MIRAMICHI, N.B. — Halifax-based Eastlink said in a press release today its $26-plus million mobile network expansion efforts in northern New Brunswick are “making great progress” in Miramichi.
“Eastlink’s mobile expansion in the province is well underway and will take place over the next couple of years expanding existing coverage from Shediac to the Miramichi this year, followed by Bathurst and the Acadian Peninsula,” the press release reads.
“We’re very pleased with how things are progressing in New Brunswick, and more specifically in Miramichi,” said Jeff Gillham, Eastlink’s CEO, in the release. “We’ve secured our retail location in Bridgeview Plaza and our technical teams have been on the ground working…
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OTTAWA – Mobile wireless pricing is trending downwards in Canada and fixed broadband Internet prices have mostly increased since 2020, according to the latest edition of the government commissioned report Price Comparison Study of Telecommunications Services in Canada and with Foreign Jurisdictions.
The report, prepared by Wall Communications Inc., was released recently but is dated February 15, 2022, and covers pricing from 2021.
A note on methodology
The price comparison study was designed “to provide a detailed comparative price analysis of telecommunications services within Canada, as well as an international comparison (G7 + Australia),” it says.
Data was collected on mobile wireless, fixed…
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HALIFAX – Develop Nova Scotia today provided an update on the progress of the Internet for Nova Scotia Initiative, indicating 273 more homes and businesses in the province will gain access to high-speed Internet through a scope expansion project with Eastlink.
Today’s announcement will benefit 24 communities in small pockets around Nova Scotia. The projects “are all wired-to-the-home/business solutions (coax or fibre – depending on what infrastructure exists currently near each location) and work is already underway in all areas,” a press release says.
The communities to benefit include North Chegoggin, Greenville, North Kingston, South Greenwood, Berwick West, Coldbrook, Benjamin Bridge,…
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GATINEAU – City Wide Communications, a Dartmouth, N.S.-based independent telecommunications service provider, has asked the CRTC to review and vary its recent decision to deny City Wide’s 2020 application asking the Commission to order Bragg Communications (Eastlink) to move its third-party Internet access (TPIA) point of interconnection (POI) in Nova Scotia from its current location in the rural community of Pennant Point to a location in the core of Halifax.
In a decision issued on March 25, 2022, the Commission noted it found “that while Eastlink is subjecting City Wide to a disadvantage and providing itself with a…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC said today that telecommunications service providers will have to adhere to a regime that will set a minimum standard for blocking botnet traffic, which it said constitutes a “significant issue for cyber security, both in terms of volume and severity of harm.”
Botnets are networks of malware-infected devices that are controlled from a central location and used to do things like steal data and/or send an overwhelming number of communications to a server, which causes it to fail (denial-of-service attack). The increasing number of internet-connected devices coming to market, a lot largely with flimsy security measures, are…
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MINDEMOYA, Ont. – Eastlink said yesterday that its fibre upgrade project in Mindemoya, Ontario is making “excellent” progress.
“We are very pleased with progress to date,” said Louigi Salvati, Eastlink’s regional director of marketing and sales, said in a press release. “Our team has been working hard; they’ve completed initial design work, procured fibre networking equipment, and are currently prepping the area, including tree trimming, for the installation of fibre.”
Eastlink CEO Jeff Gillham added that the company is “very pleased to be upgrading our network in Mindemoya with our most advanced fibre connectivity, especially as demand for high speed internet…
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OTTAWA — The Cable Public Affairs Channel (CPAC) will be celebrating an important milestone this weekend — June 12 marks CPAC’s 30 years of providing viewers with unfiltered coverage of Canadian Parliament, politics and public affairs.
“Created for Canadians in 1992 by a consortium of cable companies to preserve an independent editorial voice for Canada’s democratic process, CPAC quickly became Canadians’ go-to resource for commercial free, gavel-to-gavel coverage of parliamentary proceedings,” reads a press release highlighting CPAC’s upcoming 30th anniversary.
Over the years, the channel’s coverage has grown to include House of Commons and Senate committee meetings, Supreme Court of Canada…
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OTTAWA – Last week, the CRTC posted a part one application from several service providers who came together to ask the Commission to review the wholesale roaming tariff rates of the country’s national wireless carriers (Bell Mobility, Rogers Communications and Telus Communications), calling them “manifestly unjust and unreasonable”.
“This application deals with the flagrant overcharging for wholesale roaming – an essential service that stands as one of the central pillars of the Commission’s policy framework for ensuring sustainable competition in the provision of mobile wireless services in Canada,” reads the application, which was filed by regional competitors Bragg Communications Inc….
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Bell was not consulted on Globalive/Telus network sharing agreement, CFO said
By Ken Kelley
TORONTO – Executives from each of Canada’s major telecoms, along with their counterparts from some of the country’s smaller players, gathered in Toronto on Wednesday for the first in-person edition of the TD Securities Telecom and Media Conference since the Covid pandemic began.
BCE executive vice-president and chief financial officer Glen LeBlanc kicked off the day’s proceedings, with discussion around the company’s recent financial performance as well as the implications of the sale of Shaw’s wireless assets, Freedom Mobile, in order to settle anti-competitive concerns brought on…
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OTTAWA — CBC/Radio-Canada’s Media Technology Monitor (MTM) today released a new report that shows the number of Canadians, both English and French-speaking, who subscribe to paid TV services is still relatively high.
“Although paid TV subscriptions have been in decline for over a decade, they still remain fairly high with 69% of anglophone households having a paid TV service,” reads a press release highlighting MTM’s findings for the English Canadian paid TV market.
For French-speaking Canada, the percentage of households that subscribe to paid TV services is approximately 75% (three out of four), according to MTM’s research on the French market.
In…
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