TORONTO – Ericsson has acquired Toronto-based ConceptWave in an all-cash deal that Ericsson says complements and strengthens its OSS/BSS offerings with order management and product catalog solutions. ConceptWave was founded in 2000 and has developed leading-edge software solutions primarily for telecom operators and has a current staff of 170.
The company's customers, primarily telecom operators, are located in Canada, USA, Latin America, Europe and Asia.
"There is a trend towards more personalization of services where end-users want to purchase communications services meeting their individual needs. This puts high demand on telecom operators to be able to offer flexible…
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TORONTO – The Canadian Premium Audience Exchange (CPAX), a new online, real-time bidding exchange service is adding two new networks, V and Télé-Québec. The networks join recently announced Corus and founding partners Shaw Media, Rogers Media and CBC/Radio-Canada.
The participation of V and Télé-Québec further expands and strengthens CPAX's premium French-language opportunities for the advertising community, with Canadian digital advertising inventory now reaching across a wide network of top domains in French. CPAX says it now offers an efficient and cost-effective means of reaching targeted audiences with premium inventory across leading Canadian brands in both English and French.
"V is…
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GRANTING BELL THE RIGHT to buy Astral Media will make an already big company that acts badly, enormous, add incentive for it act even worse, which in the end will crush competition and choice in Canada. Therefore, the deal needs to be quashed altogether or tough new rules applied to constrain the biggest player in Canadian media, say final replies to the CRTC’s public proceeding into Bell Canada’s quest to buy Astral Media.
Those last written rejoinders to the Commission’s public proceeding into Bell Canada’s purchase of Astral Media (CRTC 2012-370) from intervenors were due into the Commission on Friday,…
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TORONTO – From the impact of Netflix, to how social media is changing the way people view TV, Joel Woods says he had the experience of a lifetime mixing with top cable, broadcasting and marketing executives at the 15th annual Cable Executive Management Program at the Harvard Business School (HBS).
As the recipient of the CTAM Canada Fellowship Award, Woods who is Sr. Product Manager, Cable Platform at Rogers, was the only representative from CTAM Canada that attended the program which ran from June 10 to 15, 2012. Woods joined approximately 70 executive-level attendees representing…
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MONTRÉAL – Rogers Communications in its $10.3 million proposal for Montréal’s CJNT-TV (Metro 14) says it has found the “optimal solution” that provides the city with a new English-language commercial TV station while also supporting a local plan for a new multilingual station. And even if the CRTC says no, it’s got a back-up plan to loosen CJNT’s current ethnic programming requirements.
Under Rogers’ optimal scenario the new station would be branded Citytv Montreal with programming and conditions of licence similar to the company's other Citytv…
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IQALUIT, NUNAVUT – Telesat is conducting live demonstrations this month in Iqaluit to showcase how satellite services can help remedy the bandwidth gaps that exist in the north. The gaps were identified in the Arctic Communications Infrastructure Assessment (ACIA) Report completed in 2011 for the Northern Communications & Information Systems Working Group and sponsored by the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency.
Telesat says satellites can also provide Internet connectivity for local 3G…
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TORONTO – North American wireless carriers reported strong Q2 margins, with combined wireless EBITDA service margins for Rogers, Telus, Bell, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, LEAP and MetroPCS up 342 basis points and EBITDA growth up 14.5% over the previous year. This according to figures reported in Dvai Ghose’s Canaccord Genuity Daily Letter for September 17.
He says the improved margins were driven by reduced device subsidy pressure. Wireless equipment subsidies dropped an estimated 12% in Q2 due to a “dearth of iconic device launches.” He noted that with the Samsung Galaxy S III and the iPhone 5 recently launched “we…
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NEW YORK – Innovid has announced the adoption of the interactive mobile solutions by BrightRoll, the world's largest provider of digital video advertising solutions. It enables advertisers in the U.S, Canada and Europe to create seamless, interactive pre-roll experiences delivered through BrightRoll's network, across PC's, smartphones and tablet devices.
"In an ever-changing, multi-screen media landscape, marketers must deliver their messages where the audience is, and working with Innovid enables BrightRoll to support brands with a creative solution that can be built once, but applied to all devices," says Tod Sacerdoti, CEO and founder of BrightRoll in a news release.
"This…
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TORONTO – The Canada Media Fund (CMF) is partnering with comScore to create an automated industry standard to measure digital media. comScore will also provide operational and technical support to the CMF and its digital media applicants for the collection of performance data for digital media projects funded through the CMF’s programs. CMF supports the creation of Canadian content and software applications for current and emerging digital platforms through financial support and industry research.
A consultation process led to the introduction of a Digital Media Performance Measurement Framework, through which it was agreed that an industry standard for…
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OTTAWA – With Canadians poised to cash in on new technologies that turn their mobile devices into digital wallets, the federal government has responded with a revised Code of Conduct for the Credit and Debit Card Industry that will soon apply to mobile payments.
Ted Menzies, Minister of State (Finance) announced that the proposed addendum to the code has been released for public consultation.
“Technology continues to evolve and transform our daily activities—including the way we buy items. More and more Canadians are using their smartphones to pay at stores and small businesses, and that trend will grow,” noted Minister…
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