CRTC outage and the infamous butt dial [Feb. 4-10]

This week was a busy one for telecom information. As a recap, right here’s virtually every thing that occurred within the telecom sector.

Enterprise

Vicky Eatrides took over varied duties when she grew to become the chair of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Fee (CRTC) a few weeks in the past, and two federal Ministers have added to the rising list of expectations in a recent letter. One of many points Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez and Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne need Eatrides to sort out is how lengthy it takes the CRTC to share choices.

An outage induced the CRTC’s web site, telephone traces, and purposes to go down earlier this week. Whereas the outage solely lasted a few hours, the fee didn’t share the trigger behind the blackout.

It’s been greater than a 12 months since Tony Staffieri became Rogers’ CEO, taking on a place as soon as held by Joe Natale. The household feud that introduced Staffieri to his place is difficult to neglect, and the best way Natale allegedly came upon about his ousting by a butt dial is a part of that story. However in a latest interview with the Toronto Star, Staffieri denies the notorious butt dial ever occurred.

SaskTel is expanding its infiNET service to a number of communities in Southern Saskatchewan. The corporate says it is going to begin building in 2023. As soon as accomplished, Bengough, Coronach, Rockglen and Willow Bunch can have entry to speeds near 1Gbps.

Several Canadian carriers, together with Vidéotron and SaskTel, waived calling and SMS costs to Turkey and Syria following a lethal earthquake on February sixth.

Telus is funding a pilot program at Quebec-based Alma Hospital that makes use of VR to lower affected person nervousness and prescription remedy use.

TekSavvy has upgraded its Cable 75 Unlimited web package deal to Cable 100 Limitless. The brand new plan will give prospects obtain speeds as much as 100Mbps at no further price.

Bell has been charging a Vancouver lady for providers below a fraudulent account since 2020. The corporate didn’t examine till the lady shared a TikTok of her experience.

In its final quarterly report for 2022, Telus reports it added 1120,000 mobile customers, the identical quantity it reported in This autumn 2021. Quarterly earnings additionally decreased, however the firm says development in a number of areas, together with in linked units, is anticipated.

The corporate additionally introduced it donated $125 million to numerous charities and initiatives in 2022.

Offers

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