Cable / Telecom News

Shaw divests Biography, G4, stakes

OTTAWA – Shaw Communications has sold its interests in digital specialty services Biography Channel and G4TechTV to Rogers Communications. The CRTC approved both transactions on Monday. Rogers Broadcasting is already... Continue Reading

Shaw launches RAI in Lower Mainland

VANCOUVER – Shaw Cable has added Italian channel RAI International to its digital cable lineup in Vancouver. "Customers who currently subscribe to Telelatino will have the option of subscribing to... Continue Reading

TCM adds another BDU

VANCOUVER – Novus Communications, a company which markets television, Internet and telephony to certain apartments and condos in Vancouver, has added Turner Classic Movies to its analog channel lineups. TCM,... Continue Reading

Rogers refutes cable rebuild report

TORONTO – Keying off an internal CableLabs research paper, a Wall Street Journal report said yesterday that cable operators may need to spend billions on more rounds of network upgrades.... Continue Reading

More communities can dial with Rogers

TORONTO - Residents in communities across Ontario including: Belleville, Chatham, Dundas, Ancaster, Welland, Milton, Georgetown, Tecumseh and Trenton can now get local telephony from Rogers Communications (and none of those... Continue Reading

Big Pipe to speed education

CALGARY - Shaw Communications' Big Pipe division announced today the Calgary Board of Education (CBE) has chosen it to provide them with high-speed data services. After a formal bid process,... Continue Reading

Videotron steps on the gas

MONTREAL – Videotron announced a data speed increase today so that by September 7th all residential and business subscribers will be able to get up to 7 Mbps for no... Continue Reading

Amtelecom raises $15 million

AYLMER - Amtelecom Income Fund, owner of telecom and cable company Amtelecom, announced this week it has entered into an agreement to sell 1,153,850 trust units at a price of... Continue Reading

ANALYSIS: Policy mis-direction?

SIGNIFICANT. MARKET. POWER. Those three words appear all through the Telecom Policy Review Report, which Cartt.ca has covered at length. According to my search of that document, the three words... Continue Reading