The presidents of the Big Three telecoms told the House of Commons Industry Committee that it is the government which is one of the biggest offenders in wireless prices....
The CRTC has denied an application by TerreStar Solutions Inc. for a stay of a commission decision on contribution requirements. TerreStar first filed its request last August. Telus Corp. backed the Quebec telecom up in its filing to the regulator. The final decision...
Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne...
The Minister of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) has...
Canada’s telecom industry have spent some $2.16 billion on the 3,800 MHz band of spectrum, according to...
Telesat Corp. announced its financial performance for the three month period ended Sept. 30, posting a...
Telus Corp. says the CRTC should review its decision to include revenues from the sale and subordination of spectrum in its contribution regime because it did not take into...
By Mark Buell and Phil Steinhauer-Mozejko, Connect Humanity Fund In its...
The Department of Industry Science and Economic Development (ISED) released its Spectrum Outlook...
TerreStar Solutions Inc. is challenging a CRTC decision which denied the...
The CRTC has denied TerreStar Solutions Inc.’s...
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) is seeking comments on the...
Telecom experts say that a Senate bill that would...
Two U.S. senators are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to...
Indigenous leadership is once again pushing the...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) has released the list of telecoms that have purchased spectrum in the most recent auction. The spectrum is in the 600 Mhz, 2500 Mhz and 3500 Mhz bands. BCE Inc.’s Bell Mobility Inc. won eight licences...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) will...
Frustrated in its attempt to buy Freedom Mobile back from Shaw...
"Stringent" limitations proposed for the non-competitive licensing (NCL)...
An expert witness for Shaw Communications Inc. took issue Monday with...
MISSISSAUGA — Canada made progress with its upcoming spectrum auction framework but has more reforms to implement if it wants to offer cost effective 5G services, according...
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) denied an application by...
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) is auctioning off 42 spectrum...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) approved several...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) issued the rules for its next...
The two ministers responsible for the Act...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic...
The Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development has launched its consultation on the...
A federal court judge has dismissed a challenge...
According to Telus Corp. executive vice-president and chief operations officer, if there was smarter public policy on spectrum, the company could “actually deploy...
Rogers Communications Inc. has told the...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) has approved a transfer...
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED)...
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...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. has a “simple”...
When it assessed Quebecor Inc. as eligible to bid...
Telesat Corp. provided satellite lessor Anuvu satellite capacity in what the companies said is the...
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED)...
A Canaccord Genuity analyst says TeraGo Inc.’s divestiture of its cloud and colocation business...
On Monday, executives of several U.S. airlines wrote to leadership of the Federal Aviation...
Tier 5 service areas are “too large” to meet...
The advent of facilities-based mobile virtual...
Early consultations on regulations to 5G rollout affecting air traffic seems to have resulted in Canada avoiding a dispute that roiled the American telecom market. On the last day of 2021, United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and the Federal Aviation...
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) is...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez is...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) approved the subordination...
Canada’s big three telecommunications companies...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) is increasing its spectrum and telecommunications fees for the 2022-2023 fiscal year by 3.4 per cent, calculated...
The telecoms companies that supported Innovation,...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) has released responses to its consultation on...
The federal government’s Universal Broadband Fund (UBF), by having rural...
MISSISSAUGA -- The government's set-aside spectrum policy has, rather than...
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...
The Federal Court has rejected a Telus Corp....
BCE Inc. and Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. are not in favour of a proposal from Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) to adopt its 20-year 3500...
A Federal Court injunction stopping the Department...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) is extending the...
The Markham-Ont.-based manufacturer of wireless network technology for mining, oil-and-gas, and utilities...
The Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) has...
While the Canadian government is busy collecting $8.9 billion dollars from its recent 3500 MHz spectrum auction, Nunavut is still 100 per cent dependent on satellites for its...
In order to achieve better spectrum sovereignty for Indigenous communities in Canada, the government has...
If re-elected come Sept. 20, Justin Trudeau’s...
Telus Corp. has joined BCE Inc. in seeking to block Quebecor Inc. from...
BCE Inc. is going to court to stop Quebecor Inc. from purchasing valuable...
The association representing Canada’s...
For BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic, the high cost of the...
The federal government Wednesday launched a trio of consultation documents on spectrum policy that it says is aimed at freeing up the valuable resource for use by rural...
Going forward, if Canadians are to “truly benefit” from 5G innovation...
As the dust settles on the results of the 3,500 MHz auction announced Thursday, much of the initial interest amongst analysts and industry watchers has centered not on the $7.31 billion spent by the so-called big three incumbents -- BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc, and...
Canadian telecom companies -- and wireless service hopefuls -- have spent...
Industry analysts are declining to speculate too much on what caused the...
Bidding opened Tuesday morning in what will be a...
The federal government announced Friday it is repurposing the 3800 MHz spectrum band to support 5G services, with an auction to take place in early 2023. The department of Innovation, Science and...
The federal government is making more spectrum available to increase competition, rural connectivity and the effective deployment of Wi-Fi and 5G technologies. On Wednesday, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne, announced his department’s decision to open the 6 GHz band with the goal of increasing both affordability and choice in respect to wireless broadband for consumers. “More spectrum available for Wi-Fi means Canadians will benefit from increased speed and connectivity for working from home, participating in online education and accessing...
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...
Cogeco Inc. announced another increase in revenue with its second-quarter results Tuesday as it awaits...
Allowing a merger to proceed on the basis of the...
Statistics Canada has begun to aggregate data about the results of major auctions of Canadian spectrum bandwidth. The government agency is making the data available on its Telecommunications in Canada portal, which it launched...
On the opening day Monday of hearings into Roger's proposed acquisition of...
From the perspective of Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Joe Natale,...
The federal government’s proposal to open up the 6 GHz spectrum band for WiFi use has received broad support in an Industry, Science and Economic Development Canada consultation. Every...
A pair of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada proposals on changes to midband spectrum allocation that would affect fixed wireless service has drawn a mixed response from telecoms....
The federal government has launched a consultation on a proposal to open up the 6 GHz spectrum band for WiFi use, a move it says would triple the amount of licence-exempt spectrum available for WiFi. The announcement, made by Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains at the...
A number of Canadian wireless providers have objected to a proposal that...
Canadian satellite operator Telesat Holdings Inc. has spruiked its proposal...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada won’t give any more extensions on the payment of spectrum fees, which are due Sept. 1, the department said. After the COVID-19 pandemic hit, ISED deferred the payment of...
Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada announced the launch of its consultation process on the 3800 MHz spectrum auction. The band is widely seen as being one of the bands crucial for 5G deployment. The launch...
Innovation, Science, and Economic Development says it is moving toward establishing a hybrid work-from-home model that will see increasing numbers of employees return to office work in a series of phases. “The Covid-19 pandemic ushered an overnight mass migration of our workforce out of the office and into their homes,” a senior management document obtained via an Access to Information request reads. It says an employee survey and a consultation by the associate deputy minister found “ISED has done well so far - but the current posture is not sustainable.” “The future of work...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada allowed companies to...
Experts are unanimous in saying Canada’s 5G networks will eventually...
The 3500 MHz spectrum auction, originally scheduled for December of this year, will now take place in...
While BCE Inc.'s first quarter results showed a decline in profits and...
Health Canada has responded to an MPs’ query about what steps it is...
Analysts have provided nuanced reactions to the government’s plan to...
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...
As the new Parliament gets up and running following the election of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals to a minority government, there are also some changes to the ranks of parliamentary secretaries as well. The Prime Minister’s...
A cap on the amount of 3.5 GHz spectrum any one company can hold in the upcoming auction is not, on its own, “sufficient” for smaller rural-based wireless internet service providers to compete, according to the trade group CanWISP. For rural providers, CanWISP says, the Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) needs to also put in place smaller license service areas, as well as set-asides of spectrum for smaller operators. The recommendations came in consultation comments submitted to ISED back in September and released this week as part of the...