MONTEREY, CA – U.S. TV station owners' retransmission fees are expected to reach $10.3 billion by 2021, versus the projected level of $6.3 billion this year, according to projections…
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TORONTO – Former Bell Media exec Rick Brace has been named as the new president of Rogers’ media business unit.
Brace, pictured, succeeds Keith Pelley who has served as president…
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TRURO, NS and ARVIAT, NU – Nova Scotia’s Seaside Wireless Communications and Northwest Territories’ SSi Micro Ltd. are the latest two Internet service providers to benefit from the federal…
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MONTREAL – Telecon Group has bought the assets of AGIR Consultants, the company announced this week. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Telecon said that the transaction will allow it to consolidate…
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DOLBEAU-MISTASSINI, QC – Some 40 communities in Quebec’s Saguenay region will soon have access to faster Internet speeds thanks to the federal government’s Connecting Canadians program.
Denis Lebel, Minister of…
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TORONTO – Rogers has completed its acquisition of Mobilicity and Shaw’s AWS spectrum, just over a week after the two deals were announced.
In a short news release late Thursday, the…
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VANCOUVER – Telus is offering a new app from the National Film Board that will allow Optik TV customers to stream new and classic NFB films to their televisions.
The…
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OTTAWA – The Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services (CCTS) will host its first-ever Twitter Town Hall to answer questions about the Wireless Code.
Scheduled for between 1:30 and 2:30…
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GATINEAU – Canada’s Privacy Commissioner is praising new transparency reporting guidelines that should help Canadians understand how often, and in what circumstances, businesses provide their personal customer information to law…
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TORONTO – Shaw and Shaw Direct customers now have access to TV Everywhere application Hollywood Suite GO (HSGO), which is available at no additional cost for existing…
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