GATINEAU – When Allarco won a pay television licence back in 2006, some wondered whether the company had promised too much in order to win the licence during a very competitive process. Those questions remained valid on Tuesday when Allarco/Super Channel appeared in front of the Commission for the renewal of its licence and to answer serious questions of non-compliance during its last licence term.
“The Commission is concerned with the way in which Allarco has interpreted the regulatory obligations and policies relating to Super Channel, CRTC Chairman Ian Scott started in his opening…
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TORONTO — A new study by market research firm Leger, conducted on behalf of Distributel Communications, found the majority of customers of large telecom companies in Canada feel dissatisfied and frustrated to be paying some of the highest prices in the world for home Internet. A significant number also reported feeling trapped by their current Internet service provider.
These and other survey findings were released by Distributel in a news release on Tuesday, to coincide with a Distributel presentation at the annual Canadian ISP Summit, being held in downtown Toronto this week. The national survey, entitled Broken Connection: Canadian…
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HAMILTON – There were five original owners of the first Hamilton Community Cable Access channel – now well known in the Steel City as Cable 14.
The city was an anomaly with five strong, growing, cable operators in the early ’70s. The owners of General Co-Axial Service (which would become Mountain Cablevision), MacLean-Hunter Cable TV, Northgate Cable T.V., Hamilton Co-Axial (which would become Source Cable) and Western Co-Axial TV and Appliance Service all thought it would be better to pool their resources on a single community channel to serve their city, which they launched in 1969 without (gasp!) regulatory permission.
So,…
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Registration to close November 7th
NORTH BAY, ON – Canada’s first annual Rural and Remote Broadband Conference announced today the panel members who will engage with conference attendees in North Bay on November 12-14.
There are three excellent panels comprised of government, industry and First Nations leaders which will tackle a number of broadband’s most compelling challenges.
They are:
Government’s Role in Addressing the Challenges of the Rural Digital Divide.Developing government policy that supports Broadband development in non-urban regions. A conversation between government and private sector.
Panelists include Fausto Iannialice, director of broadband and digital strategy branch, Ministry of Infrastructure; Angela Lawrence, CCSA…
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GIVEN THE IMPORTANCE of digital connectivity in the modern, digital era, the affordability and availability of Internet access for Canadian households is an extremely important concern for policymakers.
Fortunately, Canada ranks very high in both of these dimensions, according to an international survey published annually by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Canada ranks first among the 100 countries in internet affordability and 18th in internet availability in the most recent, 2019, EIU report.
The EIU, a sister company to The Economist newspaper, is a highly-regarded international provider of global information for businesses, the financial sector, and governments. It has been publishing…
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Freedom customers still the only ones with subway connectivity
TORONTO – BAI Communications has launched an online petition at iwantaccess.ca to try and pressure Rogers, Bell and Telus to come to the negotiation table and use the underground network it built for the Toronto Transit Commission.
Coverage in TTC stations has been live since 2015 for Freedom Mobile customers, “however, the Big 3 Telcos have yet to join the network,” says the petition. “Now, BAI is committed to educating cellular customers of the Big 3 Telcos about why they can’t access this network, and what they can…
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GATINEAU — The CRTC is holding a public hearing in Gatineau starting on Tuesday, November 5, where it will examine Allarco Entertainment’s application to renew the licence of Super Channel.
As reported previously by Cartt.ca, the CRTC said back in May that Super Channel’s licence renewal application required further explanation by Allarco Entertainment after interventions submitted to the Commission raised issues regarding instances of apparent non-compliance. Some of those instances of non-compliance were related to the distribution of Canadian programs, the eligibility and late payment of certain Canadian programming expenditures, and the eligibility and late payment of certain expenditures…
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OTTAWA — The CRTC has initiated a show cause proceeding as the result of six telecommunications service providers (TSPs) failing to become participants in the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services Inc. (CCTS) and ignoring letters and requests for information sent by CRTC staff in the last year.
In its Telecom Notice of Consultation CRTC 2019-363, the CRTC said the six telecom resellers who have not become CCTS participants are WISP Internet Services Inc., Golden Rural High Speed, Pure Channel Communications Inc., MySignal.ca Solutions Inc., Redbox Solutions Ltd., and Total Cable Service Inc. The Commission said it is launching…
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GATINEAU – "The Commission is of the preliminary view that certain device financing plans may create a new barrier for customers to take advantage of competitive offers in the market.
“In particular, customers, who may benefit in the immediate term from lower monthly costs related to their devices, appear to be asked to accept terms and conditions that may require them to stay with their current WSP after the end of their wireless service plan commitment period or be charged for the remainder of the cost of the device,” reads the notice from the CRTC when it opened a Continue Reading
OTTAWA — The CRTC says the total amount of Part II licence fees to be assessed by the Commission in 2019 is estimated to be $116.6 million.
The Commission made the announcement Wednesday in Broadcasting Order CRTC 2019-359. Sections 11(1) and 11(2) of the Broadcasting Licence Fee Regulations set out the components for the calculation of the Part II licence fees, paid by major licensed broadcasting undertakings.
The CRTC said it calculated the total annual amount of Part II licence fees to be assessed in 2019 by taking last year’s total of $113,973,360 in Part II licence fees and applying…
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