TORONTO – There’s only a few weeks left to register for the Canadian Wireless Trade Show scheduled for September 25 – 26 at the Toronto Congress Centre in Toronto.
Now in its third year, the B2B tech, telecom, and wireless networking event will feature over 120 exhibitors from the U.S. and Canada. This year’s lineup of live talks includes Google executive Richard Trinder on the wireless shopper; Samsung Business Division VP Paul Brannen on security and BYOD devices; plus presentations from representatives of Rogers, Bell, Telus and Microsoft. A new addition to the show this year is iHub, an interactive and informative…
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TORONTO – Rogers has unveiled a new wireless share plan that lets customers and small businesses share wireless data, voice and features across any 10 wireless devices.
The ‘Share Everything’ plans allow individuals, families and small businesses to connect up to 10 wireless devices – including smartphones, talk and text phones, tablets, the Rocket stick, hub and mobile hotspot – to a single plan. Customers choose the data bucket that suits their needs and share that data across devices for greater flexibility and savings.
"A surge in data consumption means Canadians are looking for ways to more easily manage and share…
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MISSISSAUGA, ON – Rogers Media has outfitted The Shopping Channel with a new look.
The makeover includes a new logo an on-air graphics; an updated website; new mobile platforms that include an app for iPhone and iPad; and new studio sets and programming segments.
“Our brand evolution enhances this unique shopping advantage by reflecting changing online retail habits and desires, allowing for superior accessibility, and ultimately enabling our customers to discover more of what they want”, said president said Steven Goldsmith, in the…
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MISSISSAUGA – The SCTE Ontario Chapter is seeking papers for presentations to be conducted at its Fall Meeting and Vendor Show scheduled for November 4, 2013.
As part of the organization’s ongoing effort to spearhead HFC best practices, the call for papers requests the submission of abstracts for presentation on the following topics :
– Sweep in the new environment;
– Stability – Network soft tools and hard tools;
– Leakage best practices;
– Battery theft and network security;
– Quality assurance of contracted work force – network maintenance;
– Contractor workforce management (NIKA) – manage money, workforce , and escalations;
– Network maintenance training for contractors;
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AMID THE SWIRLING STORM surrounding the impending 700 MHz spectrum auction, a certain fact is often cited – followed closely by often obtuse, naïve assumptions which have served to warp the spectrum debate.
The fact we’re talking about is how Rogers, Bell and Telus own 85% of the existing spectrum licensed for wireless services in Canada. It’s a big number. It’s the correct number. When you put it in a pie chart (as the Industry Canada web site has), it looks daunting and very important. However, those who use that number to say the big three…
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TORONTO – Rogers is kicking off a national event series and contest geared to driving small business growth in Canada, the company said Tuesday.
Starting next month, Rogers Talks will bring together experts in social media, marketing and sales to share knowledge and applicable best practices with small business owners and employees across Canada. Events will take place in Toronto, Kitchener/Waterloo, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver from October 28 to November 12.
In addition, the company will award five technology grand prize packages worth $20,000, including mobile devices from Rogers and BlackBerry, as part of a contest entitled Rogers…
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TORONTO – Rogers Media is promising its viewers, listeners and readers star treatment of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) which begins this Thursday, September 5 and runs through September 15.
TIFF fans can wake up on Thursday morning to Breakfast Television live from the red carpet at the Ritz-Carlton Toronto beginning at 5:30 AM. Throughout the festival, Entertainment City will continue to bring audiences the day’s first scoop on late-night, breaking entertainment news on television, online, tablet and mobile.
On City, viewers can catch Entertainment City on CityNews at 5, 6, and 11 p.m. ET where hosts Dina Pugliese, Melanie…
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NEW YORK – Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam told Bloomberg News on Monday that his company will not be entering the Canadian wireless marketplace after all and that it wasn’t all that interested in the first place.
He told the news organization in no uncertain terms the company is not interested in investing here and all the speculation that it might enter the Canadian market was “way overblown”. He told Bloomberg that Canada held some limited appeal for the company, but now that it announced it will pay British telco Vodafone $130 billion…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC has decided November 5th is the day it will hear why Corus Entertainment should be able to purchase French specialty channels Historia and Series+, three Ottawa radio stations and the piece of Teletoon (including its other animation brands) it does not yet own.
In March, Corus agreed to purchase the assets in question as part of the divestitures required as conditions of the Bell Media purchase of Astral Media. While it already held 50% of Teletoon/Télétoon (as well as Teletoon Retro in English and French, and the Cartoon Network) with Astral, it…
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MONTREAL and TORONTO – Bell and Rogers have both sided with the NDP in the party’s call for an emergency meeting with the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology to review the federal government’s wireless policy.
First proposed in a motion tabled by NDP Industry critic Chris Charlton, the meeting was officially scheduled to take place Tuesday, and will be held in camera.
“Public hearings are the ideal opportunity for open and constructive dialogue among consumers, government and industry to find a solution to the problem of the wireless loopholes,” said George Cope, Bell Canada…
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