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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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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