In a decision published Tuesday on its website, the CRTC has denied an April 2024 application from the Regional County Municipality of D’Autray that sought to have Bell refund costs associated with corrective work to its poles that the telecom had charged to the municipality as part of its pole access agreements. Although a
By Ahmad Hathout The CRTC is directing the country’s legacy telcos on Tuesday to modify their tariffs to address certain issues surrounding corrective and make-ready work to hasten access by third parties to their telephone poles. The commission ordered Bell, Telus and SaskTel to amend their tariff pages to ensure
The CRTC is looking for input on how to improve the routing of calls and texts to Canada’s 988 suicide crisis helpline service. Currently, when someone calls 988, the call is routed to a toll-free 1-8xx number using the caller’s area code, and then routed to the crisis response centre
Freedom Mobile announced Tuesday 5G+ access is now available across all Freedom monthly mobile phone plans, regardless of price, for customers using a compatible phone within Freedom’s 5G+ network coverage area. Current Freedom customers on a 5G plan will automatically receive 5G+ access as part of their existing plan at no additional
Telus quietly purchased the residential internet customers of wholesaler City Wide Communications through its subsidiary Altima last summer, the Vancouver-based telecom confirmed. “As a new entrant in the region, Altima is offering customers the added benefits of greater access to a wide range of products, including mobility, home automation, security,
Following its Jan. 16 launch of a public consultation on implementing a far north internet subsidy, the CRTC last week asked the body it proposes will be administrator of the subsidy how quickly the necessary updates to the National Contribution Fund (NCF) can be made to distribute the funds to internet service
By Ahmad Hathout Quebecor’s plea that the start date be retroactive for its access to Bell’s wireless network on mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) rates flies in the face of the CRTC’s requirement that an agreement for that access first be signed, Bell is arguing to the regulator. The CRTC
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) announced Tuesday a new digital advertising and social media campaign encouraging Canadians to join its fight to have the Big Three telecoms — Telus, Bell and Rogers — banned from accessing the wholesale aggregated internet regime. CNOC’s “Break Free from the Big 3” campaign asserts, among other
The CRTC has approved on an interim basis tariff pages, including terms and conditions, for aggregated wholesale last-mile fibre access to provide competitors with workable access to the fibre networks of Canada’s large telephone companies by Feb. 13. The telecom regulator in October 2024 set the interim wholesale fibre rates smaller players will
Regulator forcing Northwestel to implement auto credits for outages By Ahmad Hathout The CRTC announced Thursday it is now collecting comments on how to implement a monthly internet subsidy for residents of Canada’s far north, the region with some of the most expensive high-speed internet services. The regulator is contemplating
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