By Denis Carmel
JULY 15 WAS THE DEADLINE for intervenors to provide the CRTC with their final submissions in the Wireless Policy Review proceeding.
It has been a long process and it is far from over. Technically, it started with an announcement on February 28, 2019.
However, back in 2015, the CRTC was saying: “When the Commission established the current wholesale mobile wireless service regulatory framework in Telecom Regulatory Policy 2015-177, it determined that the framework would remain in place for a minimum of five years, to allow for the development of sustainable competition and to encourage continued innovation and investment…
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TORONTO — Rogers Communications has begun rolling out a new streaming platform called Ignite SmartStream for its broadband subscribers, with select customers getting a first look last week.
Ignite SmartStream integrates popular streaming apps such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, hayu, YouTube, Rogers’ Sportsnet Now and more, with voice search. Live TV is not currently available on the streaming platform as Ignite TV remains the place for that.
That said, SmartStream users can get a suite of Corus Entertainment TV channels if they also subscribe to the broadcaster’s StackTV package within Amazon Prime Video.
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Sportsnet, TSN, TVA Sports announce broadcast schedules
LIVE MAJOR LEAGUE SPORTS action is returning to television and Sportsnet, TSN and TVA Sports all announced their broadcast schedules today.
With its exclusive national coverage of the resumption of the NHL season and the start of the Toronto Blue Jays’ 2020 regular season, along with its shared broadcast responsibilities for Toronto Raptors games, Rogers’ Sportsnet is offering Canadian fans the most major league sports on TV, radio and streaming platforms this summer, starting this week.
In the first of 60 Blue Jays games available only on Sportsnet, the Jays open their regular season on…
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TORONTO – Telus today was named the fastest internet service provider (ISP) in Canada by PCMag.
The publication recognized Telus as the fastest among the major ISPs. Rogers placed second and Bell, third, among the six large ISPs PCMag recognizes in Canada. The magazine used results from 33,782 tests in Canada taken between June 1, 2019, and June 2, 2020.
“We take 80 percent of the download speed, 20 percent of the upload speed, and add those numbers to generate a PCMag Speed Index (PSI). That number makes it easy to perform an at-a-glance determination of exactly which ISP is the…
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NORFOLK COUNTY – Rogers Communications, in partnership with Southwestern Integrated Fibre Technology (SWIFT), has officially begun to build a fibre network that will service 71 kilometres of underserved roads in Norfolk County, just southwest of Hamilton.
The project is meant to improve broadband access to over 2,100 homes in and around Wilsonville, Boston, Bealton, Dundurn, Waterford, Townsend Centre, Villa Nova, Bloomsburg and several rural roads between and surrounding these communities, says the SWIFT press release.,
The $7.6 million project is expected to be completed, with services available by mid-2021.
“In a time when access to high-speed internet is critical, we are pleased…
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TORONTO – Rogers for Business today announced two new work from home services that will help Canadian companies who have to keep their workforce at home – and working.
Business Internet at Home, and Secure Remote Worker offer business owners the ability to provide separate and secure business-grade internet connectivity for their employees, so they can collaborate as easily and securely as they do at the office, says the Rogers press release.
“Canadian businesses have told us they want to enable productivity at home, while feeling confident about data security on employee home networks,” said Dean Prevost, president, Rogers for Business,…
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OTTAWA – Broadcast technology and services company Ross Video announce today Kevin Cottam (above) has been promoted to vice-president, global sports and live events.
Cottam joined Ross in 2011 as a demonstration artist and trainer, and has a background steeped in sports and live production, says the annoiuncement.
Cottam began his TV broadcasting career in 1996 with CTV News and in 1998 he began working with CTV Sportsnet (now Rogers Sportsnet) in Toronto, where he worked for 13 years as a technical director/studio director, while also freelancing for other networks and production companies, including Ross Video.
“Our team has delivered unprecedented growth…
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GATINEAU — The CRTC today denied Bell’s application to review and vary the Commission’s December 2019 decision that ordered Bell to deploy one-way toll-free (TF) trunks between Bell’s network and Rogers’s network to carry TF traffic destined for Bell TF numbers.
Shortly after the Commission released its decision on December 2, 2019, Bell filed an R&V application which said the correctness of the ruling was in substantial doubt. In addition, Bell requested a stay of the decision until the Commission ruled on the R&V application.
In the December decision, the Commission had told Bell to have the toll-free trunks deployed…
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TORONTO — Rogers flanker brand chatr introduced today a new daily payment option called Day Pass which allows customers to continue to access talk, text and data services when they need it, for a small fee.
Day Pass is designed to give customers an affordable and flexible way to stay connected until they’re ready to make their full monthly top-up payment, explains the news release.
“Our customers want flexible and affordable options, when it comes to staying connected, and Day Pass lets them top up on their terms,” said Shailendra Gujarati, vice-president of chatr, in the news release. “At the end…
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MONTREAL — A team from Montreal’s INRS (Institut national de la recherche scientifique) has been using its unique simulator to participate in the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) evaluation of new proposed standards for 5G.
INRS presented the results of its evaluations of various candidates’ Radio Interface Technology (RIT) specifications at an ITU meeting in Geneva in February 2020. To be approved by the ITU, 5G technology standards must meet a set of criteria known as IMT-2020 (International Mobile Telecommunications-2020), and several countries and consortiums of companies are proposing RIT as a new standard for 5G.
For the past two years,…
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