TORONTO – Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Virgin Mobile has enlisted porn star Ron Jeremy to help save singles from unwanted affection.
Called Dial-A-Dis, the service is a…
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TORONTO – The inaugural CSUA Broadcast Technology Awards were handed out this month by the Canadian Satellite Users Association.
The Awards are scholarship prizes of $5,000 each. CSUA established…
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BY THE MIDDLE OF this year, Canada’s largest satellite operator, Telesat, will be a much bigger company.
When Loral Space Communications and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board said…
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HALIFAX – EastLink is investing $4.2 million to upgrade its network around the southernmost reaches of Nova Scotia and will soon launch local telephone service in Yarmouth and its…
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MONTREAL – VOIP provider babytel says it has eliminated the need to dial the area code when calling people within the same area code.
"The phone companies think they’ve…
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MONTREAL – The approximately 600,000 subscribers to Videtron’s illico Digital TV service ordered 20 million films and television programs on demand in 2006, a 100% increase over 2005, the…
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CALGARY – Shaw Communications-owned Star Choice issued a press release this morning entitled " Star Choice Customers Denied NHL Hockey" and said that due to a Rogers Sportsnet court…
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NEW YORK – News Corporation said yesterday it will launch FOX Business Channel in the fourth quarter of 2007.
Roger Ailes, chairman and CEO, FOX News and Chairman, FOX…
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TORONTO – If you’ve watched TV in Toronto recently, you’ve probably seen the Rogers Cable HD PVR ad where Dad watches a hockey game (while fast-forwarding and rewinding, of…
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MONTREAL – With 51% of company revenues now coming from the "growth" services sides of the business (video, data, wireless) – as opposed to the legacy side (local wireline,…
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