The federal department of innovation, science and economic development (ISED) has kicked off its consultation on a “right to repair” for Canadians looking to fix their devices rather than replace them with something new.
The department is gathering input as it works...
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink announced Tuesday that it is introducing a video streaming application for its mobile users. The TiVo Stream mobile app will permit customers to watch programming on the go.
"We're on a mission to do things differently," Eastlink CEO...
Newfoundland and Labrador will finally be rolling out the 879 numbering...
Wednesday was the deadline for interested intervenors to file their comments on the CRTC’s...
The CRTC has again extended its deadline for comments and replies on a...
To mark National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, the Ottawa Police Service issued a news release...
The government is in the process of checking into how many phone numbers in its possession are dormant and how to proceed with handling them. Public Services and Procurement (PSP) is the lead department in the undertaking.
Anthony Housefather, the Parliamentary Secretary...
The CRTC is worried about telephone number depletion and is suggesting that number pools be reduced to...
Thursday the CRTC issued a decision directing wireless service providers...
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,...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Monday that it is expanding its 5G footprint into...
The Competition Bureau responded Monday to Rogers Communications Inc.’s...
The CRTC has clarified the rules around the...
Following months of discussion, the CRTC has finally implemented the use of...
The Commission for Complaints for...
The Parliamentary committee looking at so-called on device investigation tools (ODITs) was told that some politicians are being looked at as security risks. Former CSIS agent...
The RCMP are not deploying the Pegasus system to conduct surveillance on...
Two Canadian and American governing authorities responsible for...
The ministers of Canadian Heritage and Intergovernmental Affairs,...
Conservative MP Todd Doherty continued his fight for a national three-digit...
Late Monday night the Senate passed a reformed version of a bill that seeks to codify the standard in the Customs Act under which Canadian border officials can search a...
Touting it as a "historic day" at an afternoon press conference, Innovation...
The government's effort to convince...
When it comes to the government's plan to lower the threshold governing the...
Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons violated national privacy law because...
Given that the data contained on personal digital...
The government's attempt to create a brand new...
The fight for a dedicated three-digit emergency number for suicide prevention continued to gather steam...
A Government bill in the Senate that seeks to codify the legal threshold...
Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien has welcomed the report on collection of mobility data issued by the House of Commons Committee on Ethics committee. The MPs released...
The House of Commons’ Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and...
The 911 committee for the Syndicat canadien de la fonction publique au...
As the CRTC is considering the funding structures for the planned rollout of so-called next generation...
Conservative MP Todd Doherty issued a news release on Monday marking the...
A new Government-backed Senate bill now seeks to establish a new framework for the search of digital devices like phones and laptops by Canada's border agents, 1.5 years after...
The CRTC is allowing the Government of the Northwest Territories to file...
In what it says is an effort to safeguard travellers' rights when entering...
The CRTC has pushed back deadlines for comments on next generation 911 (NG911) service following a...
Cogeco Inc.'s ability to participate in the...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development...
Several Canadian telecom companies have responded to the Russian invasion of Ukraine by temporarily...
On Friday, the CRTC approved recommendations from the Emergency Services...
It would be impossible for the government to re-identify mobility data of...
A panel of academics reiterated that the Privacy Act and the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) need to be updated to reflect changes in the...
The CRTC has released a dozen questions it wants stakeholders to answer regarding the establishment of a...
Ontario’s former privacy commissioner called the Public Health Agency’s...
The CRTC has determined that all communications service providers (CSPs),...
Conservative MP and Heritage Critic John Nater...
A federal court judge has rejected a China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. request to order the office of Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne and the...
Two Conservative MPs lambasted the Liberal government on Tuesday over data...
Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, has declined an...
The Commission for the Protection of Quebec’s Agricultural Territory will...
China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. is arguing before the Federal...
On Monday, executives of several U.S. airlines wrote to leadership of the Federal Aviation...
The CRTC has requested that several telecoms companies send it more...
OTTAWA–The House of Commons Ethics committee voted unanimously Thursday...
A group of four Opposition MPs is asking for an emergency meeting of the...
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...
On Thursday the CRTC called for comments on hosted call handling solutions (CHS) for public safety...
The government was taken to task Tuesday over rollout of a dedicated number...
A crown-owned Saskatchewan telecommunications firm is launching its new digital mobile service
In a...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has opened a regional office in Regina to facilitate its work with...
The CRTC approved the implementation of an overlay for area code 468 for the western Quebec region currently served by the 819 and 873 area codes.
The area code relief will take place on Oct. 22, 2022, the CRTC said in its Wednesday release.
The two area codes...
The CRTC has approved a new area code for the region surrounding Montreal. In a decision issued Friday...
Canada’s incumbent telecoms made another plea for deferral of the application of the STIR/SHAKEN...
The RCMP is looking for an artificial intelligence decryption system that...
A Quebec-based company that specializes in the sale of wellness products to...
Montreal will be getting a third area code within the next year, the CRTC said in a Monday decision. The...
OTTAWA -- MP Pablo Rodriguez is back in familiar territory as he is once...
Ontario’s Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal by Telus Corp. in a...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner will be...
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...
An industry association-sponsored study released...
Canada’s telecom companies are debating before the CRTC whether it is...
Canada remains amongst the world's highest wireless phone prices, according...
While the Canadian government is busy collecting $8.9 billion dollars from...
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...
Canada’s telecommunications companies are recommending that the CRTC...
Redline Communications Group Inc., a Markham-Ont.-based manufacturer of...
The CRTC has determined that, unless a telecommunications service provider...
Iristel Inc. is launching a service that will allow Canadian phone numbers to be paired with less expensive plans offered by U.S. telecom companies. On Monday the company announced its $6 per month "Mobifi" service, which it...
The CRTC is setting new deadlines for the implementation of next-generation 911 networks and services after delaying due to the pandemic. The regulator said in a decision Monday next-gen or NG911 providers will have until...
The federal government is investing $14 million in Redline Communications Group Inc. through its Strategic Innovation Fund for the company to produce “Industrial 5G” products for clients in the...
The CRTC has once again extended its deadline for telecom providers to enact an anti-call-spoofing protocol known as STIR/SHAKEN, this time into fall 2021. Instead of entirely blocking calls from coming through, the...
Rogers Communications Inc., BCE Inc., and Quebecor Inc.’s collective bid to get back millions in royalties they say they paid to the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada...
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 eligible for damages through Facebook ads. The group is tasked with the goal of compensating mobile customers who were charged abusive fees for terminating their contracts early. The class-action started several years ago after Rogers charged hefty fees to customers who left their...
The Independent Telecommunications Providers Association (ITPA) is asking the CRTC to force large telecom service providers to give the association a list of the wireless service numbers with...
Mitel Networks Corp. has delivered a blunt reply to incumbents over their approaches to implementing the STIR/SHAKEN anti-fraud-call technology, suggesting that larger companies are seeking...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) has asked the CRTC to publicly disclose the information it...
The CRTC announced Monday that it would establish a CRTC interconnection steering committee (CISC) ad hoc relief planning committee to examine options and make numbering relief recommendations for...
Public Safety Canada is considering implementing a “more sustainable funding approach” for Canada’s emergency alert system, according to documents obtained through the...
Xplornet Communications Inc. will use technology from Ericsson AB in its next-generation network, the company said Tuesday. Xplornet will begin rolling out its 5G fixed-wireless network in rural areas this summer, it said in...
The number of complaints from Canadians about their telecom services fell 19 per cent last year, the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS) said in its annual report Monday. It’s the first time...
Six months after the CRTC declined its request to hold an inquiry into contact tracing technologies and...
One in five potential customers for telecommunications services "perceived...
As its work was being put on hiatus due to prorogation of the House of Commons, the industry committee sent a letter to Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains saying the federal government must act to...
The federal government has responded to a petition calling for Canada to restrict the installation of cellphone towers and antennas around schools and playgrounds, saying such measures are...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre is asking for all Canadian...
Several of Canada’s cities and provinces, as well as the federal...
A company that says its privacy-focused software app can tell employers exactly how their employees are using their phones at work said it hasn’t received support for its...