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Samsung launches AI-powered Galaxy S24 series

For the first half hour of Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event Wednesday, one could be forgiven for thinking that it was a software launch, as...

Rogers, Bell most complained-about provider, issues rising across the board: CCTS study

The Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS) accepted over 14,000 complaints about phone, internet, and TV services in Canada in 2022-2023, the CCTS’...

Bell remains the fastest provider in Canada, performances improve across the board: Ookla Speedtest report

Bell remained the fastest provider in Canada, Ookla’s Q4 2023 Speedtest report revealed, as it topped the mobile and fixed broadband download speeds, fixed...

2024 Telecom predictions: 5G, AI, sustainability and messaging trends to guide innovation

Next year, the telecommunications ecosystem will be guided by four key themes: 5G, artificial intelligence, sustainability and the messaging evolution, a report by Juniper...

CRTC to bring high-speed internet to remote communities including Nunavut for the first time

The Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has disbursed $39.7 million from the Broadband Fund to bring high-speed internet to 28 remote communities in Northern...

Rogers and Lynk complete satellite-to-mobile phone call, 2024 launch anticipated

Rogers and Lynk Global have announced that they have completed Canada’s first successful satellite-to-mobile phone call, using Samsung Galaxy S22 smartphones. The two companies also...

Competition Bureau to investigate Rogers’ marketing claims about its ‘Infinite’ unlimited data plans

The Competition Bureau is investigating whether the marketing claims made by Rogers that its Infinite wireless phone plans have unlimited data are deceptive. The Federal...

5G spectrum auction concludes; Bell, Rogers and Telus bag the most licenses

Twenty-two Canadian carriers collectively paid over C$2.1 billion for a record 4,099 licenses in the 3800 MHz spectrum auction.  Bell, Rogers and Telus won the...

Canadian group gets $2.2 million to research AI threat detection for wireless networks

A group consisting of Canadian university researchers and Ericsson Canada is the latest to have won government funding under the National Cybersecurity Coalition for...

Mitacs celebrates researcher spearheading the development of next-gen AI networks

Nonprofit research organization Mitacs conferred the Mitacs Award for Exceptional Leadership on Georges Kaddoum, a top researcher at Montreal-based École de Technologie Supérieure...

Bell seeks interim relief from Bill C-11, says traditional broadcasters are suffering

Bell has asked the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to create a news fund that would subsidize broadcasters, and which will force foreign...

Freedom Mobile launches new international roaming plan at C$65/month

Freedom Mobile has introduced a mobile plan, loaded with 60 GB of mobile data that works in 73 different countries, for the introductory...

Canada has strengths but shows no improvement in network readiness: Report

Canada ranked 11th in the annual 2023 Network Readiness Index (NRI), the same position as last year, outdistanced by the U.S.,  Singapore, Finland, Netherlands, Sweden...

Canadian Telecom Summit: AI taking phone fraud to new heights

At the 22nd Canadian Telecom Summit, Seattle-based Hiya unpacked the state of phone fraud in Canada, and how the rise of generative AI is...

Canada trailing behind in 5G experience, Opensignal blames insufficient mid-band spectrum

According to a new Opensignal report, Canada has one of the fastest average 4G download speeds, taking on European markets like Denmark, the Netherlands...

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