TORONTO — Following its annual members’ meeting, the Canada Media Fund (CMF) today announced the appointment of Jason Badal, Sanae Takahashi and Chantale Coulombe to its board of directors.
Badal is currently director of the multinational merchants segment at Shopify and prior to that was head of business affairs and development at Rogers Media (before it was called Rogers Sports and Media) and Sportsnet. Before that, he was director of business and legal affairs at Score Media, before it was acquired by Rogers Media.
Now retired, Takahashi is an experienced strategic planner and marketing professional with 20 years of executive experience…
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CALGARY – Shaw Communications last week posted a revenue increase of 4.8% to $1.38 billion for the company’s third quarter of 2021, which ended on May 31st, compared to the same quarter in 2020.
The company also saw an increase of 5.4% to $642 million, in its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) in the quarter. Shaw’s Q3 results included what it called “incremental wireline consumer revenue of approximately $20 million related to the release of a provision following the CRTC decision on final aggregated third party internet access (TPIA) rates.”
“Our third quarter and year-to-date results reflect…
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LONDON, U.K. — While rural Canadians have seen slight improvements in average mobile download speeds over the last 12 months, the gap between rural users’ download speed experience has become more prominent compared to networks in large urban centres, according to the latest analysis from analytics company Opensignal.
Generally speaking, Opensignal says rural users on Bell, Rogers and Telus’ mobile networks experience average download speeds which are less than half than those of its users in large population centres (PCs) on all three carriers.
For its analysis, Opensignal compared the mobile network experience of rural users, which make up almost 20%…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications said today announced that it has granted funding from the federal government’s Universal Broadband Fund to expand its high speed networks in Simcoe County and Kawartha Lakes.
Through a total joint investment of over $3.2 million, Rogers will expand its fibre optic network with three projects across Simcoe County to enable it to deliver download speeds of up to 1 Gbps.
Rogers will expand its network by 44 kilometres and will serve over 1,000 homes in Gamebridge, Bass Lake and Orr Lake. Construction is expected to begin by the Fall and be completed by mid-February 2022.
The Kawartha…
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Start.ca wants government to overturn decision; CNOC launches email campaign
CHATHAM, LONDON and OTTAWA — On Monday, independent ISP TekSavvy Solutions filed a notice of motion with the Federal Court of Appeal seeking leave to appeal the CRTC’s recent wholesale third-party Internet access (TPIA) rates decision which reversed the Commission’s August 2019 decision to lower the rates.
Monday was the deadline for parties to file a court appeal against the Commission’s decision.
TekSavvy has already filed a petition to cabinet in May, asking for the CRTC’s 2019 final rates order to be reinstated. In its petition, TekSavvy also asks for CRTC…
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Ojibwe-artist designed shirt campaign raised $100,000 in 2020
TORONTO – To support Canadian education on the history and impact of Canada’s residential school system and advocate for action on reconciliation, Rogers Communications today relaunched its orange t-shirt fundraising campaign to support the Orange Shirt Society.
Designed by Ojibwe artist Patrick Hunter and initially commissioned by Rogers in 2020, all proceeds from sales of the t-shirt will go directly to the Orange Shirt Society, which helps expand Indigenous education across Canada, and brings greater awareness to the individual, family and community inter-generational impacts of Residential Schools, says the company press release.
Canadians can…
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ST. JOHN’S — Saying it now has the largest 5G network in Nova Scotia, Bell Canada announced today the latest expansion of its 5G service in Atlantic Canada, which also includes the first 5G coverage in Newfoundland and Labrador, the company says.
Bell says its 5G network is now available in the Halifax Regional Municipality of Nova Scotia, as well as the Newfoundland and Labrador communities of St. John’s, Flatrock, Paradise, Portugal Cove and Wabana.
Bell’s 5G service is also available in Fredericton, New Brunswick, and the company says 5G will be expanded later this year into Charlottetown, P.E.I.
The company says…
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STOCKHOLM and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Ericsson and Google Cloud announced today they are partnering to jointly develop 5G and edge cloud solutions for telecommunications companies and enterprises.
The companies say their partnership is designed to provide solutions to help communication service providers (CSPs) digitally transform and to unlock new enterprise and consumer use cases for industries with edge presences, which includes not only CSPs but also retailers, manufacturers, transport businesses, healthcare, and media and entertainment providers.
These solutions are being co-developed at Ericsson’s Silicon Valley D-15 Labs, an innovation centre where advanced solutions and technologies can be developed and…
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WATERLOO – The University of Waterloo has begun showcasing a new driverless, autonomous shuttle research program that will transport students and staff around campus (above).
The demonstration of the shuttle, dubbed “WATonoBus” by the research team, is the first of its kind at a Canadian academic institution, reads a press release, and marks a significant milestone in a multi-year initiative to demonstrate and integrate autonomous transportation onto the campus.
The shuttle is “the first in the country to operate remotely over Rogers 5G network, thanks to a Rogers partnership agreement with the University to advance 5G research in the Toronto-Waterloo tech-corridor,”…
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By Greg O’Brien
CHATHAM, Ont. – Back in 2017, the official reason former Ontario CRTC commissioner Raj Shoan was finally removed from his position is because he met privately and “inappropriately” with a person who had applied for a radio station licence prior to the decision on a licence being officially announced.
Readers of Cartt.ca back then will remember the whole story was longer and much more complicated than that (and we’re not going to rehash it here), but today, independent ISP TekSavvy said it has filed additional evidence with the federal government showing CRTC chair Ian Scott met inappropriately with…
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