VANCOUVER – Telus will trial mobile edge computing after teaming up with San Francisco-based MobiledgeX Inc.
Third parties like mobile apps developers, consumer device makers and IoT hardware manufacturers will be able to test new innovations that take advantage of end-to-end low latency.
Ecosystem players with use cases that bring demanding performance and data governance requirements, like Industry 4.0, immersive augmented reality and multiplayer mobile gaming, may start working with MobiledgeX now to begin planning for trial participation and future use of the edge, enabled by MobiledgeX’s global network of participating operators.
Telus will pilot MobiledgeX Edge-Cloud R1.0, which aggregates processors…
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THE CANADIAN BROADCAST industry is pulling together in support of long-time radio salesperson Gord Kidder.
According to a GoFundMe Page, Kidder recently travelled to Europe to take part in ceremonies to honour his uncle who was a POW in WWII and the 75th anniversary of The Great Escape. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and was rushed to a hospital in Prague (Czech Republic) for emergency surgery where he remains in a coma in the intensive care unit.
Unfortunately, Kidder does not have out-of-country or private health care insurance coverage and expenses continue to accrue. Supporters are hoping to transport him back to Canada and into a facility…
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OTTAWA – It’s rare for a bureaucratic back-and-forth to be quite so public, but with so much at stake, the Commissioner for Competition doesn’t want to take no for an answer when it comes to the granular market data he wants from Canadian wireless companies.
As part of its submission to the CRTC’s review of mobile wireless services, the Competition Bureau wants to do a detailed study on what happened in regions and cities (not just in provinces and nationally) when new wireless competitors to the Big Three (Rogers, Bell and Telus) were introduced….
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MONTREAL — An announcement of new jobs that won't even fill a school bus isn't usually enough to warrant a visit from the federal industry minister, but 30 new jobs in artificial intelligence at a global high-tech company working on the latest wireless technology prompted excitement from the man who has science and innovation literally in his title, so Navdeep Bains paid a visit to Ericsson's new Montreal home on Thursday.
The wireless giant announced it is building what it calls a "Global Artificial Intelligence Accelerator innovation hub" based out of Montreal, which will work with similar teams around the…
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TORONTO – Global News’ Gerry Belec has been named the 2019 recipient of the Bill Hutton Award of Excellence from RTDNA Canada.
Renamed a decade ago to honour the late Bill Hutton, RTDNA Canada’s first president, the award is given to individuals or organizations who have shown a true commitment to RTDNA and the betterment of journalism in Canada.
Belec (pictured) is the director of news technology and operations for Global News. After beginning his career at BCTV in the mid-1980s, he managed the computer graphics department for more than a decade within their dynamic and challenging news room. Following…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The next test of Canada’s National Public Alerting System has been scheduled for Wednesday, May 8, though Ontario and Quebec will not take part due to issues with ongoing flooding in parts of those provinces.
Conducted by provincial emergency management organizations, test alerts should appear on every updated and compatible mobile device connected to a LTE wireless network in participating provinces and territories and will be simultaneously distributed on radio and television. The messages will be identified as test alerts and will not require Canadians to take action.
The alerts will be sent out according to the following…
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VANCOUVER – Rogers Media announced Wednesday it has acquired Pacific Content, a branded-content podcast company that produces original podcasts for clients across North America.
Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
With the launch of the company’s Frequency Podcast Network last year (which leverages a lot of its radio talent), Rogers Media continues to see growth its audio business. Rogers also owns and operates 56 radio stations across the country.
Today, notes the Rogers press release, 26% of Canadians tune in to podcasts once a month, while 18% listen weekly (Source: Canadian Podcast Listener, May 2018)….
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications recent issuance of debt securities to help cover the costs of its spectrum purchases generated more than it had planned.
The company said Wednesday that its previously announced offering of US$1.25 billion aggregate principal amount of 4.35% senior notes due 2049 in the United States, and CDN$1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of 3.25% senior notes due 2029 in Canada generated aggregate net proceeds of CDN$2.7 billion.
Rogers added that the net proceeds from these offerings will be used to fund its $1.73 billion acquisition of the 52 (out of 64) 600 MHz spectrum licenses, with the remainder used for general…
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NEW YORK – Twitter is expanding its lineup of new live and on demand video programming, including that available to Canadian users.
The new content deals include:
– NFL: As part of a multiyear partnership extension, the league will continue to program video highlights, breaking news and analysis, and will also include new live shows anchored around big NFL events including the NFL Draft.
– The Players' Tribune: The debut of a new talk show called Don’t @ Me, an interactive live broadcast featuring two athletes debating every “greatest of all time” topic under the sun, with Twitter users and fan voting to…
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MONTREAL – In a ruling handed down earlier this month, The Court of Quebec ruled the federal Telecommunications Act not only has precedence over the provincial Consumer Protection Act but also that the sections of the provincial law that deal with contractual issues in telecommunications are null and void.
Investigators with Quebec’s Consumer Protection Agency (in French, the Office de la protection du consommateur, or OPC) originally found that contracts from telecommunications providers contravened sections of the CPA (in French, the Loi sur la protection du consommateur, or LPC), enacted in 2009.
Infractions were deemed to…
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