By Ahmad Hathout
Telus is asking the CRTC to reconsider part of a July decision that determined Every-Day Computers (Ev-Com) satisfied the spectrum requirement to become a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) under the regulated framework — and to scrutinize broadly the spectrum being used to claim eligibility.
Ev-Com filed the initial application in January asking the CRTC to order Telus to provide access to its wireless network under the MNVO regime. But while the regulator ruled in July that Ev-Com did not satisfy all the requirements to get mandated access – namely, that it…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Rogers is claiming in a Part 1 made public Monday that Concord Pacific Development Corp. is forcing it to pay a $300 per-unit fee to access two properties under construction in Burnaby, British Columbia.
The cable giant claims, since July 2024, it has been seeking access to the properties at 5889 Barker Avenue and 4750-4754 Kingsway, but Concord “has consistently refused to discuss access by Rogers to the Properties unless Rogers agrees to pay an upfront per unit entry fee of $300 to obtain Concord’s permission to access the multi-dwelling units after construction is complete.
“Concord has also stated…
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As demand for data, cloud services and high-capacity connectivity grows, the infrastructure supporting Canada’s digital economy is becoming more important than ever.
Canada’s digital future depends on infrastructure that most people will never see.
Beneath highways, across remote landscapes and between major network hubs, fibre optic networks carry the data that keeps businesses, communities and essential services connected. As demand for bandwidth increases, the challenge is no longer simply extending connectivity. It is building the…
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The CRTC sent a letter to the national and regional telecoms this week requesting an update on the progress of the MVNO regime that is four years out from sunsetting.
From Rogers, Bell, Telus and Sasktel, the regulator is asking for a list of MVNO agreements entered into with regional carriers. It is asking the same from Quebecor, Cogeco, Eastlink and Iristel, as well as the areas where these regionals are using the wireless capacity to deliver services, where new radio access networks (RAN) have been deployed, the total capital investment to expand into these new areas, the number of…
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By Ahmad Hathout
The CRTC is allowing telecoms no longer required to contribute to the National Contribution Fund (NCF) to pay outstanding amounts owed over three years.
In February, the regulator updated who pays into the fund that bankrolls telecom builds by increasing the company revenue threshold from $10 million to $25 million. That rule change hacked the number of contributors to the fund by 40 per cent and left unresolved the question of what to do about the amounts these telecoms set aside for collection that weren’t picked up.
At the behest of the CRTC, the fund’s overseer,…
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Co-op can submit reimbursement claims monthly for costs incurred
The CRTC last week approved Access Communications Co-operative’s statement of work for a transport fibre project in western Saskatchewan, for which the community-owned co-op in November 2025 was awarded up to $12.89 million in funding from the commission’s $750-million Broadband Fund.
In its approval of Access’s project plan outlined in the statement of work — submitted to the telecom regulator on June 30 — the CRTC also approved, by majority decision and on an exceptional basis, Access’s requests to submit claims for reimbursement as…
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The CRTC has told Bell subsidiary Maskatel it needs more information before it considers the Quebec telecom service provider’s recent request for an extension of the CRTC-mandated April 2027 deadline to implement a self-service mechanism for customers to make changes to their plans.
Maskatel said in an August Part 1 application the required self-service mechanism can’t be implemented within its legacy systems, which lack modern application programming interfaces and the online capabilities needed to host web-based self-service platforms, it said. Maskatel is asking for more time — up until the end of 2027 —…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Officials from the federal government had tried and failed for months to get a formal response from the government of Nunavut on a revised scope for the West Hudson Fibre Link project, according to briefing material obtained by Cartt.
In December 2022, Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) conditionally approved an undisclosed amount of money – in the millions of dollars – from the Universal Broadband Fund (UBF) to connect 1,851 underserved households in Arviat, Rankin Inlet, and Coral Harbor via undersea fibre cable and bring redundancy by connecting from Churchill, Manitoba to the satellite-dependent territory.
On January 31,…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Corus Entertainment Inc. announced Thursday that it has completed the recapitalization transaction that will make it a subsidiary to a parent company holding its assets and controlled by its debtholders but guided by a board that includes a former Bell Media head.
In exchange for 99 per cent of Corus Entertainment Holdings Inc., the lenders – including Canso Investment Counsel Ltd. – forgave $500 million in debt hanging over the media company. The CRTC approved the transaction last month, conveying that the largest independent broadcaster is too important to the media and news ecosystem to fail.
“We are…
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By Ahmad Hathout
The CRTC made final Wednesday Rogers’s new high-speed internet offerings to wholesale competitors.
For the eastern part of the country, Rogers sought last July to introduce speeds of 300 Mbps download and 30 Mbps upload and 300 Mbps/200 Mbps. For the west, it proposed those same speeds plus an option for 75 Mbps/50 Mbps. Because the speeds fell within the existing speed bands with approved interim rates, the cable giant did not propose new costs.
The speeds, introduced to comply with speed-matching requirements, had been in the market since September 2025 after the CRTC approved them…
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