Cogeco Inc. has appointed Mike Henry as its chief commercial officer, the company announced Tuesday.
Henry last spent three decades working in the financial services sector, most recently working as executive vice-president of consumer banking, digital, and strategy at...
While providing closed captioning on all programming for the deaf and hard of hearing is a laudable goal, it is not achievable, several streaming companies have told the CRTC....
Cogeco Communications Inc. has signed deals with...
While some companies praised the CRTC’s long-awaited decision to mandate...
Cable Public Affairs Channel Inc., also known as...
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink announced Thursday it would offer...
Friday the CRTC denied an application by several stakeholders for an expedited decision to block Canada's Big Three telecoms from aggregated wholesale access to...
A wealth of intervenors have told the CRTC that the large established telecoms should not be allowed to...
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink announced Tuesday that it is introducing a video streaming...
The CRTC has dismissed BCE Inc.’s application challenging the...
To bring affordable internet and consumer choice to rural communities, the...
The CRTC announced Monday an expansion in forbearance from regulating...
Bragg Communications Inc.'s Eastlink is...
The CRTC has denied a BCE Inc. application to...
Canada’s telecom industry have spent some $2.16 billion on the 3,800 MHz band of spectrum, according to...
City Wide Communications Inc., Frontier Networks Inc., and Purple Cow Internet Inc., have filed a Part 1 application against Bragg Communications Inc. operating as Eastlink,...
Interventions coming in from the CRTC show...
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink announced the purchase of a Northern Ontario telecom service...
APTN says its proposal to shift the terms of its licence will be good for...
As the CRTC’s review of its broadband fund...
In a press release on Thursday, Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink announced the launch of mobile services in the Acadian Peninsula of New Brunswick.
This is the latest development in the company’s efforts to expand and improve its mobile network, which has seen...
Bragg Communication Inc.'s Eastlink and Nokia Corp. announced "a multi-year strategic, access network...
Telecoms and other stakeholders have had their say on proposed changes to...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) told the CRTC that...
The CRTC received a raft of responses on its notice of consultation on 911...
The CRTC has issued its annual telecommunications survey for 2021. Coming out of the pandemic shutdown, the numbers are generally good.
The sector experienced a 3.4 per cent jump in total revenues...
Social media companies are asking the CRTC to be added to the list of...
Incumbent carriers are opposed to the expedited review of the CRTC’s...
Swedish telecom manufacturer Ericsson AB and Bragg Communications Inc.’s...
According to the analytics firm Opensignal, when it comes to fixed broadband connectivity in Canada BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. offer the highest speeds across most regions of the country.
In areas where Bell's and Telus' respective fibre products have overlapping...
The CRTC has denied a request from a number of incumbents, chief among them...
A working group composed of Canadian telecommunication service providers (CTSPs) and experts from the department of Innovation Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)...
The 2022 edition of the department of Innovation,...
BCE Inc. is arguing to the CRTC that it is...
British Columbia’s Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI) wants the CRTC to reverse its direction for the province to reimburse Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. for construction-forced relocation of transmission cables at rates...
Thursday the CRTC issued a decision directing wireless service providers...
The CRTC is reopening its proceeding into whether or not BCE Inc., Cogeco Inc., Bragg Communications...
The start of another hockey season brings another federal court site-blocking order for a trio of telecom...
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston wrote to...
Four telecom companies are asking the CRTC to increase the price of basic...
Hurricane Fiona wreaked havoc on Atlantic Canada and eastern Quebec last...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and the...
Wednesday Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe...
City Wide Communications Inc. is asking the Governor in Council to reverse a CRTC decision which allows Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink to charge what the competitor...
City Wide Communications Inc.'s lack of growth in Nova Scotia is due to the...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) says...
In 2021, consumer mobile wireless fell by as much...
City Wide Communications Inc. is appealing the CRTC's decision not to force Bragg Communications Inc. to...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada has filed an intervention in support of a Part 1 request for the CRTC to review the methodology by which the regulator sets roaming tariffs.
In a June 23 intervention, CNOC argued that the original application from a...
In a Thursday decision, the CRTC announced it was implementing regulations...
A consortium of regional wireless competitors have filed an application...
The CRTC mostly accepted the arguments of small wireless carriers against...
Distributel Ltd. is asking the CRTC to revise the interim rates for...
The CRTC has added a dozen additional routes to its list of interexchange...
The commission denied an application by City Wide Communications Inc....
Updated with TekSavvy reaction.
The Supreme Court of Canada Thursday...
The CRTC has determined that all communications service providers (CSPs),...
The CRTC has requested that several telecoms companies send it more information for the introduction of Next Generation 911 (NG 911) services after it directed all NG 911 network providers to file proposed wholesale and retail tariffs no later than Nov. 1, 2021.
These...
Tier 5 service areas are “too large” to meet...
The CRTC approved applications by Quebecor Media Inc.’s Videotron and...
A test-case for Canada's first-ever "dynamic" site-blocking order is headed...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre has asked the CRTC to delay a hearing...
A trio of Canada's biggest broadcasters has asked the Federal Court for a renewal of Canada's first ever site-blocking order, two years after the original blocking order was...
The CRTC has granted Cable Public Affairs Channel Inc. -- more widely known...
The site-blocking order that will block a rolling list of pirate streaming...
Rogers Communications Inc. has told the CRTC the pandemic has slowed work down after it was asked by the...
In a dispute between a trade organization representing wholesale-based...
The CRTC is seeking further information from...
Six months after it received a request to release the data it collects on a fraud process known as "SIM swapping," the CRTC yesterday sent a letter to parties involved in a proceeding on the matter saying that instances of the...
Nearly six weeks after a Federal Court of Appeal upheld Canada's first-ever...
The CRTC has rejected a request from Xplornet Communications Inc. to repeal certain language from the regulator's Internet Code that raised the barrier for cutting off...
The average Canadian mobile wireless prices rank the second highest internationally in four of seven service “baskets,” and remains in the middle-high range for the remaining three, according to the latest pricing report issued by Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada (ISED). On Tuesday, ISED released the 2020 edition of its annual telecommunications price comparison study, prepared by Wall Communications Inc. Its purpose is to provide a comparative price analysis between...
The CRTC has asked Rogers Communications Inc. to stop requiring its third-party internet access customers to use a particular kind of modem until the regulator makes a decision on a complaint about...
The CRTC has rejected a request from a number of large facilities-based...
The Federal Court of Appeals handed a small win to Bragg Communications Inc. in a dispute with trade union Unifor, in which the union was seeking to enlarge a collective bargaining unit of Eastlink...
If Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada doesn't approve Telesat Holdings Inc.'s proposal...
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...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) has asked the CRTC to publicly disclose the information it...
Both BCE Inc. and large cable companies have turned to the Supreme Court...
A number of Canadian wireless providers have objected to a proposal that...
Major Canadian telecoms have ended one of their major relief measures for Canadians who suddenly shifted...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. will become the second Canadian telecom to resume charging overage fees to home internet customers who go over their data caps, with the company announcing it will end the COVID-19...
Cogeco Inc. will again start charging overage fees to its home internet customers who exceed their data limits as of Friday, with the company instead focusing on other measures it considers to “be more essential” to its...
Canada's wireless service providers will send out text messages to their...
Mobile wireless prices are lower or have stayed the same across all service "baskets" compared to last year, but the higher data plan prices remain stubbornly higher than most other countries, a new...
GATINEAU, Que. — According to Lee Bragg, CEO of Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink, it is “really ridiculous” to compare mobile wireless prices in Canada to those in the United States and Europe in any assessment of wireless affordability.
CRTC commissioner...
The Canadian Network Operators Consortium has asked the CRTC to prevent Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink from effectively requiring a number of its third-party internet access customers to remove a particular type of modem...
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...
A recent Federal Court order for two internet service providers to disclose the personal information of alleged copyright infringers diverged from previous precedent by expanding the type of...
A few months ahead of the introduction of the CRTC’s Internet Code, scheduled for Jan. 31,, a grouping of the largest telecom companies in the country are asking the regulator to make the code apply...
The objection to the new phone financing plans from the likes of the Competition Bureau is based on an incorrect understanding of device financing arrangements, according to Rogers Communications Inc.’s reply in the CRTC’s ongoing examination of the 36-month phone financing plans that hit the Canadian wireless market over the summer. The plans are a way for both wireless service providers and consumers themselves to account for the increasingly expensive nature of new cell phones, and the move away from the handset subsidy model is inevitable as the costs of the phones rise, Rogers...
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...
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...
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink followed public consultation protocol when it advised New Brunswick residents that it was planning to build a cell tower in a residential area, according to...
Shueisha Inc., a Japanese publisher of comic books, has filed an...
OTTAWA — A Federal Court judge has granted an interim ban on what the big telecom companies are...
The CRTC has directed telecom companies to disclose an additional set of...
The big three telecoms are telling the CRTC that their practice of slowing...
The CRTC said Friday afternoon that it thinks the 36-month smartphone financing plans that have entered...
Shaw Communications Inc. is blasting the move by the wireless industry’s titans to provide customers with a three-year device financing option, claiming the plan locks...