Cable / Telecom News

Calling all telecom stakeholders

OTTAWA – The Telecommunications Policy Review Panel today launched its formal stakeholder consultation process by releasing a consultation document inviting input from interested stakeholders. The Industry Canada-appointed panel hopes… Continue Reading

CCSA, Wild TV announce deal

QUISPAMSIS, N.B. – Independent digital specialty service Wild TV and the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance recently announced the completion of a five-year master affiliation agreement. The new channel is… Continue Reading

S-A, Microsoft, sign IPTV deal

CHICAGO – Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. and Microsoft Corp. announced today the two companies will collaborate on developing IPTV. S-A (which supplies digital cable set-top boxes to Rogers Cable and Videotron… Continue Reading

Dalfen defends himself

TORONTO – With the telecom industry taking swing after swing at the Commission he runs for three straight days, CRTC chairman Charles Dalfen jabbed back on Wednesday. He was… Continue Reading

Videotron adds RAI, too

MONTREAL –Videotron today announced the addition of RAI International to its channel lineup. This must be one excellent, in-demand channel, because Videotron is the third cable company in three… Continue Reading

OPINION: Wireless web TV

THIS WEEK I THINK I finally saw a web-TV application that will actually work. It wasn’t on a television set, though, but on a mobile phone. Mark Henderson, the president… Continue Reading

Cogeco Ontario adds RAI

BURLINGTON – Today, on Festa Della Republica, the Italian National Day, Cogeco Cable announced that it will offer RAI International to its digital cable customers in Ontario starting June… Continue Reading