WOODSTOCK, en Ontario – Que ce soit avec de la fibre, du coaxial, du sans-fil ou du cuivre – sur leurs propres réseaux ou comme un fournisseur de gros – Execulink sert ses clients par tous les moyens possibles.
C’est la devise qui a été transmise sur quatre générations dans la famille Stevens, propriétaire de la compagnie et ses prédécesseurs. « Nous desservons chaque catégorie de clients, » raconte le PDG Ian Stevens, dans une interview avec Cartt.ca à Woodstock, le siège social de la compagnie, en Ontario. « Sur une route, vous pouvez croiser un agriculteur, quelqu'un qui vit dans une petite…
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WOODSTOCK, Ont. – Be it fibre, coaxial, wireless, or copper – on their own networks, or as a wholesale provider – Execulink will serve customers by any means possible.
That’s the mantra which has been passed down through four generations of Stevens family members who have run the company or its predecessors. “We service every client category,” said CEO Ian Stevens, in an interview with Cartt.ca at the company’s Woodstock, Ont. headquarters. “You drive down a road and you go from a farmer to somebody who’s living in a small community for a lifestyle, to a retired person, to a…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC is once again wading into the tussle between Bell Canada and the City of Hamilton over its municipal access agreement (MAA).
An MAA sets out the terms and conditions of a carrier’s access to highways and other public places under a municipality’s jurisdiction that is required to provide telecommunications services, including broadcasting services, to the public.
After both parties disputed the interpretation of their current MMA’s clause relating to the vertical location of underground facilities, the Commission said Friday that “there is merit in reviewing the obligations” addressed in that clause. It therefore issued a call for comments on whether…
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OTTAWA – An individual named William Rapanos has been dinged for $15,000 after the CRTC found that he committed ten violations of Canada’s anti-spam legislation (CASL).
The Commission said that it conducted an investigation after the Spam Reporting Centre received numerous complaints between July 8 – October 16, 2014 about emails that appeared to have been sent by Rapanos advertising a design, printing, and distribution service for commercial flyers.
Despite an appeal by Rapanos, the Commission said Thursday that it found, on a balance of probabilities, that he sent commercial electronic messages (i) that did not identify the sender, (ii) that…
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EN 1983, PLUS DE 30 ans après l’arrivée de la télévision dans les foyers des grandes villes canadiennes, les résidents de Lac-Beauport et de Lac-Saint-Charles, au pied des Laurentides dans la région de Québec, n’avaient toujours pas de réception. Un groupe de citoyens a formé une coopérative et postulé pour un permis auprès de la CRTC. Deux ans plus tard, la Coopérative de câblodistribution de l’arrière-pays (CCAP) comptait déjà 3000 abonnés. Trente ans plus tard, forte de ses 17000 abonnés, la coopérative est toujours là.
À partir d’un bureau à Charlesbourg, en banlieue de Québec, la CCAP fournit des services…
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IN 1983, MORE THAN 30 years after the first CBC and Radio-Canada television broadcasts began connecting Canadian cities, residents of Lac-Beauport and Lac-Saint-Charles, communities at the foot of the Laurentian Mountains near Québec City, still had no TV reception. So they formed a cooperative, applied for a CRTC licence and began working toward setting up their own distribution network. By 1985, the Coopérative de câblodistribution de l’Arrière-Pays (or Backcountry Cable Distribution Network, known by its French acronym CCAP) had 3,000 subscribers. Thirty years later, it’s still there, and thriving.
The company provides TV, internet and landline telephone service to over…
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LAST WEDNESDAY, THE CRTC ordered Sugar Mobile, a discount wireless services provider, to stop its unauthorized use of Rogers Communications’ wireless network. The telecommunications regulator found that Ice Wireless, Sugar Mobile’s sister company, had “improperly allowed the end-users of cellular network.”
The CRTC’s decision is welcome news, and reaffirms its commitment to promote facilities-based competition in Canada’s wireless sector.
Ice Wireless is a wireless service provider operating in the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut. It owns a wireless network in the territories, but has a roaming…
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TORONTO – The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has unveiled a series of tangible measures that it pledged to put in place to increase women in key roles on CMF-funded productions.
The organization said Wednesday, on International Women's Day, that the initiatives will include concrete changes to the CMF’s guidelines and policies, a commitment to achieving gender parity in all juries that are put in place to evaluate projects, and support for third-party initiatives, among other measures to be implemented in the upcoming fiscal year and subsequently.
According to research conducted in different markets around the world and by the CMF’s own…
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TORONTO — The media industry is “filled with promise”, said Wade Oosterman, group president for Bell Canada, but competing in a global economy offers a wide variety of battles to be fought on many fronts.
For Bell, deploying fibre and wireless networks is very expensive – while funding TV content also takes a lot of cash, he said, adding that media companies also need a regulatory environment that doesn’t hinder their ability to compete against the likes of Netflix, Amazon and Apple TV.
Oosterman, who oversees Bell Media, Bell Mobility, and Bell Residential and Small Business, made his comments during a…
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MONTREAL – Former CRTC vice-chair Tom Pentefountas is leaving his role at Stingray Digital Group next month for new, unspecified opportunities.
Since joining Stingray in November 2015, Pentefountas (pictured) has overseen international sales development and forged relationships with sales agents and TV operators in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, while based in London.
"Contributing to Stingray's international growth has been a very rewarding professional experience," said Pentefountas, in a statement. "It is now time for me to strike the right balance between my professional obligations and my family and this requires me being closer to home."
"On behalf of…
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