OTTAWA – The Canadian Network Operators Consortium has filed an application with the CRTC asking that a number of new regulations be applied to cable company ISPs who are not fairly treating its members acting as third party internet access providers.
The independent TPIAs (such as Teksavvy, Primus and Telnet) who provide internet service to their customers by purchasing wholesale high speed access service from the likes of Cogeco, Rogers, Shaw and Videotron say that either through malice or indifference their businesses are being seriously harmed by the cable companies and the CRTC must step in.
“This is necessary because ISPs,…
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TORONTO – Nataline Rodrigues has left the CBC to take on the role of director of original programming at Rogers Media starting October 1st.
Rodrigues (pictured) will manage the submission, development, and production of original Canadian programming for all Rogers Media non-sports television brands. In addition to working with the independent community to evaluate pitches and proposals for both development and production, she will oversee the current slate of original series including Package Deal, Seed, Storage Wars Canada, The Project: Guatemala, Mother Up!, and The Bachelor Canada. Rodrigues will report to VP of programming & content Hayden Mindell.
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TORONTO – Rogers is rolling out the country’s first all-you-can-read subscription digital magazine service next month which will offer tablet users unlimited access to a catalogue of more than 100 Canadian and U.S. titles.
Known as Next Issue Canada, the service will cost $9.99 per month and will feature Rogers publications such as Maclean's, Chatelaine, Today's Parent, Sportsnet and Canadian Business alongside access to U.S. titles such as Vogue, GQ, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, and Time. In conjunction with the launch of Next Issue Canada, Rogers's magazine titles will be available to U.S. subscribers of Next Issue.
Next Issue Canada launches October 15 on iPads,…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications and Sprint Corp. said Thursday that they are teaming up on an in-car infotainment and telematics system in Canada that will offer services such as high-speed Internet to drivers as early as next year.
Auto manufacturers that install Sprint Velocity in Canada will use Rogers' wireless networks to provide connected services including infotainment (news, weather, sports), navigation, climate control, security, emergency services and vehicle diagnostics via an in-dash touch screen. Sprint Velocity also provides connectivity for mobile devices in the car.
"Canadians want to be connected from anywhere, at any time, and with over twenty million vehicles on…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications’ Mansell Nelson says it wasn’t that long ago when Canadian businesses struggled to grasp the concept of machine-to-machine (M2M) technology, and what it could do for them. However, the vice-president of advanced business solutions said that has changed, and that companies now come to him with fresh ideas.
“What we’re seeing is a lot of people looking at existing ways of doing things (in their business) and saying, ‘how do I use wireless to change that? How do I use wireless to save money by doing it that way?’,” he told delegates at the Canadian Wireless…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications said Wednesday evening that it has priced a US$1.5 billion underwritten public offering of debt securities.
The offering consists of US$850 million aggregate principal amount of 4.1% senior notes due 2023 and US$650 million aggregate principal amount of 5.45% senior notes due 2043. The net proceeds from the issuance of the debt securities will be approximately US$1.481 billion, said the company’s press release, which are expected to be used for general corporate purposes.
The sale of the debt securities is expected to close on October 2, 2013. RCI has filed a shelf registration statement on Form F-9…
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MONTREAL – Bell, Rogers, Telus and Videotron said Wednesday that they are teaming up on a new $50 million mobile network for the Montréal metro, a move that will make that city one of the first in the world equipped with a 4G LTE mobile underground network on its subway system.
Within the next five to seven years, some 900,000 daily metro users will be able to browse the web, download music, and make and receive calls as 3G, 4G and 4G LTE technologies are deployed throughout the metro network, including in subway cars, tunnels and stations.
The Société de transport…
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MONT TREMBLANT – The Canadian Cable Systems Alliance celebrated its 20th anniversary in grand style Monday with top notch seminars, a well-attended trade show, awards and a gala dinner which featured Canadian comic Sugar Sammy.
After an opening speech by CRTC vice-chairman telecom Peter Menzies, “unmarketing” pro Scott Stratten wowed the audience with an entertaining take on how in order to go viral, you have to give up control (and don’t sweat your logo too much). Then, with over 300 delegates at this year’s conference, the trade show floor was packed through mid-day then customer service…
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OTTAWA – As widely suspected, no foreign wireless carriers were named as potential bidders for the 700 MHz wireless spectrum according to the list released by Industry Canada early Monday morning.
The 15 potential bidders includes incumbents Bell Mobility, Telus and Rogers Communications, as well as regional carriers MTS, SaskTel, T-Bay Tel, EastLink/Bragg Communications and Videotron. Also named is Wind Mobile parent Globalive Wireless, fixed-wireless operator Vecima and Vancouver-based Novus Wireless.
While new entrant Mobilicity is not on the list, another company owned by its chairman John Bitove, known as Feenix Wireless Inc. is, as is private equity investors Birch Hill Equity Partners and The Catalyst…
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TORONTO – Rogers Business Solutions is beefing up its data centre capabilities with the purchase of Pivot Data Centre and Granite Networks.
The company said Monday that it is acquiring Pivot Data Centres for cash consideration of $155 million, and Granite Networks for a cash consideration of $6.25 million. Together, these two businesses currently generate annualized revenues of approximately $30 million.
Pivot Data Centres is an independent colocation data centre company in Western Canada with three colocation facilities in Calgary and Edmonton and over 100 government agencies and enterprise customers. In the coming months, it will open two additional colocation data…
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