TORONTO — Adara Technologies has promoted Alesio Cicchelli (pictured) to the newly created position of vice-president of global operations and Canadian sales, the company announced this week.
Previously, Cicchelli was senior director of global operations and Canadian sales. His promotion to Adara’s management team comes at a time when interest in the company’s solutions, “in particular Adara’s signature SIPV Bandwidth Reclamation Solution,” is growing, says the news release.
“This very well-deserved promotion recognizes the significant contributions Alesio has already made in taking ownership of our global operations, effectively building and motivating our teams and relationships internally and,…
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TORONTO — Following up the Ending Racism: What Will it Take? special that aired across Rogers Sports and Media platforms in June, OMNI Television announced today it will debut new primetime specials in Italian and Punjabi to continue the discussion about systemic racism in Canada.
Complementing the original primetime special aired on June 11, the 30-minute follow-up episodes look to engage ethnic audiences by exploring race inequalities faced by Canada’s Black and Indigenous communities. The specials will air Friday, July 17 on OMNI Television and stream live on www.omnitv.ca, beginning with the Punjabi edition at 7:30 p.m. ET…
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TORONTO — The Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada (IAB Canada) will hold a four-day virtual event next week examining the advanced TV space with digital content presented from some of the biggest names in Canadian media, research and advertising.
Topics to be discussed during IAB Canada’s “Advanced TV Week” include viewing trends and usage rates, the Canadian broadcaster and device landscape, connected TV and OTT video apps, social TV, advanced TV measurement and programmatic TV.
“By the end of the week participants will have the knowledge and insights to begin incorporating advanced TV tactics into their media planning right away,” reads…
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TORONTO — Rogers Communications has been ranked as the number one wireless carrier overall in Canada in a new study released today by umlaut, a global mobile network testing and benchmarking company.
This is the second year in a row Rogers has won umlaut’s proprietary “Best in Test” mobile benchmark award, this year achieving a total score of 920 points out of a maximum of 1,000 points. Bell and Telus were close behind with scores of 908 and 887, respectively. Umlaut also said Rogers provides the best network in Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal, says the news…
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TORONTO — Rogers Communications unveiled today a new look and tagline for chatr ahead of the flanker brand’s 10th anniversary this summer.
The brand’s new tagline, “Now, you make the call”, encapsulates the company’s promise to deliver increased flexibility, affordability, predictability and new ways to give customers more control of the wireless products and services that keep them connected, says a company blog post.
Chatr’s flat-fee plans come with no extra charges or unexpected overage fees. Customers can sign up for chatr with no credit checks, contracts or commitments, and with flexible and convenient ways to pay and manage services…
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Part of the company’s E-Citizen solutions
TORONTO – Rogers Communications and Montreal’s bciti, an innovative smart city platform provider, today announced a new partnership which is aimed at helping Canadians remotely access municipal services and information from home or on their smartphone in real time.
“Now more than ever, it is vital for cities and local government leaders to keep Canadians connected to the latest information and services from anywhere, at any time,” said Dean Prevost, president, Rogers for Business in the press release. “Through this collaboration with bciti, Rogers is helping Canadian cities and their governments keep residents connected…
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GATINEAU — The CRTC announced Tuesday it’s extending the deadline for interventions to its review of the rate-setting methodology for wholesale telecom services.
When the wholesale rate-setting review proceeding was announced in April, the intervention deadline was set as July 23, with replies to interventions due August 24.
In an updated notice of consultation today, the Commission has revised the intervention deadline to August 13 and is suspending the deadline for replies.
This comes after Rogers and TekSavvy separately asked for extensions to the deadlines. Rogers made its request for various reasons, including competing priorities related to other regulatory proceedings,…
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TORONTO — Canadian smartphone/tablet repair company Mobile Klinik announced Monday it has been acquired by Telus, but will continue to operate as an independent business division. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Mobile Syrup was first to report this story.
Since opening its first store in Ottawa in September 2015, Mobile Klinik has expanded to 80 stores in eight provinces. The smartphone repair chain has been on an acquisition spree itself this past year, acquiring Fonelab in January 2020 and Device Care in July 2019. In 2017, Mobile Klinik acquired mobilFIX and Dr. Mobile to…
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GATINEAU — In two separate decisions today, the CRTC denied applications for new radio station licences in Vancouver, B.C. and Grande Prairie, Alta., saying neither market can support an additional radio station at this time.
Rogers Media had filed the licence application for the Vancouver market, where it currently operates three commercial radio stations and also a rebroadcasting transmitter, CKKS-FM-2, which Rogers wanted to convert to an originating station with the new licence.
In total, 22 commercial stations serve the Vancouver market, and a joint opposing intervention to Rogers’ licence application was submitted by incumbents Bell Media, Corus Entertainment and Stingray…
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GATINEAU — Amid ongoing concerns about Super Channel’s ability to comply with its conditions of licence regarding Canadian programming expenditures and regional outreach programs, the CRTC announced last week it is renewing the pay-TV specialty channel’s broadcasting licence for a four-year period, but was also suspending the licence at the same time.
However, the Commission says in its decision, the suspension will automatically go into effect only if:
the licensee (Allarco Entertainment) fails to make shortfall payments or remit reimbursed funds related to required script and concept development expenditures set out in its conditions of licence; or
the licensee…
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