MONTREAL – Saying it’s “deeply concerned about the public broadcaster’s future”, the Syndicat des communications de Radio-Canada (SCRC) is calling on the federal government to provide “adequate funding for…
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GATINEAU – The dangling carrot of more money for the Canadian TV system is always what’s at stake when the Regulator considers letting broadcast distribution undertakings sell the ad…
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MONTREAL – While its quarterly revenue dropped, Mitec Telecom reported a 32% growth in year-over-year revenue for its third quarter of fiscal 2009.
Revenue on a year-to-date basis was…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has dismissed a complaint against Canwest Media made by the Communications, Energy and Paperworks Union (CEP), alleging that Canwest breached local programming commitments, and the…
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Unit sales of smart phones are growing faster than the overall market for cell phones, particularly in the US market, says new research from In-Stat.
The survey from the report…
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There are only three weeks left to register for the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineer (SCTE) – Ontario Chapter’s two day seminar called ‘The Fundamentals of SDV, Digital Video…
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SCRANTON, PA – Calling cable and satellite “a luxury, not a necessity”, Home Stations Installations says that the digital TV converter box and digital antenna business is booming.
“It’s…
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After seeing a fourfold increase in phone and email scams in recent weeks, Telus issued a public service announcement encouraging its customers to “just hang up when scammers call”….
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MARKHAM – When it decided to roll out fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) by overbuilding Bell in the town of Mount Forest, Ont. (pop. 5,100), Wightman Telecom couldn’t have foreseen all that…
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TORONTO – With a 700MHz spectrum wireless auction expected to take place in 2010, independent telcos need to be thinking now about strategies to get their concerns heard during…
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