New Democratic Party leadership candidate Avi Lewis’ idea for a public option for telecommunication services has sparked debate on how the government should address...
The CRTC has rejected a 988 service routing plan proposed by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and has given the commission’s working group six months to come up with a better proposal.
The 988 number is a phone number used by people who are suicidal...
Smaller telecoms worry about how new CRTC...
New requirements changing how telecom companies must notify the CRTC about...
Major telecommunications companies across Canada voiced strong opposition...
The Independent Telecommunications Providers...
The agency responsible for administering the 988 mental health helpline finds itself at odds with telecoms who run the phone lines, in replies submitted to the CRTC’s proceeding on improving the service.
The 988 system was established in 2023 to provide a simple...
Lana Payne has a perspective on broadcasting and telecommunications few do....
Rogers Communications Inc. has filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC asking the commission to review...
Telus Corp. has been denied the extension it wanted before it has to give...
Telus Corp. appears to be fighting a solo battle...
BCE Inc. says it will not participate in future...
Telus Corp. is challenging the federal...
Telus Corp. has asked for an additional four months until it has to provide...
The CRTC has announced the interim rates competitors will pay three of Canada’s largest telephone...
The CRTC is holding firm on its decision to implement thousand-block pooling to manage the growing demand for telephone numbers in Canada, despite arguments from companies concerned about the amount of time they have to make it work.
Under the current number system,...
The CRTC has expanded the terms of its mobile virtual network operator...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre’s new...
In order to truly measure progress on closing the...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Thursday that it is...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. is challenging the CRTC’s recent decision ordering it to provide competitors with wholesale access to its fibre networks. ...
Charlene Gavel could be considered a lifer at Saskatchewan...
The head of the Canadian Telecommunications Association wants more...
While some companies praised the CRTC’s long-awaited decision to mandate...
Canadian broadcasters and telecoms reported experiencing mixed effects from...
A wireless outage across Europe seems to have had minimal impact on...
Minister of Rural Economic Development Gudie Hutchings continued her tour...
To bring affordable internet and consumer choice to rural communities, the...
The CRTC announced Monday an expansion in forbearance from regulating...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Wednesday the deployment of 5G technology across more than 40 additional cell sites, extending its reach to rural...
The CRTC has denied a BCE Inc. application to...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Monday that it was providing state of the art WiFi across the prairie province. SaskTel is joining forces with Eero, a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc., to deliver...
Canada’s telecom industry have spent some $2.16 billion on the 3,800 MHz band of spectrum, according to...
Quebecor Inc.'s Fizz went live in Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton, the...
The major telecommunications companies in Canada oppose suggestions that they pay for pre-production testing of next-generation 911 (NG911) technology. They laid out the specifics in interventions regarding two Part 1 applications.
The City of Calgary filed its...
BCE Inc. and Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. have enhanced...
The debate over what the future of the wholesale high-speed-access (HSA)...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. has rolled out its 5G network to the SaskTel Centre in...
The CRTC denied Quebecor Inc.’s request for...
The CRTC added Natyf Inc., a Francophone station...
Incumbent Canadian telecoms say there is no cause for alarm that...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Charlene Gavel as its new president and CEO who...
Telecoms and other stakeholders have had their say on proposed changes to...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) told the CRTC that Canada’s incumbents are proposing “unconscionable” rates for aggregated wholesale high-speed access (HSA) service over fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) that “are inflated above the just and reasonable...
The federal and Ontario governments are together investing $54 million to roll out high-speed internet in the province. The project was announced Wednesday.
“Today’s announcement is a significant milestone for internet...
BCE Inc.’s takeover of MTS six years ago has not proved beneficial to the prairie province, a new study concludes. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives issued For Whom the Bell Tolls: The...
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...
Incumbent carriers are opposed to the expedited review of the CRTC’s wholesale HSA framework, including its consideration to mandate temporary aggregated access to fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) facilities.
Interventions from BCE Inc., Telus Corp., Saskatchewan...
The commission should not regulate the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) markets in the same...
The CRTC has announced that it expects incumbents to have their mobile...
According to the analytics firm Opensignal, when it comes to fixed...
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 government of Canada announced Friday that it is spending $37 million to roll out broadband service in Saskatchewan. Over 5,000 homes will see their internet service improve in areas like Prince...
The 2022 edition of the department of Innovation,...
Telecommunications companies across Canada are waiving fees for texts and...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Monday that it is expanding its 5G footprint into 11 rural sections of the province. This will further wireless connectivity in Saskatchewan.
“Saskatchewan people will continue to benefit from some of the best...
The CRTC is asking a number of incumbent telecom companies to report back to the regulator with an update about the ongoing mobile virtual network operator (MVNO)...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. has rapidly changed its mind...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding...
The start of another hockey season brings another federal court site-blocking order for a trio of telecom...
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 be available by the end of March, 2023, the company stated in a press release.
“I’m extremely pleased with the tremendous progress SaskTel has made since first launching their 5G network last December,” said Don Morgan, the minister responsible for SaskTel. According to the release, the expansion is part of SaskTel's $1.5 billion five-year...
Four telecom companies are asking the CRTC to increase the price of basic...
Wednesday Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe...
Friday the CRTC approved a report from the CRTC Interconnection Steering...
Canadians will be able to participate in public consultations regarding the installation or modification of antenna systems in the official language of their choice, after the Department of...
In 2021, consumer mobile wireless fell by as much...
In a Thursday decision, the CRTC announced it was implementing regulations...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Cogeco Inc. are among competitors protesting proposed changes to the...
The Independent Telecommunications Providers...
Cogeco Inc. is raising concern with the CRTC that proposed changes to its Telecom Fees Regulations“would lead to a significant increase” in annual telecommunications fees...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. is investing approximately $337 million of capital in...
The CRTC mostly accepted the arguments of small wireless carriers against...
Distributel Ltd. is asking the CRTC to revise the interim rates for...
Monday Rogers Communications Inc. announced it was partnering with Ericsson AB on rolling out Canada’s first standalone 5G network. The Toronto-based telecom had earlier deployed the country’s first standalone 5G core and...
The CRTC has added a dozen additional routes to its list of interexchange private line (IXPL) services that it is forbearing from regulation.
In a decision released Friday,...
Updated with TekSavvy reaction.
The Supreme Court of Canada Thursday...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. is rolling out 5G in the City...
Rogers Communications Inc. and civil organizations...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. has a “simple”...
The CRTC has determined that all communications service providers (CSPs),...
A crown-owned Saskatchewan telecommunications firm is launching its new digital mobile service
In a...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has opened a regional office in Regina to facilitate its work with...
BH Telecom Corp. has had its proposed statement of work for a Saskatchewan fibre project approved by the CRTC. In a Friday order, the commission said it will provide the approval in confidence to the...
The telecoms companies that supported Innovation, Science and Economic Development’s (ISED) proposal to impose further deployment requirements on licences primarily used to...
Shaw Communications Inc. has added its voice to those calling for deferral of the implementation of the...
Canada’s incumbent telecoms are asking the CRTC to delay the start date of an anti-call spoofing...
A trio of Canada's biggest broadcasters has asked the Federal Court for a...
BCE Inc. and Saskatchewan Telecommunications...
Canada’s big telecommunications companies are in favour of making access to mental services more convenient for Canadians, by implementing 988 as the national three-digit...
In a dispute between a trade organization representing wholesale-based...
The CRTC is seeking further information from...
BCE Inc. has filed an intervention with the CRTC saying New Brunswick’s plan for how it would like to adapt its next-generation 911 (NG911) services may not be the best approach. According to Bell’s intervention, the...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. (SaskTel) is throwing another...
Canada’s big-three telecoms are doubling down on their assertions that...
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...
Incumbent telecom companies will be required to...
The Communications Security Establishment (CSE) has argued that the average Canadian’s cybersecurity...
The CRTC has rejected a request from a number of large facilities-based internet service providers for the regulator to extend the Internet Code to smaller ISPs and resellers.
In a decision released Thursday, the CRTC wrote that, in its determination, the large ISPs had...
