STOCKHOLM – With text messages surging in popularity as a way to keep in touch, telecom experts predict that text messaging could set a record this weekend as Chinese New…
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EXTON, PA – Cogeco Cable’s Erik Jenson is one of seven SCTE members to be awarded a grant from the organization for professional development.
The fourth quarter’s SCTE Foundation grants…
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TORONTO – Telus has become the first wireless carrier in Canada to offer over-the-air DRM-free (digital rights management) music tracks to Canadians.
DRM-free music means that customers can now play…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has issued a report examining telecommunications, broadcasting, and the evolving converged world of communications in an effort to help shape future regulation.
Called Navigating Convergence: Charting Canadian Communications…
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CALGARY – Shaw is making it easier for its Francophone customers to watch the Olympics.
Beginning this Friday, Shaw Cable customers in the Vancouver area will be able to watch…
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TORONTO – FreeHD Canada received CRTC approval Monday to provide national direct-to-home satellite TV and wholesale programming satellite distribution (SRDU) services in Canada.
However, the Commission declined to rule on certain…
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TORONTO – After a well attended President’s Reception in Toronto last week, CTAM will stage its first national teleseminar of the year on March 5, 2010.
Entitled “Keeping Customers…
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TORONTO – Craig Wireless International, now known as Manalta Investment Company, has dismissed its claim against Look Communications and parent company Unique Broadband Systems.
Craig Wireless agreed to pay $15,000 in costs to…
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DENVER, CO – CableLabs and Canoe Ventures have completed and issued the latest Enhanced TV Binary Interchange Format (EBIF) specification.
This new version, known as EBIF IO6, features functionality developed…
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BATHURST, NB – Bell Aliant will bring its FibreOP network to ten more communities in New Brunswick this year as it continues to roll out its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) technology.
The…
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