Carriers

Freedom Mobile has updated its wireless plans in Manitoba, bringing the province much closer to the Total Freedom lineup offered in B.C., Alberta and Ontario. Several plans on Freedom's Manitoba plans page now carry a "NEW!" label, starting with 125GB for $40 per month. The telecom responded to iPhone in Canada in a statement on...

The CRTC has approved changes to Bell Mobility's national wireless roaming tariff, the rulebook that sets out how regional carriers can roam on Bell's network when their customers leave home coverage. The regulator signed off on Thursday, and the changes take effect right away. Bell filed the application on October 20, 2025, to bring its...

Canada's mobile industry generated US$120 billion in economic value in 2025, or 5.4 per cent of GDP, and the country is now adopting 5G at roughly twice the global rate. That's according to the GSMA's latest Mobile Economy Canada 2026 report. The GSMA is the global industry group representing mobile operators, and all of the...

Public Mobile is once again pushing customers to move from prepaid over to Koodo postpaid, offering 150 GB of data for $40 per month, according to an email received by iPhone in Canada on Wednesday. It's the same offer the Telus-owned brand was sending out back in July. The email says Public Mobile customers are...

Bell has told Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation it won't hand over technical documents about its AI data centre near Regina, and the First Nation has now given the company until November 16 to change its answer. That's according to CTV News, which reported that Dan Rink, president of AI infrastructure and strategy for Bell AI...

Rogers and Fido will add a 1.6% fee on credit card bill payments starting January 17, 2027. Rogers has the same fee detailed on its credit card charge support page for business customers, and consumers are now seeing a notice about it in the Rogers app. The notice shows up in the Rogers app's Update...

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Telus is telling the CRTC that the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS), the watchdog that handles unresolved phone, internet and TV complaints, has no legal authority to enforce the regulator's consumer rules, and it wants the CCTS taken off the job. The carrier made the argument in a filing with the CRTC back...

Telus is now including a Norton-powered scam blocker called Telus Scam Protection with its new mobility data plans, covering calls, texts and email from inside the My Telus app. The carrier announced it today, October 20, and says it's the first Canadian provider to put this kind of protection on every new data plan. If...

Telus wants two of the CRTC's proposed new protections, 60 days' notice before your plan terms change and alerts as you approach your usage limit, to apply only to home internet, leaving wireless, TV and home phone customers out. It's another ask from the same CRTC filing in which Telus asked the regulator to override...

Telus wants the CRTC to keep wireless and home internet trial periods at 15 days instead of doubling them to 30, and to let carriers claw back the value of gift cards, free TVs and other promo perks when you cancel a contract early. Both asks come from the same CRTC filing in which Telus...

Telus wants the CRTC to declare that provincial consumer protection laws don't apply to phone, internet and TV services, and to make the regulator's upcoming national consumer code the only set of rules that counts. The carrier made the request in a filing with the CRTC back in August, as part of the regulator's review...