Infinite Wireless data plans have no overage charges
TORONTO – Rogers Communications today said it will introduce unlimited wireless data plans with no overage charges starting tomorrow (Thursday), on its main Rogers brand.
Also, said the company, it plans to launch new financing options to give customers more affordable smartphone and device options.
Rogers Infinite Wireless plans with unlimited wireless data will start at $75 for 10GB of high speed data for every line on its fastest LTE network, reads the company release. Service plans of $95 and $125 a month will also be offered for 20 GB and 50 GB, respectively.
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MISSISSAUGA – Is 5G a revolution, or an evolution? That's the question addressed by participants in the 5G panel at the Canadian Telecom Summit.
Moderated by Eric Smith, VP, regulatory affairs at the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA), the panel included Ian Fogg, VP analysis at OpenSignal, Sean Newman, SVP and director PM at Corero Network Security, Alexander Brock, SVP technology strategy, innovation and partnerships at Rogers, and Anoop Kulkarni, global head of 5G NCS at Nokia.
"It's an interesting challenge to have a panel on a subject that comes up in every panel," Smith said. "When I got the assignment,…
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BANFF – Canada picked up seven awards at the 2019 Rockie Awards International Program Competition that recognizes and celebrates excellence in television and digital media content from around the world.
One of the largest competitions of its kind, the Rockie Awards International Program Competition handed out awards in 26 categories spanning the Documentary & Factual, Arts & Entertainment, Children & Youth and Scripted genres, as well as the Rogers Prize for Excellence in Canadian Content, the Rockies Francophone Prize and the Jury Prize.
The International Program Competition winners include:
– Comedy & Variety Program: Baroness von Sketch Show, Frantic Films, Canada
– Limited…
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ST. JOHN’S – Rogers launched its Ignite TV service in Newfoundland Monday, almost a year after the service first debuted in Ontario.
The cloud-based IPTV service allows customers to find their favourite show or movie through ‘All-in-one Search’ that brings together live TV, on demand, recordings and Netflix, and also displays where and how to watch it. Other features include a personalized sports hub called SportsApp that allows users to set favourite teams/leagues and watch live games while tracking scores from another game at the same time, plus a kid-friendly space with age-appropriate shows and parental controls known as KidsZone.
Ignite TV’s…
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OTTAWA – Listeners in Ontario's North Bay may soon have a new radio station after the CRTC determined that the region can support one.
The Commission said Thursday that it is not necessary to publish a call for applications for new stations given that Vista Radio was the sole party to express an interest in serving that market.
Located in northeastern Ontario, approximately 120 kilometres east of Sudbury, the North Bay radio market currently has four English-language commercial radio stations: CHUR-FM, CKFX-FM and CKAT, which are operated by Rogers Media, as well as CFXN-FM, operated by Vista. The market is also…
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MONTREAL – Videotron’s nascent wireless brand Fizz has tapped Sylvie Charette as its vice-president of marketing and customer experience.
Charette, who was most recently marketing VP at Nespresso Canada, led Videotron’s branding and digital media teams from 2013 to 2014. She has also held senior roles at Rogers, Telus and Bell Mobility.
With Fizz, Charette will head up the digital go-to-market strategy for Fizz mobile and Internet services plus be responsible for customer experience and the development and management of digital operations.
“Her recognized leadership skills and unique expertise make Sylvie the right person to spearhead our teams’ efforts to develop and differentiate…
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Tosses “incoherent” barb back at the industry
TORONTO – ISED Minister Navdeep Bains was the closer at the 2019 Canadian Telecom Summit on Wednesday and his comments made on stage – as well as after – should leave wireless industry leaders and observers more certain than ever that a major regulatory shift, especially when it comes to the long held policy bedrock known as “facilities-based competition,” is going to happen.
For three days, the major carriers did their level best to lay out a case against mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs, or wireless resellers) as well as the reasons why it’s…
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TORONTO – There may have been over a dozen topics on the hit list for this year's regulatory blockbuster session at this year’s Canadian Telecom Summit, but the six panelists kept coming back to one: MVNOs, yea or nay.
Moderator Greg O'Brien, editor and publisher of Cartt.ca, set the tone, commenting, "This panel is often fun, always a little prickly, which is part of the fun
“The industry is being transformed from all sides," he went on. "It's being changed from within, from without, and, crucially, from Ottawa."
Key among the events include the broadcast and telecom legislative review panel, a proposed…
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MVNOs won't work in Canada
TORONTO – Shaw Communications’ Paul McAleese co-founded and ran a successful MVNO in the United States for a dozen years before coming back to Canada to head up Freedom Mobile.
While he’s still a satisfied investor in i-wireless, which runs the mobile offering of the Kroger chain of grocery stores, he said comparing that company and the U.S. wireless market in general to Canada’s is a mug’s game. First, the American market is just so much bigger, where MVNOs can carve out a living with low margins there thanks to American market scale in a way…
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TORONTO – As it faces a shrinking cable TV landscape and still needing buzzy shows to entice advertisers and compete with Netflix, the biggest headline from Corus Entertainment's upfront presentation Monday was that rookie and returning American content will remain front and center, especially on Global TV, as the media company remakes itself for the streaming era.
"We're transforming too," Corus CEO and president Doug Murphy said against the backdrop of the Evergreen Brick Works, an abandoned brick factory along Toronto’s Don Valley turned into an urban innovation hub for sustainable city-building.
Given the focus on originals at Netflix and Amazon,…
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