OTTAWA – Rogers Communications, Shaw Communications and Videotron are headed to mediation with the Competition Bureau at the end of the month, the Competition Tribunal confirmed today.
Earlier this year, the Commissioner of Competition applied to the tribunal to have the proposed merger of Rogers and Shaw blocked. Since then, Rogers and Shaw have come to an agreement with Quebecor subsidiary Videotron for the sale of Shaw’s Freedom Mobile to try to assuage concerns about the potential impact of the merger on wireless competition.
“Given the public interest in this proceeding, the Competition Tribunal confirms that a mediation is scheduled to…
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SEATTLE — Telus was the fastest mobile operator among Canada’s national providers in Q3 2022, and Rogers was the fastest fixed broadband service provider in the country during the same quarter, according to the latest report from Seattle-based broadband and mobile network testing company Ookla.
The report, released today, says Telus achieved a median mobile download speed of 76.03 Mbps (please see the chart above) during Q3 2022. The median download speeds for Canada’s other two national mobile providers, Bell and Rogers, were 73.3 Mbps and 59.86 Mbps respectively, according to the report.
Rogers achieved the fastest median upload speed for…
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TORONTO — Rogers Business today announced the launch of Microsoft Teams Phone Mobile (previously known as Operator Connect Mobile) in Canada, representing the next phase of its strategic alliance with Microsoft announced earlier this year.
Rogers Business says in a press release it is the first telecommunications provider in the world to launch Microsoft Teams Phone Mobile, which is “a seamless solution to integrate mobile devices with Microsoft Teams for easier calling and collaboration, from anywhere” using a single business number.
“Rogers with Microsoft is bringing the power of truly productive mobility to Canadian businesses, allowing employees to work from…
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By Connie Thiessen
TORONTO – Terrie Tweddle (above) has returned to Rogers Communications as SVP communications and sustainability, the role she previously held before joining the Ontario Teacher’s Pension Plan as global head of marketing and communications in late 2020.
Rogers has confirmed her appointment was effective Sept. 26.
The move follows some internal year-end restructuring at Rogers that marked the high-profile departure of Julie Adam, head of news and entertainment, among other changes.
Tweddle was previously with Rogers for 12 years, the first eight as vice-president, communications and social media before being promoted to the SVP role in 2016.
Prior to that, she held senior roles at Sunlife and Visa Canada.
This…
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TORONTO — Rogers Bank, a subsidiary of Rogers Communications, announced today the launch of the new Rogers Connections Mastercard (above).
The latest in Rogers’ suite of credit card options for Canadians, the new card “delivers cash back rewards and tangible Rogers benefits”, reaffirming the company’s “commitment to providing innovative products and value to Rogers customers,” according to a press release.
“With the Rogers Connections Mastercard, Rogers Wireless customers can stay connected while travelling with five Roam Like Home days at no cost every year, just in time to help cardholders get more out of the winter travel season. This first-of-its-kind card…
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LONDON U.K. — Canada’s national mobile operators — Bell, Rogers and Telus — have all been named as “5G Global High Performers for 5G Reach” in Opensignal’s 5G Global Mobile Network Experience Awards 2022 report, released today.
The report from Opensignal, a U.K.-based mobile analytics company, compared users’ 5G mobile network experience by operator, to see how the operators stacked up globally. Data for the report was collected from Jan. 1 to June 29, 2022.
Opensignal’s 5G Reach metric “measures how users experience the geographical extent of an operator’s 5G network. It analyzes the average proportion of locations where users were…
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OTTAWA – In a response last week to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage’s May 2022 report on the impact of the proposed merger of Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications on local news, heritage minister Pablo Rodriguez suggested there is enough being done already to mitigate the potential negative impacts highlighted in the report.
The minister acknowledged the Canadian broadcasting system is facing a time of “significant transformation”.
“Canadians’ viewing habits are shifting online, and service providers are adapting to compete within Canada and with service providers from around the world,” his response reads. “The proposed transaction is taking place against…
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Documents filed with Competition Tribunal make full hearing seem likely
By Amanda OYE
OTTAWA and TORONTO – Rogers Communications is still hoping for an expedited resolution to the Competition Bureau’s challenge to its proposed merger with Shaw Communications at the Competition Tribunal but is prepared in the event the deal is not approved by the end of the year.
“Our expectation is that there is a possibility to get a decision from the tribunal this year, following that we would then look to the minister and ISED to provide their approval, which we would expect in due course,” Rogers’ president and…
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HAMILTON – A local fire in Hamilton last Friday night impacted Rogers’ customers, some of whom were without service into Sunday evening.
“We are aware of a service interruption impacting some areas of Hamilton due to a fibre cut caused by a local fire,” a tweet from the @RogersHelps Twitter account on Saturday says. The tweet also indicates wireless services were not impacted.
By 2:50 p.m. Saturday, Rogers indicated many of its customers were back online and that it anticipated service to be fully restored later that day.
At 11:35 p.m., however, the company announced it was “taking time…
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OTTAWA – Telus has told the CRTC this week that Timeless Inc.’s complaint that Rogers’s refusal to carry its OneSoccer channel gives it an undue preference should be investigated by the regulator as “timely,” as Rogers pushes to buy Shaw Communications.
Rogers has refused to carry the channel because it said it has limited appeal with its viewers. Timeless, which said it has been trying to get a carriage agreement with Rogers for over a year, has argued in its original complaint last month that there is a “surge in popularity and success for Canadian soccer” and that Rogers…
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