CALGARY – Provincial telco SaskTel will finally face some local phone competition as Shaw Communications has launched its Digital Phone service in Saskatoon while Regina’s cable co-operative Access Communications…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has added six new foreign ethnic channels have been added to the eligible satellite list.
All were sponsored by Rogers Cable and they are:
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ST. LOUIS – The fourth-largest cable operator in the U.S., Charter Communications, launched an experiment last week that dynamically rotates ads into video on demand content.
In the trial,…
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VANCOUVER – Syntagma Network Services, led by former Telus executive Theresa Carbonneau, last week launched on the Canadian telecom scene.
It says it has "Canada’s first independent, fully integrated…
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TORONTO – One of the founders of online dating service Lavalife has founded a company selling a unique way to take advantage of wireless companies’ "unlimited incoming calls" plans…
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TORONTO – TSN Extra and CBC News Plus, two new interactive TV services have been added to Bell ExpressVu’s service.
Customers can now choose the news and sports they…
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REGINA – After adding high definition this month, these are heady times for SaskTel’s Max Entertainment Service, which announced its 50,000th customer on Monday.
“On behalf of everyone at…
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OTTAWA – Last week, Industry Canada announced that three companies had submitted a total of 29 applications for new satellite orbital positions across several frequencies to serve Canadians.
Telesat…
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MONTREAL – While the union representing installation and technical workers at Expertech this week characterized its contract negotiations with the company as a Bell threat to close the…
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VANCOUVER – Mobile broadband capabilities on select Dell Latitude and XPS notebooks and Precision mobile workstations will enable the units to access the Internet over the Telus wireless high speed…
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