OTTAWA – Operating revenues for Canada’s telecommunications industry rose 1.3% in 2013, powered by growth in Internet, mobile and paging services, according to data from Statistics Canada.
Operating revenues were $57.2 billion in 2013, up from $56.4 billion in 2012. Operating expenses increased 0.6% from $44.7 billion in 2012 to $45.0 billion in 2013, while the industry's operating profit margin increased from 20.8% to 21.4% year-over-year.
Mobile, paging and Internet services had the largest percentage growth in operating revenues from 2012 to 2013. Internet services operating revenues increased 6.9% to $8.0 billion, while mobile and paging services operating revenues rose 3.5%…
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OTTAWA – Despite a drop in prices for many high-volume talk, text and data plans, Canada’s mobile wireless prices once again rank among the highest when compared to other G7 countries and Australia, according to an annual report commissioned by Industry Canada and the CRTC.
Prepared by Ottawa’s Wall Communications, the 2015 edition of Price Comparisons of Wireline, Wireless and Internet Services in Canada and with Foreign Jurisdictions is an annual telecom services price comparison study that combines and averages wireline, mobile wireless, broadband Internet, and mobile Internet service rates, as well as bundles of these services along with basic digital TV…
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OTTAWA – The Canadian Chapter of the International Institute of Communications, known as IIC Canada, has postponed its annual conference in Ottawa this fall in favour of the 46th annual conference of the International Institute of Communications in Washington, D.C. on October 7 – 8, 2015.
“Since this important international conference will take place around the usual timeframe for the Canadian Chapter's annual conference, we have decided not to hold an IIC Canada conference in Ottawa this year but it will return in 2016”, said IIC Canada president Hank Intven in a recent email.
Delegates who attended the 2014 IIC Canada…
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PETER MILLER'S ARTICLE last week seeks to make it look reasonable that the government should regulate the right of people to upload video to the Internet. His proposal – or more like, his unstated assumption – is that people should need to be licensed under the Broadcasting Act in order to post video to the net.
It is not a reasonable, practical or sensible idea.
Since he knows this as well as I do, his article seeks to confuse the issue at many levels.
The Internet is regulated as speech or printing, and is subject to all the…
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TORONTO – A coalition of professional associations, unions and media organizations, including Cartt.ca, have thrown their support behind an advertising campaign highlighting the value and benefits of professional journalism.
The campaign, known as JournalismIS, aims to rally the wider community of journalists, media workers, media corporations, and media consumers to increase awareness, recognition and support for professional journalism. Friday’s launch at the Ryerson University Rogers Communication Centre in Toronto included more than 100 journalists, media employees, and representatives from newspaper publishers and broadcasters.
"News is the lifeblood of our democracy. As the volume of information and the range of opinion available to media consumers…
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I LOVE TIMOTHY DENTON’s diatribes. I love them every time he writes them, such as the one Cartt.ca ran on Tuesday
(Maybe that’s because I write them too. It’s just that mine tend to be less frequent and in the form of 40 page reports). Timothy’s blogs (diatribes) are witty, succinct and often bang on. Except when it comes to regulating the internet.
When it comes to regulating the Internet, Timothy Denton is prophet. A prophet of the doom that will become mankind if we were ever to regulate the internet. The firestorm and maelstrom. It will…
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BANFF – The Canada Media Fund (CMF) and ProMéxico did a little bonding at the Banff World Media Festival this week to further their joint goal of developing coproduction opportunities for content creators from both countries.
“Our initial meeting in 2014 to share our experience as MIPCOM Country of Honour has led to a series of discussions that have provided great insight into each other’s industry and funding ecosystem”, said CMF president and CEO Valerie Creighton, in a statement. “We have discovered a natural affinity between Canada and Mexico that we intend to build upon in the very near future. …
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BANFF – Ireland (the republic), has a population of roughly 4.5 million folks, and yet it was one of the first countries to create a tax relief program for independent producers back in 1987.
That original approach is now much like the U.K. tax credit scheme. Although it still retains a penchant for encouraging doctors and dentists to invest, an approach Canada found illusory and awkward in our salad days of tax credits, it has succeeded – the Canada-Ireland co-pro Vikings series being a powerful case in point. The show has won eight major awards and been nominated for another…
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TORONTO — Juggling the daily demands of directing one of Canada’s major national news organizations, while also overseeing a structural migration to digital and maintaining journalistic integrity in the face of internal and external attempts to influence editorial decisions, is keeping the country’s top news executives on their toes.
The heads of the three major Canadian television news organizations (two of which are also the biggest radio operators) took part in a panel discussion Friday that kicked off RTDNA Canada’s annual conference in Toronto. The special “Bear Pit” panel, moderated by Cartt.ca editor and publisher Greg O’Brien, featured a lively…
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TORONTO — Adding some broadcast content into the mix at the Canadian Telecom Summit last week, experts from the video content creation and distribution industries discussed the challenges and opportunities arising from the advent of over-the-top services during a special panel discussion.
OTT is about a “content revolution”, said George Burger, advisor at Internet TV provider VMedia, an upstart BDU. “ a massively disruptive event…and it’s going to make the disruption that happened to the music industry, with Napster, pale in comparison completely,” Burger said.
“It’s flourishing from the consumer point of view. Consumers have never, ever had it better,”…
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