications...
The CRTC has denied a request by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre and the National Pensioners...
One of Canada’s telecom incumbents is urging the CRTC to delay Rogers Communications Inc.’s (RCI) hearing on its merger with Shaw Communications Inc., arguing that...
Rogers Communications Inc. says there is no reason to delay the CRTC on its...
Rogers Communications Inc.'s regulatory team can present the company's...
Shaw's overall revenue increased 2.1 per cent in the fourth quarter, up to...
The CRTC ordered Rogers Communications Inc. to...
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Joe Natale said...
The CRTC denied Rogers Communications Inc.’s request for several...
The CRTC has granted Cable Public Affairs Channel Inc. -- more widely known...
Rogers Communications Inc. announced Wednesday evening that CFO Tony Staffieri has left his post after...
Even if the Competition Bureau forces Shaw Communications Inc. to spin off its wireless Freedom Mobile brand as part of the bureau's approval of the deal with Rogers...
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...
Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole said during a press conference on cell phone and internet affordability Tuesday that his party would stand against mergers that could...
A number of film groups and companies have...
The CRTC will hold hearings on whether Rogers Communications Inc. may...
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...
The return of the Toronto Blue Jays has caused Rogers Communications...
Industry analysts are declining to speculate too much on what caused the...
Shaw Communications Inc. reported a large spike in profit for its third quarter of the year on Wednesday.
The company, which has scrapped its calls with analysts since the announcement of its proposed merger with Rogers Communications Inc, reported a major jump of 92.4...
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) has approved the subordination of two spectrum licences held by Freedom Mobile. In its decision released Thursday,...
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...
Canada’s big-three telecoms are doubling down on their assertions that...
The CRTC granted a request by Shaw Cablesystems Ltd. to revoke its broadcasting licence for the Sault Ste. Marie area of Ontario on Wednesday. Shaw Communications Inc. said in its application its...
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 access to incumbent mobile networks for a limited number of regional operators. In a Tuesday release, Data On Tap (which operates under the name dotmobile) CEO Algis Akstinas said that the CRTC's decision "misinterprets Canada’s wireless policy." "Industry analysts, telecom experts, competitive regional providers and even the dominant carriers all recognise...
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...
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...
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 CRTC has rejected a request from a number of large facilities-based...
Allowing a merger to proceed on the basis of the...
Without a regime for mandated access for mobile virtual network operators...
BCE Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. are taking issue with TekSavvy...
Quebecor Inc. has indicated that, should the Competition Bureau force Rogers Communications Inc. to spin-off Shaw Communications Inc.'s wireless assets as part of its regulatory approval of the Rogers-Shaw merger, Quebecor would be open to purchasing it, provided it came...
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...
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 September, Cogeco Inc. president and CEO Philippe Jetté said Tuesday that Rogers' acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc. presents a great deal of "uncertainty."
Speaking at this year's online...
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...
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...
While Shaw Communications Inc. posted a substantial loss in wireline subscribers for the three months...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. have the support of...
The lack of pricing "discipline" in the wireless market could have negative...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. have asked the CRTC...
The Federal Court of Appeal dismissed Thursday the large telecom...
The CRTC has asked telecoms to indefinitely refrain from starting or relaunching any measures to block unauthorized SIM swapping or porting, after Quebecor Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. reported issues with a process created by members of the Canadian Wireless Technology Association’s wireless number portability (WNP) council. In a letter dated Aug. 24, the CRTC said Shaw and Quebecor’s Videotron had reported that the “enhanced process” to prevent illegitimate phone porting had led to between 40 and 50 per cent of attempted mobile number ports resulting in failure for some...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s new wireless brand is likely to initially...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s first Shaw-branded wireless service has...
At a discussion about Ottawa’s now-delayed Universal Broadband Fund with...
Shaw Communications Inc. president Paul McAleese said that while there has...
Telecom companies operating in Calgary will not have to abide by a municipal bylaw granting the city rights-of-way, the Alberta Court of Appeal has decided.
In a...
Shaw Communications Inc. plans to permanently lay off about 100 field technicians in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland, stating the COVID-19 pandemic had “only accelerated” the company’s...
The CRTC has responded to a letter from The Canadian Network Operators...
Shaw Communications Inc. will temporarily lay off about ten per cent of its...
Canada’s publicly-traded wireless service providers added just under 1.29 million wireless subscribers...
Telecommunication providers are closing retail stores, offering complimentary TV channels and continuing to waive overage fees on home internet plans as they respond to COVID-19. Xplornet...
Multiple Canadian internet providers have suspended caps on data usage as they prepare for a huge...
Shaw Communications Inc.'s president Jay Mehr will retire in April after four years in the role and be...
GATINEAU, Que. — The CRTC’s two-week wireless policy review kicked off...
Telecom providers both big and small have unanimously rejected a Competition Bureau proposal to allow strictly-regulated mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) access to the Big Three’s networks for five years, but for vastly different reasons.
The bureau endorsed a...