SHENZHEN, China – CENGN, Canada's Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks based in Kanata, Ontario announced last week Huawei will be the newest member of the consortium.
The new partnership with CENGN will provide an opportunity for Huawei and its' operator partners in Canada to work with Canadian SMEs and start-ups on a number of opportunities and issues related to the deployment of 5G, while leveraging the research team at Huawei's Canada Research Centre, also based in Kanata, says the press release.
"We are excited about the opportunity to work with CENGN and our operator partners, including Telus, Bell and…
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CALGARY – Rogers Media has re-branded radio station Kiss 95.9 to 95.9 CHFM (looking much like ratings leader CHFI Toronto…).
There’s not change to the format or the personalities on air, however.
“For more than 50 years, Calgarians have welcomed us into their daily lives, and as this amazing city grows, we too must evolve in order to better serve our audiences,” said Gayle Zarbatany, program director. “Now with a refreshed look and feel, we’re excited to continue this journey with our listeners.”
The station also went all-Christmas last week, too, and it will start the New Year with some familiarity…
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MONTREAL – As Bell Canada CEO George Cope warned a month ago – his company was not about to let Telus, Rogers and Freedom keep the low-cost wireless market to themselves and in response, the company announced the launch of Lucky Mobile today.
Created to compete with Rogers’ chatr, Telus’ Public Moble and Shaw’s Freedom (and it seems the initial markets being launched are exactly Freedom’s footprint), the low-cost prepaid brand’s plans start at $20/month, for talk and text, but not data, a price which generally undercuts everyone in the space. (Chatr offers a…
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VICELAND’S FUTURE IN CANADA may be on thin ice after word that its partner, Rogers Media, may have plans to pull its financial support for the specialty service.
According to a Globe and Mail report, Rogers will “cut off funding early next year”. The millennial-focused Viceland, which launched in Canada in February 2016 in place of the Biography Channel, is part of a joint venture between Rogers Media and Vice. The two also have a larger partnership that includes the Vice Canada content studio in Toronto, built thanks to a $100 million investment in Vice by Rogers Communications, announced in…
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Internet complaints on the rise; PIAC wants a new code of conduct
OTTAWA – The Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS) said today it saw an 11% increase in the number of complaints received from Canadian telecom customers in 2016-17, a turnaround of a three-year trend of declining complaints.
While Canadians continue to complain most often about their wireless services, they represent a declining proportion of all complaints to the CCTS, says the organization in its press release. What’s on the rise, however, are consumer complaints about their broadband services.
“The CCTS is the administrator of the CRTC’s Wireless Code, and…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has turned down a request from Rogers Media seeking to decrease local programming on the Quebec feed of its multilingual multi-ethnic discretionary service OMNI Regional.
OMNI Regional offers its service in four separate regional feeds. Rogers asked the Commission to change the condition of licence from requiring the Quebec feed of the service to include 14 hours of original, local independently produced programming each week to be 14 hours of original, local ethnic programming each month.
Rogers said that the proposal to provide 14 hours weekly of original, local independently produced programming on the Quebec feed was…
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SANTA CLARA, CA – Customer demand for more flexible technology consumption models to support digital transformation projects is helping to fuel growth in the North American hosted Internet Protocol (IP) telephony and unified communications as a service (UCaaS) market, says a new report from Frost & Sullivan.
North American Hosted IP Telephony and UCaaS Market, Forecast to 2023 provides an in-depth analysis of the market potential for hosted IP telephony and UCaaS in terms of users and revenues. Drivers and restraints, forecasts and trends, visioning scenarios, and evolving business models and technologies are analyzed, with market share and competitive…
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DELTA, BC – Rogers and Fido customers shopping at Tsawwassen Mills are now enjoying improved wireless service.
Rogers said Friday that it has improved LTE coverage, allowing customers to make calls, access the internet, stream music and video while scoping out the best Black Friday deals at nearly 200 stores, including Rogers and Fido locations, in the 1.2 million-square-foot mall. Businesses, too, may take advantage of improved reliability to boost mobile point of sale terminals and provide greater convenience for their customers.
“Our customers want a reliable mobile experience wherever they are, whether it's to keep in touch with friends and…
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TORONTO – Former Rogers exec Shannon Valliant has joined Boat Rocker Media in the newly created position of chief financial officer.
Reporting to Boat Rocker Media CEO John Young, Valliant (pictured) is responsible for financial administration and management, financial and operational planning and corporate development support, as well as investor relations for the global entertainment company and its divisions Boat Rocker Studios, Boat Rocker Rights, Boat Rocker Brands and Boat Rocker Ventures.
Prior to this, Valliant held executive operations and strategy roles in Rogers’ consumer and enterprise business units, notably leading that company’s media business unit finance organization for five years. …
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A PATENT DISPUTE OVER Comcast’s X1 operating system could have a wide-ranging impact on Canadian cablecos' plans to rollout the set-tops here.
The International Trade Commission (ITC) issued a final ruling upholding a claim by TiVo parent Rovi Corp. that Comcast violated patents on technologies that let users schedule set-top DVR recordings remotely via mobile device, according to a FierceCable report.
The ruling will put pressure on Comcast to forge a licensing deal, the report continues. Comcast, however, said it will simply remove features related to the patents while it pursues an appeal.
In addition to halting imports of X1 set-tops from…
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