Plus, DAZN has a big job to do and very little time
VARIOUS ‘SUPER SPORTS’ PACKAGES have quietly been pulled or are being rendered anew by Canadian TV carriers with the announcement last week they will no longer contain NFL Sunday Ticket or NFL Red Zone.
Both Sunday Ticket (every single NFL game, no matter what) and Red Zone (all the games’ action when the team are inside their opponent’s 20-yard line) have been on offer to NFL fanatics from TV carriers for years, since Rogers originally tried to bring it north as an exclusive more than a decade ago.
Since the…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications has held a significant stake in Cogeco Communications and Cogeco Inc. for quite some time, but it’s now time for Rogers to sell that stake, according to one Bay St. analyst. Proceeds from selling the stake could go towards share buybacks, paying down debt or upcoming wireless spectrum auctions.
In a research note to clients Monday, Scotiabank’s telecom and media analyst Jeff Fan recounted a long-ago plane ride with Rogers late founder Ted Rogers, in which the company creator made clear his frustration at not being able to buy Cogeco outright – so that the…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications has 26,000 employees and about one third of those are front line staffers who deal with the customer all day, every day.
In his first 13 weeks on the job, CEO Joe Natale told Cartt.ca in an interview Thursday after the release of the company’s strong Q2 results that he has spent much time in call centres, stores and in trucks learning about the company and its customers from those whose direct job it is to keep the Rogers Wireless, broadband, cable, and security customers happy, and paying.
Why?
“They have all the answers,…
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TORONTO – Live sports streaming service DAZN has arrived in Canada, promising football fans the digital subscription product NFL Game Pass with every live NFL game of the 2017 season, including pre-season, regular season, the playoffs, and the Super Bowl, all in HD.
DAZN (pronounced ‘Da Zone’) is priced at $20 per month, or annually for a “limited introductory price” of $150, and all subscribers will receive their first 30 days free. The platform is available on connected devices such as smart TVs, tablets, smartphones, and game consoles, and viewers have the ability to pause live games or catch up…
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New president and CEO Natale “extremely excited” about company’s future
TORONTO – A surge in new wireless customers buoyed second quarter profits and revenues at Rogers Communications, the company announced Thursday.
For the period ended June 30, 2017, net income of $531 million jumped 35% from $394 million in the same period last year, while adjusted net income increased 20% from $427 million to $514 million year-over-year as a result of higher adjusted operating profit and lower depreciation and amortization, combined with a gain on disposition of certain real estate assets.
Revenue increased 4% this quarter to $3.59 billion from $3.45 billion year-over-year,…
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TORONTO – Rogers’ customers may now monitor driving activity, diagnose car trouble and track their car’s location in real time with Rogers Smart Drive.
Billed as the connected car solution, Rogers Smart Drive is available to the company’s Share Everything customers. The Rogers Smart Drive device, which plugs directly into the vehicle, is compatible with most vehicles built after 1996, while an app allows collects information from the device, allowing customers to track things like driving habits, provide diagnostic alerts and turn the car into a Wi-Fi hotspot and connect up to 5 Wi-Fi-capable devices.
Customers may purchase the device for…
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Dean Prevost hired as Rogers Enterprise president
FRANKFURT and TORONTO – After a little over two years with Rogers Communications, the company’s consumer division president Dirk Woessner has informed the company he is going home.
Woessner (pictured) will take over as Deutsche Telekom’s president in its home market of Germany. Woessner was hired away from the company to join Rogers by former CEO Guy Laurence. The German company made the announcement yesterday after a board meeting where it announced current German division president Niek Jan van Damme would be quitting at the end of 2017.
DT’s German business is a big operation…
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WYOMING, ON – The SouthWestern Integrated Fibre Technology (SWIFT) Network has released its list of pre-qualified service providers eligible to participate in the next stage of the procurement process for the project.
SWIFT’s procurement process will invest nearly $300 million to extend and expand access to broadband by delivering fibre optic coverage to over 350 communities and 3.5 million people across Southwestern Ontario, as well as Caledon, Orillia and Niagara Region.
Pre-qualified service providers include:
BH Telecom Corp.
Bluewater Regional Networks Inc.
Brant Municipal Enterprises Inc.
Brooke Telecom Co-operative Ltd.
CK Open Fibre Inc.
Cogeco Connexion Inc.
Distributel Communications Limited
Execulink Telecom Inc.
Fengate Capital Management, Ltd.
Frontline 360 Inc.
GB TEL Incorporated
HCE…
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MONTREAL – Half of Montreal’s metro is now plugged into an LTE mobile network, and the project is proceeding on schedule, according to the Société de transport de Montréal (STM).
With 34 out of 68 stations now connected, passengers have complete mobile connectivity between the Côte-Vertu and Mont-Royal stations on the orange line, between Beaudry and Lionel-Groulx on the green line, between Snowdon and Acadie on the blue line, and on the entire yellow line.
Deployment efforts for the second half of 2017 will be concentrated on stations to the north of Mont-Royal and will complete the blue line up to…
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TORONTO – Fido customers on select plans may stop searching for WiFi and tap in to one free hour of data, five times a month – on top of the data included in their plans.
The Rogers-owned wireless company said Wednesday that the new feature, known as Data Bytes, is available to all Fido Pulse plan customers while connected to the Fido network. With a simple shake of their phone while in the Fido My Account app, customers may start a session and track their remaining time by the minute. A notification will let them know when the free data session…
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