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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TORONTO – Rogers Media has confirmed that it will shutter its technology-focused channel G4 effective August 31, 2017.
The channel, which originally launched in Canada as TechTV before morphing in to G4techTV Canada and then just G4, bills itself as “the only television station that is plugged into every dimension of games, gear, gadgets and gigabytes”.
A Rogers Media spokesperson confirmed to Cartt.ca that the company will not be replacing the channel with another brand.
“In the current competitive television landscape, closing G4 is the right business decision as we continue to focus on our core speciality portfolio”, reads the emailed response.
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GATINEAU – Some of the project evaluation and eligibility criteria proposed by the CRTC for its new broadband deployment fund must be altered or it risks repeating the deferral account fiasco, according to comments on a new broadband funding regime.
Introduced as part of the Basic Service Objective decision last year, the proposed funding model would provide much needed capital to broadband deployment projects in unserved and underserved communities across the country. It also set a new standard called the Universal Service Objective (USO) with a minimum requirement of 50/10 Mbps.
In comments to Telecom Notice of…
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TORONTO – TNW Wireless is asking the CRTC to compel Bell and Telus to provide it with wholesale roaming agreements in order to further the rollout of its proprietary iPCS technology that it says will offer Canadians a new low cost mobile service.
The company says that Bell and Telus have refused to sign roaming agreements with it, contrary to the Commission’s regulatory framework for wholesale mobile wireless services, because the two big incumbents “believe TNW will allow permanent roaming on their respective networks”. But that is not the case, continued TNW, which has also asked the CRTC to rule…
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VANCOUVER – Rogers’ newest all-sports radio station Sportsnet 650 will debut September 4 in Vancouver with some familiar voices.
On Wednesday, Sportsnet confirmed that Sportsnet’s Starting Lineup with Cybulski, Darling and Laurence will air Monday to Friday from 6 to 10 AM PT, featuring veterans James Cybulski, Steve Darling and Mira Laurence.
Cybulski (pictured left) is an award-winning broadcaster who brings 25 years of experience to the role. After working in Vancouver from 2000 – 2004 as bureau chief for The Score, he returned to the west coast in 2013 to join Sportsnet Pacific and most recently worked with…
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Creator community shares deep concerns about “devastating effects” of decisions
OTTAWA – Canada’s independent producers, performers and directors have petitioned Heritage Minister Joly to either set aside, or refer back, the CRTC’s group licence renewal decisions for large television broadcasters released last month.
The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA), the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA), and the Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) submitted a joint petition to the Minister Thursday, underscoring their shared concerns about the Commission’s decision to lower the amount that Bell Media, Rogers Media and Corus Entertainment must spend on Programs of National Interest…
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