By Ahmad Hathout OTTAWA – The CRTC has set Friday who will be subject to regulation under the new Broadcasting Act regulations as part of its implementation of the new... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – British Columbia has filed a Part 1 application to the CRTC requesting that the regulator consider mandating an environment where testing can be done on the next generation... Continue Reading
VANCOUVER – Telus announced Monday it is introducing a new tier of PureFibre X home Internet service in Alberta and British Columbia, providing symmetrical upload and download speeds of 3... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – The CRTC rejected Monday an application by Quebecor to force the legacy telephone companies to refund amounts collected and impose a pay-per-use system as they work to fully... Continue Reading
Cogeco hopes for mobile wireless launch by this time next year By Ahmad Hathout TORONTO – Rogers CEO Tony Staffieri said Tuesday that Freedom’s competitive mobile wireless offers ahead of... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – NBCUniversal’s all-reality TV subscription streaming service Hayu is now available to Videotron customers in Quebec through Videotron’s Helix platform, the companies announced Tuesday. Videotron customers will be able... Continue Reading
By Ahmad Hathout TORONTO – Innovation Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne announced Monday that all carriers will need to provide service to their customers on Rogers’s wireless network in Toronto’s subway system... Continue Reading
By Mark Goldberg, a telecommunications consultant
An opinion piece in Monday’s Globe and Mail included a line that caught my eye. “A 2022 study found that Canada’s wireless rates were the second most expensive in the world – seven times more expensive than Australia, 25 times more expensive than France and Ireland and 1,000 times more expensive than Finland.”
Canadians complain about mobile prices, but does anyone in Canada actually believe that they are paying one thousand times more than what they would pay in Finland?
In fact, we don’t.
So how did the author, a university professor and academic…
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MARKHAM, ON – Rural telecom provider Xplore Inc. announced Tuesday the company’s president and chief commercial officer, Rizwan Jamal, has been promoted to president and CEO, effective immediately. Jamal also... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – The Competition Tribunal has ordered the Commissioner of Competition to pay Rogers and Shaw a little more than $9.7 million and $3.2 million, respectively, to compensate for their... Continue Reading
