Carriers

Soccer fans on Rogers TV are a step closer to seeing OneSoccer in their channel lineup after the CRTC said in a decision on Friday that it would adopt Rogers' rate offer for carrying the English-language sports service. The ruling wraps up a final offer arbitration that followed years of conflict over whether Rogers had...

Rogers, Telus and Bell raised BYOD prices in October, while Freedom held steady. Here are all the November 2026 plans and what changed.

Telus Optik TV customers hunting for midweek NHL games are finding empty guide slots this season, and the carrier says the shuffle is not its call. In a Friday message to subscribers, Telus laid out why Monday Night Hockey and Wednesday Night Hockey no longer sit where many British Columbia viewers used to look for...

Rogers is still the only Canadian carrier with an official Starlink partnership, and its satellite service is open to anyone, even as Prime Minister Mark Carney lays out a clearer plan to share satellite capacity with Europe instead of depending on one private network. Starlink-powered roaming from Rogers recently expanded to Japan, Australia and New...

A former Freedom Mobile customer shared a limited-time winback offer on Reddit on Thursday, asking whether Black Friday would beat a $30 plan with 200GB of Canada-U.S.-Mexico data. Winback deals are targeted at people who left the carrier, so this is not a public offer for new customers. The screenshot shows 200GB that works coast...

Rogers-owned Chatr has added a new $40 monthly plan with 50GB of data on Friday, expanding the top of its prepaid Talk, Text & Data lineup. The new tier includes a 10GB Auto-pay bonus on top of the 50GB base allotment, along with unlimited Canada-wide talk, unlimited Canada, US and international text, and voicemail. That...

Ice Wireless and its parent Iristel still do not send Canada's Alert Ready wireless emergency alerts to phones on their LTE networks. The CRTC ruled on Thursday that the company must turn the system on within 12 months, and warn customers in the meantime. Iristel had asked for relief from the wireless public alerting rule...

Bell is reminding wireless customers today that phones in parts of Canada may show the wrong time after Sunday, when some provinces stop turning the clocks back. That warning lines up with recent calendar confusion in B.C., where software also struggled with the new rules. British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are moving...

Tired of burning half your lunch break on hold with your wireless carrier? A new House of Commons e-petition wants Parliament to tell the CRTC to cap telecom hold times at 10 minutes before you reach a human. Frank Brown of Aurora, Ontario opened e-petition e-7863 for signature on October 27. Conservative MP Kathy Borrelli...

Rogers is expanding its satellite-to-mobile roaming service, which runs on SpaceX's Starlink satellites, to Japan, Australia and New Zealand, giving customers coverage in more places where traditional cellular networks do not reach. The update announced today brings the carrier's international satellite roaming footprint to four countries, including the United States. Earlier this year, Rogers said...

Bell is Canada's most valuable telecom brand, according to Kantar's BrandZ 2026 Most Valuable Brands ranking, released today. It also came sixth among all Canadian brands. Kantar puts a value on brands using financial data plus consumer research. It says it tracks more than 22,000 brands in 54 markets, based on interviews with millions of...

Some Fido customers are seeing a second plan price increase within a few months, and October bills are where the higher total shows up. If you are still on an older Fido plan, check the monthly plan charge before the next pre-authorized payment clears. One long-time customer shared that their monthly plan went up by...