OTTAWA – The CRTC has found in favour of Toronto-based local exchange carrier Beanfield Technologies Inc. after it claimed that it was denied timely access on reasonable terms and conditions to provide services in certain multi-dwelling units in that city.
Beanfield filed a complaint with the Commission dated December 22, 2015 alleging that Toronto Standard Condominium Corporation No. 2322 denied it access to the multi-dwelling unit (MDU) buildings located at 65, 75, and 85 East Liberty Street (the East Liberty Street MDUs) in downtown Toronto.
Noting that Bell Canada, Coextro, and Rogers Communications are permitted to offer services to residents at those…
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PETERBOROUGH, ONT. — Capella Telecommunications announced this week company founder Norm Slater is retiring after a career in the cable and telecom industry that spans 40 years, including 23 years as Capella’s president.
Slater helped found Capella Telecommunications in 1993 with a focus on providing technical solutions to the broadcast, cable TV and telecom markets. During the 23 years that Slater served as Capella’s president, the Peterborough, Ont.-based company has evolved with the Canadian industry and continues to offer solutions as a full-service distributor and system integrator of video, voice and data products. Under Slater’s leadership, Capella expanded its business…
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WATERLOO, ONT. — Canadian broadcasters in Rio de Janeiro for the Summer Olympics are using video distribution technology from Waterloo, Ont.-based Dejero Labs to manage their coverage of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
This marks the first deployment of Dejero’s Live+ Multipoint video distribution network at a Summer Games, the company said in a news release on Monday. Dejero said its technology simplifies access to high-quality, live-streamed video for Canadian broadcasters CBC, Bell Media (TSN) and Rogers (Sportsnet), as well as several international broadcasters present in Rio.
Live streams are distributed from a source location to multiple broadcasters simultaneously….
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MONTREAL — While BCE’s Bell Wireless division continues to sign up significant numbers of postpaid wireless subscribers, net new customer additions to Bell Wireline’s Fibe TV and high-speed Internet services have slowed compared to this time last year. That was some of the news that came out of BCE’s release of its second quarter 2016 financial results on Thursday morning.
Overall, BCE reported 113,000 net new subscriber additions to its postpaid wireless, IPTV and high-speed Internet services in the second quarter of 2016. However, Bell Wireless postpaid net additions accounted for 69,848 of these new customers, which represents a 14.4%…
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OTTAWA – The Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations (CACTUS) said today it has received a letter from the CRTC indicating the Commission is deferring consideration of almost 60 complaints filed against community TV channels until their cable licence renewals this fall.
The complaints were filed by CACTUS in partnership with community groups earlier this year, and were concerned with cable community TV channels operated by Eastlink, Cogeco, Shaw and Rogers. According to CACTUS, the channels either fail to air adequate local content (generally 60% of the program schedule) or adequate citizen-generated content (generally 50% of the schedule)…
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VANCOUVER – Canadian fibre optic provider Dixon Networks is celebrating 50 years of helping Canadians connect and communicate.
The Vancouver-based company started in 1966 by connecting families in rural B.C. with basic telephone service. It now has offices in British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario, and counts Telus, Rogers, Shaw, Delta Cable, the Province of Ontario, Alberta SuperNet and the City of Burnaby among its customers.
“Dixon has been a quiet leader in Canada’s tech industry for fifty years,” said CEO Brian Harris. “We laid the fibre that allowed people across British Columbia to first surf the Web. Now, we’re building…
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SAN FRANCISCO – Twitter has announced plans to live stream weekly games from Major League Baseball (MLB) and the National Hockey League (NHL), but existing licensing agreements will prevent most of that content from being seen here.
The company said Monday that live streams of out-of-market MLB and NHL games will be available free to logged-in and logged-out Twitter users in the United States once per week. While the NHL portion of the deal will exclude Canada, baseball fans can catch out-of-market games for all MLB teams except the Rogers-owned Toronto Blue Jays.
Twitter will also stream a new nightly sports show…
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SAINT JOHN – Rogers Communications has officially brought its Connected for Success program to New Brunswick, offering an inexpensive Internet service to families and individuals living in rent-geared-to-income non-profit housing.
The service, which started in Toronto in 2013, is available for $9.99 per month and includes speeds of up to 10 Mbps download and up to 1 Mbps upload. The expansion is kicking off in Saint John, in partnership with the Province of New Brunswick through the Department of Social Development.
"From kids connecting after the school day is done to seniors staying in touch with their friends and using banking…
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VANCOUVER – Rogers has flipped the switch on its wireless service in the SkyTrain’s Dunsmuir Tunnel, allowing TransLink passengers across Metro Vancouver to stay connected.
The company said Friday that this service covers the Stadium–Chinatown, Granville, Burrard and Waterfront stations plus the track between them. The Rogers network will also provide 911 emergency access to all SkyTrain riders, regardless of their wireless carrier.
"People expect to be able to use their phones wherever they are, which is why we are investing to make sure our network is on for our customers wherever their day takes them," said Gord Nelson, Rogers’ VP…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC’s new policy framework for local and community television is a “crippling blow” to Canada’s community TV industry, says the Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations (CACTUS).
The new policy framework, released June 15, sets new minimum thresholds for local news on the country’s private TV broadcasters plus seeks to establish a new fund for independent stations. But CACTUS, which appeared at the CRTC’s hearings in to local and community TV, was critical of the new Independent Local News Fund which it says “redirects money for community TV to private news production in a…
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