INDUSTRY MINISTER CHRISTIAN PARADIS’ head is spinning. After a couple of days on the ground at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the Minister had talked to so many people and seen so much interesting new technology, he pronounced himself overwhelmed, impressed and excited by it all, in an interview with Cartt.ca on Tuesday.
MWC is one of the largest wireless industry conferences in the world with about 70,000 attendees – and it is known as the get-together where you’ll find the highest number of CEOs and other senior wireless executives. Thousands of vendors, app developers, handset makers and…
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TORONTO – Astral's The Movie Network today launched streaming service The Movie Network GO (TMN GO), as well as HBO GO Canada and TMN Encore GO that altogether puts more than 1,500 hours of HD-quality programming at subscribers' fingertips.
Available at no additional cost with a subscription to The Movie Network and TMN Encore, TMN GO offers instant and unlimited access to more than 1,200 titles comprised of Hollywood hit movies, exclusive series from HBO, Cinemax and Showtime, and classics from every era. With the launch of TMN GO, subscribers can now watch what they want, when…
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TORONTO – If you’re in the broadcast, recording, retail or live concert arms of the music industry; it’s time to vote for the 2013 Canadian Music & Broadcast Industry Awards at Canadian Music Week (CMW). Make yourself heard and register to vote today. Voting deadline is Friday, March 1.
CMW has also announced that Amanda Logan, radio announcer and assistant music director at CHUM FM in Toronto, is the recipient of the 2013 Allan Waters Young Broadcaster of the Year Award in Memory of Steve Young. The award will be presented during the Radio Consultants…
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TORONTO – In about 30 minutes, Omnicom Canada CEO Fred Forster put a good scare into a room of broadcasters and ad folks Monday afternoon when describing the impending near future for the TV advertising business.
In a speech to the Broadcast Executives Society lunch Forster, the head of Omnicom in Canada (Omnicom is a $14.5 billion global ad agency) painted a picture of how Big Data is taking over the media buying world, rendering the old metrics of CPMs (cost per thousand) and GRPs (gross ratings points) useless to agencies and their clients
“GRPs and the currency we see today…
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TORONTO- An alliance comprised of eight leading mobile operators is demonstrating the technical capability of its single worldwide SIM card via a web-based platform at Mobile World Congress 2013.
Rogers Communications, KPN, NTT Docomo, SingTel, Telefonica, Telstra, VimpelCom and Etisalat are working to bring a technology to market that will simplify the process of global M2M deployments. As the largest mobile operator coalition in the world, the alliance aims to eliminate complexity for multinational companies associated with worldwide deployments of connected devices.
Throughout Mobile World Congress…
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TORONTO – No more zombies, slick ad salesmen, or meth dealers on Rogers? That’s the warning that AMC has gone public with as its contract negotiations with Rogers Communications appear to be festering.
Sunday night, during the airing of The Walking Dead, a crawler appeared at the bottom of the TV screen informing viewers to “take action” by going to www.keepamccanada.com. There viewers could choose from email, phone, Facebook or Twitter to contact Rogers and urge it to keep AMC in its channel lineup.
While AMC’s shows such as The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad…
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TORONTO – Featuring "speed-of-light access to breaking news, scores and stats, customizable alerts, and premium content" the newly re-designed Sportsnet mobile apps for iOS devices is now available for free on the App Store and in iTunes.
Following the launch of the recently enhanced app for the BlackBerry 10 platform, Sportsnet Mobile for the iOS platform is designed with the serious sports fan in mind, and uses the latest in mobile technology says Sportsnet. The app combines speed and functionality to provide greater access to stats, customizable alerts and up-to-the-second game scores from the biggest…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC today pared back some of the rates which large internet service providers can charge independent ISP competitors for using their networks.
This battle has raged on for a number of years as independent ISPs like Teksavvy, Telnet and others attempt to carve out a market for themselves as ISPs serving a small slice of the Canadian populace who’d rather not be subscribers of one of the big telcos or cablecos. In order to do that though, those small ISPs need access to the big networks owned and run by Bell, Telus, Rogers and others just the…
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GATINEAU – If adopted, the draft wireless code of conduct will likely cause some significant unintended consequences, SaskTel told the CRTC during the last day of the hearing Friday. The provincial Crown corporation pointed to the potential for unsatisfactory experiences, increased use of notifications and mandatory caps on overage fees as ones that could have big negative impacts on Canadians.
The amount of information that consumers will need to know can be considered excessive and will hinder wireless operators’ ability to improve efficiencies, according to SaskTel executives. Under the draft code, consumers would be subjected to a lengthy process involving…
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TORONTO – The future of cable is IP, and the CEO of Rogers says the company plans to take a similar leadership role in advancing its IP network offerings for customers that it did in introducing smartphones.
“Everyone is going IP, that is the future of cable,” said Rogers president and CEO Nadir Mohamed who also announced he will retire in January 2014, but will continue to lead the company through 2013. He was speaking at a media call this morning in Toronto. Late yesterday the company released its fourth quarter results of 2012 which beat…
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