TORONTO — Rogers Communications announced Wednesday it’s partnering with Fleet Complete to provide Canadian businesses with a full range of cost-effective commercial fleet management and asset tracking solutions.
This collaboration will deliver connected technologies, including vehicle and asset GPS tracking, to businesses that own and operate fleets across Canada and the United States.
The integrated management platform from this partnership tracks vehicle productivity and driver behaviour, provides continuous vehicle location monitoring, and helps prevent potential breakdowns with scheduled maintenance, says the news release.
Rogers Fleet Complete solutions are enabled by Rogers’ national wireless network, a low-power wide-area (LPWA) network option for…
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Renamed Commission would oversee all media in Canada
By Denis Carmel
OTTAWA – Eighteen months, thousands of pages from more than 2000 written submissions, dozens of staff and six panel members have produced a shockingly thorough 235-page report which proposes 97 recommendations to change the Broadcasting Act, Telecommunications Act and Radiocommunications Act.
The CRTC will be dead, long live the CCC
One of the many recommendations from the Broadcasting & Telecommunications Legislative Review (BTLR) panel in its report called “Canada’s Communications Future: Time to Act” is a renamed CRTC where the new moniker would reflect the sweeping new regulatory powers found in many…
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TORONTO — Multicultural broadcaster Ethnic Channels Group (ECG) announced Tuesday that The Africa Channel is now available to Rogers Ignite TV subscribers in Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland.
Based in Los Angeles, The Africa Channel features English-language, Pan-African television series, specials, documentaries, feature films, music, biographies, historical and cultural content.
“The continent of Africa has been a major influencer of global culture. The launch of The Africa Channel gives further impetus to the growth of this culture, by capturing the microcosm of this great continent on multiple screens in Canada,” said Slava Levin, CEO of ECG, in the company’s news…
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LONDON and MARKHAM, Ont. — Despite deeming Huawei to be a “high-risk vendor”, the British government announced it will allow the Chinese telecom company to play a limited role in building the U.K.’s 5G wireless networks.
In keeping with guidance from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the U.K. government issued a news release Tuesday outlining how high-risk vendors such as Huawei will be allowed to participate in 5G and gigabit-capable infrastructure builds in the country. “High risk vendors are those who pose greater security and resilience risks to U.K. telecoms networks,” reads the UK government release.
The…
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MONTREAL — Bell has a full slate of programming and events planned for Wednesday’s 10th annual Bell Let’s Talk Day. The theme for this year’s nationwide multimedia campaign is “Mental Health: Every Action Counts”.
Bell is asking Canadians to join in special events and take action by talking, texting and getting engaged on social media to help drive the conversation and Bell’s donations to mental health.
Here’s a list of some of the broadcast events taking place on Bell Let’s Talk Day tomorrow:
Bell Media primetime specials
The Social’s Marci Ien and Your Morning’s Anne-Marie Mediwake host Awareness, Acceptance, and Action: A Bell…
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CHATHAM, ON — TekSavvy Solutions is expanding its cable Internet services into select regions of New Brunswick and Newfoundland, the company announced Tuesday.
New Brunswick communities that can now access TekSavvy services include Bathurst, Campbellton, Chamcook, Edmundston, Fredericton, Miramichi, Moncton, Pokemouche, Saint John and Woodstock. In Newfoundland, the communities that now have TekSavvy services available are Corner Brook, Gander, Grand Falls-Windsor, Notre Dame and St. John’s.
“This eastern launch brings TekSavvy’s award-winning, customer-first Internet services to even more Canadian homes,” says Marc Gaudrault, TekSavvy’s founder and CEO, in the company’s news release. “Consumers want real choice and competition and we’re…
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By Irene Berkowitz
THE LONG-AWAITED announcement from the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review (BTLR) review panel is upon us.
Charles Falzon, among his many firsts, is founding chair of the CMPA. He also served on the Expert Advisory Group for our last federal media inquiry, the 2016-2017 Department of Canadian Heritage Canadian Content in a Digital World/Creative Canada Policy Framework. Falzon is Dean of Ryerson University Faculty of Communication and Design (FCAD) and former Chair of RTA School of Media. He’s produced more than 2000 hours of TV with Gemini awards and Emmy nominations to his credit.
As…
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TORONTO — Multicultural broadcaster Ethnic Channels Group (ECG) says it’s launching the PeopleTV channel in Canada on Rogers Ignite TV.
U.S. media company Meredith Corp.’s PeopleTV network features programming produced by the People and Entertainment Weekly newsrooms in New York and Los Angeles, including celebrity and entertainment news highlighting live red-carpet events, the royals, popular TV cast reunions, high-profile celebrity interviews and more.
Marquee shows on the network include People Now, Entertainment Weekly Cast Reunions, Couch Surfing, The Royal Report and Reality Check.
“People and Entertainment Weekly are iconic brands that exemplify the highest standards in the world of entertainment. As ECG…
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PHILADELPHIA – Comcast executives said Thursday that its subsidiary’s upcoming Peacock service, combined with the cable division’s Xfinity Flex streaming device, will make the most effective revenue-generating streaming ecosystem available anywhere.
Peacock is a streamer which will fill what the company calls a “white space” in the market: a hybrid between a subscription and ad-supported service. It will be a largely ad-supported service with three tiers: 7,500 hours of ad-supported content for free, 15,000 hours of ad-supported content for US$5 (but it, too will be free if you subscribe to a pay-TV company), and an ad-free version of the…
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BRAMPTON and DAVOS – There were a couple of important Canadian cybersecurity announcements today.
The first was from Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst, in partnership with Ryerson University’s DMZ, which announced the launch of the Catalyst Cyber Accelerator, “Canada’s first commercial accelerator specifically designed for scale-up companies in cybersecurity and related fields,” reads the press release.
Headquartered in Brampton’s Innovation District, the Catalyst Cyber Accelerator “will help Canada’s cybersecurity ecosystem by providing Canadian scale-up companies in cybersecurity and related fields the essential tools they need to grow and succeed nationally and internationally.”
The CCA is supported by the Government of Canada, through the Federal…
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