Corus Entertainment announced Tuesday the launch of its new StackTV app across select devices, with additional platforms to be supported soon.
Currently available on Roku, iOS (iPhone and iPad) and the web, the new StackTV app’s rolling launch will continue this fall with Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Android phones and tablets, Apple TV, LG Smart TVs and Samsung Tizen Smart TVs, according to a Corus press release.
The app offers a free account option, allowing viewers to stream thousands of hours of TV shows and movies, 24/7 Global News channels, and select episodes of Global’s…
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The CRTC last week approved Hope Channel Canada’s purchase of the English-language commercial religious specialty FM radio stations CJRP-FM Saint John and its transmitter CJRP-FM-1 Rothesay, and CKOE-FM Moncton, in New Brunswick.
The stations currently operate under DARR FM Radio Ltd. and Houssen Broadcasting Ltd.’s Alive FM brand, broadcasting Christian music and programming. DARR FM and Houssen are both owned and controlled by James Houssen, based in Moncton.
Hope Channel Canada is an Oshawa, Ont.-based not-for-profit corporation controlled by its Canadian board of directors. It currently…
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The CRTC sent a letter to the national and regional telecoms this week requesting an update on the progress of the MVNO regime that is four years out from sunsetting.
From Rogers, Bell, Telus and Sasktel, the regulator is asking for a list of MVNO agreements entered into with regional carriers. It is asking the same from Quebecor, Cogeco, Eastlink and Iristel, as well as the areas where these regionals are using the wireless capacity to deliver services, where new radio access networks (RAN) have been deployed, the total capital investment to expand into these new areas, the number of…
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Eastlink announced Wednesday it has completed a multi-million-dollar core mobile network transformation using Nokia 5G standalone core technology.
The Halifax-based telecom also said it is committing another $12 million to further modernize its mobile network, including adding new sites across Atlantic Canada.
“Since we launched our mobile service in 2013, we’ve worked hard to build and continuously strengthen a world-class network,” Jeff Gillham, CEO of Eastlink, said in a press release. “This latest advancement, in partnership with Nokia, a global leader in critical network connectivity, not only meets today’s increasing demand for capacity but it also…
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The CRTC last week in a letter asked several independent service providers for information regarding their retail internet subscriber numbers as the commission continues to monitor market conditions to ensure its wholesale high-speed access (HSA) framework achieves its policy objectives.
The commission directed its request for information to IT2IS Inc. (doing business as Bravo Telecom), Carry Telecom Inc., CIK Telecom Inc., Cipherkey Exchange Corp., Execulink Telecom Inc., Fibernetics Corporation, Frontier Networks Inc., Purple Cow Internet Inc., TekSavvy Solutions Inc. and Vianet Inc. Several other independent ISPs were included on the letter’s distribution list, and the CRTC said…
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By Ahmad Hathout
The extent of spectrum sharing between Bell and Telus increased from 45 per cent to 90 per cent of each company’s total spectrum licence holdings following four new approvals this past fall to subordinate spectrum to each other, the department handling the airwaves confirmed to us.
Cartt obtained a backgrounder document on the state of spectrum sharing between the country’s largest telcos, which dates back to 2008. In it, Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED), which encourages such sharing, notes that since 2013, the department has approved about 20 separate joint requests from Bell and Telus to share…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Internet service provider Uplink is asking the CRTC to stop Frontier from continuing to disconnect its customers over a pay dispute until it can migrate them to a new provider.
While it disputes the amount, Aylmer, Ontario-based Uplink acknowledges in its Part 1 application, made public Friday, that it does owe some amount of money to its Etobicoke-based wholesale internet provider Frontier, which supplies capacity leased from Rogers and Eastlink. Uplink says it is “prepared to discuss a reasonable interim payment arrangement while the migrations are completed,” including by direction from the CRTC.
In the meantime, Uplink is asking…
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The CRTC on Thursday denied a request by Quebecor’s Videotron to destandardize four aggregated third-party internet access speed tiers: 5 Mbps download/1 Mbps upload; 10 Mbps/1.5 Mbps; 15 Mbps/10 Mbps; and 20 Mbps/10 Mbps.
The CRTC noted that while Videotron said it is under no obligation to maintain the speeds given it doesn’t provide them to its own retail customers per the speed-matching rule, the Montreal-based telecom must still show that there is sufficient grounds to justify the request; that the request doesn’t disproportionately affect competitors; and that it is not uncompetitive in nature.
The regulator ruled that Videotron failed on…
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TekSavvy says decision sets bad precedent for competitors
By Ahmad Hathout
The CRTC ruled Friday that Cogeco’s decommissioning of its legacy hybrid-coaxial network in four Ontario cities did not give it an undue advantage or unduly disadvantage TekSavvy because competitive alternatives exist.
TekSavvy had requested in March that the CRTC order Cogeco to maintain its legacy hybrid-coax network or mandate access to its fibre replacement at cable rates in Chatham, Windsor, Burlington and Kingston. It warned that the decommissioning of older cable networks – coupled with the fact that cablecos are not mandated to provide regulated…
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The CRTC is asking the major telecoms to provide updates on their subscriber numbers, both in and out of their operating territories, as well any network upgrades they have made — part of the regulator’s monitoring of market conditions following the final wholesale internet access framework from August 2024.
In a July 10 letter sent to incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) Bell, Telus and SaskTel and cable carriers Rogers, Videotron, Cogeco and Eastlink, the CRTC asks for by-province summaries of the carriers’ total retail residential wireline internet subscribers — including standalone, those bundling a…
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