WASHINGTON – Stressing he does not know what the CRTC’s voice over IP decision will be, Bell Canada Enterprises CEO Michael Sabia said today that if it reads the way he thinks it will, the company will immediately appeal it to the Federal Cabinet.
Speaking at a media and telecom conference this morning in Washington, Sabia said he believes the Commission will side against the incumbent telephone companies (ILECs) and maintain certain regulatory restrictions on the likes of Bell Canada and Telus when it comes to voice over Internet telephony.
The CRTC’s VOIP decision is due out sometime next…
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TORONTO – The owner of Pridevision TV and OUTtv says he may be forced to take Shaw Communications to court over what he says is unfair carriage of one of his channels by the large western cable company.
At issue is the way category one digital service OUTtv is being packaged on Shaw Digital Cable.
A little background: At launch and through its first years of existence, Pridevision was the category one (i.e. digital must-carry) gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgendered channel. It had lifestyle programming in the daytime and prime time hours and adult movies after hours.
At launch,…
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HAVING COVERED THE Cable, radio, television and telecom markets for well over seven years now, you could say I was inspired.
I’ve written about so many entrepreneurs who gambled and won (and a few who gambled and lost, too) that I suppose it had to rub off on me.
Warning, blatant self-promotion now follows.
So, on Monday, May 2 at 4:13 p.m., www.cartt.ca went live and on Tuesday, our first-ever newsletter went out filled with original stories you…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The run-down transmitter serving the 2,000 people in Saint Fulgence, Quebec, must stay, the CRTC ruled today.
Cogeco Inc.-controlled broadcaster TQS had petitioned the Commission for the removal of transmitter CKTV-TV-1 Saint-Fulgence, which broadcasts CKTV Saguenay (an affiliate of CBC’s French-language sister, SRC), on the grounds that the site needed extensive repairs and that most people in the region were already getting the TV signal by cable and satellite anyway.
The Commission denied the application by TQS inc. to remove the transmitter from its license.
TQS told the Commission that its agreement with the CBC, “per se…
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TORONTO – The whole Rogers Communications campus is rather wrapped up in four little letters these days: VOIP.
Both 333 Bloor St. E and One Mount Pleasant are buzzing as the company gets set to launch its brand new voice over Internet protocol product in July. It’s the latest addition to the Rogers bundles and adds a crucial fourth tentacle to the company’s wireless, video and data offerings.
What’s newest about this product is that, according to company CEO Ted Rogers, one option will combine the wired and wireless phone. Think about it. One handset that acts as your…
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