TORONTO — Corus Entertainment announced today the Peacock Original series Frogger, a new game show based on the iconic 1980s video game, will premiere on its kids’ channel YTV on... Continue Reading
YORK, PA — United Fiber and Data (UFD), a fibre-optic network provider in the northeastern United States, announced today Canadian telecom carrier Eastlink and an unnamed global data centre provider... Continue Reading
By Denis Carmel Several Internet service providers and related groups have now officially weighed in on TekSavvy and the Competitive Network Operators of Canada’s (CNOC) petitions to the Governor in... Continue Reading
HALIFAX — Eastlink announced today it will invest almost $26 million to expand its mobile network further into New Brunswick, bringing its service to mobile customers in the northern part... Continue Reading
By Denis Carmel CARTT.CA HAS LEARNED large Canadian broadcasting and telecommunication enterprises collected significant amounts from the federal government’s Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) and Canada Recovery Hiring Program (CRHP) in... Continue Reading
Office life unlikely to return to what it was in 2019 By Amanda Oye AS COMPANIES AROUND the country make plans to bring employees back into offices, and grapple... Continue Reading
HALIFAX — Eastlink announced today its new “Rollover Data” plans that allow mobile customers to keep their unused data by automatically rolling it over to the next month. In addition,... Continue Reading
By Amanda Oye
LARGE INTERNET SERVICE providers have been the recipients of the vast amount of funding from the Universal Broadband Fund that had been allocated as of June 30th, 2021.
Jay Thomson, CEO of the Canadian Communication Systems Alliance (CCSA), compiled publicly available data, which shows Videotron, Cogeco, Bell, Telus and Rogers have been the major winners of UBF funding (see chart below).
The data takes into account two sets of funding. The first is funding from the UBF’s Rapid Response stream and the second is from the Canada-Quebec Operation High-Speed project, which received half of its $826.3-million funding from…
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HALIFAX — Eastlink, which started out as a small cable company in rural Nova Scotia when it was established in 1971 by John Bragg, has of course since grown into... Continue Reading
Want faster, cheaper piracy measures By Ahmad Hathout OTTAWA – The country’s largest broadcasters and telecoms want new copyright legislation to include provisions that give the courts the ability to... Continue Reading
