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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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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