OTTAWA-GATINEAU – It’s official – the CRTC has given its stamp of approval for BCE to buy CTVglobemedia Inc.
In an announcement late Monday afternoon, the Commission noted that…
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DENVER – Looking towards the future, two cable industry standards groups have adopted two different sets of technical specifications aimed at spurring the industry’s deployment of all-fibre networks.
In late…
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TRURO, NS – Bell Aliant is investing an additional $7 million to roll out its fibre-to-the-home network FibreOp to approximately 14,000 homes and businesses in Truro.
After an announcement in…
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TORONTO – Mobilicity dismissed the notion that Canada’s incumbent wireless carriers require more spectrum while announcing its intention to participate in the upcoming 700 MHz auction.
“For years, Canada’s Big…
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LOUISVILLE, CO – CableLabs and its members have issued DOCSIS provisioning of EPON (DPoE 1.0) specifications outlining a common approach for cable operators to use existing DOCSIS back office…
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“WE’RE AT SUCH A significant spectrum disadvantage, we think government should level the playing field,” says Globalive CEO Tony Lacavera about the wireless auction of 700 MHz spectrum, expected…
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CALGARY – Rural broadband provider Barrett Xplore has begun test-marketing an Internet service package designed to address “the affordability gap” that it says is experienced by many rural Canadians.
Using…
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TORONTO – Media Access Canada (MAC) has asked Industry Canada to use the pending 700 MHz spectrum auction to top-up its accessibility fund initiative.
MAC, on behalf of the Access…
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TORONTO – Due to an overwhelming response, SCTE Ontario has expanded its technical training session entitled ‘How to Deploy and Maintain 64 QAM Upstream’.
Scheduled for 3 pm on March…
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MONTREAL – Superior Court Justice Claude Larouche must remove himself from an on-going defamation case involving Quebecor Media head Pierre Karl Peladeau, the Quebec Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday.
Peladeau’s…
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