QUEBEC – Videotron Wireless hit the Quebec City market today as the fourth leg in the Quebecor division's video, data and telecom stool. As reported on Monday, the company officially... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – Videotron added 56,200 new telephony customers, 28,800 high speed Internet customers and 33,000 illico digital cable customers in the second quarter of 2006, ended June 30th. However, it... Continue Reading
STE-FOY – Quebecor's cable company, Videotron, will launch its wireless telephony product on Thursday. A press conference at one of the company's Super Club stores in Ste-Foy heralds the arrival... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – Beginning Wednesday, Vidéotron will gradually roll out its residential cable telephone service in the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region and Montérégie, mainly in Sorel. This new extension covers more than 90,000... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Videotron has asked the Commission to add five more third language channels to the list of eligible satellite services. The Quebecor-owned MSO has asked for: * Caracol Television... Continue Reading
GATINEAU – The CRTC today announced it’s allowing RDI to increase its hourly advertising by up to 50%, amending its licence from a former maximum of eight minutes per hour,... Continue Reading
"REGULATORY APPROVAL" are the two stock words every media sale announcement made in Canada has attached to it. As in: "Agreement XYZ will close after the required regulatory approval." Wednesday's... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – With re-comments re-due today on the CRTC's reconsideration of its 2005 decision on voice over IP telephony regulation, three of the four largest Canadian MSOs came down on... Continue Reading
MONTREAL - SR Telecom has hired Marc Girard as senior vice-president and CFO, effective August 15, 2006. Girard was most recently vice-president and CFO of the Aeroplan Income Fund, and... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – Quebecor Media's popular portal company, Canoe, named former Sympatico executive Patrick Lauzon its executive vice-president. Lauzon "will steer Canoe’s national growth and development strategy and oversee all business... Continue Reading