TORONTO – CTAM Canada unveiled its new board and committee members last week at its annual President’s Reception in Toronto.
A volunteer driven chapter of CTAM, the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing, CTAM Canada has over 500 members across Canada and abroad, representing content providers, cable and telecommunications distributors as well as technology and service companies.
CTAM Canada's new and returning members for 2019 are:
President– Julie Kumaria (Hollywood Suite)
Vice President– Michelle Vaters (Corus Entertainment)
Treasurer– Don McDonald (Super Channel)
Secretary– Kayleigh Hennessey (Rogers Communications)
Sponsorship Co-Chair– Norm Lem…
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VALCOURT, Que. – Independent telecom provider Cooptel announced Wednesday it recently obtained a certification of “Remarkable Employer”, a program managed by a standards organization known as the Bureau de normalisation du Québec (BNQ), the province’s central body for standardization and certification.
“For many years, Cooptel has invested much effort to offer its employees an enjoyable work environment, personal vs. workplace time reconciliation, various social activities and excellent work conditions,” the company said in a release.
“As this certification is in fact confirmed by the employees through an anonymous survey mechanism to judge management…
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Panel won’t make them public until June
CARTT.CA HAS BEEN TOLD Navdeep Bains, Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) Minister, has decided to keep the public submissions made to the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislation Review secret for now. So, Cartt.ca will continue to report on the ones made available to us.
PIAC
As usual, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre has a submission full of good quotes.
For example, on 5G, they say that it “is not so revolutionary that it should require legislative changes that favour the technology’s deployment beyond the powers currently granted to the CRTC,” and so the group proposes an…
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OTTAWA – While the main governmental expert panel reviewing the Telecom, Broadcasting and Radiocommunication Acts is only now getting under way, some of the most interesting conversations on the matter are happening now in front of the Senate (who knew?!).
While CRTC chairman Ian Scott appeared today (October 30) in front of the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications, to talk about the Regulator’s needs, last week Canadian Communications Systems Alliance CEO Jay Thomson told the senators about his members’ (115 independent carriers who serve more than 1,200 communities – lots rural – with broadband,…
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ON MONDAY, WE described a Federal Court of Appeal decision as one that strikes down the CRTC’s TV Wholesale Code.
Bell Canada had appealed the Code to the Court, saying the way it was implemented fell outside the CRTC’s jurisdiction – and in its decision released Monday the Court agreed with Bell, saying the Commission had no authority under section 9(1)(h) of the Broadcasting Act to meddle in private carriage contracts the way the Wholesale Code mandates.
The decision seemed to us to be the end of that Code – and we were bolstered in that…
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BRANDON, MB – Westman Communications has launched its Enhanced WiFi Service in an effort to meet the growing demand for whole-home WiFi coverage.
As the company detailed at last month’s CCSA Connect conference, Westman technicians use Hitron’s EasyInstall app with its SweetSpots functionality to ensure optimum gateway placement in a customer’s home as well as to identify any ‘dead zones’ that could be solved using Hitron’s WiFi extenders.
Westman offers basic and enhanced Wi-Fi service plan for $3.95 and $7 per month, respectively, on top of its broadband subscription fee. More information is available here.
“Our customers demand reliable and…
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“It’s too often about more when it should be about better”
ST ANDREWS, N.B. – Broadband network owners large and small are familiar with tech support calls where the customer tells them “the internet isn’t working,” then the customer care rep checks, finds the wired broadband to the home is working just fine, and a truck rolls only to find out the in-home Wi-Fi is the problem.
It could be too many devices on the router, extenders that don’t play well with the primary connection or other consumer electronic devices that just won’t connect to the main router.
(Ed note: We customers…
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ST ANDREWS, N.B. – A little over 200 of the Canadian independent network operators (and vendors and others) gathered this week in tiny and beautiful St Andrews, New Brunswick for the 25th annual Canadian Communications Systems annual Connect conference – just down Highway 1 from the CCSA’s home in Quispamsis.
Delegates spent some of their time at the historic (and apparently haunted) Algonquin hotel pondering just how much has changed in a quarter century – from the recent Alliance name change swapping “cable” for “communications” to how back in 1993 just about all anyone…
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ST ANDREWS, N.B. – What are you doing? What do you need to do? What do you want to do? What stands in your way? These and various other questions were posed this year to a roster of Canadian Communications Systems Alliance member companies by consultants Broadband Success Partners, who presented their findings Monday at the CCSA annual convention.
Canada’s independent operators are obsessed with providing the best broadband experience, the best customer service and the best TV service, while knowing they want to compete on the TV Everywhere front, and to push fibre as deep as possible in order…
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ST ANDREWS, N.B. – Atlantic region and Nunavut CRTC commissioner Christopher MacDonald said Monday the structure and governance of its new $750 million broadband fund established with the Commission’s 2016 Universal Service Objective policy will be announced soon, with a call for funding applications to come in 2019.
Back in 2016, the Commission set targets for basic telecommunications services that Canadians need to participate in the digital economy:
speeds of 50 megabits per second (Mbps) download/10 Mbps upload for fixed broadband Internet access services. In 2015, 82% of Canadians already had access to speeds of 50 Mbps download/10 Mbps upload for…
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