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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Report wonders if higher-income Canadians willing to subsidize less fortunate
By Ahmad Hathout
OTTAWA – After concluding another study on telecom affordability and accessibility, the House of Commons industry committee released a report Tuesday that excoriates the CRTC for issuing a critical decision on wholesale internet rates that it said upsets the very issues the committee was hoping to address.
The CRTC did not, as some wished, open the large national wireless networks to any service provider when it decided in mid-April that only regional carriers with spectrum and networks can lease capacity from the big carriers. Then in May, the…
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TORONTO — Since January 2020, Rogers Communications enabled and enhanced connectivity to more than 1,000 communities — from Kelowna, B.C., to Peguis First Nations, Manitoba, to Halifax — faster than at any time in its history, the company announced in a press release this morning.
In addition, Rogers says it will accelerate the pace of its infrastructure rollout to reach 750 more communities by the end of 2021, helping to support Canada’s pandemic recovery.
From the beginning of 2020 until March 2021, Rogers invested $2.8 billion in capital spending in high-speed Internet, LTE and 5G connectivity and services in communities across…
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TORONTO — During a virtual ceremony Tuesday night, Rogers Communications awarded Ted Rogers Scholarships to more than 375 Canadian youth to support their post-secondary studies this fall and in recognition of their community leadership and volunteerism.
Through the Ted Rogers Scholarship program, Rogers provides $2,500 renewable scholarships for up to four years or $10,000 to recognize young leaders nominated by Rogers’s 18 community partnership organizations, including YMCA, Toronto Community Housing, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada, Indspire, GRIS-Montréal and Pflag. The program also offers entrance scholarships of $2,500 to eligible Rogers employees or their children.
Collectively, the Ted Rogers Scholarship Class…
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Say letters telecoms sent to ISED in order to get funds
By Ahmad Hathout
OTTAWA – Rogers and Videotron have promised Innovation Canada they will implement several key policies that will speed up and cheapen access to subsidized support structures if granted money from the $2.75-billion Universal Broadband Fund.
The two companies propose to participate in frequent meetings of a co-ordination committee of owners of passive infrastructure; streamlining and accelerating permit reviews, administrative processes and contracts; and establishing a “dig-once” policy, whereby other carriers will be able to lay their fibre down at the same time that their own infrastructure is being…
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IGLOOLIK, Nunavut — Only six months after its launch in January, Uvagut TV, Canada’s first Inuktuk-language TV channel, is helping to build live production capacity in communities across Inuit Nunangat, by enabling filmmaking teams to produce and share their stories with each other and a national audience.
Since March, Uvagut TV’s flagship program Tunnganarniq Live, a showcase of Inuit talent, has been guest hosted several times by members of the Arviat Film Society. On June 23, members of the Inuvialuit Communications Society, newly trained in live broadcasting techniques, will host the first Inuvik-based episode of the show, says a press…
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