To celebrate Earth Day on Monday, Ericsson AB signed on with the federal government’s national program that aims to get businesses to net-zero emissions by 2050, the...
Canada’s four major wireless carriers experienced major upticks in usage during Monday’s solar eclipse, but they were prepared for the event. They took a victory lap when discussing the outcome. “This was a once-in-a-lifetime experience and our network team worked...
The presidents of the Big Three telecoms told the House of Commons Industry...
The CRTC has dismissed BCE Inc.’s application challenging the...
BCE Inc. is disputing the CRTC’s preliminary...
By Paul Park at ppark@thewirereport.ca Technology is changing the family...
The CRTC has issued a call for comments on the attachment of wireless facilities to support structures owned or controlled by incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) due to...
Ericsson AB and Telus Corp. have linked up to roll out a 5G standalone network, it was announced Monday....
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Wednesday the...
Rogers Communications Inc. has activated three...
By Manish Singh, vice-president and key account manager, Google,...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. continues to roll out its 5G...
Rogers Communication Inc.’s 5G network is now available in all remaining...
Public safety networks in Canada need to be...
Digital transformation of Canadian businesses can play a fundamental role...
All passengers on the Toronto Transit Commission’s (TTC) subway system now have access to 5G services in some of its busiest sections, according to a Rogers Communications Inc. press release on Monday. The announcement states that customers of all major Canadian...
The governments of Canada and British Columbia have joined together to...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. has rolled out its 5G network to the SaskTel Centre in...
Bragg Communication Inc.'s Eastlink and Nokia Corp. announced "a multi-year strategic, access network...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. have been hurling verbal bombs...
Rogers Communications Inc. is asking the CRTC to mandate Telus Corp., BCE Inc. and its affiliates Bell MTS, Télébec, and Northwestel, to attach small cells to their poles,...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) has set up rules around fixed and...
The airline industry must do more to protect its flights from 5G...
Swedish telecom manufacturer Ericsson AB and Bragg Communications Inc.’s...
The government of Canada announced Monday it was investing $470 million in...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Co. announced the retirement of its president and CEO Doug Burnett. Burnett will be leaving at the end of May to early June,...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Monday that it is expanding its 5G footprint into...
Canadians are eager to upgrade to 5G services in theory, but are slow to...
The federal government has granted EXFO Inc. $15.9 million for 5G...
OTTAWA–Nokia Corp. announced Monday that it is planning to expand its operations in the nation’s capital, building a new research and development (R&D) facility on its Kanata campus. The move is expected to create 340 new jobs and additional co-op and internship...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. is expanding its 5G services to the area around Moose Jaw in the province, the telecom announced Tuesday. The service will...
Telus Corp. unveiled a $23 billion investment in broadband and related technologies across Ontario...
The Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development has launched its consultation on the...
The federal government Thursday announced that it would be banning equipment from "high risk vendors",...
A federal court judge has dismissed a challenge from BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. to Quebecor Inc.'s acquisitions of set-aside spectrum in British Columbia, Alberta, and Manitoba...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. is rolling out 5G in the City...
Telus Corp. and the University of Ottawa have announced a new partnership aimed at turning the...
On Monday, executives of several U.S. airlines wrote to leadership of the Federal Aviation...
Early consultations on regulations to 5G rollout affecting air traffic...
OTTAWA – Innovation, Science and Industry...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has opened a regional office in Regina to facilitate its work with...
Swedish telecom manufacturer Ericsson AB is buying Vonage Holdings Corp. for US$6.2 billion, the firms...
TeraGo Inc. has entered into a partnership with McMaster University to build and deploy a 5G millimeter...
Rogers Communications Inc. extended its 5G network in Quebec which now reaches more than 90 communities in the province, the company announced in a Tuesday press release. Rogers connected eleven cities and towns in Quebec as part of its commitment to cover over 70 per...
The Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) has...
While the Canadian government is busy collecting $8.9 billion dollars from...
Telus Corp. is expanding its 5G network in four British Columbia communities as part of its $13 billion...
Rogers Communications Inc. has expanded its 5G network in the Halifax, N.S., region. Rogers said in...
New Brunswick-based rural broadband provider Xplornet Communications Inc. announced Wednesday it’s rolling out a rural 5G standalone network, starting with its home province and expanding over the coming months. Xplornet, which bills itself as the leading...
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...
BCE Inc. is going to court to stop Quebecor Inc. from purchasing valuable...
Canadian telecom companies -- and wireless service hopefuls -- have spent...
BCE Inc. has expanded its 5G network in Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec and...
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...
Industry analysts are declining to speculate too much on what caused the...
BCE Inc. is expanding its 5G network into Atlantic Canada, with service launching in Nova Scotia and...
Bidding opened Tuesday morning in what will be a...
Telus Corp. is planning to spend a combined $26 billion on network connectivity in Ontario and Quebec over the next three years. The company announced Monday it has earmarked $17 billion for spending on network connectivity in Ontario through to 2024, starting by...
Through its newly acquired fibre-based service provider Ocdotus Inc. — which operates as Metro Loop — Xplornet Communications Inc. is expanding its fibre network in Haldimand County, Ontario. New Brunswick-based Xplornet...
A public-private partnership on 5G technology research in Ontario and Quebec is deploying a standalone (SA) end-to-end 5G network meaning it will no longer have to rely on 4G technology. ENCQOR 5G and Ericsson AB, one of its...
The federal government is investing $14 million in Redline Communications Group Inc. through its Strategic Innovation Fund for the company to produce “Industrial 5G” products for clients in the...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. will be using Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. as its primary supplier as the company builds out its own 5G network, the company announced Monday. Samsung will be SaskTel’s sole...
If Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada doesn't approve Telesat Holdings Inc.'s proposal to auction off spectrum it holds in the 3700-3900 MHz band, the company won't be able to compete with its competitors in the United States, the company's CEO told the...
Xplornet Communications Inc. will use technology from Ericsson AB in its next-generation network, the company said Tuesday. Xplornet will begin rolling out its 5G fixed-wireless network in rural areas this summer, it said in...
Telecom industry group Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) released a report Wednesday outlining how deployment of 5G will help Canada meet its climate goals, linking the issue...
Rogers Communications Inc. Tuesday announced a flurry of expansions to its 5G network, extending coverage to new cities and towns in British Columbia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Quebec. In January, Rogers announced it was...
Experts are unanimous in saying Canada’s 5G networks will eventually...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has again refused to put a timeframe on when...
Both Telus Corp. and BCE Inc. still won’t rule out partnering with Huawei...
Western University’s London campus will be transformed into a “living lab” as part of a partnership with BCE Inc. to test applications for the 5G network. Bell will spend $2.7 million on the...
The United States State Department said that if Canada doesn’t ban...
A day after announcing it would partner with Nokia Corp. and Ericsson AB on its 5G network build, Telus Corp. has not responded to questions about whether that announcement...
On Tuesday, BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. announced new partnerships with...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Quebecor Inc. have asked the CRTC to compel BCE Inc. to allow them to attach small cell technologies to Bell’s poles at rates set by the Support Structure Service...
Health Canada has responded to an MPs’ query about what steps it is...
A decision to accept masks and respirators from Huawei Technologies Co....
Telus Corp. will be using Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. equipment in its initial 5G launch, the company said following a day in which the company’s CEO and CFO had seemingly...
The Liberal government will “inevitably” follow the U.K. in banning Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. equipment from the core of Canada’s 5G network, according to National Bank of Canada financial...
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...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron said Friday it has chosen Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. as its equipment supplier for the deployment of LTE-A and 5G networks. “This partnership is the result of an extensive selection process to...
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...
OTTAWA — New Public Safety Minister Bill Blair indicated Wednesday he is...
Wednesday saw a flurry of legal moves to overturn a CRTC decision that cut...
Rogers Communications Inc. and the University of British Columbia said they have powered the first fully-functional 5G “smart campus” to test applications for the next-generation network. The campus includes 5G towers and...
TORONTO — Smaller, wholesale-based internet service providers may be...
A company that says its privacy-focused software app can tell employers exactly how their employees are using their phones at work said it hasn’t received support for its...
As the Liberals head back to Parliament following the Oct. 21 federal election, they’ll be returning to...
The public-private partnership known as ENCQOR 5G has now made mmWave spectrum available to participants. ENCQOR 5G was first announced in 2018 as a 5G laboratory of sorts, funded by $400 million from the federal government...
The Green Party election platform includes promises to ensure only...
Even before the federal election campaign officially kicked off, telecom...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron is in talks with other telecom companies about potentially appealing the CRTC’s new rates for wholesale internet service, CEO Jean-François Pruneau told The Wire Report. “We’re in discussions currently with our industry counterparts. The...
Telus Corp. told the federal government that prohibiting Huawei...
Rogers Communications Inc. is lobbying the City of Montreal to be involved in the city’s 5G pilot...
The launch of new plans from Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom will...
Rogers Communications Inc. Monday announced what it is calling a 5G “innovation lab” with the Waterloo-based Communitech. “Our partnership with Communitech is part of our work to bring...
Conservative and NDP MPs criticized the Liberal government Tuesday for what...
A wireless network announced last year that allows small- and medium-sized businesses to test 5G technology is now operational, according to a press release. The ENCQOR 5G test bed, part of a public-private partnership to...
The blue ribbon panel in charge of reviewing Canada’s communications legislation has released its...
In recent weeks, telecom issues haven’t escaped the increased rhetoric...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s launch of a wireless plan that won’t charge customers for exceeding their data buckets is part of an inevitable move to more affordable...