HALIFAX – Rogers Communications has bought Halifax-based Internetworking Atlantic Inc. (IAI) in a move that it says provides it with greater local expertise in cloud computing, data centre services, fibre networking and professional services.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. As part of the transaction, Rogers will acquire IAI’s Tier III data centre in downtown Halifax, its fibre infrastructure across Atlantic Canada, and its employees.
"The additional local expertise that our new employees bring to our team in Atlantic Canada will continue to drive regional growth," said Ken Marshall, Rogers’ VP EBU Sales for the Atlantic Region, in…
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TORONTO – Disney Junior and Disney XD will arrive in over eight million households this week through distribution partners across English Canada.
Corus Entertainment said Tuesday that the channels are available now through Bell Fibe TV, Bell Satellite TV, Bell FibreOp TV, MTS, Rogers, Shaw, Shaw Direct, Telus and various CCSA members. Cogeco Cable Canada and Eastlink will offer the channels starting Wednesday, and SaskTel customers will have access to the new services in the coming weeks.
Disney Junior, which is aimed at kids aged 2-7, launches with the network premiere of The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar (pictured) on…
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TORONTO – Hollywood Suite tis gearing up for a national free preview of its four HDTV movie channels, from December 8 through to January 12.
The independent broadcaster said that the freeview is an opportunity for Canadian TV viewers to enjoy uncut and commercial-free movies on its newly rebranded channels devoted to the movies that shaped the 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s.
“We’re excited to share Hollywood Suite with all Canadians this holiday season,” said president David Kines, in the news release. “We know this is one gift everyone will love."
The freeview includes access to Hollywood Suite On Demand, where available. Participating…
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TORONTO — Canadians still love their TV, love their cable packages, but they’re hungry for change, for flexibility, for a lower price, delegates of CTAM Canada’s packed Broadcaster Forum held last week in Toronto were told.
The TV industry folks in attendance were no doubt relieved to hear TV subscription value packs will continue to be relevant in a pick-and-pay world, especially as everyone gears up for the mandated introduction of skinny basic and pick-and-pay in 2016.
In fact, according to a recent study conducted by Charlton Strategic Research for CTAM, the majority of Canadian TV subscribers (57%) still…
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OTTAWA – The price of delivering Detroit to Vancouver, or Halifax to Hamilton, or any other distant TV signal to a market outside its territory will come under the microscope for the next two weeks at the Copyright Board of Canada.
Beginning Tuesday morning, the Broadcast Distribution Undertakings (BDUs) and the Retransmission Collectives will be facing off at a Copyright Board hearing over the value of distant television signals. The Collectives (who are the U.S. and Canadian TV stations, sports leagues, music collectives and such) tell the Board the number of distant TV signals available to Canadian TV subscribers has…
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OTTAWA–GATINEAU – Rogers Media shelled out $200,000 as part of a settlement over alleged violations to Canada's anti-spam legislation, plus agreed to improve its internal spam compliance program, the CRTC said Friday.
The Commission investigated Rogers Media for allegedly sending commercial emails containing an unsubscribe mechanism that did not function properly or which could not be readily performed by the recipient between July 2014 and July 2015. In addition, the electronic address used to unsubscribe was not valid for the required minimum of 60 days following the sent message, and the company failed to honour some requests to unsubscribe from receiving…
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TORONTO – Rogers has officially launched Fido’s first ever home Internet offering in parts of Ontario, as Cartt.ca reported early Thursday.
With pricing of $50 per month for 300 GB or unlimited for $65 per month, the service is both direct and strong new competition for the likes of independent ISPs VMedia, Beanfield and Teksavvy, who also serve urbanites with cheap high speed Internet. That pricing is only available to existing Fido Mobile postpaid customers. Non-Fido customers, or non-eligible Fido customers, can sign on for 300 GB for $70 per month or unlimited for $85 per month.
All plans include download speeds…
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TORONTO – Canadian sportscaster Dan Shulman is returning home to call select Toronto Blue Jays games on Sportsnet for the next two seasons.
Shulman, pictured, will join the broadcast team of Buck Martinez and Pat Tabler on at least 30 Blue Jays games on Sportsnet for the 2016 and 2017 MLB seasons, plus make appearances on Sportsnet shows Blue Jays Central, Blue Jays Central at Noon, Tim & Sid and on sportsnet.ca. He will also continue his work with ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball and NCAA Men's College Basketball broadcasts.
"Having hired Dan in 1995 for his first…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications will debut Fido Home Internet across areas of Southern Ontario today, Cartt.ca has learned.
Under the new service, eligible Fido wireless customers (whose demographic tends towards young urbanites) will get 300GB for $50/month at 30 Mbps download speed, which the company believes will work well for 1-3 people streaming in a home. They can also move to unlimited usage at any time, if they want it. Pricing for that was not immediately available.
Fido Home Internet’s pricing will stay the same from launch, with no early promotional pricing, term contracts or cancellation fees, and there’s…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC will issue its first report on the performance of Internet services provided by the country's major Internet service providers (ISPs) next spring.
Data is currently being gathered from ‘Whiteboxes’ installed in the homes of the 4,500 participants who signed up to measure the performance of their broadband Internet services when the Commission unveiled the Measuring Broadband Canada program last May.
The Commission said Wednesday that the data will provide useful insight into network performance, including actual connection speeds, and provide a better understanding of whether certain Internet services from participating ISPs are delivering speeds as advertised….
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