GATINEAU – When Bell Canada and Telus each spoke to the issue of exclusive content on Tuesday morning during their turns at the CRTC’s hearing into vertical integration of media and distribution companies, we thought to ourselves: “this, we’ve heard before.”
Telus, the biggest carrier in the country without media assets, is worried the likes of Rogers, Bell, Shaw and Quebecor will make acquiring ancillary content for wireless, online, and any other devices that pop up, too difficult or expensive – or give themselves unfair head starts, much to the disadvantage of Telus and other companies like it.
Allowing the Canadian…
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IN OUR EVER-MORE connected world, there are fewer secrets. People talk, they e-mail, they SMS, Facebook, tweet and YouTube.
They often use those outlets to speculate, pontificate, fustigate, postulate and guesstimate. Which means those “secrets” are sometimes true. Sometimes not. Sometimes educated guesses. Sometimes hopeful. Sometimes fuelled by less than good intentions.
So, it’s a good idea once in a while to take a few of those secrets and rumours floating around and ask someone in charge about them – and also to put the issues of the day facing our industry in front of someone at the top.
For this Cartt.ca…
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MONTREAL – On August 31, 2011, most local television broadcasters will switch their current analog signals over to digital, Cogeco Cable noted today in a press release.
“Cogeco Cable wishes to inform its television customers that they will not be affected by the transition and that they will continue to receive their channels using the equipment they already have,” reads the press release.
“They will not need to change their actual TV set or obtain any additional equipment for any TV set connected to Cogeco’s cable service in order to maintain their current choice of channels.
“In fact, the transition to digital…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC is asking for comments on a proposed code of best practices for access programming on cable community channels.
The code, available here, was submitted by the Cable Industry Working Group which was assembled last August and includes representative from Rogers, Shaw, Cogeco, EastLink, Quebecor and the CCSA.
The deadline for submitting comments is September 6, and replies are due by September 16, 2011.
www.crtc.gc.ca
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TORONTO – Cogeco Data Services rolled out a new suite of voice and data services on Monday that it says will help businesses reduce complexity and work more efficiently.
The new managed services include a Layer 3 MPLS-based connection with class of service capabilities intended to help businesses prioritize data traffic in an optimal way. The IP-based VPN service allows customers to extend their organization’s infrastructure by connecting multiple locations, such as branch offices, vendors and suppliers over a secure and fully managed network.
They also include a managed Ethernet service, a Layer 2 MPLS-based connection that enables customers to control…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable is launching its Ultimate 30 and Ultimate 50 high speed Internet packages for consumers in North Bay, ON, as well as its new Business Ultimate 30 and Ultimate 50 packages for businesses.
Powered by DOCSIS 3.0, Cogeco says the packages offer advantages in speed and pricing compared to competitors. Ultimate 30 package offers speeds of up to 30 Mbps for downloads and up to 1.5 Mbps for uploads with a monthly download cap of 125 GB. For the Ultimate 50 package, speeds can reach 50 Mbps for downloads and 1.5 Mbps for uploads with a…
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MONTREAL – Two of the country’s largest radio broadcasters are calling on the CRTC to make changes to its commercial radio policy.
After appearing in front of the Commission last week to week to reaffirm their respective compliance with the radio policy on French-language music content, Astral Radio and Cogeco Diffusion both suggested that the policy needs to be updated to reflect the shift in tastes and music listening habits of French-language listeners that are increasingly being to world and English-language music.
“An overall review has become all the more necessary because the radio industry is currently undergoing significant changes”, reads…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Diffusion said that it is “pleased” that the CRTC has promised to review its application for two new traffic-oriented radio stations “without delay.”
As Cartt.ca reported, the radio division of Coegco Inc. is seeking licences to operate two AM specialty traffic news stations in the Greater Montréal area under a cooperation agreement with the ministère des Transports du Québec.
The move is part of the provincial government’s measures to reduce the impact of the major work on the Greater Montréal area road network over the next few years which it estimates will impact some 1.3 million road…
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OTTAWA – The country’s big Internet service providers will be required to provide static Internet protocol (IP) address allocation for their third-party Internet access (TPIA) services, the CRTC has ruled.
A static IP address is a number that is assigned to a device, such as a computer, to be its permanent address on the Internet. An ISP assigns the address when it provides an Internet access service to an end-user.
Cogeco, Rogers, Shaw and Videotron originally told the Commission that it is unclear whether the managed router solution they use to provide static IP addresses for business customers would work for their TPIA…
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MONTREAL – The radio arm of Cogeco Inc. will create two new specialty traffic stations to serve the Greater Montreal area after receiving provincial funding for that purpose on Monday.
Starting next fall, road users in Montreal will be able to listen to Cogeco Diffusion’s French and English stations on the AM band for live traffic updates, information on road work, and weather conditions from 4:30 AM (6 AM on weekends) through 1:00 AM.
Cogeco said that it will receive $1.5 million per year per station from Transports Québec to finance a portion of the dedicated traffic radio operations through…
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