CRTC staff said in a letter last week to Rogers that it is suspending consideration of the cable company’s Part 1 application for an immediate temporary stay of the speed-matching requirement for its recently introduced retail gigabit internet services until Rogers files proposed wholesale tariffs for the new speed tiers.
Rogers filed its interim stay request on July 25, the same day it launched its new gigabit services to retail customers. However, it has not yet filed a tariff application to introduce these new speed tiers at the wholesale level, the commission notes in…
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Rogers busines rep says it wouldn’t have entered into a major licensing deal if representations were not accurate
By Ahmad Hathout
Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) allegedly failed to disclose to Rogers that the U.S.-based producer of television programming had an outstanding two-year non-compete agreement with previous rights holder Bell before the cable giant signed a multi-year deal for those rights in June, a new court filing reveals.
The non-competition covenant, in effect, would have prevented WBD from engaging a competing service – in this case, Rogers – on the supply of its programming for the two-year period, per the shareholder agreement. Rogers…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Rogers is asking for the CRTC’s assistance in breaking an impasse in which the cable company and the city of Ottawa cannot come to an agreement on certain terms for a new municipal access agreement (MAA).
The parties have been working since their previous 10-year MAA expired at the end of 2020 to resolve particular issues related to matters primarily centered on the cost of relocation.
Rogers writes in its Part 1 application, made public on Friday, that the parties have agreed on many terms of the new MAA, including that relocation costs – with some exceptions – should…
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The CRTC in a decision last week denied an April 2023 application from a group of six public interest organizations asking the commission to accelerate the payment of tangible benefits allocated to the Broadcasting Participation Fund (BPF) as part of the CRTC’s March 2022 approval of Rogers’s acquisition of Shaw’s broadcasting assets.
The group behind the application included the Public Interest Advocacy Centre, the Forum for Research and Policy in Communications, the Consumers’ Association of Canada (Manitoba), the Consumers Council of Canada, Option Consommateurs, and the Union des Consommateurs.
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By Ahmad Hathout
Rogers has filed an application to the CRTC requesting that its latest gigabit internet speeds be temporarily exempt from speed matching requirements, which would otherwise provide wholesale-based competitors with the same speeds once its rates are approved.
The cable giant launched new gigabit speed packages this month, including symmetrical 1 Gig download and upload speeds, and 2 Gig download speeds with a choice of 1 Gig and 200 Mbps upload configurations. The new speeds will be over its older hybrid fibre-coax facilities which, unlike its last-mile fibre network, is subject to mandatory wholesaling.
The CRTC has a long-standing rule…
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Rogers announced Wednesday it has become the presenting sponsor of the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) as well as the TIFF People’s Choice Awards.
To kick off the 49th edition of the festival, TIFF and Rogers will host a VIP event celebrating TIFF’s origins in Toronto’s Yorkville district at the Four Seasons Hotel on Tuesday, Sept. 3. TIFF runs from Sept. 5 to 15.
“Rogers and TIFF share more than deep roots in our home city — we share a commitment to building a rich legacy in Canadian culture and entertainment, which we’re thrilled to celebrate as…
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U.K.-based start-up Lower Street announced Monday it has acquired Canadian podcast producer Pacific Content from Rogers Sports and Media.
Cartt sister publication Broadcast Dialogue reported in May Rogers Sports and Media was shuttering its branded podcast division, which it acquired in May 2019.
Lower Street is a full-service podcast production agency that works with such brands as Adobe, Pepsico and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. It was founded in 2017 in Somerset, England, by Harry Morton.
“When I founded Lower Street I looked up to one company in particular, Pacific Content,” Morton said in a statement….
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By Ahmad Hathout
Rogers is not done buying premium programming after its blockbuster purchase of the rights to content from Warner Bros. Discovery and NBCUniversal, the company’s chief financial officer said Wednesday, with a strategy of cutting out the middleman and going direct-to-studio seizing a chunk of its programming costs for quarters to come.
“We are looking to source leading programming that the customers watch, making that available and making that available at lower margins by cutting out the middleman company and going direct,” Rogers’s Glenn Brandt said during the company’s second-quarter earnings conference call.
“We will continue efforts and opportunities in…
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The CRTC is asking Rogers to explain how the recent increase of its service set-up fee from $60 to $70 on Rogers and Fido plans is consistent with the federal government’s recent amendments to the Telecommunications Act introduced this spring in Budget 2024.
Division 37 of Bill C-69, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on April 16, 2024, which received royal assent on June 20, contains a prohibition stating, “A telecommunications service provider must not charge a fee to a subscriber that is related to the activation or modification of a telecommunications service…
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The CRTC has told Rogers in a letter it plans to publish the full Xona Partners report on the cable giant’s July 2022 major service outage, after receiving letters from public interest groups requesting disclosure of the full text of the report.
On July 4, the CRTC posted an executive summary of the Xona report, which detailed the results of an independent assessment of the Rogers network architecture for reliability and resiliency, as well as the processes in place at Rogers to manage network changes and respond to network incidents like…
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