The CRTC has approved a request from Northwestel for additional funding via the Broadband Fund to drive its fibre expansion in rural Whitehorse. Representing the sixth increase in funding for its Yukon... Continue Reading
Telus Health last week announced a collaboration with Nova Scotia Health (NSH) to enable residents of the province to access their primary care information through the YourHealthNS app. “This health data interoperability initiative... Continue Reading
The combination of measures that Rogers undertook after its major service outage in July 2022 are satisfactory to improve the Rogers network resiliency and reliability as well as to address... Continue Reading
By Ahmad Hathout A consortium of large cable companies is blasting a proposal by Telus to significantly increase its pole attachment rate in British Columbia and Alberta, saying it will... Continue Reading
Quebecor’s Videotron said Friday it has fulfilled all of its commitments to the federal government when it acquired Freedom Mobile. The commitments were that it maintain Freedom’s pricing and to... Continue Reading
The CRTC conditionally approved Thursday up to $272-million to the Government of Nunavut to build a 1,300-kilometre fibre transport connection to four remote Inuit communities in the territory. The fibre... Continue Reading
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) last week launched a public consultation to help inform the federal government’s development of a “right to repair” policy aimed at giving Canadian consumers greater... Continue Reading
Independent telecom Beanfield, with facilities-based operations in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Ottawa, announced Tuesday it has appointed Rizwan Jamal as its CEO, effective immediately. Based in Toronto, Jamal was most recently president... Continue Reading
Rogers announced Tuesday it successfully trialled Ericsson’s 5G Cloud-Radio Access Network (Cloud RAN) technology during the Toronto Blue Jays game at Rogers Centre on Canada Day, marking the first time the... Continue Reading
Telus announced Tuesday several private investments totalling $21.1 million to deploy and update its networks in Quebec’s Lower St. Lawrence, Gaspé Peninsula and North Shore regions. These investments are being paired... Continue Reading
