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Cablecos push back against IPTV with discounts, subsidies May 16, 2012 - 10:13pm — By Danika J. Grenier
Cablecos Rogers Communications Inc. and Quebecor Media Inc. are offering steep discounts, free set-top boxes, and upgraded platforms to combat declining subscriber numbers as rival telco BCE Inc. expands its fibre-based Internet protocol TV (IPTV) service in Ontario and Quebec. TSN grows annual profit by 37%, earns highest specialty channel profit of $58.3M May 16, 2012 - 3:39pm — The Wire Report
BCE Inc. specialty channel TSN grew its 2011 profits 37 per cent over 2010, generating $58.3 million in profits last year despite a decline in subscriber numbers, financial data released Wednesday by the CRTC showed. Wind adds 15,000 subscribers since March May 15, 2012 - 6:05pm — The Wire Report
Wind Mobile added more than 15,000 subscribers since the end of March and now has more than 430,000 customers, Nisha Amin, a spokeswoman for the company, said. Colba.Net hopes to become national IPTV player with regional licences May 15, 2012 - 4:18pm — By Derek Abma
Colba.Net Telecom Inc. will move quickly to become one of Canada’s “major national” telecom and broadcast carriers if granted the regulators’ permission to launch Internet protocol TV (IPTV) service in regions across the country, the company’s president, Joseph Bassili, said. Ryerson University pleas for new radio licence May 14, 2012 - 7:12pm — By Danika J. Grenier
New governance and a new student “fee agreement” will ensure a future community radio station at Ryerson University will not face the same troubles as a previous station whose licence was revoked last year, CRTC commissioners heard at a Toronto-area hearing Monday. Faster wireless networks can connect 'last mile': DragonWave May 11, 2012 - 5:55pm — By Danika J. Grenier
Canadian telcos can use wireless, point-to-point technologies as a cheaper substitute for fibre-to-the-home and other wireline “last-mile” connections, Chris York, product marketing manager at DragonWave Inc., said in an interview. Carriers seek better residential coverage; Rogers plants tower in backyard May 10, 2012 - 6:08pm — By Danika J. Grenier
Rogers Communications Inc. has established a wireless tower in a residential backyard, a strategy that analysts say they expect other carriers pursue. Lawful access law sleeping, but not dead, experts say May 9, 2012 - 7:17pm — By Elisabetta Bianchini
A lack of movement on the government's lawful access legislation doesn’t necessarily mean the bill will be scrapped, experts and opponents of the legislation say. Rogers seeks CRTC ruling in dispute over buried cable with York region May 8, 2012 - 4:47pm — By Nicholas Kyonka
Rogers Communications Inc. has asked the CRTC to order a Toronto regional municipality to cover the company’s costs of burying cables as a part of a “beautification” program. Rogers hoping to improve national ad sales with SCN purchase May 7, 2012 - 8:50pm — By Danika J. Grenier
Rogers Communications Inc. is hoping its acquisition of the Saskatchewan Communications Network (SCN) will help increase national advertising revenues across its Citytv network, Rogers Media president Keith Pelley said at a CRTC hearing Monday. No evidence that lack of sports programming a disadvantage in mobile, Bell tells court May 4, 2012 - 2:25pm — The Wire Report
There is no evidence that Telus Corp.'s lack of exclusive sports rights is a disadvantage in the competition for mobile customers, Bell Canada Enterprises Inc. said in documents filed with the Federal Court of Appeal. Mobile providers need freedom to 'prioritize' own customers under new spectrum regime, SaskTel says May 3, 2012 - 5:33pm — By Danika J. Grenier
Industry Canada's new mandatory roaming regime should allow wireless carriers to prioritize their own customers’ traffic over other providers' customers roaming on their networks, Ron Styles, president and CEO of SaskTel, said in an interview. Broadcast distributors to seek exclusive deals for Apple's iTV, analysts say May 2, 2012 - 5:33pm — By Elisabetta Bianchini and Danika J. Grenier
Canadian broadcast distributors are expected to seek exclusive partnerships with Apple Inc. for the release of its luxury iTV device to draw new high-end customers on multiple-year contracts, an analyst and industry insider say. Mobile operators looking to provide better in-home service, more towers May 2, 2012 - 10:51am — By Danika J. Grenier
OTTAWA—Canadian telcos are seeking to put up more mobile towers than ever, particularly in residential areas, to meet the growing demands of mobile users, industry officials said at mobile industry event Tuesday. TVO eyes cost savings, will shut down analog system this summer May 1, 2012 - 6:06pm — By Simon Doyle
TVO will start decommissioning its analog, over-the-air broadcasting system this summer, leaving at least 14 markets in Ontario without the station's over-the-air television service, the broadcaster said in a notice on its website. |
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