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Singh says he’ll oppose Rogers-Shaw merger
Media | 09/10/2021 2:46 pm EDT
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is the first party leader to explicitly oppose the proposed acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc. by Rogers Communications Inc., saying that telecommunication giants are already “exploiting people.”
His comments came at a Friday morning...
Lower your prices or else, Trudeau tells big telecom at debate
Media | 09/09/2021 11:22 am EDT
GATINEAU, Que. -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is giving Canada’s telecommunications companies an ultimatum: drive down your prices or face much more competition in the marketplace.
His comments come after the second French-language leader’s debate held Wednesday,...
Conservatives would reject mergers impacting competition: O’Toole
telecom | 09/07/2021 5:14 pm EDT
Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole said during a press conference on...
Broadband blues: the UBF and its discontents
telecom | 09/03/2021 5:50 pm EDT
With a federal election called for Sept. 20, parties have pledged to make Canadians’ lives better in a...
Liberals promise to pressure spectrum-holders to connect rural and remote communities
Media | 09/01/2021 5:20 pm EDT
If re-elected come Sept. 20, Justin Trudeau’s...
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...
The Wire Report’s guide to the 2021 federal election
Media | 08/17/2021 2:35 pm EDT
After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally called Sunday for a widely-expected election to take place on Sept. 20, the political machinery across Canada's parties has whirred into action, making promises and plans in the hopes of attracting voters. Here's your early guide...
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...
CRTC’s fibre wire access decision ‘nail after nail after nail in the coffin of competition’: CNOC
telecom | 07/28/2021 7:42 pm EDT
The CRTC’s decision against mandating access to...
CNOC petitions gov on wholesale rates
telecom | 07/15/2021 5:42 pm EDT
Fed up with the CRTC's May decision to overturn its 2019 decision on wholesale internet access rates, the...
Bell, Rogers, and Quebecor seek first-ever ‘dynamic’ site-blocking order
Media | 07/08/2021 6:22 pm EDT
Nearly six weeks after a Federal Court of Appeal upheld Canada's first-ever...
TekSavvy seeks permission to appeal CRTC rates decision, CNOC asks for public support
telecom | 06/29/2021 7:06 pm EDT
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is asking the Federal...
TekSavvy adds evidence of ‘bias’ to its petition to cabinet
telecom | 06/24/2021 5:16 pm EDT
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has provided the Liberal Government with what it...
3500 MHz auction finally launches; valuable mid-band spectrum to come with new deployment requirements
Media | 06/15/2021 6:30 pm EDT
Bidding opened Tuesday morning in what will be a...
Conservative MP introduces bill compelling ISPs to publicize service quality metrics
Media | 06/03/2021 5:37 pm EDT
Conservative MP Dan Mazier has introduced a private member’s bill that...
Wholesale rates decision signals shift at CRTC: wholesale ISPs, analysts
Media | 05/28/2021 6:11 pm EDT
As reaction continues to pour in following the CRTC's Thursday decision to finalize wholesale internet access rates at 2016 levels and effectively reverse a 2019 decision that...
UPDATED: CRTC reverts wholesale access rates to interim 2016 levels
telecom | 05/27/2021 4:00 pm EDT
The CRTC Thursday announced that it is setting permanent rates for...
GoldTV blocking order survives TekSavvy appeal
Media | 05/26/2021 6:41 pm EDT
The Federal Court of Appeal has allowed Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order to stand,...
Telus appeals seamless roaming in CRTC’s wireless review decision
telecom | 05/14/2021 6:54 pm EDT
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...
Quebecor “pleased” with CRTC MVNO decision
telecom | 05/13/2021 6:10 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau added his voice to a chorus of...
CRTC’s MVNO decision reflects ‘right mentality’ on facilities-based competition and rates: Telus CEO
telecom | 05/07/2021 5:36 pm EDT
Echoing his counterparts at BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc., Telus Corp. CEO Darren Entwistle Friday morning said that April’s mobile virtual network operator (MVNO)...
Data on Tap asks Trudeau gov. to review MVNO decision
telecom | 05/04/2021 6:14 pm EDT
Data on Tap Inc., one of the country's hopeful mobile virtual network operators, has filed a petition to the governor in council, asking the government of Justin Trudeau to review the April decision of the CRTC to only mandate...
Rogers finds MVNO decision “helpful”, reports slight increase in profits
telecom | 04/21/2021 5:05 pm EDT
For Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Joe Natale,...
UPDATED – CRTC rejects broad MVNO model, will mandate limited access for regional players
telecom | 04/15/2021 4:01 pm EDT
Incumbent telecom companies will be required to...
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...
Without an MVNO mandate, Shaw must divest its spectrum: CNOC
telecom | 04/06/2021 6:07 pm EDT
Without a regime for mandated access for mobile virtual network operators...
Quebecor would buy Freedom, but only with spectrum: PKP
telecom | 03/31/2021 6:21 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc. has indicated that, should the Competition Bureau force...
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,...
Focus turns back to CRTC as SCC rejects incumbent wholesale challenge
telecom | 02/25/2021 5:46 pm EST
As the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed an incumbent challenge to an 18-month old CRTC decision to slash wholesale access rates for independent internet service providers...
As he steps down, Bains says telecom affordability ‘won’t go away’
Media | 01/12/2021 7:58 am EST
The affordability-focused initiatives Navdeep Bains put in place will...
Federal gov’t looking to expand emergency alerts to online platforms, devices
telecom | 11/25/2020 10:42 am EST
As Canadian emergency management authorities hold their regular test of the...
Incumbents appeal CRTC wholesale rates at Supreme Court
telecom | 11/12/2020 4:56 pm EST
Both BCE Inc. and large cable companies have turned to the Supreme Court...
CRTC to have ‘roughly nine months’ to act on Broadcasting Act update
Media | 11/03/2020 11:11 am EST
The Liberal government’s long-awaited update to the Broadcasting Act...
Private sector interest in Infrastructure Bank broadband funds ‘limited,’ PCO told
telecom | 10/16/2020 2:39 pm EDT
The federal government was told telecom companies weren’t enthusiastic about participating in the Canada Infrastructure Bank’s rural broadband program a year before it...
Liberals’ wireless price drop unlikely to achieve promised savings: gov’t docs
telecom | 10/15/2020 2:50 pm EDT
The Liberals' election commitment to drop wireless prices 25 per cent will...
CBC putting branded content initiative on ‘pause’
Media | 10/07/2020 11:08 am EDT
The branded content initiative launched by CBC/Radio-Canada last month has been put on hiatus while the...
Federal Court dismisses incumbents’ wholesale rates appeal
telecom | 09/10/2020 10:55 am EDT
The Federal Court of Appeal dismissed Thursday the large telecom...
Bell applies for indefinite extension of AI call blocking scheme
telecom | 09/04/2020 4:37 pm EDT
BCE Inc. has applied to the CRTC for an interim extension of its “very...
Cabinet says CRTC wholesale rates too low, may harm investment
telecom | 08/15/2020 9:06 am EDT
The Liberal government has sided with Canada’s largest telecoms in their...
UPDATED: OPC now says it supports COVID-19 tracing app
Media | 07/31/2020 8:52 am EDT
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner has cleared up uncertainty about...
Even as Bell removes its gear, Bell, Telus say Huawei still in play for 5G
telecom | 06/19/2020 11:42 am EDT
Both Telus Corp. and BCE Inc. still won’t rule out partnering with Huawei...
Privacy commissioner hasn’t approved new gov’t contact tracing app
telecom | 06/18/2020 3:48 pm EDT
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that in developing the federal...
Gov’t to introduce web giant, CanCon, news legislation in fall: Guilbeault
Media | 06/16/2020 3:00 pm EDT
Legislation modernizing Canada’s Broadcasting Act is “pretty much ready” and will be tabled in Parliament in the fall, when the Liberal government also intends to...
Questions remain about Huawei gear as Bell, Telus pick Ericsson, Nokia
telecom | 06/02/2020 6:03 pm EDT
On Tuesday, BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. announced new partnerships with...
‘Public outreach’ needed for ‘progress’ on encryption backdoors: gov’t doc
telecom | 05/26/2020 11:42 am EDT
In order to make “progress” on the issue of access to encrypted...
Federal government to accelerate rural broadband funds: Monsef
telecom | 04/29/2020 3:49 pm EDT
The federal government will speed up its rural broadband funding in...
Canadian authorities in talks about COVID-19 tracking apps
telecom | 03/31/2020 5:54 pm EDT
Several of Canada’s cities and provinces, as well as the federal...
Canada could track COVID-19 through cellphones: experts
telecom | 03/20/2020 3:25 pm EDT
As reports emerge of countries around the world using cellphone location data to help map out the spread of COVID-19, experts say there are a number of ways in which provinces or the federal government could do the same.
There is nothing standing in the way of telecoms or...
Gov’t 25% price reduction to target big three flanker brands
telecom | 03/05/2020 4:00 pm EST
The federal government will focus on 2 GB to 6 GB post-paid plans from...
CRTC chair, commish toured Rogers’ ‘piracy lab’
Media | 03/02/2020 1:23 pm EST
As part of their ongoing effort to fight content piracy, two of Canada’s largest media and telecom...
CRTC should regulate foreign digital services, news sites: BTLR
Media | 01/29/2020 12:00 pm EST
The blue-ribbon panel tasked with modernizing Canada’s communications...
‘Clock ticking’ on new content rules for web giants, Guilbeault says
Media | 01/13/2020 2:30 pm EST
The Liberal government's minority mandate means it will have to move fast...
Court docs detail expansion of Canadian website-blocking order
Media | 01/08/2020 4:58 pm EST
Fresh documents are shedding light on how Canada’s first piracy case...
Telesat hires new CFO
telecom | 12/12/2019 3:40 pm EST
Satellite service provider Telesat Holdings Inc. has named Andrew Browne as its new chief financial officer on Thursday, following the retirement of Michel Cayouette. ...
Telus warned gov’t of Huawei ban’s ‘far-reaching impacts’: secret docs
telecom | 08/27/2019 3:18 pm EDT
Telus Corp. told the federal government that prohibiting Huawei...
ISED missed internal CTI deadline despite ‘considerable pressure’: docs
telecom | 06/24/2019 5:40 pm EDT
The federal government failed to meet an internal goal by which it aimed to...
Bell asked gov’t to ban some VPNs: documents
Media | 01/23/2019 4:40 pm EST
BCE Inc. urged the federal government to make virtual private networks (VPNs) used to circumvent copyright illegal, ahead of the renegotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
VPN services, normally offered at a monthly rate, mask users' real IP...