OTTAWA — Without publicly naming names, the CRTC issued a letter Friday to telecom service providers who have not submitted their six-month progress report regarding their implementation of measures to reduce caller ID spoofing and to determine the origin of nuisance calls, a compliance requirement they must meet by March 31.
In the Telecom Commission letter posted on its website, the CRTC reminded telecom service providers (TSPs) that the Commission’s Compliance and Enforcement and Telecom Decision CRTC 2018-32, issued January 25, 2018, determined that authentication and verification of caller ID information for IP voice calls should be implemented…
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Independent ISP demands answers to altered methodology – and a fixed report
CHATHAM, ON – TekSavvy Solutions is calling on the CRTC to fix its “flawed” 2018 Communications Monitoring Report and for the Commission to explain why it omitted data the company says is highly relevant to current regulatory proceedings.
In a letter submitted Wednesday to the Regulator, the independent ISP says the 2018 CMR released December 20th was not only very late and disjointed, but it also did not follow the same methodological standards and practices of prior reports.
“The CRTC published the 2018 Report in the waning days of 2018,…
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GATINEAU – When the CRTC released its Broadband Fund Decision in September 2018, it set out a methodology to allot the disbursement of the expected $750 million to fund broadband expansion in regions of Canada where delivering broadband connectivity isn't feasible without financial assistance.
In December 2018, the Southwestern Integrated Fibre Technology Inc. (SWIFT), filed a review and vary application with the Commission challenging elements of that methodology. As per the rules of procedures, interested parties had until 8 February to make their comments. 237 such intervenors filed comments. While most are individuals or organisations that…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has established an appropriate quality of service (QoS) metric for jitter as it continues to define the broadband portion of the universal service objective.
The Commission said Tuesday that in order to define fixed broadband Internet access service as a high-quality service, it must meet, among other things, a jitter threshold of 5 milliseconds, measured using specific predefined methodology.
The threshold would be measured during peak times (i.e. from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. local time on weekdays), and from the modem at the customer premises to a server located off-net at the Internet exchange point in…
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OTTAWA – The term “equitable” is not synonymous with “equal” as it pertains to the allocation of air time to registered political parties and candidates, the CRTC has told a listener of Quebec City’s CHOI-FM station.
In a letter dated February 7, the Commission responded to a complaint from an individual who alleged that the RNC Media-owned station’s programming during the 2017 Quebec City municipal elections “demonstrated a clear bias” towards a specific political party. The complainant, who included a breakdown of the station’s programming and an assessment of the relative time dedicated to various registered parties, claimed that the…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC is gearing up to address the second stage of an application filed by the Canadian Network Operators Consortium (CNOC) seeking a review and vary of its wholesale wireline services decision.
The record closed for the first stage of the application on January 17. Stage 1 was to address the option of suspending the 100 Mbps speed cap on an interim basis.
Stage 2 will address the matter of removal of the speed cap, among other issues. According to a January 29 letter from the CRTC, interventions on the requested reliefs addressed in the application are…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC needs more information from Iristel and Telus as it inches towards a final ruling in the dispute between the two telcos over failed calls to the North.
In a January 29 letter addressed to the respective regulatory heads, the Commission laid out four steps as part of the process for the review of the dueling final relief requests:
– Step 1. Iristel and Telus are to file responses to the relevant requests for information listed in the letter’s appendix 1 with the Commission by February 19, 2019.
– Step 2. Any interested parties may file submissions with…
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OTTAWA – The cities of Vernon, BC, Grande Prairie, AB and Toronto’s Scarborough region may soon have new radio stations after the CRTC issued separate calls for comments on the market capacity and on the appropriateness of calling for radio applications in the three markets.
The Commission said Wednesday that it issued the calls after receiving applications for new radio stations in those markets as follows:
– an application by Vernon Community Radio Society for a community radio station to serve greater Vernon;
– an application by Vista Radio for a new commercial radio station to serve Grande Prairie; and
– an…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has denied a request from Telus to amend that company's regional broadcasting licences for various terrestrial broadcasting distribution undertakings in British Columbia and Alberta by deleting six licensed areas.
In its application, Telus asked to drop the areas of Prince George, Terrace, Vernon and Penticton in BC, and Grande Prairie and Fort McMurray in Alberta, citing the carve-out criteria required to remove a service area as a separate, exempt undertaking from a regional licence.
But the Commission said that Telus did not meet the exemption criteria and that the community programming that Telus distributes in these six licensed areas did…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has waded in to an ongoing dispute between the city of Calgary and a group of big telco carriers over a municipal rights-of-way bylaw and a proposed municipal consent and access agreement (MCAA).
The Commission said Friday that it was turning down an application by the city seeking a declaration and determination that certain telecommunications carriers may rely upon Calgary’s rights-of-way bylaw for the performance of their obligations under section 43 of the Telecommunications Act, which deals with access to infrastructure.
The decision also approved certain terms and conditions of an MCAA between Calgary and…
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