TORONTO – Rogers wants the CRTC to dismiss Bell’s allegations that its new GamePlus online hockey viewing app provides Rogers with an “anticompetitive advantage.”
In a submission Thursday to the Commission, filed in response to Bell’s complaint last month, Rogers described Bell’s application as “nothing more than Bell’s attempt to use the Commission’s regulatory processes to inhibit or hinder our ability to provide Canadian consumers with new and innovative content offerings”.
GameCentre Live is Rogers’ new online platform that allows fans to stream over 1,000 regular season and playoff games online and to whatever device they like for $200 a…
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TORONTO – TV programmers and BDUs should consider their TV Everywhere offerings as a way to retain paid TV subscribers, in the face of increasing consumer use of OTT services and the continuing trend toward channel-trimming and cable-cutting.
That was the consensus among broadcasting industry experts who spoke at CTAM Canada’s 2014 Broadcaster Forum, held on Wednesday at the Sony Centre in downtown Toronto. More than 250 were in attendance.
Gord Hendren, president and CEO of Charlton Strategic Research in Toronto, presented research done earlier this year which indicates the vast majority of paid TV subscribers are very likely…
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GATINEAU – Here we go again.
Several years after the CRTC set the rules for mandated access to essential broadband facilities, the big telecommunications service providers (TSPs) and their smaller competitors who rent space on those TSP networks, will once again take their turns before the Commission beginning Monday to argue about mandated access to incumbent networks, specifically the deep fibre networks built by the large cable and telco incumbents.
As can be expected, the incumbents are going to argue that the retail broadband market is already highly competitive, the result of vigorous battles among facilities-based competitors. Any unwarranted…
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TORONTO – Quebecor Media chief financial officer Jean-Francois Pruneau said Wednesday morning his company would love to be part of a national wireless play, has talked to investors and others about it, but is still awaiting the right conditions.
The big attraction at this point, he told Scotiabank’s telecom and cable investors conference in Toronto, is that the initial network builds have been done. “We don’t have to invest from the ground up, like the new entrants had to do,” he said, meaning any new national wireless company Videotron may be part of, would be “buying this at…
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TORONTO and OAKVILLE – Facing a cloudy future, the public broadcaster is paring back its weather department in favour of a new content sharing agreement with The Weather Network that will see national weather forecasts on select CBC News television properties provided by The Weather Network’s team of meteorologists and on-air personalities.
The agreement, which begins December 8, will see The Weather Network provide weather updates on CBC News Network throughout the day and at the end of The National on CBC-TV and CBC News Network, including expanded weather reports on CBC Toronto on weekends, the two companies announced Monday.
From…
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TORONTO – Rogers has hired another sales exec away from CBC after announcing that Janice Smith will become its vice president, national media sales, effective December 1st.
Smith comes to Rogers with more than 19 years of experience in media sales, strategic planning, and business development. Prior to joining Rogers, she worked at CBC for six years, most recently as executive director of multiplatform sales for CBC’s Revenue Group where she oversaw all of CBC’s English-language revenue sales including CBC Network, CBC News Network, Radio 2, and sports sales. Smith has also held various sales roles at CanWest MediaWorks, TSN,…
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TORONTO – Just in time for the winter getaway season, Rogers is rolling out a new technology for customers travelling in the U.S. that allows them to access their Canadian wireless plans while they're away.
For $5 a day, the Roam Like Home plan, which will be available November 10, allows customers to use the Internet, make calls, send texts and emails in the U.S. just like they would at home, with their Share Everything plan, which includes shareable data buckets, unlimited talk and text, and various other services. Calls made within the U.S. and back to Canada are also included…
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TORONTO – “Canadians have told us loud and clear they’re afraid to use their mobile phones when travelling to the U.S.,” Rogers Communications CEO Guy Laurence said today while launching the company’s new Roam Like Home plan.
The plan lets Rogers Share Everything customers call, text and surf for $5 a day while travelling in the States, so it sure sounds simple. Customers, added Laurence, “find it too complicated” when trying to use, or plan to use, their phones in the U.S. Plus, it’s too expensive. “They also said they were paying for minutes, texts, and Internet at home but…
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TORONTO – Any time members of the Canadian telecom industry gather together for a conference, the age-old debate about just how competitive the market actually is here inevitably emerges. The Canadian ISP Summit held this week in Toronto was no exception.
And in fact, opposing views on the subject, firmly expressed, provided most of the sparks during the conference’s final session on Wednesday, a panel discussion that tackled many of the regulatory issues currently faced by the telecom industry.
Moderated by telecom industry consultant Mark Goldberg (co-founder and organizer of the annual Canadian Telecom Summit), the regulatory panel featured: Dr. Michael…
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TORONTO – As if Rogers isn’t serving up enough hockey, Sportsnet’s coverage of the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) kicks off Monday.
As Cartt.ca reported in February, Sportsnet signed a 12-year partnership extension with the development league through the 2025-26 CHL season, continuing its hold as the exclusive broadcaster of the CHL and the Memorial Cup in Canada. The new agreement also includes multimedia rights for television, online and mobile.
Sportsnet’s coverage will include more than 50 games in 2014-15, including the return of Friday Night Hockey every week of the regular season and playoffs, 11 Sunday afternoon matchups, as well as…
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