City Wide petitions the Governor in Council to vary the decision
By Amanda OYE
OTTAWA – Eastlink is arguing Dartmouth, Nova Scotia-based independent Internet service provider City Wide Communications merely restated its original argument in its application to have the CRTC review and vary its decision to deny its request to order Eastlink to move its third-party Internet access (TPIA) point of interconnection (POI) in Nova Scotia.
Eastlink’s TPIA POI in Nova Scotia is currently located in the rural community of Pennant Point but City Wide has been asking for it to be moved to a location in the core of Halifax.
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SUDBURY, Ont. — Eastlink, owned by Halifax-based Bragg Communications Inc., today provided more details about its Ontario government-funded broadband project announced last week.
A total investment of $125 million will bring high-speed Internet to almost 10,000 homes and businesses in the Ontario communities of Huron, Bruce and Lambton as well as the Greater Sudbury area, Eastlink says in a press release.
“This is part of the Government of Ontario’s Accelerated High Speed Internet Program (AHSIP), which is contributing $69M towards the total investment,” explains Eastlink’s press release.
A backgrounder that accompanied the Ontario government’s announcement last week said the…
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OTTAWA – After meeting with representatives from several Canadian telecommunications service providers, Innovation, Science and Industry minister François-Philippe Champagne announced he has directed them to take immediate steps to address network resiliency in Canada.
The meeting, attended by representatives from Rogers, Telus, Bell, Videotron, Shaw, SaskTel and Eastlink, comes as Rogers continues to work to restore its networks, which are close but not quite fully operational, following a nationwide outage that began early Friday morning.
“I’ve demanded that they take immediate initial steps to improve the resiliency of our networks,” Champagne told reporters during a conference call this afternoon…
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Rogers continues to monitor the situation, is aware of ongoing issues for some customers
TORONTO – Over the weekend Rogers Communications continued to make progress on getting its networks fully operational and explained what caused the nationwide outage on Friday.
“We now believe we’ve narrowed the cause to a network system failure following a maintenance update in our core network, which caused some of our routers to malfunction early Friday morning,” reads a letter from Rogers president and CEO Tony Staffieri, which was posted on the company’s website on Saturday.
“We disconnected the specific equipment and redirected traffic, which allowed…
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MIRAMICHI, N.B. — Halifax-based Eastlink said in a press release today its $26-plus million mobile network expansion efforts in northern New Brunswick are “making great progress” in Miramichi.
“Eastlink’s mobile expansion in the province is well underway and will take place over the next couple of years expanding existing coverage from Shediac to the Miramichi this year, followed by Bathurst and the Acadian Peninsula,” the press release reads.
“We’re very pleased with how things are progressing in New Brunswick, and more specifically in Miramichi,” said Jeff Gillham, Eastlink’s CEO, in the release. “We’ve secured our retail location in Bridgeview Plaza and our technical teams have been on the ground working…
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OTTAWA – Mobile wireless pricing is trending downwards in Canada and fixed broadband Internet prices have mostly increased since 2020, according to the latest edition of the government commissioned report Price Comparison Study of Telecommunications Services in Canada and with Foreign Jurisdictions.
The report, prepared by Wall Communications Inc., was released recently but is dated February 15, 2022, and covers pricing from 2021.
A note on methodology
The price comparison study was designed “to provide a detailed comparative price analysis of telecommunications services within Canada, as well as an international comparison (G7 + Australia),” it says.
Data was collected on mobile wireless, fixed…
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HALIFAX – Develop Nova Scotia today provided an update on the progress of the Internet for Nova Scotia Initiative, indicating 273 more homes and businesses in the province will gain access to high-speed Internet through a scope expansion project with Eastlink.
Today’s announcement will benefit 24 communities in small pockets around Nova Scotia. The projects “are all wired-to-the-home/business solutions (coax or fibre – depending on what infrastructure exists currently near each location) and work is already underway in all areas,” a press release says.
The communities to benefit include North Chegoggin, Greenville, North Kingston, South Greenwood, Berwick West, Coldbrook, Benjamin Bridge,…
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GATINEAU – City Wide Communications, a Dartmouth, N.S.-based independent telecommunications service provider, has asked the CRTC to review and vary its recent decision to deny City Wide’s 2020 application asking the Commission to order Bragg Communications (Eastlink) to move its third-party Internet access (TPIA) point of interconnection (POI) in Nova Scotia from its current location in the rural community of Pennant Point to a location in the core of Halifax.
In a decision issued on March 25, 2022, the Commission noted it found “that while Eastlink is subjecting City Wide to a disadvantage and providing itself with a…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC said today that telecommunications service providers will have to adhere to a regime that will set a minimum standard for blocking botnet traffic, which it said constitutes a “significant issue for cyber security, both in terms of volume and severity of harm.”
Botnets are networks of malware-infected devices that are controlled from a central location and used to do things like steal data and/or send an overwhelming number of communications to a server, which causes it to fail (denial-of-service attack). The increasing number of internet-connected devices coming to market, a lot largely with flimsy security measures, are…
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MINDEMOYA, Ont. – Eastlink said yesterday that its fibre upgrade project in Mindemoya, Ontario is making “excellent” progress.
“We are very pleased with progress to date,” said Louigi Salvati, Eastlink’s regional director of marketing and sales, said in a press release. “Our team has been working hard; they’ve completed initial design work, procured fibre networking equipment, and are currently prepping the area, including tree trimming, for the installation of fibre.”
Eastlink CEO Jeff Gillham added that the company is “very pleased to be upgrading our network in Mindemoya with our most advanced fibre connectivity, especially as demand for high speed internet…
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