Articles on Telecommunications

VimpelCom's sale of Wind mobile last month included the offloading of all regulatory burden onto the purchasers, highlighting a trend that, some lawyers say, is growing as regulatory issues take centre stage in a growing number of M&A deals. Over the past few years, as regulators have ...

The largest deal that telecommunications firm Columbus International Inc. has ever announced involves no Canadian operations but only Canadian management and an Atlantic Canada law firm that saw through to Columbus's trek from incorporation to its sale. The massive US$3.025-billion ...

Canada’s anti-spam legislation is broad and complex, with many uncertainties The bald truth about Canada’s anti-spam law (CASL) is that it has significantly narrowed the digital landscape for business. The law, which commenced its phase-in on July 1, 2014, means no more wholesale buying ...

BCE Inc.’s peremptory announcement, that it will sell about one-third of MTS’s and Bell’s Manitoba wireless subscribers to Telus Corp. if the company’s proposed $3.9 billion acquisition of Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. goes through, has masked some of the regulatory ...

ONLINE BEHAVIORAL ADVERTISING Online behavioral advertising (OBA) has become a popular part of the business model for many organizations. It can also be an intrusion on privacy. The difficulty is that the guidelines governing OBA have not always been clear. Clarity, however, took a giant step ...

Court sets high bar for police demanding indiscriminate records A recent Ontario Superior Court decision may obligate companies to mount constitutional challenges to production orders that intrude on customers’ privacy. “ R. v. Rogers tells companies like telcos, banks and others that ...

Lawyers say the cost of retooling marketing programs has some US companies rethinking expansion Canada’s stringent new anti-spam law claimed its first high-profile casualty recently: the US television show “Jeopardy!” Citing “new rules” set down by the Canadian ...

ONLINE BEHAVIORAL ADVERTISING Online behavioural advertising (OBA) has become a popular part of the business model for many organizations. It can also be an intrusion on privacy. The difficulty is that the guidelines governing OBA have not always been clear. Clarity, however, took a giant step ...

With all the stir about the European Court of Justice’s enunciation of the “right to be forgotten” in its May 2014 decision in Google Spain v. Agencia Espanola de Proteccion de Datos (AEPD) and Mario Costeja Gonzalez , Canadian companies may justifiably be concerned as to how this ...

CASL, Canada’s anti-spam and anti-malware law, is coming into effect this summer. US businesses operating in Canada face huge burdens Among the most daunting developments for US companies doing business in Canada is Canada’s new anti-spam and anti-malware law (CASL), more formally known ...

LinkedIn, the well-known business networking and social media site, was named in a proposed class action in July 2016, along with several other Internet subscription service providers, streaming services and telecom companies. The proposed class action alleged that the manner in which the ...

Two recent Court of Québec decisions found newly enacted provisions of the Québec Consumer Protection Act to be constitutionally inapplicable and inoperative for telecommunications services providers facing charges of penal offences. On June 30, 2010, An Act to amend the Consumer ...

INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS MAY NOT PROVIDE INFORMATION TO POLICE WITHOUT WARRANT In June 2014, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that police cannot obtain the identity of an Internet user from the user’s ISP without a warrant or court order. The decision provides some relief for ...

ONLINE BEHAVIORAL ADVERTISING Online behavioral advertising (OBA) has become a popular part of the business model for many organizations. It can also be an intrusion on privacy. The difficulty is that the guidelines governing OBA have not always been clear. Clarity, however, took a giant step ...

Online Behavioral Advertising Online behavioral advertising (OBA) has become a popular part of the business model for many organizations. It can also be an intrusion on privacy. The difficulty is that the guidelin es governing OBA have not always been clear. Clarity, however, took a giant step ...

ONLINE BEHAVIORAL ADVERTISING Online behavioral advertising (OBA) has become a popular part of the business model for many organizations. It can also be an intrusion on privacy. The difficulty is that the guidelines governing OBA have not always been clear. Clarity, however, took a giant step ...

Online Behavioral Advertising Online Behavioral Advertising (OBA) has become a popular part of the business model for many organizations. It can also be an intrusion on privacy. The difficulty is that the guidelines governing OBA have not always been clear. Clarity, however, took a giant step ...