Newfoundland and Labrador will finally be rolling out the 879 numbering plan area (NPA) on Feb. 17, 2024, the CRTC announced Friday. The new area code had initially been approved back in 2017 but the commission discovered number exhaustion would not take place until 2028,...
Wednesday was the deadline for interested intervenors to file their comments on the CRTC’s investigation of evolving to a 1000-block pooling (TBP) system to conserve telephone numbers. The commission began the process last March. It posed a series of questions to...
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...
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 (WSPs) to provide better service to people with disabilities. The companies must consult with those...
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...
The RCMP are not deploying the Pegasus system to conduct surveillance on...
Two Canadian and American governing authorities responsible for implementing STIR/SHAKEN are collaborating to combat robocalling. Tuesday, the Secure Telephone Identity Governance Authority (STI-GA) and the Canadian Secure Token Governance Authority (CST-GA) announced it...
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...
Touting it as a "historic day" at an afternoon press conference, Innovation...
The government's effort to convince parliamentarians to lower the threshold for the searching of cell phones and laptops at border crossings is based in "the fiction that data...
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...
The House of Commons’ Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and...
The 911 committee for the Syndicat canadien de la fonction publique au Québec (SCFP) is asking the CRTC to suspend its consultation on funding the next-generation 911 (NG911)...
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...
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 Canada, the federal government today introduced legislation in the Senate to "to strengthen the framework governing the examination of personal digital devices by Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)...
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...
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 (PHAC) lack of transparency on mobility data collection “appalling” and urged a strengthening...
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.,...
Two Conservative MPs lambasted the Liberal government on Tuesday over data...
Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, has declined an invitation to speak with the House of Commons Ethics committee about a Request for Proposal (RFP) the...
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,...
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 for mental health and last-mile fibre lays. Two Conservative MPs lashed out at the Trudeau administration over the failings. Pointing out it had been nearly a year since his colleague Todd Doherty...
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...
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 condition. In a Nov. 9 letter to the CRTC, the Emergency Services Working Group (ESWG) and the Network Working Group (NTWG), augmented by BCE Inc., Telus Corp., and...
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...
An industry association-sponsored study released...
Canada’s telecom companies are debating before the CRTC whether it is best to deploy a national mental health and suicide prevention crisis hotline simultaneously throughout...
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...
Canada’s telecommunications companies are recommending that the CRTC...
Redline Communications Group Inc., a Markham-Ont.-based manufacturer of wireless network technology for mining, oil-and-gas, and utilities groups, is taking on a new CEO as it...
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...
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 “anti-competitive, uneven, and discriminatory” regulations. In December, Mitel filed a Part 1 requesting the CRTC to mandate the inclusion of resellers in the STIR/SHAKEN rollout, arguing that if companies like it are excluded, they would face a competitive disadvantage, as they would not be able to directly attest to the authenticity of calls originating from their customers. This would be in...
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...
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 since 2015-2016 that the number of complaints went down year-over-year, the report said. It followed the CCTS mid-year report, which also saw declines. The annual report noted there were 35 per cent fewer complaints regarding BCE Inc.’s services from the previous year and 69 per cent fewer complaints regarding Cogeco Inc. “We are hopeful that service providers...
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...
The objection to the new phone financing plans from the likes of the Competition Bureau is based on an incorrect understanding of device financing arrangements, according to Rogers Communications Inc.’s reply in the CRTC’s...
Canadian mobile wireless data prices are falling precipitously, according to a new report from Finnish consulting company Rewheel — which also found Canada remains amongst the most expensive countries in the world. “While the Canadian median gigabyte price in...