OTTAWA – The Government of Canada today highlighted over $435.5 million in funding to bring high-speed Internet service to thousands of homes in Ontario.
Seven separate announcements were made today, which provided details for multiple projects that will benefit from the $1.2-billion partnership between the federal and Ontario governments announced last July. The partnership between the two levels of government is to bring high-speed Internet access to over 280,000 households across the province.
The first announcement from today included over $96 million to connect 22,546 Ontario households. The details are as follows:
Digital Infrastructure Group Inc. is receiving $45 million…
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OTTAWA — The governments of Canada and Ontario today announced more than $56 million in new combined federal and provincial funding for six projects to bring high-speed Internet access to more than 6,500 households in rural northern and southwestern Ontario, including several First Nation communities.
These new projects build on the two governments’ existing $1.2-billion partnership, announced in July 2021, that is designed to support “large-scale, fibre-based projects that will provide high-speed Internet access to more than 280,000 rural and remote households across the province,” explains a press release from the Canadian government.
According to a separate backgrounder,…
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SEATTLE – Telus Communications was the fastest mobile operator of Canada’s top providers in the first quarter of 2022, according to mobile and broadband testing company Ookla.
Ookla’s more recent quarterly report, released today, shows Telus had a median download speed of 94.48 Mbps, which was faster than Bell (86.06 Mbps), Rogers (71.7 Mbps), Fido (66.85 Mbps), Videotron (58.82 Mbps) and Freedom Mobile (45 Mbps). (Please see chart above.)
Freedom meanwhile scored the lowest latency score for Q1 2022. Ookla reported Freedom’s median latency was 18 ms, Rogers and Fido’s median latencies were both 23 ms, Telus and Bell were both…
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Updated with comment from petitioner, dotmobile.
OTTAWA — The federal cabinet has denied a petition today to overturn a decision by the CRTC that only allowed a limited group of wireless service providers to force negotiations to use national telecom facilities, saying it believes the decision will provide consumers with greater choice and bring down prices.
Mobile virtual network operator Data on Tap (dotmobile) filed the petition in May 2021 to reverse the part of the CRTC’s decision that excludes full MVNOs like itself from participating in those mandatory negotiations. The decision by the regulator…
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MONTREAL — Cogeco Inc. announced yesterday that its revenues and profits increased in its fiscal second quarter compared to the same period last year, with activity south of the border helping drive those numbers.
For the period ending on February 28, revenues increased by 14.5% to $748.1 million and profits increased 7.8% to $118.8 million versus the comparable period last year, with carry from its purchase last year of the broadband facilities of WideOpenWest in Ohio and organic growth in the US, as well as the purchase of Quebec’s Derytelecom in late 2020.
Revenues from American broadband services — called…
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BURLINGTON, Ont. — Cogeco Connexion, the Canadian cable subsidiary of Cogeco Communications, announced today it is the title sponsor of the 2022 Ontario Mixed Curling Championship and is airing the event this week throughout the province on its YourTV community channel.
Taking place at Belleville’s Quinte Curling Club from Wednesday, April 13 to Sunday, April 17, the tournament features curling teams competing for the opportunity to represent Ontario at the November 2022 National Championship, explains a press release.
YourTV will broadcast daily games from the tournament, which will feature 16 teams competing…
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OTTAWA – The Government of Canada announced today is supporting affordable high-speed Internet in Canada through a second phase of the Connecting Families initiative.
“In partnership with 14 participating ISPs across the country that are voluntarily contributing to the initiative by offering $20 a month high-speed Internet services, the Government of Canada will help connect hundreds of thousands of low-income families and seniors to affordable high-speed Internet,” a press release explains.
The second phase of Connecting Families, which was originally announced last August, is introducing faster speeds, in line with the government’s connectivity strategy, which aims to ensure all Canadians…
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SEVERAL CANADIAN TELECOMS have decided to continue waiving fees for Canadians connecting to loved ones in Ukraine.
As Cartt.ca reported last month, many Canadian telecoms chose to waive fees for calls and texts from Canada to Ukraine, with several stating they intended to do so until the end of this month. Most, however, have now extended this deadline.
SaskTel announced last Friday it will continue to waive long-distance charges for wireless, landline and business calls from Canada to Ukraine, international text messages from Canada to Ukraine and roaming charges for calls, texts and data overages for customers currently in…
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MARKHAM, Ont. — CN Media Services, a division of Markham, Ont.-based Capital Networks Limited, announced last week it is now the exclusive “local avails” sales agent for Videotron.
“The term ‘Local Avails’ refers to the approximately two minutes of television commercial time per hour set aside in the programming of certain U.S. cable/satellite channels including CNN, CNBC, AMC, HLN, NFL Network and more,” explains a press release.
The agreement with Videotron means CN Media Services can now provide its advertising clients the opportunity to target almost 500,000 Canadian households in the province of Quebec.
CN Media Services already has exclusive sales…
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NIAGARA, Ont. – Southwestern Integrated Fibre Technology (SWIFT) announced last week 765 homes and businesses in the Niagara Region will have high-speed Internet access by the end of the year.
“Cogeco Connexion, in partnership with SWIFT, is constructing a 53-kilometre fibre-optic network to bring improved broadband access to the communities of Grimsby Centre, Grassie, Allen’s Corners, Kimbo, Fulton, Abingdon, Caistor Centre and Caistorville,” a SWIFT press release says.
Construction began in January and service is expected to be fully available in these communities by December.
The project is valued at $3.3 million with the governments of Canada and Ontario each committing…
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