OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Canadian telephone and mobile wireless companies must update their networks in order to provide next-generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) services by 2020, the CRTC said Thursday.
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QUEBEC – Quebec’s culture minister Luc Fortin is calling on the federal government to review, and perhaps override, parts of the CRTC's recent licence renewals for large French language…
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MONTREAL – Bell said Thursday that it will launch an LTE-M (Long Term Evolution, category M1) network to support the growing use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices on…
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TORONTO – Bell, Cogeco, Rogers, Shaw, and Videotron were among the stakeholders present at last week’s inaugural meeting of the Steering Committee of the Canadian Energy Efficiency Voluntary Agreement…
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Cable Cable doesn’t own the Raptors…
THERE WAS A TELLING MOMENT during last year’s CRTC review of basic telecommunications services which demonstrated just how differently independent network owners run their…
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GREG O’BRIEN MAKES SEVERAL VERY valid points in his analysis earlier this week: “Why 5% PNI doesn’t matter” but I disagree with his conclusion.
Yes,…
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OTTAWA – CRTC chairman and CEO Jean-Pierre Blais took the rather unusual step Wednesday of issuing an open letter to the editor (to all us editors) to “set the…
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VANCOUVER – Telus will invest $4.7 billion in new communications infrastructure and technology across British Columbia through 2020, including $1.2 billion this year alone, the company said Wednesday.
Telus said…
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PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. – CityWest will invest $10 million in a fibre-to-the-home build in Prince Rupert, its biggest market, the municipally owned carrier announced late Tuesday.
The build will start later this…
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OTTAWA – Delinquent telecom service provider VOIS Inc. has failed to rejoin the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services (CCTS), contrary to a mandatory order from the CRTC…
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