The CRTC denied Rogers Communications Inc.’s request for several third-party interveners to appear at an upcoming Nov. 22 hearing into the company's acquisition of Shaw...
The CRTC has granted Cable Public Affairs Channel Inc. -- more widely known as CPAC -- the right to appear at the regulator's hearings into the proposed merger between Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc., scheduled for Nov. 22. In an Oct. 7 letter to...
Rogers Communications Inc. announced Wednesday evening that CFO Tony Staffieri has left his post after...
Even if the Competition Bureau forces Shaw...
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 Communications Inc. by Rogers Communications Inc., saying that telecommunication giants are already “exploiting people.” His comments came at a Friday morning...
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...
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 Inc.’s media revenues to surge by 84 per cent during its second quarter of the year, contributing to the...
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...
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 does not need to implement a proposal that would require them to block malicious botnet...
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...
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 (MVNOs), the regulatory authorities in charge of reviewing the proposed merger between Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. should force the companies to spin off the Freedom Mobile...
BCE Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. are taking issue with TekSavvy...
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...
Despite the uncertainty surrounding the potential impacts of Rogers Communications Inc. acquiring Shaw Communications Inc., BCE Inc. CFO Glen LeBlanc does not seem incredibly fazed. During day two of the Desjardins Industrials, Telecom, Media & Tech, Diversified and...
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...
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 to require British Columbia's Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure to either pay half of...
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...
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 stakeholders in January, the federal government heard it shouldn’t require funding from other levels of government and focus on both backbone and last-mile projects, according to documents obtained...
Shaw Communications Inc. president Paul McAleese said that while there has...
Telecom companies operating in Calgary will not have to abide by 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 replaced by Paul McAleese, currently the president of the company’s wireless division. In announcing the moves on Thursday, Shaw CEO Brad Shaw said in a statement that...
GATINEAU, Que. — The CRTC’s two-week wireless policy review kicked off...
Telecom providers both big and small have unanimously rejected a...
After taking credit over the summer for the reduction in wireless pricing...
No major wireless provider stands out as most likely to benefit from Canada’s looming 5G network rollout, despite two players’ extensive combined wireline footline placing them on the “front foot”, RBC Capital Markets...
Despite improvements in customer service that have lowered customer defections, the country’s telecom complaints watchdog said it still accepted 35 per cent more issues from...
Internet service provider TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has appealed a Federal Court order requiring ISPs to...
A company that says its privacy-focused software app can tell employers...
In a conference call with analysts Friday, Shaw Communications Inc. executives declared that the company...
After an urgent plea by BCE Inc. requesting the Federal Court hold an oral hearing on the deadline of a CRTC order to implement new wholesale internet rates that it is protesting, Bell and other...
Shueisha Inc., a Japanese publisher of comic books, has filed an...
Rogers Communications Inc. said its flanker brand Fido would begin offering what the company is calling...
The CRTC wants to know more about the potential for the Canadian...
Prices for communications services are on a downward trend, according to new data from the CRTC, but spending on those goods are also on the rise. Those services are made up of mobile wireless (with unlimited voice and SMS...
Despite being “impressed” by the competitive presence of wholesale-based internet competitors, the Competition Bureau said there’s still a bit of uncertainty about how...
The CRTC has directed telecom companies to disclose an additional set of...
The launch of new plans from Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom will...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom is responding to the wireless...
The wireless service outage that began on Sunday and affected the...
The CRTC has asked several telecoms to explain how their throttling of wireless speeds once customers exceed their data allotments doesn’t violate the commission’s regulatory policy on internet traffic management practices (ITMPs). In a June 28 letter posted to its website this week, the regulator issued requests for information to eight telecoms related to their use of ITMPs. That includes questions to Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile, Rogers Communications Inc. regarding its Chatr flanker brand, and BCE Inc.’s Bell MTS and Lucky Mobile about throttling mobile speeds after...
The price of data is coming down and the size of data packages is going up, all thanks to market pressure...
Corus Entertainment Inc., the only major Canadian broadcaster refusing to...
As Shaw Communications Inc. continues to expand its Freedom Mobile brand, a...
Rogers Communications Inc.'s OMNI will continue to benefit from the sole...
The CRTC has denied a request by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) to state that CRTC policy...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom, the country’s major fourth wireless player, says it is most susceptible to harm if the CRTC decides to mandate MVNO access to incumbent facilities, and that...
Users of a program that provides free access to conventional TV stations in areas where they’re not available over-the-air are asking the CRTC not to allow Shaw Communications Inc. to shut down the...
Shaw Communications Inc. is getting rid of $548 million in shares in Corus Entertainment Inc. The...
BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., Telus Corp., and Shaw Communications Inc. have responded to the CRTC’s questions about $10 fees they charge for some customer service tasks. Telecom companies were asked to respond to CRTC questions following media reports that telecoms were charging customers to complete some tasks through a customer service representative that they could otherwise do themselves online. All four companies told the CRTC they have such fees in place for at least some...
The Federal Court of Appeal has rejected an application by the City of Calgary asking the court to review a CRTC decision the city said didn’t address whether a new bylaw could govern telecom access to infrastructure. The...
The country’s largest telecoms are telling the Federal Court that the City of Calgary shouldn’t be allowed to appeal a CRTC decision on whether the city’s new bylaw binds the carriers on...
Complaints about TV service to the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services (CCTS)...
The Liberal government should expect some amount of industry opposition...
As the Liberal government unveils its last budget before the upcoming federal election, companies and industry groups will be watching to see if this is the year they’re finally granted some of the requests they’ve been making for years. Various parties are suggesting...
All Canadians whose earnings fall below the government’s low-income measure should have access to internet service for $10, an advocacy group is telling the panel reviewing the broadcasting and telecom acts. ACORN Canada also...
Canada’s publicly traded telecom companies added more than one million...
The CRTC misunderstood the scope of the issues when it denied an application by Calgary to formally...
BCE Inc., Shaw Communications Inc., and Quebecor Inc. are warning against a...
Shaw Communications Inc. is asking the government to drop the five per cent revenue contribution TV service providers make to Canadian content, but says if CanCon needs a subsidy then it should be a direct one from government...
Shaw Communications Inc. says its wireless business has reaped the fruits...
Canada’s large internet service providers say granting the Canadian Network Operators Consortium (CNOC) request to lift the CRTC’s speed cap of 100 Mbps for wholesale internet would eliminate the...
Wireless operators will have to begin offering message relay services (MRS) by June 2019, the CRTC said Friday. Message relay serves customers with a hearing or speech disability by allowing them...
The CRTC has sided with a small telecom that was reselling wholesale internet service from Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink to other internet service providers, despite Eastlink’s objections. “In the Commission’s view, a competitive provider reselling...