BCE Inc. asked the CRTC to lighten licensing requirements for ExpressVu, the company’s satellite TV division, and called for all satellite relay distribution undertakings (SRDUs) to be exempt from regulation because of declines in the market. ExpressVu’s current...
The CRTC has issued a call for comments as part of Phase 2 of the co-development process for an Indigenous broadcasting policy to ensure that all online broadcasts, radio, and...
After months of consultations, the CRTC has issued its Broadcasting Fees Regulations for all broadcasting...
The recent history of Rogers Communications Inc. has had more drama than anything broadcast on its CityTV network. The company poached its CEO Joe Natale from Telus Corp. only to ultimately dismiss...
Unifor, Canada’s largest private sector union, called on BCE Inc. to answer for its recent layoff...
The presidents of the Big Three telecoms told the House of Commons Industry...
The CRTC is issuing a call for applications from interested parties wishing to obtain a radio licence to serve Calgary, Alta., having found that the market can sustain at least one additional radio station. “The market may best be served by proposals for ethnic and...
The CRTC is delaying transition of next-generation 911 (NG911) services in...
The CRTC launched its first public consultation on the Online News Act’s regulatory framework to gain...
The CRTC has dismissed BCE Inc.’s application challenging the...
BCE Inc. is the subject of a Part 1 application before the CRTC over access...
A trio of Quebecers has been granted leave to launch a class action suit against Rogers Communications Inc. and two subsidiaries over a service disruption in April 2021. The filing was submitted last...
The Superior Court of Quebec has authorized a class action lawsuit against...
Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) submitted an application to the CRTC for an...
The Wire Report, the leading news source covering telecom, digital communications and broadcast media in Canada, is searching for an editor to join our Ottawa office. The Wire Report is part of The Hill Times Canada’s leading...
The Superior Court of Quebec has dismissed a request from RNC Media Inc. to order Rogers Communications Inc. to share the identities of some of its subscribers, also known as...
The Montreal-based company behind Pornhub and...
Neighbourhood Connect (NHC), operating under 2621159 Ontario Inc. DBA...
The House of Commons committee on Industry met Wednesday to discuss...
This story has been updated to reflect changes to deadlines made by the CRTC on Monday. The CRTC is issuing a consultation on its proposal to make its voluntary call traceback process mandatory for...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron and its subsidiary VMedia have lodged two formal complaints with the Competition Bureau, urging an investigation into BCE Inc.'s alleged abuse of dominant position in the high-speed internet access (HSA) services market and with its telecommunications transport service contracts. The complaint, issued Tuesday, accuses Bell of engaging in...
The CRTC has approved Execulink Telecom Inc.’s request for access to three multi-dwelling units (MDUs) owned by JLC Homes Ltd. in western Ontario. The buildings, located in Tillsonburg, Ont. at...
Witnesses before the House of Commons committee on Canadian Heritage all agreed Tuesday that a forum on the future of the media is required. Whether government has a role was...
BCE Inc. is disputing the CRTC’s preliminary...
Revenues were robust in the telecommunications sector, a new CRTC study has...
The government of Canada has unveiled its long-awaited Online Harms Act...
With the heads of Canada’s big three telecoms threatening to boycott a...
By Paul Park at ppark@thewirereport.ca Technology is changing the family...
Quebecor Inc. reported a successful fourth-quarter as it closed out the 2023 fiscal year, which it said...
Corus Entertainment Inc., Stingray Radio Inc., and Pattison Media Ltd. filed a joint intervention with the CRTC opposing an application by Durham Radio Inc. to expand its...
The crisis in competition when it comes to internet connectivity is...
Representatives from Cogeco Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. told the...
Two large incumbent telecoms told the CRTC that broadband resellers are not...
To bring affordable internet and consumer choice to rural communities, the...
Cogeco Inc. is adamantly defending its right to upgrade infrastructure for the benefit of its customers in response to TekSavvy Solutions Inc.'s recent Part 1 application regarding decommissioning its coaxial facilities. Cogeco argued that transitioning from coaxial to...
If Canada is to have a viable wholesale market, high speed access needs to...
Organizations representing Canada’s creative industries are calling on...
The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed BCE Inc.’s motion for a stay against the CRTC’s decision to...
Representatives from major tech companies warned...
Reaction has been swift and condemnatory to the announcement Thursday by...
The CRTC has forensic investigative tools but deploys them rarely, the...
BCE Inc. announced Thursday that it will be...
Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron and Freedom Mobile divisions have been granted a...
CIK Telecom is arguing to the CRTC that the current interim rates set in its decision to access to last mile fibre facilities on an aggregated basis are prohibitively high,...
BCE Inc., filed a petition to cabinet Friday urging it to reverse a ruling...
Federal departments have forensic diagnostic tools that can be used for...
The government must regulate artificial intelligence (AI) quickly to...
The CRTC has issued a call for comments on the attachment of wireless...
OTTAWA–While artificial intelligence (AI) may seem daunting to people in the creative industries, they should embrace it. To that end, the Canadian Media Producers...
OTTAWA–Foreign streamers will be a prickly problem for mainstream...
The CRTC is implementing thousand-block pooling (TBP) as a proactive...
The Bloc Québécois is continuing to protest the job cuts at CBC/Radio-Canada announced last year. For...
OTTAWA–Demographic reporting is essential if we...
Rogers Communications Inc., in partnership with Ericsson AB, announced it...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge said...
OTTAWA, Ont. – No public institution, including Canada’s public...
Quebecor Inc.’s request for the CRTC to set new...
CBC-Radio Canada CEO Catherine Tait won’t say if she, or the public broadcaster’s top brass, will be getting their yearly bonuses at the end of March despite recently...
The CRTC has initiated a special consultation...
Stakeholders have sent their final replies on telecom service in the Far North to the CRTC. The incumbent telecoms are at odds with most other applicants when it comes to the remedy for competition in the region. BCE Inc....
Quebecor Inc.'s Part 1 application to the CRTC for...
The CRTC has sent letters on Jan. 22 to interested parties to try to get to the bottom of two incidents...
A coalition of nine advocacy groups and community associations are calling on the CRTC to clarify the timing of this year’s upcoming proceedings regarding the Online...
Melinda Rogers-Hixon and Martha Rogers are retiring from the telecom...
Rogers Communications Inc. has become Canada’s most complained-about service provider, according to the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services’ (CCTS) annual report released on...
The Commission for Complaints for...
After almost two hours of deliberation last Thursday, the House industry and technology committee failed...
BCE Inc. filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC seeking clarity on three...
The lingering effects of the pandemic and the labour disputes in Hollywood...
The owner of a multi-dwelling unit (MDU) in Kitchener, Ontario denies BCE...
Revenue and profits declined at Cogeco Inc. as the Quebec firm released...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. lodged a formal Part 1 complaint with the CRTC against Cogeco Inc., to address its concerns about Cogeco's planned removal of facilities, potentially hindering competition and consumer choice in the telecommunications sector. “Should Cogeco’s...
Misuse of 911 continues to be a problem for emergency service providers...
A consortium working toward the successful implementation of...
This story has been updated with comment from BCE Inc. Quebecor Inc., representing Videotron and Freedom Mobile, has lodged a formal complaint with the CRTC against BCE Inc., alleging...
Bragg Communications Inc.'s Eastlink is...
The CRTC has denied a BCE Inc. application to review and amend its 2018 Broadband Fund framework and its set contribution rates and interim funding for 2023 set last year....
BCE Inc.’s Northwestel announced to the CRTC...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and the...
Canada must revise its election rules and the use of artificial...
The federal government released the details of the implementation of the...
Rogers Communications Inc. and satellite-to-phone telecom provider Lynk...
CBC/Radio-Canada continued to come under fire in Parliament Tuesday with...
Quebecor Inc. submitted an application to the CRTC...
Gatineau, Que. – Telus Corp. asked the CRTC to...
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) will hear Telus Corp.’s appeal of the CRTC’s decision not to oversee wireless access to municipal infrastructure. On Thursday, the SCC...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge faced a barrage of questions...
Several proposals from deaf and hard of...
The Bloc Québécois is continuing its fight against cutbacks at CBC/Radio-Canada. Tuesday in Question...
Gatineau, Que. - CBC/Radio-Canada's decision to slash 600 jobs and leave...
Rogers Communications Inc. is responding vehemently to the Competition Bureau’s investigation into the Toronto telecom’s Infinite wireless plan. The bureau announced...
Canada's public broadcaster is cutting 10 per cent of its workforce and slashing some programming to deal...
Foreign streamers must pay their fair share of contributions to the Canadian broadcasting system, but...
Netflix Services Canada ULC says it has invested large amounts of money...
Canada’s telecom industry have spent some $2.16 billion on the 3,800 MHz band of spectrum, according to...
Members of the NDP and the United Steelworkers (USW) Local 1944 union, representing over 225,000 Canadian workers, held a joint news conference on Wednesday urging the government to improve...
Those who stand to benefit from the Online...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google and the federal government have resolved their...
Major broadcasters think that there should be a flexible contribution...
The government needs to set clear standards of transparency and accountability that all social media platforms should be required to meet, if it hopes to address concerns...