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Accessible Media seeks to increase rates for mandatory carriage

Media | 03/05/2024 5:49 pm EST

Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) submitted an application to the CRTC for an interim rate increase for its AMI-tv and AMI-télé channels to address the financial challenges facing the organization, which predominantly serves Canadians with disabilities. AMI's application...

Rogers, Cogeco, Quebecor challenge ILECs at CRTC hearings

telecom | 02/16/2024 3:02 pm EST

Representatives from Cogeco Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. told the CRTC that Telus Corp.’s proposals for Canada’s wholesale framework are misleading and hypocritical, while Quebecor Inc. took aim at BCE Inc.’s “outrageous” push against the regime. ...

Providers debate wholesale fibre access in rural areas at CRTC hearing

telecom | 02/14/2024 4:24 pm EST

To bring affordable internet and consumer choice to rural communities, the...

CRTC accepts Quebecor application for arbitration over MVNO with Telus

telecom | 02/07/2024 2:14 pm EST

Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron and Freedom Mobile divisions have been granted a...

Bell asks cabinet to overturn CRTC decision on fibre network access

telecom | 02/06/2024 5:48 pm EST

BCE Inc., filed a petition to cabinet Friday urging it to reverse a ruling...

Bell and Rogers accuse Quebecor of abusing procedure in disaggregated FTTP rates application

telecom | 01/31/2024 4:38 pm EST

Quebecor Inc.’s request for the CRTC to set new interim disaggregated high-speed access (HSA) rates equal to the interim aggregated rates is out of line, according to BCE...

Bell fibre build progress threatened by regulatory uncertainty: Bibic

telecom | 11/02/2023 3:58 pm EDT

In a Thursday quarterly earnings conference call, BCE Inc.'s president and...

Competitors oppose incumbents’ stance in second phase of FTTP access review

telecom | 10/19/2023 5:15 pm EDT

The debate over what the future of the wholesale high-speed-access (HSA)...

Both sides react to MVNO decision from CRTC

telecom | 10/11/2023 5:17 pm EDT

Both BCE Inc. and Quebecor Inc. have reacted to the CRTC’s decision that Bell Mobility's offer on...

Infrastructure investments could see cuts due to wholesale rates: Bibic, French

telecom | 09/28/2023 6:54 pm EDT

BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. reiterated their concerns around the CRTC’s...

CRTC keeps Phase II wholesale rates approach with enhancements

telecom | 07/07/2023 6:11 pm EDT

The CRTC has opted to keep its cost-based rate setting approach for...

Wholesale model upside down: Jetté

telecom | 05/24/2023 6:18 pm EDT

According to the CEO of one of Canada's largest regional internet service providers, the recent state of acquisitions in the telecom market has effectively inverted the wholesale model from what it was meant to be. “Through their acquisition of smaller players [BCE Inc....

Gov. issues new CRTC policy direction with guidance for wholesale regime

telecom | 05/26/2022 4:02 pm EDT

The federal government is seeking to issue a new policy direction to the CRTC, ordering the regulator to promote, encourage, and foster competition, affordability, consumer...

CRTC approves wholesale high-speed access tier for Shaw

telecom | 12/10/2021 3:40 pm EST

Shaw Communications Inc. was given approval by the CRTC Friday for a new...

Disaggregated wholesale regime not ‘doom and gloom’: CNOC chair

telecom | 09/29/2021 5:33 pm EDT

With a shift to a disaggregated access model anticipated by the Competitive...

CRTC wants more info from Bell on certain retroactive wholesale payments

telecom | 09/27/2021 5:30 pm EDT

The CRTC wants BCE Inc. to clarify why the company wants to make payments...

Appeal of CRTC reversal of wholesale rates to go ahead in federal court

telecom | 09/15/2021 9:46 pm EDT

The Federal Court of Appeal will take up TekSavvy Solutions Inc.'s...

TekSavvy raising home internet plan fees

telecom | 08/25/2021 5:31 pm EDT

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is hiking fees for some customers of its residential internet service by a few...

National Capital FreeNet asks gov. to reverse CRTC wholesale rates decision  

telecom | 08/25/2021 5:09 pm EDT

An Ottawa-area internet service provider has added its voice to those asking the government to overturn the CRTC's decision to revert rates for wholesale-based internet service providers (ISPs) to...

Iristel asks CRTC for incumbents’ MVNO template agreements

telecom | 08/24/2021 5:55 pm EDT

The CRTC has said it will consider a procedural request from Iristel Inc....

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 Competitive Network Operators of Canada is turning to the federal government for help.  In a petition to the Governor in Council filed Thursday, the trade group --...

Industry Committee calls for stricter timelines on CRTC rate-setting procedures 

telecom | 06/22/2021 6:13 pm EDT

The House of Commons Industry committee is recommending that the government...

CIK Telecom suspending investments following CRTC wholesale rates decision

telecom | 06/04/2021 5:26 pm EDT

Independent internet service provider (ISP) CIK Telecom announced Friday that it would dial back a planned $300 million fibre network development, blaming the CRTC's decision to revert wholesale...

Bell restores network investment pledge; TekSavvy petitions gov on wholesale rates

telecom | 05/31/2021 6:11 pm EDT

In what the company says is a direct response to the CRTC's reversal on...

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...

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 third-party aggregated wholesale access to the level of interim rates established in 2016, before an August...

Incumbents push back on interim fibre resale rates proposal

telecom | 02/12/2021 5:11 pm EST

The request from the Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) for the...

CNOC asks CRTC for interim framework on fibre resale rates

telecom | 01/08/2021 6:25 pm EST

Frustrated with what it said is the deteriorating state of competition in...

Policy impacts of CRTC wholesale rates outside SCC purview: TekSavvy, CNOC

telecom | 12/07/2020 6:29 pm EST

The Supreme Court appeal incumbent telecoms filed in November amounts to...

CNOC, advocates push gov’t to be tougher on affordability

telecom | 11/27/2020 11:38 am EST

The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) and advocacy group...

Regulatory delays a slow-moving incumbent tantrum: CNOC

telecom | 11/19/2020 1:53 pm EST

On the heels of the incumbent appeal of a Federal Court of Appeal decision...

CRTC process and delays take centre stage at CNOC ISP Summit

telecom | 11/05/2020 11:16 am EST

A day after CRTC chairman Ian Scott addressed the Competitive Network Operators of Canada's ISP Summit and gave no more details about when the regulator would give some finality to the issue of...

TekSavvy asks for judicial review of CRTC wholesale rate stay

telecom | 10/29/2020 1:32 pm EDT

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is asking the Federal Court of Appeal to review the CRTC's Sept. 28 decision to grant a request from incumbents for a fresh stay on the implementation of the lower wholesale...

CRTC won’t enforce lower wholesale rates until review-and-vary is finished

telecom | 09/28/2020 4:16 pm EDT

The CRTC said Monday it has approved a stay request from incumbent telecoms asking the regulator not to enforce the wholesale rates it lowered in August 2019. That means the lower rates won’t be put in effect until the regulator decides on a review-and-vary application filed by the large telecoms that sell wholesale access to smaller internet service providers. The CRTC could also decide to change the rates as part of that review proceeding. In its decision approving the stay, the CRTC...

TekSavvy will count bills from Bell, Rogers against debts until it receives retroactive payments

telecom | 09/25/2020 5:10 pm EDT

Beginning with its next invoice, TekSavvy Solutions Inc. will not be paying its wholesale fees to BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. as invoiced, instead "setting off...

Small ISPs ask CRTC to move quickly on wholesale rate R&V

telecom | 09/11/2020 5:41 pm EDT

After the Federal Court of Appeal dismissed the incumbent telecom companies’ challenge of the CRTC's wholesale internet rates Thursday, independent internet service providers are now asking 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 tells court cabinet decision on wholesale ‘vindicates’ its concerns

telecom | 08/20/2020 5:52 pm EDT

BCE Inc. and a coalition of cable companies have submitted letters to the...

Bell bringing cabinet’s wholesale appeal response to Federal Court

telecom | 08/17/2020 7:56 pm EDT

Lawyers representing BCE Inc. have asked a Federal Court of Appeal judge to allow them to make fresh submissions in the already-heard appeal of the CRTC's wholesale rates,...

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...

Bell was previously in favour of retroactive payments, TekSavvy argues

telecom | 06/26/2020 8:34 pm EDT

BCE Inc.'s argument that retroactive payments mandated by the CRTC in its August wholesale rate decision are an unconstitutional tax is a "disguised attack" on the "entire rate setting regime" laid...

Court has jurisdiction to overturn wholesale rates, big telecoms argue

telecom | 06/25/2020 11:19 pm EDT

The CRTC's wholesale rates ruling from last August ignored the intentions of a 2006 Maxime Bernier-era policy directive, and the decision to slash wholesale rates for third-party internet service...

Wholesale rates stay ‘forces’ Distributel to apply temporary surcharge

telecom | 06/03/2020 3:18 pm EDT

Distributel Communications Ltd. will charge a “very small” number of customers a $5 temporary surcharge on each internet bill, due to a legal challenge against last year’s wholesale rates...

Network performance supports light regulatory touch: Bibic

telecom | 05/27/2020 6:58 pm EDT

The performance of networks in other countries during the COVID-19 crisis...

Conservatives and NDP united for enforcement of wholesale rates

telecom | 05/05/2020 5:27 pm EDT

Opposition parties that normally hold differing views on any given issue...

Retroactive payments for wholesale rates are not a tax: CNOC

telecom | 04/29/2020 5:45 pm EDT

In a Tuesday filing with the Federal Court of Appeal, the Canadian Network Operators Consortium (CNOC) said that the appeal of the CRTC's August wholesale rate decision by some six companies should be...

‘Work together,’ CRTC tells wholesale-based ISPs, incumbents

telecom | 04/23/2020 1:21 pm EDT

The CRTC has responded to a letter from The Canadian Network Operators...

Wholesale appeal is on shaky legal footing, TekSavvy argues

telecom | 04/16/2020 5:39 pm EDT

The ongoing appeal by incumbent telecoms of the CRTC's wholesale internet rates decision from August should be dismissed because the appeal argues that the regulator made errors in fact, rather than errors in law and jurisdiction, according to a Tuesday filing from TekSavvy Solutions Inc.  According to the argument made by TekSavvy, the Telecommunications Act only allows for appeals of CRTC decisions on grounds of questions of law or jurisdiction. Those bringing the appeal -- BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., Cogeco Inc., Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron, Shaw Communications Inc., and Bragg...

TekSavvy also calls for lower, emergency wholesale rates

telecom | 04/14/2020 6:42 pm EDT

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is joining a call made last week by Conservative...

Wholesale rate appeal could go ahead as scheduled

telecom | 04/03/2020 2:06 pm EDT

The Federal Court appeal of the CRTC’s lowered wholesale internet rates could still include a hearing in June as originally scheduled, despite the COVID-19 pandemic that has ground most of the country to a halt. A notice...

Teksavvy lays off staff, increases internet bills

telecom | 03/26/2020 6:39 pm EDT

Teksavvy Solutions Inc. has laid off 130 staff and will implement a flat $5 bill increase for its...

CRTC orders Bell to sign agreement with CloudWifi

telecom | 03/26/2020 5:22 pm EDT

The CRTC has ordered BCE Inc. to sign an agreement that would allow CloudWifi Inc. to progress its application to become a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC), finding Bell’s continued refusal to do so is “unnecessarily...

Teksavvy asks Competition Bureau to investigate Rogers, Bell

telecom | 02/20/2020 6:42 pm EST

The Competition Bureau has been asked to investigate a “pattern of anti-competitive activities” in wholesale and retail internet markets by BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications, in a complaint filed by independent ISP Teksavvy Solutions Inc.  Teksavvy’s complaint comes as it continues to attack Bell, Rogers and other incumbent telecom companies for fighting a CRTC decision to retroactively lower rates for wholesale internet access. It launched  a public campaign in January, urging the federal government to reject petitions to the Governor in Council against the CRTC’s decision. The...

Fibre wire access scheme already exists, PIAC argues

telecom | 02/12/2020 5:46 pm EST

CloudWifi Inc.’s application for small internet service providers to be able to access fibre...

Teksavvy calls for public support in wholesale rates battle

telecom | 01/20/2020 3:47 pm EST

TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has launched a public campaign urging the federal government to reject petitions filed by the major telecommunications providers, calling on it to reverse a CRTC decision that...

Bell says CRTC used bad costing process in wholesale rate decision

telecom | 01/03/2020 5:28 pm EST

In yet another appeal of the CRTC’s decision lowering wholesale internet rates, BCE Inc. filed a fresh review-and-vary application to the regulator the week before Christmas, arguing that that the...

Videotron ‘diving’ like a soccer player over gigabit internet: TekSavvy

telecom | 11/27/2019 4:15 pm EST

Quebecor Inc.’s cancellation of its gigabit internet service is akin to a soccer player diving, or feigning injury to draw a penalty, TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is arguing in an intervention to the...

Federal Court grants leave to appeal, stay in wholesale rate cases

telecom | 11/22/2019 5:08 pm EST

The CRTC’s decision to lower wholesale rates for its aggregated regime...

Quebecor says it cut gig speeds due to new wholesale rates

telecom | 11/07/2019 5:12 pm EST

Quebecor Inc. executives confirmed on Thursday that its previously...

Incumbent reaction to wholesale rates warning shot for fibre, conference hears

telecom | 11/06/2019 9:13 pm EST

TORONTO — The aggressive way incumbent telecom companies reacted to the...

CNOC challenging Telus appeal in speed cap case

telecom | 10/08/2019 6:07 pm EDT

The Canadian Network Operators Consortium has filed its arguments in Federal Court against Telus Corp.’s appeal of a CRTC decision that would temporarily suspend a speed cap affecting wholesale-based service providers. The...

TekSavvy sticking to lower internet prices despite wholesale rate stay

telecom | 09/30/2019 12:13 pm EDT

The temporary nature of the decision by the Federal Court of Appeal to freeze a CRTC order forcing the big telecoms to slash how much they charge resellers of their internet...

Telecoms say oral hearing on wholesale rate not necessary

telecom | 09/26/2019 3:21 pm EDT

After an urgent plea by BCE Inc. requesting the Federal Court hold an oral hearing on the deadline of a CRTC order to implement new wholesale internet rates that it is protesting, Bell and other...

Telecoms say CRTC wholesale decision violates Harper-era directive

telecom | 09/17/2019 5:13 pm EDT

In their Friday appeal of the CRTC decision on wholesale internet rates, the affected cable companies are asking the Federal Court of Appeal to defer to a 2006 Harper-era directive that advised the...

Big telecoms go to court over wholesale rates

telecom | 09/13/2019 5:26 pm EDT

In a widely anticipated move, several of the country’s biggest telecom companies have filed for leave to appeal a CRTC decision establishing a new rate regime for wholesale internet broadband.  The decision, issued August 15...

Analysts divided on wholesale rate appeal outcome

telecom | 09/09/2019 6:10 pm EDT

As analysts predict the CRTC’s decision on wholesale internet rates is likely to be appealed, they are divided on what impact the new rates would have on the industry as a whole.   In a note released Monday morning,...

NDP skeptical about Liberal campaign telecom plans

telecom | 08/28/2019 2:50 pm EDT

The NDP is already throwing cold water on reports that the Liberals are considering a price cap and mandated access for mobile virtual network operators as part of the incumbent party’s campaign plank. In a Tuesday evening release from NDP Innovation critic Brian Masse -- under the heading “Liberals will always side with big telecoms companies” -- the Windsor West candidate pointed to the frequency of meetings between telecom lobbyists and the government.  “Trudeau’s Liberal government met with well-connected lobbyists for the telecom industry 565 times since taking office,...

Telecom reaction to CRTC wholesale decision was expected: analyst 

telecom | 08/27/2019 4:44 pm EDT

Analyst notes published this week confirm much of what was already known about the impact of new CRTC wholesale broadband rates on incumbent carriers. Namely, the new wholesale rates will hit the...

On wholesale rates, companies cry foul, but analysts aren’t convinced

telecom | 08/21/2019 5:07 pm EDT

Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron and Shaw Communications Inc. added their voices...

New wholesale rates to cost Rogers $140M, Cogeco $25M, companies say

telecom | 08/19/2019 7:29 pm EDT

Cogeco Inc. said Monday that the new wholesale broadband rates set by the CRTC will cost the company $25 million in retroactive payments, while Rogers Communications Inc. said it "expects to record a...

Bell cuts rural broadband investment in response to new wholesale rates

telecom | 08/19/2019 1:32 pm EDT

A cell tower with a blue sky in the background.BCE Inc. has responded to lower wholesale rates for internet service...

New rates to have marginal impact on big telecom bottom lines: analyst

telecom | 08/16/2019 3:18 pm EDT

The new wholesale tariffs for internet service announced by the CRTC Thursday are unlikely to have a large impact on the big publicly traded telecoms, though their profits will be affected marginally,...

New aggregated wholesale rates ‘fair,’ ‘reasonable’: smaller ISPs

telecom | 08/15/2019 6:16 pm EDT

Wholesale-based ISPs are praising a decision by the CRTC to lower the rates...