Cable / Telecom News

Digital subs growing at Shaw

CALGARY – Shaw Communications bucked the trend among its cable brethren somewhat by growing its number of digital subscribers. Shaw added almost 40,000 digital cable customers in the first… Continue Reading

Cogeco and Disney sign VOD deal

MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable customers are now able to see content from Walt Disney Pictures, Disney Animation, Pixar, Touchstone Pictures and Miramax on their video on demand service thanks… Continue Reading

EastLink pulls back from CCSA

HALIFAX and QUISPAMSIS, N.B. – They’re not completely out, but they’re not in, either. The Canadian Cable Systems Alliance and its largest member, EastLink, are going their separate ways… Continue Reading

Competition Bureau okays Emergis buy

VANCOUVER – Telus said this week that the statutory waiting period under the pre-merger notification provisions of the Competition Act (Canada) expired on December 17, 2007 in connection with… Continue Reading

IP replacing traditional PBXs

IP TELEPHONY HAS crossed over from an emerging technology to the mainstream choice for business voice as user acceptance of IP telephony is high, with sales of IP lines… Continue Reading