About 800 airplanes will offer in-flight broadband by the end of this year, which could generate more than US $47 million worldwide, according to a report by In-Stat.
The research, called ‘Delayed Departure: Will In-Flight Broadband Take Off?‘, predicts the in-flight broadband market is “still emerging” and could grow beyond $1 billion annually by 2012.
“The market is clearly gaining momentum, with deployments escalating in number,” said In-Stat analyst Daryl Schoolar, in the press release. “However, in-flight broadband faces challenges, by the struggling economy and competing non-traditional IFE (in-flight entertainment) solutions.”
The high tech research firm also…
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TORONTO and HAMILTON – It’s times like these that bring an industry closer together.
That sentiment was the critical genesis for a first of its kind strategic partnership in Canada between the media industry’s top career management and recruitment company mediaINTELLIGENCE.ca and leading industry news source Cartt.ca. The goal of this pioneering partnership is to combine sector-specific knowledge with career management guidance, significantly enhancing the quality of the media industry’s workforce.
The two companies will work together to build and increase knowledge across all Canadian media sectors, and to expand and create opportunities for those who have chosen to…
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MONTREAL – OmniGlobe Networks has completed its purchase of Ottawa-based R. A. Misener Telecom Corporation, the operating subsidiary of RAMTelecom, in a cash deal worth $2.40 million.
Satellite voice and broadband provider RAMTelecom announced the acquisition in December of 2008. OmniGlobe Networks is a global telecommunications company that delivers broadband, cellular and satellite communications products and services to geographic regions where conventional telecommunications are either unavailable, unreliable or too expensive.
"The market for communications services in remote and rural areas is a solidly growing sector of the global telecommunications industry and, moving forward, our focus will be to…
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MARKHAM, ON – TVC Canada has appointed Jeff McKellar to account manager, outside plant and fiber construction products for its central region, effective immediately.
Reporting to Canadian VP of sales and business development Luc Morissette, McKellar will be responsible for further expanding TVC’s presence in the Canadian outside plant marketplace.
McKellar was previously the national sales representative for a manufacturer of fiber optic splice closures, and has held various positions in manufacturing, distribution and with a national telecommunications service provider.
TVC has been providing integrated business solutions to the North American telecom industry for more than 50 years.
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TORONTO and BANFF – Monday’s opening keynote session at the Banff World Television Festival will see Lionsgate Studio co-chairman and CEO Jon Feltheimer interview Richard Stursberg, CBC/Radio-Canada’s EVP of English Services – and Cartt.ca will be there too.
The two industry leaders will provide “critical insights into the major issues currently shaping the direction of television production, distribution and digital media”, and will discuss what it takes to make great television, the announcement read.
Feltheimer will also accept an Outstanding Achievement Award on behalf of Lionsgate Television at a luncheon later that day.
The 30th Banff World Television Festival…
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OTTAWA – Industry Canada has tweaked its guidelines for compliance with the conditions of licence relating to antenna tower and site sharing and to prohibit exclusive site arrangements.
Since the implementation of conditions of licence earlier this year, the Department said that it felt the need to clarify certain areas of the guidelines after it received complaints from various licensees.
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HALIFAX – He’s not exactly going out on a limb by saying it, but CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein told a group of teachers on Friday that the two dated Acts that govern the CRTC desperately need updating.
In a speech to the Conference of the Broadcast Educators Association of Canada, von Finckenstein noted it’s closing in on 20 years since the last time the Broadcasting Act and the Telecommunications Act – documents that “ are very much products of their times” – have been updated, he said.
“They were conceived for an environment where bandwidth and spectrum were…
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ACCORDING TO A POLL commissioned by broadcast industry watchdog Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, most Canadians believe that the CBC is “being starved of funds by a government with a vendetta against it”.
The group hired public opinion research firm Pollara to survey Canadians’ attitudes about and expectations for the CBC, and apparently found that most Canadians believe “that Prime Minister Harper is intent on hobbling the CBC”.
The press release also stated that:
– 63% of respondents agreed that "Prime Minister Harper and the Conservative government are hostile to the CBC and would like to diminish public broadcasting in Canada";…
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TORONTO – One of Canada’s best-known broadcast executives and “industry trailblazer”, Trina McQueen, will be awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Banff Television Festival on June 8, 2009.
The Lifetime Achievement Award acknowledges outstanding and unique contributions to the broadcasting industry throughout an individual’s career. McQueen’s career of achievements extends to both private and public television as president and COO of CTV, founding president of the Discovery Channel Canada, and head of news, current affairs and Newsworld at CBC.
McQueen is currently on the board of the CBC and is an adjunct professor of broadcast management at the Schulich School…
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TORONTO – While there have been a number of suits spotted roaming through Canwest Global’s E! stations over the past few months, kicking the figurative tires at the local OTA outlets with the “For Sale” sign on them, some actual names have now been attached to potential suitors.
According to a number of sources on Wednesday, executives from Channel Zero (owners of specialty channels Movieola and Silver Screen Classics and film distributor Ouat Media) spent part of Wednesday afternoon at CHCH Hamilton closely inspecting the facility.
All bidders in such transactions are normally bound by non-disclosure agreements – and…
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