TORONTO – As the Rogers-Shaw over-the-top viewing portal shomi is wound down by the end of November, many have wondered what the companies are going to do with the content they have under contract.
There were rampant rumours throughout the summer as the two companies pondered their commitment to shomi, and sources told Cartt.ca that Amazon was a player in trying to negotiate a content arrangement with Rogers and Shaw to launch its video streamer in Canada.
We asked Rogers Communications CEO Guy Laurence these questions yesterday during a press session announcing its…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC took matters in to its own hands Thursday, throwing out the wholesale high-speed access rates proposed by the country’s large cable and telephone companies in favour of its own.
In its decision, the Commission said that the proposed rates from incumbent carriers “were not just and reasonable” and that they were therefore revised downwards. It also expressed “significant concern” that that some of the companies have not conducted their cost studies in accordance with well-established costing principles and methodologies, and disregarded the CRTC provided Regulatory Economic Studies Manuals .
“Competitors that provide retail Internet services to Canadians using…
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TORONTO – Rogers is handing parents real-time control of their family’s wireless data.
The company said Thursday that its Share Everything customers may now manage their data through the MyRogers app. Specifically, the family bill payer can set data allowances for each family member and, upon receiving notification that the threshold has been reached, may choose to either continue letting them use data, allocate more data from another family member, or buy data top-ups to keep the family going to the end of the bill cycle. The bill payer may also switch off data for an individual and turn it…
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TORONTO – It’s a little complicated (and raises the spectre of the long-gone iCraveTV), but a Bell Canada injunction says VMedia can’t apply the BDU regs to its new OTT vice service.
Bell says that the independent ISP and BDU is in the wrong by claiming it can distribute CTV and CTV2 as a retransmitter under section 31 of the Copyright Act.
“There is nothing in the Act, or otherwise at law, that permits VMedia to do so,” Bell writes in an October 3 injunction filed with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice against the Continue Reading
TORONTO – With the puck set to drop on the 2016-17 NHL season next week, Rogers-owned Sportsnet will produce and broadcast eight NHL games in 4K resolution between October and December, with more to come in 2017.
Its first 4K NHL broadcast of the season is scheduled for October 12 at 7:00 PM ET/4:00 PM PT when the Toronto Maple Leafs visit the Ottawa Senators in a matchup known as ‘the battle of Ontario’. Five of the eight 4K NHL games between October and December will be available nationally, with the additional three Toronto Maple Leafs games available to viewers in…
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ST. JOHN'S – Rogers has brought its Ignite Gigabit and Ignite Gigabit for business Internet services to The Rock, launching Tuesday in neighbourhoods across St. John’s.
Delivering Rogers' fastest speeds, the company said that this local Newfoundland infrastructure investment gives customers what they want the most: extraordinary speed and unlimited data across multiple devices simultaneously.
"Rogers Ignite Internet is ideal for these connected households with multiple devices – at top speeds, customers can download an HD movie in less than 30 seconds, a full album in less than one second, and a game in about five minutes," said Kelly Atkinson, Rogers’ EVP…
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TORONTO – VMedia Inc. isn’t bowing to pressure from Bell Media to remove CTV and CTV2 from its live TV online streaming service. After Bell sent the company a cease and desist letter on September 29, VMedia followed up with a lawsuit, launched on October 3.
The independent ISP and broadcast distribution undertaking (BDU) unveiled its new TV streaming service on September 16. For $17.95 per month, Canadians can get 20 live TV channels, including all the major TV networks in Canada and the U.S., over a Roku video streaming player or on a Roku TV.
VMedia…
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TORONTO – Former Cogeco exec Antonio (Tony) Ciciretto as has been named president and CEO of TeraGo Inc. effective immediately, replacing Stewart Lyons.
Most recently president and CEO of Cogeco Peer 1 (formerly known as Cogeco Data Services), Ciciretto (pictured) also co-founded and was president of private investment firm TVN Group, plus held senior roles at Rogers Business Solutions and Bell Canada.
In addition to his role president and CEO, Ciciretto will also continue to serve as a member of TeraGo's Board of Directors.
"We are thrilled with the appointment of Mr. Ciciretto as the next TeraGo President and CEO," said Jim Nikopoulos, chair…
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TORONTO – Rogers Media is dropping some of its magazine titles and moving others to online only as it struggles with declining print readership.
The company said Friday that it will zero in on its English-language consumer brands by focussing on the “content pillars” of entertainment, lifestyle, parenting, news and current affairs, and sports. Starting this fall, Rogers will divest of all business-to-business publications plus will seek new ownership for French-language publications Châtelaine, LOULOU, and L'actualité.
Beginning in January, Flare, Sportsnet, MoneySense, and Canadian Business will be available only on the web and on apps, and some magazines will reduce their…
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GATINEAU – The full results of a first-of-its-kind independent, national study on broadband performance in Canada shows that Internet service providers (ISPs) largely meet or exceed their advertised download and upload speeds.
Participating ISPs in the survey (announced last year and for which preliminary results were made public in the spring), conducted by SamKnows and which was commissioned by the CRTC, included all the main wireline service providers in Canada, with the exception of Sasktel, which declined to participate, said the CRTC in a press release this afternoon.
The data collected will…
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