TORONTO — Rogers Communications today announced it’s launching wireless home broadband Internet service across more than 100 communities in southwestern Ontario, including areas around Halton Hills, St. Catharines and Niagara Falls.
Rogers wireless home Internet service leverages the company’s wireless network and infrastructure to deliver broadband to the home. Small antennas are set up on customers’ homes and positioned toward select towers which are equipped to support the increased usage. The technology provides broadband to residents in rural and remote communities that are harder to reach with a fibre-optic network, explains the Rogers press release.
The service will compete with…
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TORONTO — Bell Media’s TSN, along with Hockey Canada and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), announced Monday the tournament schedule for this year’s hockey holiday tradition, the 2021 IIHF World Junior Championship.
Like this year’s NHL playoff finals, the World Juniors will be played in a hockey bubble at Rogers Place in Edmonton. TSN will provide live coverage of all 28 tournament games, beginning on Christmas Day, and culminating with coverage of all four quarterfinal games on Saturday, January 2, both semi-finals on Sunday, January 3, and the gold medal game on Tuesday, January 5.
The three opening-day games on…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Inc. and Cogeco Communications Inc. announced today their boards of directors “have unanimously rejected the revised unsolicited, non-binding proposal from Altice USA, Inc. of New York and Rogers Communications Inc. of Toronto.”
The companies’ statement says the boards met early on Tuesday to consider the purchase offer and Louis Audet, who is the executive chair of both boards and the representative of the controlling shareholder Audet family, formally confirmed “the publicly stated unanimous position of the Audet family as set out in its press release dated October 18, 2020.
“Following separate deliberations of the independent board…
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Rogers was the fastest fixed broadband provider in Canada in Q3, says Ookla
SEATTLE — In its latest Speedtest Global Index measurement of network speeds in Canada, Seattle-based Ookla reports Rogers Communications was the fastest fixed broadband provider among top providers in Canada in the third quarter of 2020.
According to Ookla’s Speedtest Intelligence data from July to September, Rogers achieved a speed score of 151.51 in Q3 2020. (Ookla’s speed score incorporates measurements of each provider’s download and upload speeds to rank network speed performance, with 90% of the final speed score being attributed to download speed.)
The next highest…
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MONTREAL — The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) announced today Ariel Nasr, a multi-award-winning director and Oscar-nominated producer of film and interactive works, is joining the NFB’s Quebec and Atlantic Studio as an interim producer, starting today.
Based in Montreal, Nasr (pictured) is replacing producer Kat Baulu during her one-year sabbatical.
“Ariel’s track record demonstrates a rigour and imagination that aligns with our studio aims. His commitment to Quebec-based filmmakers, international experience and deep understanding of local storytelling makes Ariel an excellent addition to the NFB ecosystem,” said Annette Clarke, executive producer of the Quebec and Atlantic Studio, in a…
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Audet family would have received $900 million for controlling shares
NEW YORK and TORONTO – Altice USA announced Sunday evening it has presented a new, higher offer to purchase Cogeco Inc. and Cogeco Communications.
Then a bit later on Sunday evening, it was rejected by Cogeco’s controlling shareholder.
The new offer is for $11.1 billion, or $800 million more than the Altice/Rogers first pitch last month ($123/share for CGO and $150/share for CCA, a 57% premium over the shares’ prices as of August 1, notes the Altice release). What hasn’t changed is Altice’s desire to sell Cogeco’s Canadian assets to Rogers Communications,…
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By Ahmad Hathout
A former CRTC commissioner will go to court on Monday armed with new evidence he says will show why the Federal Court got it wrong when it dismissed his case for judicial review of his second termination from the regulator.
Former commissioner of Ontario Balraj Shoan (above) was twice fired by then-Heritage Minister Melanie Joly in 2016 and 2017 for allegations of workplace harassment, engaging in inappropriate stakeholder contact, speaking negatively of the regulator in public, and refusing to respect appropriate access to information policy.
Shoan, who was appointed by Heritage to the CRTC…
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LONDON – Southwestern Integrated Fibre Technology (SWIFT) announced it has granted $5.3 million in funding to expand fibre-optic broadband in Oxford County.
Seven projects will bring high speed internet to 1,670 homes and businesses within the townships of Blandford-Blenheim, East Zorra-Tavistock, Norwich, South-West Oxford and Zorra.
In total the county will receive $9.9 million in broadband upgrades, thanks to $4.6 million in contributions from the three internet service providers who will be doing the construction.
SWIFT has signed an agreement with Quadro Communications to deploy fibre along more than 106 kilometres of roadway within the Township of Zorra to deliver high-speed internet…
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TORONTO – When Canadians were asked to think on a top-of-mind basis of companies which are championing diversity and inclusion for Canadians of varied backgrounds, Walmart, Nike, RBC, Tim Hortons and TD emerged as the top five according to the phase I results of Solutions Research Group’s new Diversity & Inclusion Monitor syndicated study.
Walmart was the top-ranked company mentioned by Canadians in Western Canada, Quebec and Atlantic Canada and was ranked number seven in Ontario, behind TD and Apple. In follow-up interviews, consumers were particularly likely to point out the one reason they believe Walmart is a leader is…
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MORE TV DISTRIBUTORS in Canada are adding CBC/Radio-Canada’s 24-hours news channels, CBC News Network and ICI RDI, to the lineup of channels available to all of their subscribers.
The public broadcaster says it is collaborating with the country’s TV distributors as Canadians face a resurgence of Covid-19. Back in mid-March at the beginning of the pandemic, many of Canada’s TV distributors made the two news channels available to their subscribers.
CBC News Network is now available to all subscribers on Bell TV, Rogers, Cogeco, Eastlink, SaskTel and others, with Telus and Shaw joining next week. In addition, as of tomorrow,…
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