Three key wireless drivers are “video, video and video”
TORONTO – It was a quarter of good news at Rogers Communications as wireless subscriber additions – and media results – beat expectations for the three months ended June 30, 2016.
While its cable division’s revenue and profit were flat compared to Q2 2015, the company did lose 104,000 customers over the 12 months, not surprising given the heavy promotional activity from the likes of Bell Fibe taking customers as well as some cord-cutting.
As we have reported in the past, however, help is on…
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TORONTO – Gains in its wireless and media division helped to boost second quarter profits at Rogers Communications by 9%, the company announced Thursday.
For the period ended June 30, 2016, net income of $394 million and adjusted net income of $427 grew from $363 million and $412 million respectively year-over-year, primarily as a result of higher adjusted operating profit and lower other expense, partially offset by higher depreciation and amortization. Net income also benefitted from lower restructuring costs.
Consolidated revenue increased 2% to $3.46 billion this quarter, reflecting revenue growth of 1% in Wireless, 6% in Media, and 3% in…
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TORONTO – Rogers is offering small businesses a new mobile solution that it says brings the features of a traditional landline phone to a mobile phone.
Rogers Unison, powered by BroadSoft, uses a web portal to allow small businesses customers to connect with customers and employees regardless of location, which increases their productivity while also saving money previously spent on landlines, reads the news release. Customers may keep their landlines numbers and may also opt for features such as an automated answering system that greets customers and directs calls to the appropriate live person based on a directory of options,…
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GATINEAU – Five Canadian ethnic broadcasters have written a letter to the CRTC saying Rogers Media’s application to make OMNI-TV a national, must-carry specialty service is off-side.
Last month, when the CRTC made public the license renewal applications for the major Canadian broadcasters (which it will hear in November), Rogers had filed an application that caught the industry by surprise: It has asked the CRTC for a new license for a must-carry, multilingual and multicultural specialty channel to be known as OMNI Regional.
The proposed national channel would be comprised of four feeds:…
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OTTAWA – Customers of Ice Wireless and its affiliate Sugar Mobile may continue to roam on Rogers’ national mobile network, at least in the short term.
The CRTC has granted Ice Wireless’ request for interim relief while considering its request for final relief by preventing Rogers from prohibiting customers of Ice Wireless or Sugar Mobile from roaming on its mobile network.
A letter from secretary general Danielle May-Cuconato addressed to Ice Wireless president & CEO Samer Bishay and Rogers’ SVP regulatory David Watt said that the Commission has determined that the application, filed in February 2016, has met its…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications has unveiled Rogers Public Cloud, a new data sovereign, cloud infrastructure 'as-a-service' (IaaS) solution that allows businesses to securely manage their data, applications, servers, systems software and network resources over the internet.
Thanks to a partnership with European cloud and Internet infrastructure provider OVH, customers manage this virtual IT environment through a single web portal and have access to 24/7 support from bilingual professionals based in Canada, the company said Thursday. Rogers Public Cloud is hosted in OVH's Canadian data centre.
"As Canadian businesses produce and consume more data than ever before, many are looking to…
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a.k.a. net neutrality…
GATINEAU – There is pretty broad consensus among many of the interveners in the CRTC’s differential pricing consultation that the practice can have a positive impact on the ISP business, content providers and consumers.
First round comments to the Commission’s Examination of differential pricing practices related to Internet data plans (2016-192) revealed though that it’s not a cut and dried issue. For instance, Bell Canada argued that zero-rating and sponsored data pricing mechanisms – two differential pricing practices or DPPs – are common in the communications world.
The company pointed to toll free calling and time of use…
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TORONTO – Accessible Media Inc. (AMI)’s coverage of the Toronto Blue Jays’ Canada Day matchup against the Cleveland Indians garnered more than 20,000 viewers per minute, making it one of AMI-tv’s highest ranking live described events.
Quoting Numeris data, AMI-tv said that it recorded AMA 2+ of 20.4 over the 6.5 hour game, with ratings peaking at 26.0 between 3:00 – 3:30 PM ET, marking the broadcast as the highest Jays game to date.
AMI's director of programming Brian Perdue said that AMI-tv usually averages audiences closer to 7.0 in a 24 hour period, and suggested that southern Ontario’s stormy weather…
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EDMONTON – Rogers is continuing to put the final touches on Rogers Place, set to open its doors in downtown Edmonton this fall.
First announced in December 2013, the new facility will be home to the NHL’s Edmonton Oilers. As the title sponsor and lead on the technology infrastructure at Rogers Place, Rogers said that its contribution is part of a multi-year telecommunications sponsorship of the Oilers, and a long-term commitment to network enhancements and expansion across Alberta.
Click here to watch the official time lapse video of the Rogers Place exterior sign installation.
www.rogersplace.com
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OTTAWA – BCE, Rogers and Videotron have added 11 new defendants to their legal action against the sale of TV set top boxes pre-loaded with applications that they claim allows access to their copyrighted content.
The three big TV companies last month joined forces against named defendants iTVBox.net, My Electronics, Android Bros Inc., WatchNSaveNow Inc. and MtlFreeTV.com and won a temporary injunction to stop them from selling the loaded boxes until the matter is resolved. According to a CBC News report, 11 Android box dealers were added on June 20.
The Android boxes, ranging in price from $40 to $250, are…
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