Canada’s oldest public broadcaster is in a funding crunch but listeners are stepping up to the plate to support it as it works to raise $3 million by September. ...
Northern Ontario is lagging behind the rest of the province when it comes to internet connectivity, a new report finds. Blue Sky Net's 2024 Northern Ontario Broadband Report, released on Monday, mirrors results from last year’s study. Federal statistics say 93.5 per...
The CRTC is making headway in improving the telecommunications landscape, a...
Following the release of its first quarter results of 2024, Rogers...
To celebrate Earth Day on Monday, Ericsson AB signed on with the federal...
A wealth of intervenors have told the CRTC that the large established telecoms should not be allowed to...
BCE Inc.’s appeal against the CRTC’s November decision to require the company to allow competitors wholesale aggregated access to its fibre network is underway in the Federal Court. The telecom’s official notice of appeal was filed April 8. Bell claims that the...
The House of Commons Industry Committee is continuing its clause-by-clause study of Bill C-27, the...
Canadian broadcasters are encouraging the CRTC to...
A group of public interest broadcasters is getting more money from the...
As it reported further declines in revenue for the...
BCE Inc. did not give the federal government...
Cogeco Inc. reported strong internet subscriber growth for the second quarter of the 2024 fiscal year, it...
The House of Commons industry committee continued its clause-by-clause...
Major broadcasters are opposed to Accessible Media Inc.’s (AMI) request...
A member of the Progressive Senators Group is calling on the federal government to renew the digital tax credit. Andrew Cardozo was one of four Senators who hosted a round...
Advertising on foreign digital media like Meta...
The CRTC has ordered Cogeco Inc. to maintain TekSavvy Solutions Inc.’s...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Sunday that next week’s federal budget will include $2.4...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. are...
In the wake of recent controversy surrounding BCE Inc.’s restructuring measures, the telecommunications giant has released a statement with its side of the story and...
Bethlehem Housing and Support Services denies...
The federal government is loaning $2.14 billion to...
Four Ontario school boards have launched a lawsuit against three social...
BCE Inc. asked the CRTC to lighten licensing requirements for ExpressVu,...
The CRTC has issued a call for comments as part of Phase 2 of the...
After months of consultations, the CRTC has issued its Broadcasting Fees Regulations for all broadcasting...
The recent history of Rogers Communications Inc. has had more drama than anything broadcast on its CityTV network. The company poached its CEO Joe Natale from Telus Corp. only to ultimately dismiss...
Unifor, Canada’s largest private sector union, called on BCE Inc. to answer for its recent layoff...
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 is issuing a call for applications from interested parties wishing...
The CRTC is delaying transition of next-generation 911 (NG911) services in...
The CRTC launched its first public consultation on the Online News Act’s regulatory framework to gain...
The CRTC has dismissed BCE Inc.’s application challenging the...
BCE Inc. is the subject of a Part 1 application before the CRTC over access to broadcasting for disabled Canadians. The matter has been transferred from an earlier filing with the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC). David Lepofsky has been a disability advocate for...
A trio of Quebecers has been granted leave to launch a class action suit against Rogers Communications Inc. and two subsidiaries over a service disruption in April 2021. The filing was submitted last...
The Superior Court of Quebec has authorized a class action lawsuit against...
Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) submitted an application to the CRTC for an...
The Wire Report, the leading news source covering telecom, digital communications and broadcast media in Canada, is searching for an editor to join our Ottawa office. The Wire Report is part of The Hill Times Canada’s leading...
The Superior Court of Quebec has dismissed a request from RNC Media Inc. to...
The Montreal-based company behind Pornhub and...
Neighbourhood Connect (NHC), operating under 2621159 Ontario Inc. DBA...
The House of Commons committee on Industry met Wednesday to discuss...
This story has been updated to reflect changes to deadlines made by the CRTC on Monday. The CRTC is issuing a consultation on its proposal to make its voluntary call traceback process mandatory for all TSPs offering voice services in Canada to tackle the persistent issue of nuisance calls plaguing consumers. The call traceback process, initiated to curb spam calls,...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron and its subsidiary VMedia have lodged two formal complaints with the Competition Bureau, urging an investigation into BCE Inc.'s alleged abuse of...
The CRTC has approved Execulink Telecom Inc.’s request for access to three multi-dwelling units (MDUs) owned by JLC Homes Ltd. in western Ontario. The buildings, located in Tillsonburg, Ont. at...
Witnesses before the House of Commons committee on Canadian Heritage all agreed Tuesday that a forum on the future of the media is required. Whether government has a role was...
BCE Inc. is disputing the CRTC’s preliminary...
Revenues were robust in the telecommunications sector, a new CRTC study has found. Tuesday the commission released its annual report on the telecom market for 2022....
The government of Canada has unveiled its long-awaited Online Harms Act...
With the heads of Canada’s big three telecoms threatening to boycott a...
By Paul Park at ppark@thewirereport.ca Technology is changing the family...
Quebecor Inc. reported a successful fourth-quarter as it closed out the 2023 fiscal year, which it said...
Corus Entertainment Inc., Stingray Radio Inc., and...
The crisis in competition when it comes to internet connectivity is...
Representatives from Cogeco Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. told the...
Two large incumbent telecoms told the CRTC that broadband resellers are not...
To bring affordable internet and consumer choice to rural communities, the CRTC must mandate aggregated wholesale fibre access to incumbents’ networks, stated several...
Cogeco Inc. is adamantly defending its right to upgrade infrastructure for...
If Canada is to have a viable wholesale market, high speed access needs to...
Organizations representing Canada’s creative industries are calling on...
The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed BCE Inc.’s motion for a stay against the CRTC’s decision to...
Representatives from major tech companies warned that the government bill aimed at regulating AI is too broad and risks hindering its development and use in Canada....
Reaction has been swift and condemnatory to the announcement Thursday by...
The CRTC has forensic investigative tools but deploys them rarely, the...
BCE Inc. announced Thursday that it will be...
Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron and Freedom Mobile divisions have been granted a...
CIK Telecom is arguing to the CRTC that the...
BCE Inc., filed a petition to cabinet Friday urging it to reverse a ruling...
Federal departments have forensic diagnostic tools that can be used for...
The government must regulate artificial intelligence (AI) quickly to...
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...
OTTAWA–While artificial intelligence (AI) may seem daunting to people in...
OTTAWA–Foreign streamers will be a prickly problem for mainstream...
The CRTC is implementing thousand-block pooling (TBP) as a proactive...
The Bloc Québécois is continuing to protest the job cuts at CBC/Radio-Canada announced last year. For...
OTTAWA–Demographic reporting is essential if we are to promote diversity in film and television, the Canadian Media Producers Association was told Thursday. Its annual Prime...
Rogers Communications Inc., in partnership with Ericsson AB, announced it...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge said...
OTTAWA, Ont. – No public institution, including Canada’s public...
Quebecor Inc.’s request for the CRTC to set new...
CBC-Radio Canada CEO Catherine Tait won’t say if she, or the public...
The CRTC has initiated a special consultation...
Stakeholders have sent their final replies on telecom service in the Far North to the CRTC. The incumbent telecoms are at odds with most other applicants when it comes to the remedy for competition in the region. BCE Inc....
Quebecor Inc.'s Part 1 application to the CRTC for...
The CRTC has sent letters on Jan. 22 to interested parties to try to get to the bottom of two incidents where people in distress could not get 911 service in French. The stories were first reported in the Montreal news outlet La Presse. “The Canadian public and the...
A coalition of nine advocacy groups and community...
Melinda Rogers-Hixon and Martha Rogers are retiring from the telecom...
Rogers Communications Inc. has become Canada’s most complained-about service provider, according to the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services’ (CCTS) annual report released on...
The Commission for Complaints for...
After almost two hours of deliberation last Thursday, the House industry and technology committee failed to decide on a motion put forward by Conservative MP Rick Perkins to conduct a study into Rogers Communications Inc. and BCE Inc.’s recently announced price hikes....
BCE Inc. filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC seeking clarity on three...
The lingering effects of the pandemic and the labour disputes in Hollywood...
The owner of a multi-dwelling unit (MDU) in Kitchener, Ontario denies BCE...
Revenue and profits declined at Cogeco Inc. as the Quebec firm released...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. lodged a formal Part 1 complaint with the CRTC against Cogeco Inc., to address...
Misuse of 911 continues to be a problem for emergency service providers...
A consortium working toward the successful implementation of...
This story has been updated with comment from BCE Inc. Quebecor Inc., representing Videotron and Freedom Mobile, has lodged a formal complaint with the CRTC against BCE Inc., alleging...
Bragg Communications Inc.'s Eastlink is vehemently disputing allegations of negligence during its July service outage and calls for the dismissal of the claims made by...