ABBOTSFORD, BC – Rogers and Fido customers shopping at Abbotsford’s Highstreet Shopping Centre are now enjoying improved wireless service.
Rogers said Monday that it has improved LTE coverage, allowing customers to make calls, access the internet, stream music and video at the open-air mall, which features retail stores, restaurants, movie theaters and a community plaza. Businesses, too, will now have the ability to connect more quickly with customers and colleagues. The improved coverage also extends to adjacent commercial businesses and residents in this growing Fraser Valley community.
"Our customers want to stay connected wherever they are," said Rogers’ regional VP Perm…
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TORONTO – Rogers says that it wants to help Canadian small businesses create greater flexibility for their workforces with its Rogers Unison mobile solution.
Launched last year, Rogers Unison uses a web portal to allow small businesses customers to connect with customers and employees regardless of location. It also supports how small businesses work by offering the features of a traditional phone system across multiple devices – including mobile phones, desk phones, laptops and tablets – all synced to one phone number.
New key features for small businesses include call pull, which allows calls to be moved between devices, from…
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TORONTO – The union which represents media workers at Rogers' OMNI TV said Wednesday it is taking legal action in response to the company’s decision to have Fairchild TV produce its newscasts in Mandarin and Cantonese.
"This $20-billion broadcaster is in violation of its CRTC licence to produce its own news coverage," said Unifor National president Jerry Dias, in a press release. "Rogers promised the CRTC it would cover the news with its in-house staff. It is not supposed to get millions in customer fees, and then renege on that promise as soon as it gets the CRTC licence."
Rogers…
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TORONTO – Canadian mobile repair service Mobile Klinik is expanding in to Western Canada after buying the mobilFIX and Dr. Mobile smartphone repair businesses. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Established in 2013, mobilFIX and Dr. Mobile operate two locations each in West Edmonton Mall, while mobilFIX also operates another three locations in the Edmonton area. All seven current locations will remain open to serve customers as they transition to the Mobile Klinik brand. Two new locations in Alberta are scheduled to open shortly as Mobile Klinik.
“This acquisition both accelerates our profitable growth and will anchor our…
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TORONTO – Rogers’ second longest-serving employee ever is calling it a career after 50 years of reporting on Toronto’s traffic.
Russ Holden (pictured) joined the company in 1967 in the operations department at radio station 98.1 CHFI, followed by years in commercial and program production. He then took to the sky as an airborne traffic reporter, spending decades informing Toronto and cottage country radio audiences of the latest traffic news. Holden later moved to 680 NEWS as a traffic reporter when the all-news radio station hit the airwaves in 1993, and most recently has appeared on Breakfast Television Toronto.
During his…
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TORONTO – Canadian children can now watch their favourite shows in either Spanish or Italian with the launch of two new channels from Telelatino.
Spanish language Teleninos and Italian language Telebimbi are available now to Rogers Videotron, Cogeco and Bell Fibe subscribers. Rogers’ customers may sample both channels on free preview.
Programming includes kids’ favourite animation, live action shows, and popular family movies.
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TORONTO – Rogers Media’s new national multilingual service OMNI Regional is set to debut Friday with daily national newscasts in Cantonese, Italian, Mandarin, and Punjabi.
The service, which the CRTC approved as a must-carry, basic-service specialty channel, is promising a slate of news and current affairs, lifestyle, and entertainment programming in multiple languages. Programming will be divided in four feeds: Pacific (British Columbia), Prairies (Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan), East (Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and PEI), and Quebec, through a partnership with ICI Television.
OMNI News: Cantonese Edition, OMNI News: Italian Edition, OMNI News: Mandarin Edition, and OMNI News: Punjabi…
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TORONTO – As hockey fans prepare for their favourite time of year, Sportsnet announced that it will ice every regular season game played by the Vancouver Canucks, Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames in the 2017-18 NHL season.
All 82 Canucks regular season games will be available on both TV and radio on Sportsnet 650. The Canucks’ broadcast schedule, featuring 36 national games and 46 regional games, gets underway with Hockey Night in Canada’s season opener on Saturday, October 7 at 7:00 PM PT / 10:00 PM ET. Sportsnet Pacific will be home to 42 of the 46 regional Canucks…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC has decided to push forward with a launch of wholesale fibre access for independent ISPs using interim rates it has laid out for the disaggregated wholesale high-speed access (HAS) services that Bell, Rogers, Cogeco and Videotron may charge competitors in Ontario and Quebec.
The Commission said Tuesday that Telecom Decision 2017-312 will allow providers in those provinces access to services based on a new architecture that will foster competition in the broadband Internet market, despite the Regulator’s ongoing review to establish final rates for these services.
“The availability of disaggregated wholesale HSA services will enable competitors…
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MONTREAL – Videotron will be the next Canadian TV service provider to roll out Comcast’s X1 interactive cable platform.
The Quebec company confirmed Tuesday that it has reached a strategic partnership with Comcast aimed at developing and delivering an IPTV service based on the award-winning Xfinity X1 platform “that will support a peerless customer experience for Videotron customers”.
X1 allows users to search and navigate live TV, on demand movies and shows, web video, apps and more in a simple, fast and intuitive way – and with a voice-activated remote.
When contacted by Cartt.ca, Videotron declined to disclose…
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