OTTAWA – Nationwide text-to-donate campaigns with most Canadian wireless subscribers are now underway to help with Pakistan flood relief efforts.
The Mobile Giving Foundation Canada, in partnership with the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association and Canadian wireless service providers, has coordinated a campaign allowing Canadians to help by:
• Texting the word “REDCROSS” to 30333 to donate $10 to the Canadian Red Cross;• Texting the word “GIVE” in English or “DON” in French to 45678 to donate $5 to UNICEF;• Texting the word “WORLD” to 45678 to donate $5 to World Vision Canada.
The donation will appear on a…
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OTTAWA – When it comes to licensing the 28GHz band, Canada’s wireless operators generally agree with Industry Canada’s proposed framework, documents submitted to the department via its call for comments reveal.
Telus, however, is concerned about the first-come, first-served approach advocated by the department in its consultation. Given the rapid growth of mobile networks and mobile data services, the need for longer-term backhaul network planning is paramount and a FCFS process may act as a barrier, the company states in its submission.
“Telus is of the view that the FCFS model needs to be ‘tweaked’ to allow…
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TORONTO – As avid users of technology, Canadians continue to seek free content and are relatively advertising adverse, according to a survey conducted by KPMG.
In its most recent version of the Consumers & Convergence IV survey, the audit, tax and advisory firm found that:
– 85% of Canadians are not willing to pay for access to site content through their mobile phone and would look for the same or similar content elsewhere through a free site, compared to 76% in the U.S. and 57% globally; and
– In Canada, advertising in exchange for lower prices or free content/services is more…
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WHY WOULD KEITH PELLEY move to Rogers Communications? That’s the question the industry is asking this week. There are many speculative answers, but let’s try to look at some facts before we lob our own opinion-grenades.
Pelley is a sports guy. A TV guy. A sports TV guy. He’s a heck of a broadcast executive who is still riding a massive wave of goodwill generated by the stellar Winter Olympics broadcast, one which he constructed from the ground up and oversaw. He and his people did a terrific job and with a bit of downtime between now and…
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OTTAWA – The battle between Telus and MTS Allstream over mandated wireless roaming in Manitoba continues to brew.
After Telus complained to Industry Canada earlier this month about MTS Allstream’s alleged refusal to negotiate a deal on roaming rates in Manitoba, MTS Allstream replied by asking the government to disregard Telus’ application which it says misconstrues “certain facts and has outright omitted a number of others”.
In particular, MTS Allstream claims that Telus’ application misrepresents the rationale and eligibility criteria for out-of-territory roaming, in-territory roaming and the definition of a new entrant, so that it may obtain “an even…
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TORONTO – The industry outlook for Canadian wireless carriers remains stable, according to Moody’s Investors Service, though the company upgraded its outlook on U.S.-based carriers to ‘positive’ from ‘stable’.
Moody’s said Wednesday that the pending arrival of new wireless entrants in the Canadian market “is likely to pressure industry operating income growth, limiting it to the low single digits". At the same time, Moody’s said that it expects Canadian operators to benefit from many of the trends that support a ‘positive’ industry outlook in the U.S., particularly the proliferation of powerful new handsets that could increase data revenues, which in turn may…
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TORONTO – Keith Pelley has been hired as president of Rogers Media, the company announced this morning.
He will succeed Tony Viner, who in May announced his plan to retire, beginning September 7.
Pelley, 46, will report to Rogers Communications president and CEO Nadir Mohamed and will have overall responsibility for Rogers Media properties including Rogers Broadcasting, Rogers Publishing, Rogers Digital Media, Rogers Sportsnet, the Shopping Channel, the Toronto Blue Jays and Rogers Centre.
He was most recently executive vice-president of strategic planning at CTV and president of Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium (however, with Rogers as a main partner in…
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OTTAWA – New media broadcasting undertakings affiliated with Canadian broadcasters must begin to report financial information to the CRTC starting next year.
After calling for comments on reporting requirements for new media broadcasting undertakings (NMBUs) back in February, the Commission said Friday that revenues and expenditures from NMBUs that are affiliates of licensed broadcasting undertakings will be sent out in the first quarter of 2011 for the 2009 broadcasting year, and will be required on an annual basis going forward.
An example of an affiliated NMBU would be Rogers On Demand Online, a broadband service in which Rogers Cable…
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THE VOTING PROCESS is underway for CTAM Canada’s 2011 Board of Directors.
Five seats are available for a new, two year term. Don’t miss your chance to help shape and strengthen CTAM Canada’s position as the cable industry’s champion for smart marketing. Ballots must be received no later than August 27th at 5:00 pm EST.
For more information, contact Hawley Chester, chair of the nominating committee, at (404) 230-7315 or Hchester@speedtv.com.
www.ctam.ca
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WATERLOO and TORONTO – Corus Entertainment, CBC and TVO are some of the first Canadian content producers to have podcasts included in Research In Motion’s new BlackBerry Podcasts service.
Launched Wednesday, BlackBerry Podcasts is a free application that allows BlackBerry customers to discover and acquire podcasts from various content providers.
Users can access free audio and video content by searching the podcast catalog by keyword, category, channel or top downloads. Content can be downloaded over Wi-Fi or cellular networks and consumed through BlackBerry’s media player. BlackBerry Podcasts also uses the push technology of the BlackBerry platform to notify users when new…
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