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VICTORIA – Vecima Networks announced it has been named as a defendant in legal proceedings filed in the Supreme Court of Ontario by Inukshuk Wireless Partnership. Inukshuk, alleges in the legal proceedings that an agreement existed for Vecima to sell to Inukshuk certain radio spectrum and that Vecima did not comply with that agreement. In the legal proceedings, Inukshuk is seeking, among other things, an order requiring Vecima to sell the radio spectrum to Inukshuk, an injunction preventing Vecima from selling the radio spectrum to any other person, and monetary damages.
Vecima believes the legal…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications says it’s now taking reservations for the BlackBerry 10 smartphone to be offered on its LTE network in early 2013.
"Building on our history of innovative firsts, we are excited to offer our customers the opportunity to be among the first in the world to reserve their BlackBerry 10 device," said John Boynton, executive vice president marketing, chief marketing officer, Rogers Communications. "Rogers was the first carrier in Canada to launch BlackBerry, and the first in Canada to launch an LTE network. We look forward to adding BlackBerry 10 to the largest…
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OTTAWA – In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court of Canada said Thursday that the CRTC does not have the jurisdiction to allow conventional over-the-air broadcasters pursue a wholesale fee from BDUs for the carriage of their signals. The court’s decision should just about bring to a close the so-called fee-for-carriage (FFC) or value-for-signal (VFS) debate.
The court heard the case back in April which was essentially between the big BDUs, which had always stood against VFS, and Bell Canada. Canwest Television was listed as a respondent, but that was a leftover artefact of the earlier case as Canwest’s new…
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TORONTO – Rogers Media and The Alberta Media Production Industries Association (AMPIA) have partnered to create a development initiative that benefits local production communities.
The Rogers Development Fund, a revolving loan program, provides funding to support the independent producers of Alberta and Manitoba in the creation of new and innovative projects in the mediums of television, film, and digital.
The program is available to individual Canadian producers or production companies who have been residents of either province for at least one year. The fund will begin accepting loan applications on February 15, 2013; interested…
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OTTAWA – On Thursday, the Supreme Court of Canada will release its ruling on whether or not the CRTC has the jurisdiction to let conventional, over-the-air local broadcasters pursue a fee for the carriage of their signals by subscription television providers. The appeal was heard back in April, as Cartt.ca reported.
The ability for local broadcasters to charge a cable, satellite or telco TV provider a wholesale fee (and by extension of course, Canadian subscribers) has been something TV station owners have pursued off and on for decades. The CBC asked for the ability to pursue…
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GATINEAU – While most agree that Canada definitely needs a national, mandatory code of conduct for wireless providers to adhere to when dealing with their customers, agreement on what this code will actually say is another matter entirely.
Submissions were due into the CRTC last week on the Commission’s proceeding to establish a mandatory code for mobile wireless services. A public hearing will start February 11th – after the Regulator itself releases a draft code for discussion next month and conducts three more days of public, online consultations.
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) will have its very own Oprah moment to explain why the CRTC should not issue a mandatory order requiring it to adhere to its nature of service conditions of licence and why its licence should not be suspended or revoked as first reported by Cartt.ca.
The hearing is scheduled for 9 am on December 11, at the Conference Centre, Phase IV, 140 Promenade du Portage, Outaouais room, Gatineau, Quebec.
You can listen to the hearing through a live audio feed available on the CRTC’s website and…
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TORONTO – The past year has been a strong one for Canada’s big three telcos (see Figure 1 below), but new wireless pricing plans will cut into Average revenue per user (ARPU). In particular, a new Rogers Wireless price plan (see Figure 2) launched on November 7 and matched immediately by Telus and Bell, along with a maturing smartphone market and looming threat from Wi-Fi could combine to slow future growth. This according to research from analysts Dvai Ghose and Sanford Lee in Canaccord Genuity’s latest Daily Letter to investors.
“On the surface, one could conclude…
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NEW YORK – Rogers Communications wants to team up with U.S. cable companies to serve more large enterprise firms that have facilities spread throughout the North American continent.
Andy Striegler, vice-president of carrier services for Rogers Business Solutions (RBS), made the pitch to his MSO colleagues at an industry conference in New York late last week. Speaking at Light Reading’s Future of Cable Business Services event, he urged U.S. cable providers to link their networks and develop their wholesale businesses so they can compete with incumbent telcos and competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) for large commercial prospects.
“Moving from servicing small businesses…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications says it supports the development of a strong national consumer wireless code that provides consumer protection standards that treat Canadians equally, regardless of where they live.
The company submitted comments to the CRTC that build on the draft code that the company put forward to the regulator this past spring. Today is the final day for companies and individuals to submit their comments on developing a wireless code ahead of a proceeding that will include a public hearing beginning on February 11, 2013, in Gatineau, Que.
