REGINA – SaskTel will pour $239 million into its Saskatchewan network this year for construction of a 3G wireless network, faster high speed Internet service, and improvements to its Max…
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TORONTO – It wasn’t a long speech, but did hit a number of nails on the head, with a sledgehammer.
Legendary cable engineer Israel “Sruki” Switzer, whom we profiled…
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MONTREAL – Allstream employees in Montreal and Quebec City will participate in Défi Climat 2010, an initiative designed to mobilize citizens to contribute to greenhouse gas emission reduction through…
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TORONTO – More Canadians now catch their favourite TV shows on-line than by personal video recorders and video-on-demand combined.
According to results from the Q4 edition of Digital Life Canada,…
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TORONTO – What’s not to like about RfoG, asked speakers at the SCTE Canadian Summit Tuesday morning at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre?
Suppliers, of course, offered a number of…
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MONTREAL – Videotron is offering its residential telephone service subscribers free long-distance calling to Chile after the country was rocked by an earthquake on February 27, 2010.
“To support customers…
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VANCOUVER – Bell Canada will double Olympic hockey hero Sidney Crosby’s gold medal winnings in a charitable donation to the Sidney Crosby Foundation.
The Foundation, created Crosby’s home province of…
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TORONTO – Although they were hard pressed to admit it, cable operators at Wednesday’s SCTE Canadian Summit acknowledged that customer complaints to their call centres are often the best measurement of…
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MONTREAL – Profits at Quebecor soared by almost 50% thanks in large part to the strength of its telecommunications subsidiary Videotron Ltee.
Net income for the company’s fourth quarter ended…
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GIVEN WHAT HAS now happened since the value-for-signal/fee-for-carriage hearing, an alert reader reminded us of something CRTC commissioner Timothy Denton pondered as the folks from Shaw Communications appeared in…
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