By Ahmad Hathout OTTAWA – A group of six public interest groups is asking the CRTC to expedite the payment of money owed to the Broadcasting Participation Fund from the... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Rogers said Monday that it is bringing Shaw’s foreign outsourced customer service jobs back to Canada. The company said this involves “hundreds” of jobs, which will now be... Continue Reading
By Ahmad Hathout OTTAWA – The fund that bankrolls consumer interest participation in CRTC hearings is warning that it is at a “critical juncture” with not enough money available to... Continue Reading
By Ahmad Hathout MONTREAL – Cogeco CEO Philippe Jette said Friday that wireless service providers are in a better position to focus on negotiating mobile virtual network operator deals with the... Continue Reading
By Ahmad Hathout OTTAWA – Investment firm Globalive is asking the CRTC to review the rates charged by the incumbents for wholesale domestic roaming and to investigate Rogers’s proposed favourable... Continue Reading
TORONTO and MONTREAL -- Rogers and Videotron announced Monday that they have closed their respective purchases of Shaw and Freedom, after the innovation minister blessed the mega-merger on Friday. The... Continue Reading
By Ahmad Hathout OTTAWA – Two years and 16 days after Rogers and Shaw announced their intention to merge, Innovation Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne indirectly approved one of Canadian history’s largest... Continue Reading
By Ahmad Hathout OTTAWA – The CRTC has sent a letter to Rogers and Bell on Thursday asking them to lay out what off-tariff wholesale internet access agreements they have... Continue Reading
By Ahmad Hathout OTTAWA – A technical working group with members from the country’s major telecommunications companies have this month recommended a bevy of changes to enhance network reliability, including... Continue Reading
By Ahmad Hathout MONTREAL – Just over a week before the transaction deadline, Rogers president and CEO Tony Staffieri said Tuesday that the company believes Innovation Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne has... Continue Reading