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Cable / Telecom News, Radio / Television News August 25, 2021 5 years ago

The fight continues: BCE complains to CRTC about Videotron’s Vrai

By Denis Carmel YOU KNOW THERE is vigorous competition when companies are always at each other’s throats – and we can surely say there is no collusion between Bell Canada (BCE) and Québecor! This time, BCE is complaining to the CRTC that Videotron, a Québecor affiliate, launched a new service on August 17 that is not available to competitive distributors contrary to the CRTC’s Terms and conditions of the exemption order for video-on-demand undertakings, related to hybrid video-on-demand undertakings (HVODs). The CRTC specifies an HVOD is an undertaking that “… offers its service over a broadcasting distribution undertaking provided that all… Continue Reading

Cable / Telecom News August 25, 2021 5 years ago

TekSavvy raising Internet prices Oct. 1

“Left with no choice” due to CRTC’s wholesale rate reversal, the ISP says CHATHAM, Ont. — Independent ISP TekSavvy announced in a blog post yesterday it has no other option than to raise the price of its residential Internet packages as a result of the CRTC’s May 2021 reversal of its 2019 decision to lower wholesale Internet rates. “Starting with the Oct. 1 billing cycle, most existing TekSavvy residential Internet customers will see an increase of $3 a month on their service packages,” reads the post written by Peter Nowak, TekSavvy’s vice-president of insight and engagement. “To be clear, we do… Continue Reading

Cable / Telecom News, Radio / Television News August 18, 2021 5 years ago

Breaking down the pandemic impact on Canadian specialty channels

Some bright spots remain CANADIAN SPECIALTY CHANNEL revenues took a hard hit in 2020, thanks to Covid-19, with independents taking bigger shots than vertically integrated (VI) companies. The recently published CRTC 2020 Individual Discretionary and On-Demand Statistical and Financial Summaries for the year ended August 31, 2020 shows Canada’s VI companies, taken together, reported a 6.9% year-over-year decrease in total revenues to $2.9 billion in 2020. The CRTC considers VI companies to include Bell Media, Rogers Media, Quebecor Media, and Corus Entertainment. These companies spent 36.2% of their total revenues on Canadian programming, but total expenditures on Canadian programming was down 8.1%… Continue Reading

Cable / Telecom News August 17, 2021 5 years ago

Court gives Telus go-ahead to appeal CRTC decision

By Denis Carmel OTTAWA – The Federal Court of Appeal (FCA) last week gave Telus permission to appeal the CRTC’s April 2021 wireless review decision, Telecom Regulatory Policy CRTC 2021-130. Telus went to court, not to argue against the CRTC’s decision requiring it to introduce a wholesale service that will enable eligible regional wireless carriers (Editor’s note: like Vidéotron) to use national wireless carrier networks to provide competing services while they build out their own networks. No, when the CRTC issued its decision in April 2021, it took the opportunity to rule on other issues raised during the proceeding as well, including… Continue Reading

Cable / Telecom News August 17, 2021 5 years ago

Canadian ISP Summit program agenda now live

ORGANIZERS OF THE Canadian ISP Summit, the Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) and the Canadian Communication Systems Alliance (CCSA), announced today the program agenda for this year’s virtual conference is now live. Scheduled to take place from September 28-29, the virtual ISP Summit will be hosted by Adam Growe (Cash Cab) and will feature panel discussions, keynote speakers, entertainment, and a virtual trade show. Confirmed keynote speakers include: business and technology visionary Leonard Brody; Paul Chato, president of Your Web Department; and Matt Stein, president and chair of CNOC and CEO of Distributel. In addition to tech and business panels, the… Continue Reading

Cable / Telecom News August 16, 2021 5 years ago

CRTC’s Voter Contact Registry now open

OTTAWA and GATINEAU — With a federal election officially called for September 20, the CRTC announced today its Voter Contact Registry is now accepting applications from candidates, political parties, corporations, trade associations and others who plan to use a calling service provider to contact voters during the election campaign. “The Voter Contact Registry helps protect Canadians from rogue and misleading telephone calls during federal elections, and to ensure that those who contact voters during an election do so transparently,” reads a CRTC press release. The Commission will accept registrations up until 48 hours after the federal election is held on Monday,… Continue Reading

Cable / Telecom News August 13, 2021 5 years ago

OBCM calls on government to overrule CRTC; TekSavvy praises resolution

CHATHAM, Ont. – Ontario Big City Mayors (OBCM) at a meeting today called on the federal government to overrule the CRTC’s recent decision to backtrack on its 2019 wholesale rates decision. “Ontario’s Big City Mayors call on the Federal Cabinet, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and ISED Minister Francois-Phillippe Champagne to overrule the CRTC’s reversal and immediately implement the evidence-based 2019 Rates Order,” an OBCM motion reads. In a press release, TekSavvy “applauded the unanimous resolution passed by the Ontario Big City Mayors.” “The CRTC’s reversal is bad news for consumers, as it effectively guarantees Canadian internet prices – which… Continue Reading

Cable / Telecom News, Radio / Television News August 13, 2021 5 years ago

Rogers/Shaw: CRTC sets public hearing for November

GATINEAU – The CRTC announced yesterday it will hold a public hearing starting November 22 at 9 a.m. MST (11 a.m. EST) into the broadcast side of the proposed Rogers/Shaw deal. The Commission will specifically consider an application “for Rogers to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Shaw and the authority for Rogers to operate various licensed broadcasting distribution undertakings (BDUs) currently owned by Shaw in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba,” as well as Shaw Direct, Shaw Broadcast Services, and Shaw Pay-Per-View, according to a CRTC notice of consultation. The application also seeks approval for Rogers to… Continue Reading

Radio / Television News August 13, 2021 5 years ago

CRTC denies CAB request for pandemic-related regulatory relief

Offers extended payment deadlines instead OTTAWA – After holding a public consultation, the CRTC yesterday denied the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ (CAB) request for Covid-related regulatory relief for private broadcasters. In July 2020, the CAB, which represents the majority of private Canadian programming services, sought “immediate regulatory relief relating to expenditure and exhibition requirements for Canadian private broadcasters due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” according to the CRTC’s decision. The organization specifically proposed that for the 2019-2020 broadcast year the CRTC “deem broadcasting licensees, absent any bad faith on their part, to have met requirements set out in their conditions of licence… Continue Reading

Cable / Telecom News August 13, 2021 5 years ago

Canada needs more competition (including in telecom), says Bureau

OTTAWA – Noting even “prior to the pandemic, there was already mounting concern that a rise of market power was contributing to sluggish growth, stagnant wages and deeper economic inequality in advanced economies, including Canada,” the Competition Bureau released a report on the outcome of its June 2021 Competition and Growth Summit, which suggests Canada’s telecommunication sector needs more competition.
The report, titled Canada Needs More Competition, is based on a three-day summit that brought “together leading thinkers from government, academia and business, as well as the heads of independent competition authorities from Canada, the United States, United Kingdom, Australia… Continue Reading
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