OTTAWA – A month after the government announced plans to overhaul Canada's foreign investment review process, it is also making rule changes that could make it easier for Canadian companies…
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MONTREAL – Videotron is offering the enhanced version of its illico digital TV next week to even more of its service area, citing popular demand.
Using a new interactive set top box,…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC will continue in its search for a “sustainable solution” to meet the telecommunications needs of Canadians with hearing and speech disabilities.
While text relay services meet the needs…
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TORONTO – This is the last chance to register for the CTAM panel ‘Sports Television: Will the Goose Stop Laying it’s Golden Eggs’ taking place on Tuesday, May 29 at the CBC building…
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MONTREAL – The Quebec Superior Court has offered its blessing to BCE's purchase of Astral.
After reviewing the proposed $3.5 billion deal, the court declared Friday that the arrangement is fair…
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BOSTON – In its younger days, the cable industry moved, for the times, at a pretty good speed on the technical front. While operators in the 1970s, ’80s and…
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MONTREAL – Astral Media shareholders nearly unanimously approved the $3.5 billion planned takeover of the company by BCE Inc.
In a special meeting of shareholders held Thursday in Montreal, the deal…
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BOSTON – In an unusual move, top technologists from the cable industry’s three most prominent competing equipment suppliers – Cisco Systems, Motorola Mobility and Arris – have teamed up…
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TORONTO – There’s only two weeks left to register for the 2012 Canadian Telecom Summit scheduled for June 4 – 6 at the Toronto Congress Centre in…
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QUISPAMSIS, NB – The Canadian Cable Systems Alliance (CCSA) has completed a master affiliate agreement for the distribution of Alliance Films video-on-demand (VOD) content which will be transported by…
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