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High spectrum costs are the villain in cellular prices, Big 3 tell INDU

telecom | 03/18/2024 3:52 pm EDT

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....

CRTC denies TerreStar’s bid for stay of contribution decision

telecom | 02/07/2024 3:41 pm EST

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...

New “use it or lose it” policy helps Indigenous spectrum connectivity 

telecom | 01/31/2024 3:42 pm EST

Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne...

ISED establishes fee structure for non-competitive local spectrum licences

telecom | 01/08/2024 12:59 pm EST

The Minister of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) has...

3,800 MHz auction nets $2.2B in preliminary results

telecom | 11/30/2023 6:14 pm EST

Canada’s telecom industry have spent some $2.16 billion on the 3,800 MHz band of spectrum, according to...

Telesat reports Q3 2023 results 

telecom | 11/06/2023 3:26 pm EST

Telesat Corp. announced its financial performance for the three month period ended Sept. 30, posting a...

Telus says CRTC strayed from accounting principles in spectrum revenue and contribution decision

telecom | 10/02/2023 6:20 pm EDT

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...

OPINION: Canada’s spectrum framework is failing Indigenous peoples

telecom | 09/01/2023 6:00 pm EDT

By Mark Buell and Phil Steinhauer-Mozejko, Connect Humanity Fund In its...

ISED releases spectrum outlook until 2027

Internet and Governance | 09/01/2023 5:44 pm EDT

The Department of Industry Science and Economic Development (ISED) released its Spectrum Outlook...

TerreStar challenges CRTC decision that spectrum sale is part of telecom service

telecom | 08/30/2023 5:38 pm EDT

TerreStar Solutions Inc. is challenging a CRTC decision which denied the...

ISED releases consult on WCS band licence renewal

telecom | 03/14/2023 4:26 pm EDT

The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) is seeking comments on the...

U.S. FCC considering following Canadian lead on automobile spectrum

telecom | 02/22/2023 5:41 pm EST

Two U.S. senators are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to...

ISED releases results of residual spectrum band auction

telecom | 01/27/2023 4:19 pm EST

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...

ISED to begin consultations on drone use in spectrum bands

telecom | 01/25/2023 2:24 pm EST

The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) will...

Globalive seeks to become national carrier by buying Manitoba spectrum

telecom | 01/23/2023 2:59 pm EST

Frustrated in its attempt to buy Freedom Mobile back from Shaw...

CanWISP worried ISED proposals will reduce rural connectivity

telecom | 12/01/2022 7:04 pm EST

"Stringent" limitations proposed for the non-competitive licensing (NCL)...

Videotron more effective owner of Freedom than Shaw, expert testifies

telecom | 11/29/2022 2:38 pm EST

An expert witness for Shaw Communications Inc. took issue Monday with...

Telus continues its push to reform spectrum policies in conference keynote address

telecom | 11/21/2022 12:14 pm EST

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...

ISED rejects transfer of Xplore licence to Telus

telecom | 09/19/2022 7:22 am EDT

The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)  denied an application by...

ISED auctioning off 42 licences left up for grabs

telecom | 08/11/2022 5:28 pm EDT

The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) is auctioning off 42 spectrum...

ISED approves Bell, Telus, spectrum licence swap

telecom | 07/19/2022 4:08 pm EDT

The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) approved several...

ISED issues rules for 3800 MHz spectrum auction

telecom | 06/30/2022 5:55 pm EDT

The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) issued the rules for its next...

ISED launches mmWave consultation

Media | 06/06/2022 5:21 pm EDT

The Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development has launched its consultation on the...

Court dismisses Telus challenge to Quebecor set-aside acquisitions in 3,500 MHz auction

Media | 05/18/2022 3:27 pm EDT

A federal court judge has dismissed a challenge...

Telus sees strong quarterly results for subscribers, says smarter spectrum policies needed

telecom | 05/06/2022 5:16 pm EDT

According to Telus Corp. executive vice-president and chief operations officer, if there was smarter public policy on spectrum, the company could “actually deploy...

ISED approves spectrum licence transfer in Northern Ontario

telecom | 03/11/2022 4:17 pm EST

Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) has approved a transfer...

ISED releases consultations on licence-exempt spectrum in 95 GHz and 5.9 GHz bands

telecom | 03/04/2022 7:11 pm EST

The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED)...

UPDATED: Champagne to deny ‘wholesale’ transfer of spectrum from Shaw to Rogers

telecom | 03/03/2022 5:10 pm EST

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...

Delay 3,800 Mhz auction until altimeter issues resolved, Sasktel tells ISED

telecom | 03/03/2022 9:52 am EST

Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. has a “simple”...

Telesat provides satellite lessor capacity

telecom | 02/14/2022 4:26 pm EST

Telesat Corp. provided satellite lessor Anuvu satellite capacity in what the companies said is the...

Telus, Tbaytel, subordination of spectrum licences approved

telecom | 01/24/2022 4:24 pm EST

The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED)...

TeraGo divestiture positive for company: Analyst

telecom | 01/21/2022 2:16 pm EST

A Canaccord Genuity analyst says ​​TeraGo Inc.’s  divestiture of its cloud and colocation business...

5G and aviation: the Canadian context

telecom | 01/18/2022 5:28 pm EST

On Monday, executives of several U.S. airlines wrote to leadership of the Federal Aviation...

MVNOs expected in 2023; impact will be ‘manageable’ for incumbents: analyst

telecom | 01/07/2022 5:00 pm EST

The advent of facilities-based mobile virtual...

Canada avoids American confusion of 5G impact on airports

telecom | 01/05/2022 4:29 pm EST

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...

ISED proposes to keep 3500 Mhz set-aside rules in 3800 Mhz auction consultation doc

telecom | 12/20/2021 4:33 pm EST

The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) is...

ISED approves Rogers spectrum subordination in Yukon

telecom | 12/15/2021 3:31 pm EST

The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) approved the subordination...

ISED increases spectrum and telecoms licence fees by 3.4 per cent for next fiscal year

telecom | 11/24/2021 2:27 pm EST

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...

Big three telecoms respond to ISED consultations

telecom | 11/18/2021 3:29 pm EST

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) has released responses to its consultation on...

Indigenous connectivity needs separate funding from feds’ UBF: Telus exec

telecom | 11/17/2021 7:40 pm EST

The federal government’s Universal Broadband Fund (UBF), by having rural...

Telus opens conference with attack on set-aside spectrum policies

telecom | 11/15/2021 11:14 am EST

MISSISSAUGA -- The government's set-aside spectrum policy has, rather than...

Internet Society releases Indigenous connectivity recommendations

telecom | 11/09/2021 10:34 am EST

Indigenous stakeholders in Canadian telecoms are renewing their calls for...

Telesat announces new chief commercial officer, president of Government Solutions 

Media | 10/26/2021 1:00 pm EDT

Satellite operator, Telesat Corp. appointed an executive in the...

Court dismisses Telus request for injunction against Quebecor’s 3500 MHz licenses

telecom | 10/23/2021 11:40 am EDT

The Federal Court has rejected a Telus Corp....

Bell, SaskTel, not buying ISED proposal to reintroduce deployment requirements for cellular bands 

telecom | 10/20/2021 12:04 pm EDT

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...

Quebecor’s spectrum winnings an ‘unfair cost advantage,’ Telus tells Federal Court

Media | 10/19/2021 7:16 pm EDT

A Federal Court injunction stopping the Department...

Deadline extended for ISED consultation on new regime for licensing unused spectrum

telecom | 10/12/2021 5:35 pm EDT

Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) is extending the...

Redline partners with Utah-based mining company

telecom | 10/07/2021 5:19 pm EDT

The Markham-Ont.-based manufacturer of wireless network technology for mining, oil-and-gas, and utilities...

Court order blocking Quebecor 3500 MHz acquisition would harm competition: ISED

Media | 10/06/2021 6:33 pm EDT

The Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) has...

Indigenous economic reconciliation needs path toward spectrum sovereignty: experts

Media | 09/30/2021 5:03 pm EDT

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...

Spectrum license exclusivity must go: Mozilla advisor

telecom | 09/21/2021 6:36 pm EDT

In order to achieve better spectrum sovereignty for Indigenous communities in Canada, the government has...

Telus joins Bell’s call for rollback on Quebecor spectrum acquisition 

telecom | 08/30/2021 4:51 pm EDT

Telus Corp. has joined BCE Inc. in seeking to block Quebecor Inc. from...

Bell seeks to block Quebecor set-aside 3,500 MHz purchases 

telecom | 08/27/2021 2:26 pm EDT

BCE Inc. is going to court to stop Quebecor Inc. from purchasing valuable...

ISED launches new spectrum consultations, decides to forego consultations on residual spectrum auctions

telecom | 08/04/2021 6:37 pm EDT

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...

Telus talks wireless strategy after spectrum auction, Q2 results

telecom | 07/30/2021 6:31 pm EDT

Going forward, if Canadians are to “truly benefit” from 5G innovation...

Eyes on Quebecor following 3500 MHz auction

telecom | 07/30/2021 6:25 pm EDT

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...

BREAKING: 3500 MHz auction nets $8.9B, $7.3B from incumbents

telecom | 07/29/2021 6:04 pm EDT

Canadian telecom companies -- and wireless service hopefuls -- have spent...

High spectrum costs could be driven by competition for set aside: analyst

telecom | 07/15/2021 6:32 pm EDT

Industry analysts are declining to speculate too much on what caused the...

ISED ‘repurposing’ 3800 MHz spectrum band, dismissing Telesat proposal

telecom | 05/21/2021 5:38 pm EDT

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...

ISED triples spectrum available for Wi-Fi

telecom | 05/19/2021 5:59 pm EDT

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...

Delay 3500 MHz auction: CNOC to ISED

telecom | 04/19/2021 6:10 pm EDT

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 revenue up, profit dips

Media | 04/14/2021 5:36 pm EDT

Cogeco Inc. announced another increase in revenue with its second-quarter results Tuesday as it awaits...

Efficiencies defense is a ‘serious’ exercise of discretion: competition comish

telecom | 04/07/2021 7:28 pm EDT

Allowing a merger to proceed on the basis of the...

StatCan starts highlighting spectrum cost data

telecom | 03/30/2021 3:55 pm EDT

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...

Rogers, Shaw execs mum on spectrum at Industry committee  

telecom | 03/29/2021 7:40 pm EDT

On the opening day Monday of hearings into Roger's proposed acquisition of...

Regulatory approval of Rogers-Shaw deal will hinge on wireless: Execs, analysts

Media | 03/15/2021 8:30 am EDT

From the perspective of Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Joe Natale,...

Telecoms split on ISED’s proposed approach to opening 6 GHz band

telecom | 03/02/2021 5:20 pm EST

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...

ISED proposal to displace spectrum for fixed wireless divides ISPs

telecom | 12/11/2020 11:37 am EST

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....

ISED opening up 6 GHz band for WiFi

telecom | 11/19/2020 5:01 pm EST

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...

Telecoms object to Telesat’s proposal to auction 3800 MHz spectrum

telecom | 11/10/2020 5:48 pm EST

A number of Canadian wireless providers have objected to a proposal that...

Telesat pitches plan to fast-track sale of 3800 MHz spectrum

telecom | 09/01/2020 6:35 pm EDT

Canadian satellite operator Telesat Holdings Inc. has spruiked its proposal...

$263M in deferred spectrum fees due Tuesday: ISED

Media | 08/31/2020 3:00 pm EDT

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...

ISED launches 3800 MHz consultation

telecom | 08/27/2020 5:31 pm EDT

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...

ISED says department has ‘done well’ with working from home

telecom | 08/10/2020 5:52 pm EDT

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...

Half of spectrum licencees opted to use ISED’s COVID flexibility

telecom | 07/29/2020 5:21 pm EDT

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada allowed companies to...

Experts say 5G will eventually deliver, but a speed boost for now

telecom | 06/29/2020 2:53 pm EDT

Experts are unanimous in saying Canada’s 5G networks will eventually...

ISED delays 3500 MHz auction by six months

telecom | 06/05/2020 1:45 pm EDT

The 3500 MHz spectrum auction, originally scheduled for December of this year, will now take place in...

Bell calls for delayed payments in 3.5 GHz spectrum auction

telecom | 05/07/2020 5:59 pm EDT

While BCE Inc.'s first quarter results showed a decline in profits and...

5G monitoring same as for all wireless tech: Health Canada

telecom | 05/06/2020 3:16 pm EDT

Health Canada has responded to an MPs’ query about what steps it is...

Telus savages gov’t price directive, others more circumspect

telecom | 03/06/2020 5:30 pm EST

Analysts have provided nuanced reactions to the government’s plan to...

Telecoms deadlocked ahead of 5G rollout: analyst

telecom | 01/10/2020 5:32 pm EST

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...

Amos, Dabrusin, van Koesverden in as new parlsecs

Media | 12/12/2019 3:23 pm EST

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...

Usual fault lines emerging ahead of 3.5 GHz auction

telecom | 12/05/2019 6:11 pm EST

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...