REGINA – Count SaskTel among those opposed to the CRTC’s proposed plan to phase-out the local service subsidy regime.
The local voice service subsidy was designed to keep wireline…
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TORONTO – TSN has inked a new, multi-year rights agreement with the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) to become the official broadcaster of the CONCACAF Gold Cup and Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions…
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Will be harder to close stations
GATINEAU – The CRTC has tweaked broadcasting policy in Canada by standardizing Canadian Programming Expenditure (CPE) requirement at 30% for the country’s major private…
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MONTREAL – Bell Canada said late Monday that an anonymous hacker had gained access to about 1.9 million customer email addresses, along with far fewer names and/or telephone numbers.
“There is…
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New competitive call and hearing coming
GATINEAU – The CRTC today approved Rogers Media’s request that its OMNI-branded multicultural TV stations be converted to a must-carry, regionalized, specialty service -…
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MONTREAL — BCE CEO George Cope described it as a “game-changing” offer in the television industry: a digital pay TV service without a set-top box, but Bell’s Alt TV…
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CALGARY – CCI Wireless CEO Amir Bigloo is leaving the Alberta-based rural internet provider next month to pursue other unspecified opportunities.
Current CFO Adam Lamont will serve as interim CEO,…
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MONTREAL – Telecom equipment TelcoBridges is offering a new subscription-based virtual session border controller (SBC) that it says offers significant cost savings to service providers.
The new downloadable Virtual Tsbc,…
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TORONTO – Cogeco Peer 1 has named Jaime Leverton to the role of vice-president and general manager for Canada and Asia Pacific (APAC).
Over the past 15+ years, Leverton (pictured)…
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TORONTO – David Sparrow has been elected by ACTRA's National Council to a two-year term as national president.
The election for president took place at ACTRA's National Council this past…
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