TORONTO – Despite the wild, scary ride the global economy has been taking us all on this year, wireless newcomer Globalive is well-financed and going full speed ahead, said its CEO, Anthony Lacavera, an investors conference in Toronto last week.
Recognizing that “the market would not allow external financing right now,” Lacavera told the Scotia Capital Markets Telecom and Technology investors day that Globalive’s wireless venture is well-funded by co-owner Orascom – a global wireless player based in Egypt with over 77 million wireless subscribers.
Globalive can count on up to $700 million from its corporate partner, said Lacavera,…
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TORONTO and HALIFAX – EastLink has launched three of High Fidelity HDTV’s suite of four HD channels, the companies announced Thursday.
EastLink’s high definition subscribers will now be able to enjoy a suite of HD channels which offer nature, culture, and adventure programming from around the world with Oasis HD, Equator HD and Rush HD.
“The demand for high definition programming continues to grow and with the addition of these new channels we are giving customers the power to experience the best television has to offer,” said Ian Lezama, director of marketing with EastLink, in the press release. “There…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC said Tuesday it will publicly disclose the aggregate financial data of large broadcast distribution undertakings (cable and satellite companies) and large conventional television and radio broadcasters.
“Although it was set out in Broadcasting Public Notice 2008-6 as its preliminary view, the Commission is now convinced, based on the comments received at the proceedings on the Diversity of Voices and the BDU regulatory frameworks, that the public disclosure of the aggregate financial data of both large BDUs and/or MSOs and large OTA television and radio broadcasters by ownership group would serve the public interest and would…
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EXTON, Pa. – Organization for the inaugural SCTE Canadian Summit is well under way and registration is now open for the event which will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 3-4, 2009, at the Toronto Congress Centre.
SCTE Canadian Summit 2009 is designed to facilitate an exchange of technical information for Canadian engineering professionals to help them maximize opportunities and overcome challenges specific to the cable telecommunications industry in Canada both now and in the near future.
The program committee organizing it are senior technical executives from the big five multiple system operators in Canada. SCTE board of directors…
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HALIFAX – EastLink and CBC News in Nova Scotia are partnering to provide coverage of this month’s Nova Scotia municipal election.
The joint coverage will run from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on October 18, election day.
CBC News: Nova Scotia at Six host Jim Nunn will anchor the coverage, while EastLink’s Dan Robertson will provide regular updates from the EastLink Results Desk in Lower Sackville.
“We are delighted to be joining forces with EastLink to deliver community-by-community results of these elections in a way that no one else can match,” said Andrew Cochran, managing director, CBC Television, Maritimes….
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HALIFAX – Residents and businesses in Port Hawkesbury can now get their phone service from cable company EastLink, if they wish.
The company invested over $1.5 million to upgrade its network in the community at the southern end of Cape Breton Island, which included the construction of a headend facility that will serve as a network transmission point and technical office for the area. Port Hawkesbury has about 4,000 residents.
“Customers in Port Hawkesbury wanted to have a choice in telephone service providers and we are pleased to provide them with an affordable and reliable option,” said Ian Lezama,…
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HALIFAX – EastLink announced this morning it is adding 12 new high definition television channels to its roster.
While half of the channels are only available in select areas (details at eastlink.ca) the list of new channels are:
* The four High Fidelity HDTV channels of Oasis HD, Equator HD, Rush HD and Treasure HD.
* Discovery HD
* HDNet
* Fox West: HD Equivalent to Fox West
* NBC West: HD Equivalent to NBC West
* ABC West: HD Equivalent to ABC West
* CBS West: HD Equivalent to CBS West
EastLink will also launch Speed HD and an…
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TORONTO – In seven years, newcomers to the wireless game in Canada will have about 8.2 million Canadian wireless subscribers (about 24% of the market), says a new report published Tuesday by Toronto’s Convergence Consulting Group.
And just about all of those subs will be tied to three big new wireless players, Globalive, Shaw Communications and Videotron.
At the end of 2015, those three companies “will each have a 7% share,” says the report.
Approximately 75% of new entrant subscribers will be consumer postpaid. Those customers currently comprise 53% of all Canadian wireless subscribers, but the company estimates that…
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TORONTO – While Bell TV announced on the weekend it has added TSN2 to its channel roster, watch for more pressure to come on a couple of other Canadian carriers from their local football fans later this week.
Bell TV (formerly ExpressVu) is the first of the “big four” carriers (Shaw/Star Choice, Rogers and Videotron being the others) to begin carrying TSN’s secondary channel. TSN2 will air live games when the main network has something of a higher priority scheduled, as well as some taped shows and tape-delayed games.
As reported earlier this week by Cartt.ca, TSN has been…
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CLINTON, ON – EastLink, the fifth-largest Canadian cable company, has agreed to purchase Southwestern Ontario cable operator Bluewater TV Cable/Ex-Cen Cablevision from the Stinson family, Cartt.ca has learned.
The purchase price is not known.
The company serves about 7,000 total customers along the southeastern shores of Lake Huron and is based in Clinton, about 100 kms northwest of Kitchener.
Bluewater has been one of the more progressive small operators in the country (actually, most of the independent operators still competing are pretty progressive) and offers digital cable, HDTV, phone, high speed Internet, and video on demand.
This system is…
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