Rogers announced Thursday that, for a limited time and ahead of March break, it is adding Caribbean destinations to its 5G Infinite Premium plan.
The $105-plan, which is reduced to $75 when customers bundle a home service, already includes call, text and 150 GB of data at speeds of up to 1 Gbps in Canada, U.S. and Mexico.
Customers have until April 1 to take advantage of the deal, whose benefits can be used up to 90 days anytime during the calendar year.
“On a Rogers 5G Infinite Premium plan, customers can keep their loved ones updated, navigate seamlessly, and share their favourite travel…
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By Ahmad Hathout
A senior official from the Competition Bureau told members of Parliament on Monday that the watchdog is pleased with a proposed amendment to the Competition Tribunal Act that would shield it from cost awards except in limited circumstances, after it was forced to pay $12.9 million after challenging Rogers’s proposed acquisition of Shaw.
A proposed amendment in Bill C-59, which is one of two pieces of legislation to overhaul Canada’s competition rules, would limit the scope by which the Competition Tribunal can force the law enforcement agency to compensate private parties in the event it…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Telus’s proposal to ride on its competitors’ internet networks outside of its home territory would be destructive to facilities-based competition and would create an existential crisis for regional wholesalers, two prominent cable companies told the CRTC on Thursday.
Representatives from Telus said Wednesday that the Vancouver-based telecom should be able to wholesale internet capacity from competitor networks to drive diversity of choice and competition, or the regime would be “useless.” The telco also pushed back against claims that it is a national incumbent, instead saying that its preferred status would be a regional player that’s a new…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Rogers president and CEO Tony Staffieri said Thursday that the telecom’s completion of the first Canadian network slicing trial on its standalone 5G network will be an important component of its fixed wireless strategy.
Done in conjunction with Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, the trial showed that Rogers will be able to proactively direct and prioritize traffic on multiple lanes over the 5G wireless network. Rogers said the network will be able to determine whether the applications need lower latency, more speed or more capacity – say, for situations where a high-concentration of…
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SiriusXM Canada announced Wednesday its subscribers across North America will get access to full coverage of the 2024 NHL All-Star Weekend on SiriusXM NHL Network Radio, live from Toronto, starting Thursday, Feb. 1.
Subscribers will be able to follow the best players from across all 32 NHL teams as they head to Toronto for the 2024 Rogers NHL All-Star competition at Scotiabank Arena.
SiriusXM NHL Network Radio (ch. 91) will be live from 2024 NHL All-Star Thursday inside the arena from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. ET with hosts Steve Kouleas, Gord Stellick…
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Rogers Communications on Wednesday announced Melinda Rogers-Hixon and Martha Rogers are retiring from the Rogers board of directors as part of a private settlement between members of the Rogers family.
The Rogers sisters’ decision to retire comes after years of conflict between the women and their brother, company chair Edward Rogers, who took over control of the board during a corporate dispute that became public in 2021 and also saw then-CEO Joe Natale replaced by current CEO Tony Staffieri.
The departure of Melinda Rogers-Hixon and Martha Rogers from…
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For the first time in the 15-year history of the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS), Rogers has surpassed Bell in consumer complaints about telecom and TV services, according to the CCTS’s 2022-23 annual report, released Tuesday.
Between Aug. 1, 2022, and July 31, 2023, the CCTS accepted a total of 14,617 consumer complaints, representing a 14 per cent increase over the previous year, the report says, noting these complaints included increases in issues about quality of service, roaming charges, and contract disclosure issues.
Of the total complaints accepted by the…
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By Ahmad Hathout
The Attorney General of Canada, on behalf of Employment and Social Development Canada, is asking for a legal review of a Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) decision that rejected imposing additional safety requirements on Rogers after a subcontractor’s employee died on site.
On January 26, 2022, a 30-year-old worker employed by Verrascend Technologies fell 400 feet to his death as he was installing a new antenna on the Minden Tower at 2162 Davis Lake Road, 14 kilometres south of Minden, Ontario. Verrascend was hired by Wesbell Communications, which had contracted with Rogers to perform the…
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Rogers Communications said Friday it has turned on three new cellular towers along B.C.’s Highway 16, known as the Highway of Tears, as part of its ongoing efforts to improve public safety and wireless coverage along the northern route where many Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or have been found murdered over the years.
Providing 911 access for all travellers and 5G wireless coverage for Rogers customers, the new towers are part of a project Rogers announced in April 2021 whereby the telecom is building 12 new towers to provide 252 kilometres of…
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Rogers and Lynk Global announced early Thursday morning they have successfully completed Canada’s first satellite-to-mobile phone call using Samsung S22 smartphones.
The call took place Sunday, Dec. 10 in historic Heart’s Content, Newfoundland, where the world’s first transatlantic telegraph cable took place between Canada and Ireland more than 150 years ago, explains a Rogers press release.
The phone call was made between Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey and a member of the Newfoundland and Labrador Search and Rescue Association using Lynk’s low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites and Rogers’s national wireless spectrum.
Footage of the…
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