GATINEAU – Bell Canada’s Broadcasting Distribution Undertaking (BDU) licence (for Fibe TV) will expire on February 29, 2020 and the CRTC last week published a notice of consultation making Bell’s application public – as well as the correspondence between Bell and the Commission since Bell filed its application in August 2017.
The CRTC, in that notice, alludes to non-compliance issues they notice in their examination of the issue, especially in terms of providing Community television and local expression.
“The Commission intends to examine Bell Canada’s (Bell’s) compliance of with its regulatory obligations relating to local expression and community programming. The Commission…
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VANCOUVER — Telus is working with sustainable home developer Adera Development to create the first sustainable smart home, the two companies announced Monday.
As a leader in the innovation of SmartWood Technology, local developer Adera Development has earned the reputation of constructing happier, healthier mass timber homes in British Columbia for more than 50 years, the company said in a news release announcing its partnership with Telus. Together with Telus, Adera will enhance its ideology to include elements of a smarter home to complement its sustainable platform, the company said.
“We are excited to begin this partnership with locally renowned…
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OTTAWA – In pledging to cap cellphone and internet prices as part of its quest to form the next federal government, the NDP faced a fierce backlash on Friday – not from its political opponents but from the industry it targeted.
Campaigning in Toronto, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said the party doesn’t just want a price cap, which it says would result in an annual savings of $250 for families, but also wants the CRTC to impose on telecom companies a “mandatory affordable, unlimited data plan.”
He explained price caps have worked in the U.S. and Australia,…
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ON FRIDAY THE 13TH, the large cable companies as well as Bell filed motions in Federal Court requesting leave to appeal the CRTC’s recent decision on Wholesale High Speed Access pricing. Cable companies also requested a stay of CRTC’s decision, meaning that the Commission decision would not apply until the Court issued its ruling.
As there has been much chatter about these appeals, and others which may come, Cartt.ca thought it would shed some light on the various processes.
The Telecommunications Act provide three ways for parties to appeal CRTC’s decisions. It should be noted that the Broadcasting Act provides…
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OTTAWA – Telus and the City of Ottawa announced this week the company will provide free Wi-Fi service on the O-Train and underground cell connectivity, too.
This will let Ottawa commuters get online, text or make calls no matter where they go.
Telus will provide free, unlimited Wi-Fi at the start of the O-Train Confederation Line service in the three downtown, underground Line 1 station’s platform and door to door cellular service through the entire system including the downtown tunnel. There will be a continuous cellular connection, including between stations and in the 2.5-kilometre tunnel, for all passengers.
Telus will be…
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Rogers Infinte customers surpass 750,000
TORONTO – A handful of Canadian telecom executives didn’t hold back on their thoughts about the CRTC’s ruling on wholesale internet, MVNOs and more during BMO’s 20th Annual Media and Telecom Conference, held Tuesday.
“The footprint as a…
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MONTREAL – Telus and Zú announced Wednesday the two companies have entered into a long-term partnership to launch an experimental 5G laboratory
Zú, a Montreal-based non-profit whose mission is to develop leading-edge innovative projects in the entertainment sector will, with help from Telus, “empower creators to explore cutting-edge technologies, from augmented reality and 3D holograms to mobile gaming, interactive storytelling, live volumetric performance, and 4K live streaming,” reads the press release.
According to the two companies, this is the first-ever space for technological exploration in Canada entirely dedicated to the creative and entertainment industry.
“The 5G Telus Lab will be a space…
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TORONTO – Expect network investment to plummet, the growth of the digital economy in Canada to stall and an invasion of well-heeled foreign broadband resellers if the recent CRTC decision on third party internet access wholesale rates is not overturned, says a report published this week by TD Securities.
While saying he expects the decision to be challenged and overturned or at least revised, TD telecom and media analyst Vince Valentini pulls no punches in his analysis, saying the Commission-set wholesale rates and retroactive rebates are bad for the incumbent carriers, their customers and Canada as…
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TORONTO – Telus wants to help students develop healthy relationships with technology and to that end has launched the Telus Wise happiness workshop.
Offered free-of-charge, the workshop aims to equip teens in grades nine through 12 “with the necessary skills and best practices for ensuring mental resilience and well-being in our digital world,” says the press release. Additional tips offered in the online or in-person workshop include taking occasional digital breaks, being aware of and limiting social comparisons that can get in the way of our happiness and practicing the Joy of Missing Out (JOMO) as opposed to the…
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GATINEAU – On Friday, the CRTC launched the review it said was coming over the 36-month device financing plans certain service wireless providers recently launched, which it told those carriers to stop doing in early August.
The Commission wants to ensure the provisions of its Wireless Code, which effectively make any sort of carrier service contract longer than two years illegal (there can be no break fee beyond 24 months for a customer to pay when they leave a carrier), are upheld. The carriers which launched the new 36-month plans, first from Rogers this summer, say…
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