OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Canadians’ increasing use of Internet and mobile services helped to drive up telecommunications revenues 3.2% to $50.3 billion in 2017, slightly faster than the five-year average annual growth rate of 2.9%, the CRTC said Thursday.
In the telecom portion of its 2018 Communications Monitoring Report (CMR), the Commission said that over half (58.2%) of the total revenue share was earned by the country’s large incumbent TSPs, while 34.0% was generated by cable-based carriers, which it defines as the former cable monopolies that currently also provide telecommunications services. Resellers earned 3.6%, other service providers generated 3.2%, and small…
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SASKATOON and BURNABY – Rogers said Thursday that it has improved its wireless service in Saskatoon and in Burnaby as part of its multi-year network plan to bring gigabit LTE and 5G to its customers.
The upgrades will impact Rogers and Fido customers in Saskatoon’s Stonebridge neighbourhood as well as at the Burnaby Lake Sports Complex and along a portion of Burnaby Lake.
The enhancements will also improve the wireless experience for its business customers in these areas.
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TORONTO – Claude Galipeau is joining CBC/Radio-Canada as executive vice-president, corporate development, the public broadcaster announced Tuesday.
Galipeau (pictured) is currently chief revenue officer for the Torstar Corporation, and previously held senior leadership positions with Yahoo, Syncapse, Rogers Media and Astral Media.
He will be based in Toronto and will join the ‘pubcaster beginning January 7, 2019.
“I have asked Claude to take on this role because of his deep media and digital experience, his business savvy and his keen strategic insight”, said CBC/Radio-Canada president and CEO Catherine Tait, in the announcement. “At a time when our biggest competitors are powerful global digital…
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New low-cost data only plans to be in market within 90 days
GATINEAU – The CRTC announced today it has accepted the revised low-cost data only mobile wireless plans offered – at the demand of the Commission on the impetus of federal government – by Rogers, Bell and Telus.
Further to a public proceeding launched in March, where the big national players responded by initially offering plans the Commission told them were not good enough and to try again, the wireless providers came back with better offers in September which the CRTC said…
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EDMONTON – Super Channel has named Jenny Hacker as director of programming and Marlene Lone to the newly created role of director of affiliate marketing.
Hacker (pictured right) was most recently VP of content at Diply, and held roles at CBC prior to that. In her new role, she will lead Super Channel’s domestic and foreign program acquisitions for three of its four channels (Fuse, Heart & Home and Vault) plus oversee development and production of the network's Canadian productions.
Lone (pictured below) joins Super Channel from Rogers Communications where she was executive producer of in-house productions for Citytv and OMNI. Prior…
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Ted's right hand man reflects on his life and career
PHIL LIND MAY ALWAYS BE remembered as Ted Rogers’ cajoling consigliere.
Sure, Phil had more appearances before the CRTC – over 100 – than anybody; and he’s put in 40 exciting years co-building the Rogers brand and our country’s second-largest telecommunications and media company – Rogers Communications.
But to caricature Phil Lind as merely Ted’s strategic “Abominable No Man” is to sell this man very short.
His new book Right Hand Man: How Phil Lind Guided the Genius of Ted Rogers, Canada’s Foremost Entrepreneur, written with Bob Brehl, may not be headed for the…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has sided with Frontier Networks in its dispute with Eastlink over reselling its high-speed access (HSA) services.
In April, Frontier requested expedited interim relief and final relief regarding the refusal of Bragg Communications Inc. (carrying on business as Eastlink), to allow it to continue to resell HSA service to its two reseller customers. Interim relief was granted by the CRTC in May.
On Tuesday, the Commission made Frontier’s interim relief final after finding that its interpretation of Eastlink’s Third-Party Internet Access General Tariff is correct. It also directed Eastlink to file revised Tariff pages within 30 …
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SSi Mobile launches in 22nd Nunavut market
YELLOWKNIFE – SSi Micro has received a spectrum sub-licence from Rogers to create a wider bandwidth channel for the delivery of wireless LTE data between its facilities and customer internet and mobile devices.
The company said Tuesday that the larger block of radio frequency within the 1900 MHz range, recently approved by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED), means faster speeds, substantially increased capacity and wider coverage for consumers within the served communities.
“We have always been committed to providing the best possible service for our customers,” said SSi founder and CEO Jeff Philipp,…
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GATINEAU – The oral reply phase of a CRTC hearing is the last opportunity for applicants to make their final pleas, respond to comments from competing applicants but also one more opportunity for the Commission to ask questions and, most importantly to raise an issue to ensure it is on the record of the hearing.
Interestingly, in the last phase of this week’s hearing into a mandatory license for an ethnic, multi-language primarily news specialty service, the vice-chair-broadcasting, Caroline Simard, asked each applicant something new: “Could you tell us which are the main steps that you would be doing in…
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Smart glasses as next-generation computing platform
OTTAWA – Jacob Glick has a pretty good idea about how people are informed and entertained.
Until early 2017, he was part of the executive suite at Rogers Communications as the Canadian media giant’s chief corporate affairs officer. Prior to that, the onetime litigator with major Canadian law firm, McCarthy Tétrault LLP, served three tours of duty with global tech titan Google, heading the public policy and government relations teams in Ottawa, at its corporate headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., and finally in Washington, D.C.
Glick’s gigs have been to highlight the intersection of technology, public…
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