REGINA – Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said today that his government will kick in $90 million so that SaskTel will be able to cover 100% of the population with high speed Internet access.
The $90-mil from the provincial coffers is part of the provincially-owned telco’s $129 million worth of rural service improvement that includes improving high speed Internet, expanding CommunityNet and building 50 new cell phone towers.
Once complete, the Crown corporation’s wireless reach will cover 98% of the province.
“One hundred per cent high speed Internet coverage is our own 21st century version of the last spike in…
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TORONTO – Three members of the Canadian telecommunications industry and one broadcaster were named to the 2008 Women’s Executive Network list of the 100 Most Powerful Women.
Lauren Flaherty, CMO Nortel Networks; Marrika Paul, senior vice-president Bell Canada, and Carol Ring, vice-president of strategic initiatives at Rogers Cable, and Michele Fortin, president and CEO of Quebec public broadcaster Tele-Quebec all received recognition at a luncheon held today in Toronto.
The Women’s Executive Network (WXN) has been dedicated to the advancement and recognition of executive-minded women in the Canadian workplace since 1997.
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TORONTO – Despite the wild, scary ride the global economy has been taking us all on this year, wireless newcomer Globalive is well-financed and going full speed ahead, said its CEO, Anthony Lacavera, an investors conference in Toronto last week.
Recognizing that “the market would not allow external financing right now,” Lacavera told the Scotia Capital Markets Telecom and Technology investors day that Globalive’s wireless venture is well-funded by co-owner Orascom – a global wireless player based in Egypt with over 77 million wireless subscribers.
Globalive can count on up to $700 million from its corporate partner, said Lacavera,…
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MARKHAM – Supplier Digital Rapids has named Barry Fairhurst as its new vice-president of sales.
Fairhurst will be responsible for the development, implementation and management of sales strategies and processes. He joins the company after 13 years at Avid Canada.
"Digital Rapids and our solutions have earned tremendous critical and customer acclaim as leading our industry. As we continue to grow, it’s essential that our sales organization and processes evolve to best address the opportunities available in the market and be responsive to our customers’ dynamic needs," said Brick Eksten, president of Digital Rapids, in a statement.
"Barry’s leadership abilities…
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MONTREAL – Astral Media will contribute $700,000 to a Canadian music education charity called MusiCounts.
The donation of $100,000 per year over the next seven years is part of the Astral/Standard Broadcasting Benefits package. The funding will help to provide new musical instruments and support young musical talent by promoting music programs in 70 elementary and secondary schools across Canada.
"Astral Media recognizes that building a thriving Canadian music industry starts at its very roots, in the schools where young people have the opportunity to learn how to express themselves creatively and develop an interest in music. We are very…
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TORONTO – Astral Media Radio is inviting agencies, advertisers and media to see the first Montreal radio results measured by the portable people meter, in real-time on the web, starting at 2:15 p.m. this Friday, November 21.
Alicia Olson-Keating, general manager of research and marketing services for Astral Media Radio for English Canada will take 20 minutes to present and analyze the first commercial results from the new BBM radio measurement technology for the Montreal markets.
Anyone interested can click on www.astralmediaradio.com/ppm at 2:15 on Friday “for a simple, clear and free live transmission by one of the…
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TORONTO – After extended testing, the portable people meter will make its official market entry in Montreal on December 10th.
As Cartt.ca has repeatedly reported on, The Montreal market launch is the first phase of BBM Canada’s radio rollout plan which will see PPM carried every day by hundreds more people in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, and Edmonton in Fall 2009. The PPM was introduced in the U.S. over two years ago and has been under test in Montreal for over a year.
The PPM is a pager-sized device that recruited citizens will carry around with them…
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TORONTO – Radio and TV broadcasters in Toronto need to dig into digital – in a hurry – because we’re falling behind the rest of the world, CRTC vice-chair, broadcasting, Michel Arpin said in a speech to the Broadcast Executives Society on Monday.
As most will already be aware, U.S. television broadcasters must give up their analog over-the-air spectrum on February 17th. In Canada, the deadline is August 31, 2011, a scant three years away.
Arpin also referenced progress being made in the conversion to digital TV in the U.K. and France, two countries with later deadlines – but…
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BOSTON – If the six biggest American cable companies have their way, Canoe Ventures, a joint partnership between Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, Charter, Cox and Brighthouse, will forever change the way television advertising is sold, seen and experienced.
In a nutshell, the new joint venture is moving towards making ads which air on its cable systems completely addressable and interactive, while feeding almost real-time viewership data to media buyers, said Canoe CEO David Verkin during the closing session at the 2008 CTAM Summit here in Boston on Tuesday.
Using Discovery program Mythbusters as an metaphor (Discovery CEO David…
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MONTREAL – Videotron saw third quarter growth across its four major products – cable TV, Internet, cable telephone and wireless telephone service, the company announced today as part of parent company Quebecor Media`s quarterly results, marking the 13th consecutive quarter of growth for all company services.
As of September 30, 2008, the company reported 1,691,500 cable TV subscribers, including 876,700 for their illico digital TV, an increase of 31,000 during the quarter and by 53,000 on a year-to-date basis. Internet customers sit at 1,031,400 subscribers, and cable telephone customers reached 797,900. Since wireless was introduced in 2006, Videotron has…
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