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Rogers Extends Oilers Deal Through 2036 With 1,500 Ticket Giveaway
Rogers and OEG Sports & Entertainment have extended their partnership by another decade, keeping Rogers Place as the home of the Edmonton Oilers through 2036. The two sides announced the extension on Tuesday morning. The timing lines up with Rogers Place hitting its 10-year anniversary. To mark it, Rogers says it will hand out more...
Telus Removes Shareable Data From BYOD Plans, All Now Offer 2Gbps Speeds
Telus has made some changes to its website on Tuesday, according to checks made by iPhone in Canada, resulting in faster 5G+ speeds across the board. So what’s changed? Prices have not gone down nor have data buckets. But all Telus bring your own phone plans no longer have shareable data (meaning another line on...
Bell, Rogers and Telus Lead Canada’s Wi-Fi 7 Shift as Fibre Pulls Ahead
Looks like home Wi-Fi is finally inching into the Wi-Fi 7 era, and Ookla says the jump is almost all fibre. In an email to iPhone in Canada on Tuesday, Ookla flagged new Speedtest Intelligence numbers from its Evolving State of Canada's Wi-Fi update for Q1 2026. Wi-Fi 7 sample share hit 4.9%, up from...
Public Mobile’s $20 Plan Is Gone as Back-to-School Promos Wind Down
Telus-owned prepaid brand Public Mobile has started to end some of its back to school promo plans, specifically its entry plan with 1GB of data. Public Mobile updated its website on Monday to jack up the price of its $20/1GB promo plan by $2, now sitting at $22 per month. We first saw the prepaid...
TVA Sports Just Locked in 12 More Years of NHL Hockey in French
Quebecor just locked in another 12 years of French-language NHL hockey, inking a sublicensing deal with Rogers that keeps TVA Sports as the main place to watch the league in French from the 2026-27 season through 2037-38. That sits beside the 12-year Prime Video Wednesday Night Hockey pact Rogers handed Amazon in July, which already...
Telus Took B.C.’s Watchdog to Court Over a $1,400 Cancellation Fee
Telus is in B.C. Supreme Court over a Consumer Protection B.C. fine that started with a mistaken $1,435.65 cancellation fee, CBC News reports.
Bell Is Dumping Copper and the CRTC Isn’t Watching Medical Alert Landlines
A 102-year-old Toronto man spent hours on his stoop after his Bell landline died. The Star says a faulty copper connector was to blame, with fibre coming this fall.
Quebecor Tells the CRTC It Already Killed Fees Bell, Rogers and Telus Still Charge
Quebecor Media told the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on August 31 that it fully supports the ban on activation and modification fees, calling those charges barriers to switching cellphone and Internet plans. The intervention lands on the public-comment deadline in the show-cause case against Bell, Rogers and Telus, who rolled out new device,...
CRTC Approves Northwestel Rate Cut, Sparks Feud Over Northern Internet
The CRTC has approved a Northwestel wholesale rate cut of less than 1%, and one commissioner says the Commission didn't do its job. Northwestel serves Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and northern B.C. Smaller internet providers can't afford to build their own networks up there, so they rent access from Northwestel through a service called...
Bell Named Canada’s Fastest 5G+ Network. Here’s What That Means for Customers.
Sponsored Content: This coverage is brought to you by Bell Canada. Wireless connectivity has become an essential part of everyday life. From video streaming and cloud-based productivity tools to mobile gaming and video calls, Canadians rely on their wireless networks to stay connected wherever they are. Reliability is essential, but speed is just as important....
CRTC Blocks Videotron From Killing Off Cheap Internet Speeds
The CRTC has denied a request from Quebecor's Videotron that would have driven up prices for Canadians on the cheapest internet plans available from smaller providers. Videotron applied back in October 2025 to remove four low-speed wholesale tiers it sells to competing ISPs: 5Mbps down, 10Mbps down, 15Mbps down and 20Mbps down. The company argued it...
More Police Warn Rogers and Fido Customers of This Costly Phone Scam
South Simcoe Police have become the latest force in Ontario to sound the alarm on a telecom scam that's leaving people stuck with thousands of dollars in charges for devices they no longer have. The warning, issued Monday, covers Innisfil and Bradford, and follows up on a similar alert the service put out back in...