By Ahmad Hathout Bell CEO Mirko Bibic said Tuesday that the telco is anticipating that the CRTC will mandate access to incumbents' fibre facilities, and the outstanding questions about that... Continue Reading
SaskTel announced Wednesday it will soon begin connecting homes to its infiNET service in Esterhazy, Macklin, Unity and Wynyard as part of the Crown corporation’s $200-million Rural Fibre Initiative. SaskTel said it... Continue Reading
Rogers said Tuesday it has relaunched Rogers 5G Home Internet with a new, more affordable price of $50 per month, connecting subscribers to home internet service over the Rogers 5G network. The... Continue Reading
Widespread network outages — such as the one last month in the U.S. affecting tens of thousands of AT&T subscribers as well as Rogers’s network outage in July 2022 —... Continue Reading
Blue Ant Media announced Tuesday the launch of its free, ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channel Love Pets on the Roku Channel in Canada. Since its debut last year, the pet-themed channel has... Continue Reading
The governments of Canada and British Columbia announced Monday more than $37 million in combined funding for 14 projects to bring high-speed internet access to more than 50 communities across B.C. As... Continue Reading
The Canadian government announced Friday it is providing more than $2.3 million from its $3.225-billion Universal Broadband Fund to help support projects that will bring high-speed internet access and mobile connectivity to... Continue Reading
Foreign investments in Canada’s interactive digital media sector by entities owned or influenced by foreign states — particularly states engaging in activities that could pose a risk to Canada’s national... Continue Reading
Quebecor’s TVA Group announced Saturday it has reached a tentative agreement with representatives of CUPE 687 — the union that represents the media company’s unionized employees in Montreal, Quebec City... Continue Reading
By Connie Thiessen Canadian Heritage has announced $58.8 million in funding to extend the Local Journalism Initiative (LJI) through 2027. Initially launched in 2019 as a five-year, $50 million program,... Continue Reading
