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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OTTAWA – Rogers Communications has filed with the Competition Tribunal a request for more information about how, according to the competition commissioner, Videotron will be negatively impacted by its acquisition of Shaw Communications — despite the sale of wireless assets to the Montreal-based company.
The cable giant filed a request for more detail Tuesday as to allegations that Videotron, which agreed to acquire Shaw’s Freedom wireless business, would face difficulties in the market and its competitiveness would be reduced if the deal is allowed to happen.
The allegations were made in a submission to the Tribunal earlier this month by…
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OTTAWA – The operator of the country’s emergency alert system is suggesting possibly developing “protocols and procedures” for distributors to inform it about any disruptions to the delivery of alerts.
In a Wednesday response to the CRTC’s request for more information about the Rogers network outage in July, Pelmorex said such measures could enable it to quickly notify government issuers of the alert about the problem. Pelmorex was asked by the regulator to provide comment earlier this month.
The company also suggested that it could potentially work with trade associations representing the broadcasters of the alert — including Rogers in…
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TORONTO — Rogers today launched a new Wi-Fi 6E modem, saying its the first major provider to do so and saying the offering makes the fastest Wi-Fi speeds available that more than doubles the bandwidth of the previous generation.
“Select customers in areas across Ontario, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland can now take advantage of the new Wi-Fi modem for the best in-home Wi-Fi experience that will revolutionize how they game, stream and connect, now and in the future,” reads a Rogers press release.
Rogers also announced its new Ignite Internet service offering 8 Gbps symmetrical speeds is now…
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OTTAWA – The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) filed a disclosure request to the CRTC on Friday asking the commission to release information filed by Rogers in confidence about the Canada-wide network outage that occurred last month.
Information requested by the advocacy group include the cost breakdown of the company-promised $261 million to physically separate the wireless and wireline networks and how long it will take; how the new facilities and equipment will be deployed as part of the separation plan; and redacted examples of the network initiatives as part of the company’s promise to invest $10 billion to fund…
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