TORONTO – Rogers has begun offering live streaming of select Toronto Raptors games.
On-line through Rogers Anyplace TV or via the Rogers Live Mobile app, fans will be able to watch up to 18 live regular season games on their computer or smart phone. Digital TV customers with subscriptions to Sportsnet and Sportsnet One will be offered the games at no extra cost, while Rogers wireless customers can download the Rogers Live app on their smart phones for $5 per month.
“We're thrilled to deliver live games to Raptors fans across Canada," said David Purdy, VP and GM of television products, in…
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TORONTO – Canadian Network Operators Consortium Inc. (CNOC) is appealing two CRTC decisions around wholesale Internet rates plus wants greater transparency in the regulatory process going forward.
Referring to the Commission’s usage-based billing decision which adopted a capacity-based rate structure alongside the traditional flat rate model for wholesale Internet services, CNOC called the capacity-based rates approved for incumbents Bell, Cogeco, Rogers and Videotron “inflated”, which therefore makes it difficult for independent Internet service providers to compete.
“The rates struck under the two decisions were made by the CRTC using a considerable amount of information filed in confidence by incumbents that interested parties, such…
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OTTAWA – Despite Rogers’ promise to drop its Internet traffic management practices (ITMP) this year, it appears as though the company still has a little explaining to do to the CRTC.
In a letter sent to Rogers this week, the Commission’s chief compliance and enforcement officer Andrea Rosen said that further testing uncovered another issue with Rogers’ technical ITMP which she described as a potential instance of non-compliance requiring immediate attention.
“It appears that Rogers applies a technical ITMP to unidentified TCP upload traffic, regardless of the port used, when traffic from certain popular P2P applications is or was recently present”,…
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TORONTO – Rogers has finalized an agreement with TVA Group for TVA Network, TVA Sports, Sun News and related content.
The multiplatform agreement also allows TVA Network's French-language programming to be made available to mobile subscribers in Quebec starting in April, and to digital cable subscribers via video-on-demand (both on TV and online).
TVA Sports is available now in free preview on channels 656 (SD) and 657 (HD) through Rogers’ digital basic package in some markets, and through French theme packs in the rest of Rogers’ systems. Sun News is on channels 142 (SD) and 567 (HD) and distributed via Digital VIP and other…
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TORONTO – The pitch Rogers Digital Media is making to advertisers, agencies and other marketers is audience intelligence, says Rogers Media’s chief digital officer Jason Tafler.
With over 1,000 digital media assets owned and under its management (from the digital presences of Maclean’s and Flare to the company’s popular iVillage and nascent R Deals plus many others the company manages such as NBA.com, Cosmopolitan.com, and HarpersBazaar.com – with more to come), Rogers Digital Media now reaches more than 17 million Canadians per month and has seen a more than 100% increase in visitors in the year Tafler Continue Reading
TORONTO – John Maduri finds the claims being made by Canada’s wireless companies that they need access to 700 MHz wireless spectrum in order to deliver wireless broadband to rural Canadians to be nothing short of a “myth.”
Maduri runs a company, Xplornet, which has long made its living serving many thousands of customers who live and work nowhere near a high-rise. With a combination of fixed wireless and satellite service – and hundreds of millions of dollars invested – Xplornet is serving rural folks just fine, thanks, Maduri said in an interview with Cartt.ca. It’s…
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TORONTO – Mobilicity went to the drawing board to illustrate its opinion on spectrum set-asides in the pending 700 MHz spectrum auction.
Inspired by Charles Dickens' classic novel Oliver Twist, the company issued a political cartoon (see below) satirizing Canada's incumbent carriers' “hoarding of spectrum" and efforts seeking to prevent new entrants' growth.
"For Mobilicity, acquiring more spectrum in the upcoming Federal Government auction is a must-have – not a nice-to-have," said president and COO Stewart Lyons, in Wednesday’s statement. "Our current 3G technology uses our entire 10MHz of spectrum and we need more to expand and introduce new technologies, such as LTE."
Lyons also claimed that…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications’ announcement on Friday of NextBox 2.0 is not “the next big thing,” but just the next new fork in an ever-fragmenting road.
While the telcos roll out their IPTV offerings running Microsoft Mediaroom’s whole home PVR functionality and slick, flexible on-screen guides and web applications, Rogers NextBox 2.0 (Cisco’s much-touted Videoscape) is an utterly necessary upgrade to the cable experience, bringing it to a more even footing with the growing competition of Bell’s Fibe TV in Toronto.
While about 300,000 of Rogers existing digital cable boxes will be able to handle the new…
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TORONTO – Rogers has added a number of independent films to its Rogers On Demand and Rogers Anyplace TV movie lineup after finalizing a deal with Tribeca Film.
Beginning immediately, Tribeca Film will release Edward Burns' Newlyweds, as well as Black Butterflies, Conception, and Neon Flesh. The films are available for rent on Rogers On Demand channel 100 starting at $5.99 and on-line at Rogers Anyplace TV starting at $4.99. Additional titles will be added in the coming months.
"We're thrilled to be working with Tribeca to expand our on-demand library and give our customers access to quality films that don't…
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MISSISSAUGA – The Shopping Channel celebrated its 25th birthday with the largest ‘Today’s Showstopper’ unit sales record in the company’s history.
On February 25, the Rogers-owned multi-channel retailer offered Canadians a special Diamonelle sterling silver necklace for $25, and sold 25,000 units plus an additional 9,000 units online. That beat the channel’s previous sales record for ‘Today’s Showstopper’ unit sales set January 23, 2010 with more than 23,000 units of Elizabeth Grant skincare sold.
“We wanted to share our 25th birthday with Canadians by delivering a special item at a fantastic price-point. The overwhelming response we received reinforces the outstanding relationship with…
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