TORONTO — Rogers Communications announced late this afternoon Tony Staffieri (above) has been appointed as the company’s president and CEO, effective immediately.
Staffieri’s appointment follows a months-long period of turmoil at the company last fall during which board chair Edward Rogers sought to remove previous CEO Joe Natale, who eventually left the company in mid-November. At the time, Staffieri was appointed interim president and CEO.
Previously, Staffieri was Rogers’s chief financial officer until his abrupt departure at the end of September, before the power struggle at the company became public knowledge.
A press release today from Rogers says…
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TORONTO – Dave Fuller (above), president of Rogers Wireless, is leaving the company, according to the Globe and Mail.
A report today says an unnamed source told the Globe Fuller, who has been president of Rogers’ wireless division since April 2021, will be replaced by Phil Hartling, a long-time Rogers executive who was in charge of expanding Rogers rurally last year.
This follows a boardroom dispute that saw Edward Rogers, chair of the Rogers Control Trust and of the Rogers board, removing and replacing several board members, his decision to do so being upheld by the Supreme…
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NFTC begins construction in Mono and Amaranth
DUFFERIN, Ont. – Southwestern Integrated Fibre Technology (SWIFT) announced today Rogers Communications finished construction on a fibre-optic network that now offers high-speed Internet to 107 homes and businesses in Dufferin County in the community of Garafraxa Woods.
Rogers broke ground on the project, which was announced in September 2020, this past summer. The Governments of Canada and Ontario contributed $419,036 to the project through SWIFT, according to SWIFT’s website. The total value of the project is $687,804.
“Today marks an important milestone as our teams, in partnership with SWIFT, completed the construction in…
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CORNER BROOK, NL – Rogers Communications today announced it will expand its fibre network to connect 1,780 homes and businesses in Humber Village, Little Rapids and Bell Island, Newfoundland and Labrador.
In addition to the network expansion, which will reach across 163 kilometers, Rogers will install a new wireless tower “and the existing tower will be upgraded on Bell Island to provide reliable wireless connectivity throughout the island,” a press release says.
“Over the past year, when Canadians relied on connectivity more than ever before, we made significant investments in our network to connect communities across Atlantic Canada,” said Matt MacLellan,…
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HALIFAX – Rogers Communications announced today Rogers Pro On-the-Go is now rolling out in Halifax, the first city in Atlantic Canada to get access to the service.
“The innovative Pro On-the-Go service offers personalized one-to-one support and phone delivery to Rogers wireless subscribers as soon as the same day, at no extra cost,” a press release says.
“The Rogers Pro will hand-deliver the device and guide customers step by step on how to set it up, while also helping to transfer applications, contacts and photos, and set up email, all based on their personal preferences. The Rogers Pro will also bring…
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GATINEAU – Numerous intervenors in their final submissions to the CRTC continue to argue the merger of Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications is not in the public interest and should be denied, despite the fact Rogers offered some concessions in its reply on day five of the recent hearing into the matter as well as in other documents since submitted by the company to the Commission.
(You can read Cartt.ca’s coverage of the CRTC hearing here, here, here, here and here.)
The final submissions, which were due Monday, point to several problems the intervenors argue remain…
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SAN JOSE, Calif. and TORONTO — Harmonic, a provider of virtualized cable access and video delivery solutions, announced today Rogers Communications has chosen Harmonic’s CableOS cloud-native converged core platform to power Rogers’s next-generation multi-gigabit broadband services.
Rogers is deploying the CableOS platform in a distributed access architecture (DAA) with virtualized cable modem termination system (CMTS) software and the Ripple Remote-PHY (R-PHY) node, explains a press release.
“The CableOS Platform is future ready to support converged cable and FTTH, DOCSIS 4.0 technology and other advanced services including edge cloud,” the release reads.
Rogers is using Harmonic’s technology “to fully converge its data, voice…
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NORFOLK COUNTY, Ont. — Southwestern Integrated Fibre Technology (SWIFT) announced today Rogers Communications has completed construction of a 70-kilometre fibre-to-the-home network bringing high-speed Internet access to 2,116 homes and businesses in Norfolk County, located southwest of Hamilton.
The Ontario communities covered by the network project include Wilsonville, Boston, Bealton, Dundurn, Waterford, Townsend Centre, Villa Nova and Bloomsburg, according to SWIFT’s press release.
SWIFT awarded the contract to Rogers in January 2020 and the telecom started construction that July.
According to SWIFT’s approved projects webpage, the network project was originally expected to be completed in August 2021.
The overall cost…
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SEATON, B.C. — Rogers Communications announced today it has started construction on the first of 12 new cell towers that will help close gaps and improve safety along B.C.’s Highway 16 between Prince Rupert and Prince George, known as the Highway of Tears due to the many Indigenous women and girls who have disappeared or were found murdered on the route.
“At Rogers, we are deeply committed to reconciliation and to using our technology to help connect rural, remote and Indigenous communities,” said Jorge Fernandes, chief technology officer at Rogers Communications, in a press release.
“It is our hope that by…
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OXFORD COUNTY, Ont. – Rogers Communications started construction on a project to bring high-speed Internet to 484 homes, farms and businesses in the communities of Drumbo and Gobles in Oxford County by April 2022, Southwestern Integrated Fibre Technology (SWIFT) announced today.
This broadband project, previously announced in October 2020, is valued at $1.5 million and is being funded in part by the Governments of Canada and Ontario, which have committed up to $349,000 each. The contracts were awarded to Rogers by SWIFT.
The “project will service 15 kilometres of roadway with fibre-optic cabling to provide more homes and businesses within…
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