$7 million project will be complete by October
VANCOUVER — In partnership with the B.C. government, Rogers Communications announced today it is expanding its 5G wireless network to provide reliable connectivity along Highways 95 and 97, helping to connect communities in Okanagan, Vernon-Kamloops-Cache Creek and the Cariboo regions, as well as southeastern British Columbia.
With the network expansion, Rogers will provide more than 90 kms of new coverage, from Golden to Spillimacheen along Highway 95, and from Pine Pass to Chetwynd along Highway 97, says Rogers’s press release. The company is leveraging financial support from the provincially funded Connecting British…
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GATINEAU — The CRTC announced today in an information bulletin it is adopting a new standardized approach to monitoring linear community channels and on-demand community programming services, which will serve as general guidance going forward and will come into effect on September 1, 2021.
In July 2020, the Commission launched a proceeding to gather input on its proposed standardized approaches to monitoring community programming. The Commission received 10 interventions from Bell, Rogers, Cogeco, SaskTel, Telus, Csur la tele, the Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC), the Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations (CACTUS), the Conseil provincial du secteur…
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By Ken Kelley
OTTAWA – With the increased prevalence of employees working from home over the last 14 months, the trend has unquestionably shone a light on the importance of connectivity, and security, in our day-to-day lives. And while much has been discussed of the role that 5G technology may play in our daily lives outside of the home, the latest installment of a Canadian Wireless Telecom Association online forum, 5G Canada: What’s Next, examined how the latest wireless standard will impact different verticals and elements of society, in addition to the evolution of the connected or smart home in…
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TORONTO — Bell Media today announced a partnership with ad tech company Xandr, a business unit within AT&T, to create a proprietary omnichannel demand-side platform (DSP) for advertisers.
The new Bell Media product is being branded as SAM DSP and is an enhancement to the company’s strategic audience management (SAM) suite of data-enabled tools for marketers, says Bell Media’s press release.
Powered by Xandr’s buying platform, Xandr Invest, SAM DSP “will enable Canadian advertisers to easily plan, run and measure scaled, targeted campaigns using premium inventory over multiple platforms and channels,” reads the press release.
“We are building a best-in-class self-serve platform…
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TORONTO — TV and radio broadcaster ZoomerMedia Limited announced today its first-half results for its 2021 fiscal year, which saw a revenue decrease but substantial growth in earnings and net income.
For the six months ended February 28, 2021, ZoomerMedia generated revenues of $25.36 million, which represents an 8.5% decrease compared to revenues of $27.7 million reported by the company for the six-month period ended February 29, 2020, according to ZoomerMedia’s management discussion and analysis (MD&A) containing its financial results.
The company’s adjusted EBITDA from its continuing operations rose 30.3% to almost $6.8 million in the first half of fiscal 2021,…
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CCSA, Distributel, Novus want application process reopened to allow more telecoms to participate in auction
TORONTO — Independent telecom service providers Distributel Communications, Novus Entertainment and the Canadian Communication Systems Alliance (CCSA), which has over 100 member companies, have written to Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne in support of a request last week by the Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) for a 90-day delay to the start of the 3500 MHz spectrum auction currently scheduled to begin June 15.
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LONDON, U.K. — In its first comparison of the 5G experience across Canada’s three national carriers, U.K.-based mobile analytics company Opensignal found there was no outright winner in any of the seven categories of user experience it analyzed for the report, released today.
Using data collected from its users between January 1 and March 31, Opensignal found three-way statistical ties between Bell, Rogers and Telus on three metrics — 5G availability, 5G reach and 5G upload speed — and in the remaining categories, users saw ties between two of the three operators, says Opensignal.
“In Opensignal’s first comparison of the 5G…
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TORONTO and VANCOUVER — Rogers Communications is expanding its support for vulnerable women and children with the company’s announcement today it is donating thousands of phones and plans to more than 325 women’s shelters and transition houses in Rogers wireless coverage areas during the third wave of the pandemic.
With the expansion of the phone program, Rogers is tripling its support from last year, when at the start of the pandemic Rogers launched a national program with Women’s Shelters Canada to provide hundreds of phones and plans to more than 100 shelters across the country.
In today’s announcement, Rogers says it…
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TORONTO – The performance of Canada’s wireless networks remains flat year over year with an average of nine problems per 100 (PP100) connections, says the J.D. Power 2021 Canada Wireless Network Quality Study.
Additionally, 67% of wireless customers agree their carrier’s network is reliable when streaming music and videos, activities that account for a significant amount of time used on devices. In addition, 7% of customers say network speeds are faster than expected, reads the company announcement, which took a negative tone with the numbers it found.
“Despite massive investments in infrastructure and technology, customers remain relatively unimpressed by their carriers’…
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Broadcasters need more speed from the Commission
By Steve Faguy
“I REALIZE WE HAVE the right to transmit over what they consider a public resource — the limited bandwidth that’s out there,” says Rod Schween, president of the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group. “I’m not saying that we need no regulation, but as much as they want us to innovate, they have to realize that the regulations need to allow us to innovate.”
Though they may disagree on the specifics, most Canadian radio broadcasters Cartt.ca spoke to through this series, and those who filed submissions with the CRTC as part of its Continue Reading
