The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) is auctioning off 225 spectrum licences, many of which are leftover from the recent 3800 MHz auction that concluded in November. According to the auction notice issued by ISED last week, 201...
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....
The CRTC has denied an application by TerreStar Solutions Inc. for a stay...
Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne...
The Minister of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) has...
Canada’s telecom industry have spent some $2.16 billion on the 3,800 MHz band of spectrum, according to...
Telesat Corp. announced its financial performance for the three month period ended Sept. 30, posting a three per cent decrease in revenue compared to the third quarter of 2022 and a net loss of $3 million versus $229 million compared to Q3 2022. “I am pleased with our financial and operating performance for the third quarter and first nine months of the year,” Dan Goldberg, Telesat’s president and CEO stated in the company’s press release. “We remain on track to meet our guidance and, as a result of our...
Telus Corp. says the CRTC should review its...
By Mark Buell and Phil Steinhauer-Mozejko, Connect Humanity Fund In its...
The Department of Industry Science and Economic Development (ISED) released its Spectrum Outlook...
TerreStar Solutions Inc. is challenging a CRTC decision which denied the...
The CRTC has denied TerreStar Solutions Inc.’s...
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) is seeking comments on the...
Telecom experts say that a Senate bill that would...
Two U.S. senators are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to...
Indigenous leadership is once again pushing the government toward Indigenous sovereignty over spectrum covering Indigenous territories as part of their responses to a recent...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) has...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) will...
Frustrated in its attempt to buy Freedom Mobile back from Shaw...
"Stringent" limitations proposed for the non-competitive licensing (NCL)...
An expert witness for Shaw Communications Inc. took issue Monday with earlier testimony from Competition Bureau experts over the proposed takeover of the western telecom by...
MISSISSAUGA — Canada made progress with its upcoming spectrum auction...
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) denied an application by...
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) is auctioning off 42 spectrum...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) approved several...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) issued the rules for its next...
The two ministers responsible for the Act...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic...
The Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development has launched its consultation on the...
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...
According to Telus Corp. executive vice-president...
Rogers Communications Inc. has told the...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) has approved a transfer...
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) released a pair of consultations – one regarding a policy framework for radio local area network (RLAN)...
Updated on March 3 at 5:46 p.m. Innovation...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. has a “simple”...
When it assessed Quebecor Inc. as eligible to bid...
Telesat Corp. provided satellite lessor Anuvu satellite capacity in what the companies said is the...
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED)...
A Canaccord Genuity analyst says TeraGo Inc.’s divestiture of its cloud and colocation business...
On Monday, executives of several U.S. airlines wrote to leadership of the Federal Aviation...
Tier 5 service areas are “too large” to meet...
The advent of facilities-based mobile virtual network operators {MVNOs) made possible by the CRTC's April 2021 wireless review decision won't come in earnest until 2023, and...
Early consultations on regulations to 5G rollout affecting air traffic...
The department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) is...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez is...
The Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) approved the subordination...
Canada’s big three telecommunications companies are worried that generic licensing for earth stations in motion (ESIMs), in certain bands, will cause interference with 5G...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development...
The telecoms companies that supported Innovation,...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) has released responses to its consultation on...
The federal government’s Universal Broadband Fund (UBF), by having rural...
MISSISSAUGA -- The government's set-aside spectrum policy has, rather than...
Indigenous stakeholders in Canadian telecoms are renewing their calls for...
Canada’s targets of reaching connectivity speeds...
Satellite operator, Telesat Corp. appointed an executive in the...
The Federal Court has rejected a Telus Corp. request to stop the department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) from issuing licenses for set-aside...
BCE Inc. and Saskatchewan Telecommunications...
A Federal Court injunction stopping the Department...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) is extending the...
The Markham-Ont.-based manufacturer of wireless network technology for mining, oil-and-gas, and utilities...
The Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development (ISED) has told the Federal Court that if the court were to grant the order requested by BCE Inc. and Telus...
While the Canadian government is busy collecting $8.9 billion dollars from...
In order to achieve better spectrum sovereignty for Indigenous communities in Canada, the government has...
If re-elected come Sept. 20, Justin Trudeau’s...
Telus Corp. has joined BCE Inc. in seeking to block Quebecor Inc. from...
BCE Inc. is going to court to stop Quebecor Inc. from purchasing valuable...
The association representing Canada’s...
For BCE Inc. CEO Mirko Bibic, the high cost of the...
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...
Going forward, if Canadians are to “truly benefit” from 5G innovation and affordability, the government needs to develop “responsible, forward-looking, and predictable regulatory policy that ensures expedition, fair, and economical access to the national asset,”...
As the dust settles on the results of the 3,500 MHz auction announced Thursday, much of the initial...
Canadian telecom companies -- and wireless service hopefuls -- have spent...
Industry analysts are declining to speculate too much on what caused the...
Bidding opened Tuesday morning in what will be a...
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 Industry (ISED) said in a release Friday making more spectrum available will support more rural and urban wireless services, plus the deployment of 5G. "Our government is committed to making the right spectrum available to support the highest quality wireless services and the rollout of 5G...
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...
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 Inc. announced another increase in revenue with its second-quarter results Tuesday as it awaits...
Allowing a merger to proceed on the basis of the...
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...
On the opening day Monday of hearings into Roger's proposed acquisition of...
From the perspective of Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Joe Natale,...
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...
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. In a consultation that started in August, ISED put forward numerous questions around the allocation of the 3500 to 4200 MHz bands, some portions of which need to be cleared in order for telecoms to roll out 5G networks. ISED proposed two options for the 3650 to 3700 MHz band, which is currently...
The federal government has launched a consultation on a proposal to open up the 6 GHz spectrum band for...
A number of Canadian wireless providers have objected to a proposal that...
Canadian satellite operator Telesat Holdings Inc. has spruiked its proposal...
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...
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 marks the beginning of a 60-day comment period with remarks to be submitted by October 26, followed by a 30-day reply period, according to ISED’s Thursday release. "Our government understands that new technologies such as clean energy, precision agriculture, autonomous vehicles and advanced telemedicine will create exciting opportunities for Canadians,"...
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...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada allowed companies to...
Experts are unanimous in saying Canada’s 5G networks will eventually...
The 3500 MHz spectrum auction, originally scheduled for December of this year, will now take place in...
While BCE Inc.'s first quarter results showed a decline in profits and...
Health Canada has responded to an MPs’ query about what steps it is...
Analysts have provided nuanced reactions to the government’s plan to...
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...
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 Office announced Thursday that MP Will Amos is now in as the parliamentary secretary for innovation and industry. Amos was his party’s point person on the rural broadband initiative known as M-208, and testified before the industry committee about the increasing importance of rural broadband back in June. For heritage, the new parliamentary secretaries are MPs...