MONTREAL and TORONTO – Satellite radio provides great sound and many programming choices, but it’s still a line-of-sight technology. That means if something is between the receiver and the satellite... Continue Reading
OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Maybe things are getting faster at the Commission after all. The CRTC today released its sixth annual Broadcasting Policy Monitoring Report. The report assesses the impact of its... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Trust Ted Rogers to have a sense of history. Twenty years to the day after his company (which employs a corporate historian) launched wireless telephony in Canada through... Continue Reading
OTTAWA - Canada's wireless service providers will introduce inter-carrier multimedia message services (MMS) to wireless phone customers across the country on July 1. This is the broadest initiative of its... Continue Reading
TORONTO – The CRTC’s satellite radio decision is the thin edge of the wedge that could bring down the Canadian cultural industry, says a coalition of arts groups. That coalition... Continue Reading
KELOWNA, B.C. - Independent radio station owners are a dying breed. Okay, maybe that's a little harsh. They’re not really dying, they’re more of a selling breed. Single-station owners often find... Continue Reading
BURNABY, B.C. - Telus and the Telecommunications Workers Union met briefly today for further negotiations, but union president Bruce Bell expressed disappointment at the results of the meeting in a... Continue Reading
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that cable operators in the States do not have to open their networks to competitive third party Internet service providers if they... Continue Reading
MONTREAL - Cogeco Cable launched its voice over Internet protocol service in its Quebec territories today. This launch follows the introduction, on June 8, of the same service in the... Continue Reading
WINNIPEG – Proving again that maybe these telcos are going to get this video thing right after all, Manitoba Telecom Services today announced the addition of video on demand. Just... Continue Reading
