SaskTel announced Thursday it has expanded its 5G network to over 50 rural and indigenous community and highway sites. The expansions this month include Barford Barrier River, Bertwell, Big Island... Continue Reading
By Connie Thiessen Corus Entertainment has unveiled the branding for its two new lifestyle networks set to launch in Canada at the end of the year. Flavour Network and Home Network will both launch... Continue Reading
Bell secures access to Raptors and regional Leafs games By Connie Thiessen and Ahmad Hathout Rogers Communications has signed an agreement to buy Bell’s 37.5 per cent ownership stake in... Continue Reading
Bell announced Tuesday that it has partnered with MacLean, a manufacturer of underground mining equipment, to install a private mobile network (PMN) utilizing the telco’s 5G/LTE network at the company’s... Continue Reading
By Ahmad Hathout Corus has failed to show that any of its Disney-themed channels are comparable to Disney+ programming, making its undue preference complaint against Rogers unfounded, the cable giant... Continue Reading
By Ahmad Hathout Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. has fired Thursday the first challenge to the CRTC’s decision to force it to open its last-mile fibre facilities to its major competitors,... Continue Reading
Telus announced Wednesday a partnership with Mila, the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, to mutually “develop artificial intelligence (AI) for the benefit of society.” The Vancouver-based telecom and the Montreal-based research... Continue Reading
By Len St-Aubin, a policy consultant who has worked for clients including Netflix, and was a member of the policy teams that developed the 1991 Broadcasting Act and the 1993 Telecommunications Act
On August 28, Cartt published Howard Law’s commentary rebutting my contention that Bill C-11 and CRTC regulation risk destabilizing market-driven CanCon.
Law took issue with my assertion that foreign streamers have driven the significant increase in foreign investment (FI) in CanCon over the last 10 years:
“…The fact is that foreign television companies around the globe were snapping up CanCon through pre-sales and advances…
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Northwestel announced Wednesday the introduction of its 700 Mbps speed plan. The Unlimited Internet 700 is available in Whitehorse, Yellowknife, Inuvik, Hay River, Behchokǫ̀, Carcross, Dawson City, Watson Lake, Carcross,... Continue Reading
By Ahmad Hathout Organizations representing news media and their workers are warning the CRTC not to redirect any of the $100 million they were earmarked by Google toward public interest... Continue Reading
