TORONTO – Owning media and telecom assets makes sense to Ted Rogers.
He believes that targeting new immigrants for voice products and services is a growth opportunity for his…
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MONTREAL and TORONTO – Satellite radio provides great sound and many programming choices, but it’s still a line-of-sight technology.
That means if something is between the receiver and the…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Maybe things are getting faster at the Commission after all.
The CRTC today released its sixth annual Broadcasting Policy Monitoring Report. The report assesses the impact of…
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TORONTO – Trust Ted Rogers to have a sense of history.
Twenty years to the day after his company (which employs a corporate historian) launched wireless telephony in Canada…
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OTTAWA – Canada’s wireless service providers will introduce inter-carrier multimedia message services (MMS) to wireless phone customers across the country on July 1.
This is the broadest initiative of…
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TORONTO – The CRTC’s satellite radio decision is the thin edge of the wedge that could bring down the Canadian cultural industry, says a coalition of arts groups.
That…
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KELOWNA, B.C. – Independent radio station owners are a dying breed.
Okay, maybe that’s a little harsh. They’re not really dying, they’re more of a selling breed. Single-station owners often…
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BURNABY, B.C. – Telus and the Telecommunications Workers Union met briefly today for further negotiations, but union president Bruce Bell expressed disappointment at the results of the meeting in…
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that cable operators in the States do not have to open their networks to competitive third party Internet service providers if…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable launched its voice over Internet protocol service in its Quebec territories today.
This launch follows the introduction, on June 8, of the same service in…
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