By Donna Hokiro, president, Local 1944, United Steelworkers Union
By now, many, if not most Canadians are familiar with the ubiquitous ads propagated for so long by...
Telus Corp. is cutting 6,000 jobs, the company announced Friday.
Telus International will see 2,000 losses while its main business will cut the remaining 4,000 positions. The company says it is offering packages for early retirement and voluntary departure.
The news...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) is fighting with two...
Telus Corp. reported profits of $224 million for the three months ending March 31, a 45 per cent dip...
According to the analytics firm Opensignal, when it comes to fixed...
Telus Corp. has gotten an extension -- though not as long as the company...
Conservative MP Dan Mazier’s private member’s bill on internet service quality metrics got a smooth ride in the House of Commons industry committee on Monday. MPs from all parties backed the bill and all the witnesses who appeared before the panel spoke in favour of the...
Monday the CRTC approved a review and vary application from Rogers Communications Inc. over a series of...
Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s...
British Columbia’s Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI)...
Indigenous leadership is once again pushing the...
Telus Corp. reported a 60 per cent drop in net income for its last quarter...
Telecommunications companies across Canada are waiving fees for texts and...
All eyes in the telecom world will be focused on the Federal Court of...
Telus Corp. told the CRTC that it is not charging more for the services it...
The government of British Columbia is suing Telus Corp.'s Telus Health, claiming that doctors who sign up for its LifePlus program are refusing to see patients unless the patients also sign up for the program. That constitutes extra billing, which is forbidden, the province...
MISSISSAUGA – Criticism of Telus Corp.’s...
The takeover of Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile unit by...
MISSISSAUGA — Canada made progress with its upcoming spectrum auction...
The CRTC is directing the province of British...
In a series of rulings issued on Thursday morning, the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed appeals in three cases involving telecom companies.
In the first case, Marjorie Nelson sued Telus Corp. in a class action suit regarding wireless customers who cancelled their...
Telus Corp. reported a 9.9 per cent increase in its overall revenues for the three months that ended on...
The CRTC has missed a deadline for ruling if Telus Corp. can impose a 1.5...
Heads of Canada's major telecommunications companies met with federal...
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) denied an application by...
Telus Corp.'s plan to introduce a 1.5 per cent surcharge for new and...
Telus Health, a division of Telus Corp., finalized its takeover of...
The CRTC has issued a request for information from the incumbent wireless...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre and the National Pensioners Federation...
Thursday the CRTC renewed the licence of OUTtv Network Inc. for five years and said it should be on must-offer status in English Canada for four years. That wasn’t good enough for one commissioner.
The LGBTQ+-themed network had asked for must-offer coverage across both...
Canada should look to Britain and Australia for lessons on how to regulate...
Submissions to the Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic...
Telus Corp.’s profits shot up by almost 45 per cent after it reported its...
Telus Corp. announced Tuesday that its agricultural division will be expanding its scope, resulting in...
Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne has directed the nation's largest telecommunications companies to negotiate "mutual assistance" agreements during outages,...
BCE Inc. is asking the CRTC to rescind its order to make seamless handoffs...
Telus Corp. unveiled a $23 billion investment in broadband and related technologies across Ontario...
Telus Corp. announced Thursday it is purchasing digital health company...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. are asking the CRTC to deny a...
As the Competition Bureau takes Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...
The reported network sharing deal inked between Freedom Mobile-hopeful...
A joint petition to cabinet from the National Pensioners Federation and the...
The Independent Telecommunications Providers...
According to Telus Corp. executive vice-president and chief operations officer, if there was smarter public policy on spectrum, the company could “actually deploy...
Iristel Inc. filed a petition to the governor in council to vary a decision...
The CRTC has admonished Telus Corp. for not entirely fulfilling its...
Telus Corp. is asking the CRTC to reclassify small incumbent local exchange carriers (SILECs)
as originating...
In an announcement Thursday, the department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) said...
A Toronto-based telecom and broadcasting consultant is arguing to the CRTC that Rogers Communications Inc.’s pending acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc., and recent inflation, are “significant...
The Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (FRPC) is the only...
The CRTC mostly accepted the arguments of small wireless carriers against...
When it assessed Quebecor Inc. as eligible to bid...
A panel of academics reiterated that the Privacy Act and the Personal...
On Friday the CRTC dismissed a complaint by Telus Corp. against TLN Media...
Ontario’s former privacy commissioner called the Public Health Agency’s...
Roaming revenue remains among the biggest headwinds for Telus Corp.’s...
The Government of Canada said it has delivered on...
The CRTC cannot impose fines on either Iristel Inc. and Telus Corp. after the regulator found the companies have violated the Telecommunications Act in a long-running dispute...
Telus Corp. and the University of Ottawa have announced a new partnership aimed at turning the...
Iristel Inc. has asked for guidance from the CRTC in seeking to comply with...
Overall, telecommunications companies pulled in some $53.4 billion in 2020,...
Telus Corp. has sold its financial solutions division to Vancouver-based...
Of Canada’s big three telecom companies, Rogers Communications Inc. is the one most affected by the COVID-19 Delta wave and the looming Omicron variant. However, with the Shaw Communications Inc. merger on the horizon, things should be picking up for the incumbent,...
The CRTC has rejected a pair of review and vary...
Canada’s big three telecommunications companies...
Telus Corp. executives told the CTRC that if the...
The federal government’s Universal Broadband Fund (UBF), by having rural...
MISSISSAUGA — Telus Corp.’s chief technology officer said that the...
MISSISSAUGA -- The government's set-aside spectrum policy has, rather than...
One of Canada’s telecom incumbents is urging the...
Telus Corp. expects to have its legacy copper network out of commission...
John Raines will be joining Telus Corp.’s agriculture division as president effective Nov. 29, the telecom announced Wednesday.
A 20-year veteran of the sector, he led the largest digital agriculture platform, and multi-million dollar mergers, in North America, South...
Rogers Communications Inc.'s regulatory team can present the company's...
Ontario’s Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal by Telus Corp. in a...
The Federal Court has rejected a Telus Corp....
The CRTC approved an application by Telus Corp. to...
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...
China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. is going to court to fight an...
Telus Corp. Wednesday announced developments in a pair of projects aimed at rolling out higher speed wireless service. The company announced it has rolled out its 5G network to Lethbridge and Sylvan Lake, Alberta, as part of...
Canada’s telecommunications companies are recommending that the CRTC...
Two telecommunication workers’ unions, Unifor and the Canadian Union for Public Employees (CUPE), have partnered up to demand the federal government step in to minimize the outsourcing of Canadian jobs overseas in the telecom...
The Federal Court of Appeal will take up a Telus Corp. challenge to two...
The CRTC has ruled that the CBC/Radio-Canada is not giving itself an...
Going forward, if Canadians are to “truly benefit” from 5G innovation...
The Federal Court of Appeal ruled Friday partially in favour of a group that challenged a tariff increase by the Copyright Board of Canada for over-the-air distant signal...
Telus Corp. has expanded its 5G network into Quebec City as part of a $38 million investment in infrastructure. The company, which plans to spend $9 billion throughout the province through 2024, said Tuesday it will continue...
The telecom sector is on track to rebound following a bleak 2019 and 2020, according to an analysis of the industry halfway through the 2021 financial year. “Halfway through the year, we see...
Telus Corp. wants the CRTC to set an industry-wide definition of...
A workers’ union in Quebec claims Telus Corp. has broken a “moral contract” with the people of the province by opting to hire more outside of Canada, rather than at home. In a release Thursday, a regional council of the...
Rogers Communications Inc. has voiced its support for Telus Corp.'s Federal Court of Appeal challenge of certain elements of April's CRTC decision, in which Telus challenged provisions of the regulator's decision mandating seamless roaming between carriers and access to...
Telus Corp. is planning to spend a combined $26 billion on network connectivity in Ontario and Quebec...
Telus Corp. is seeking permission to appeal two provisions of the CRTC's April decision flowing from the commission's wireless review. While Telus is not seeking to appeal the central decision of...
Quebec’s Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal from the province’s attorney general over its desire to have telecoms block access to illegal gambling sites. In July...
Echoing his counterparts at BCE Inc. and Rogers...
Canada’s big-three telecoms are doubling down on their assertions that...
Industry analysts are calling Thursday's decision to mandate access to incumbent wireless networks for a limited number of regional wireless competitors a "moderate net...
Incumbent telecom companies will be required to...
Several large telecom companies have argued that the CRTC shouldn’t...
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 Vancouver-based internet provider filed a complaint with the CRTC earlier this year asking for help gaining access to the building as it claimed the developer’s representatives indicated they were satisfied with the services offered by Shaw Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. “The comfort and satisfaction of the developer with its arrangements have no...