CALGARY – Longtime Shaw Cable executive Randy Elliot will be retiring on Oct. 31, 2005, company CEO Jim Shaw announced yesterday. Elliot (right), currently Senior Vice-President of Technical Operations, joined... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Motorola Canada Ltd. is using its sponsorship of the Toronto International Film Festival to promote the latest high-tech trend: mobile movies. Filmmakers are starting to create bite-sized content... Continue Reading
GATINEAU – The CRTC has turned down a request from a non-profit group in British Columbia to get relief from TELUS Communications Inc. with its phone rates. The Royal Canadian... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Bell Canada says it’s the first company in Canada to offer MSN Messenger on mobile phones, targeting the millions of people who currently use the instant messaging service... Continue Reading
GATINEAU – The CRTC today released some local phone market data ahead of its 2005 Monitoring Report, expected to be published this October. The commission felt some of the information... Continue Reading
WHILE WE CAN’T SAY for sure that Compton Communications will be the smallest North American video on demand provider when it launches this fall, we figure it’s pretty unlikely that... Continue Reading
WINNIPEG – Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. has launched on-demand programming in Winnipeg, offering movies, kids’ shows, and other services at the touch of a button. MTS has signed up more... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Over the summer, employees of Rogers Cable in Toronto have been collecting school supplies for needy kids. Tomorrow, they’ll donate them to the Daily Bread Food Bank. Kids... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable has launched its digital phone service in Saint-Hyacinthe, Que., the fifth community to receive it since the company started rolling out the service this June. Starting... Continue Reading
CAMBRIDGE, Ont. – AVP Mfg. & Supply Inc. has reached a deal with TVC Canada to sell the complete line of AVP products and accessories in Canada. AVP is a... Continue Reading