MONTREAL – While its competitors in the telecom industry are becoming more vertically integrated, Cogeco president and CEO Louis Audet says his company is comfortable in its position as a mid-sized telecom and has no plans to copy companies like Bell and Rogers by acquiring TV specialty channels or building a wireless network.
Audet has a reason to be confident. Cogeco's first-quarter earnings, released Thursday morning before the annual shareholders' meetings of the company and subsidiary Cogeco Cable, shows its profit up 20% to $47.9 million from $39.8 million for the first quarter of last year,…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications has upgraded two of its most popular high speed Internet plans to include faster download speeds and higher monthly data allowances.
The company’s ‘Express’ package will boost its download speeds from up to 12 Mbps to up to 18 Mbps and data allowances from 60 GB to 70 GB, while its ‘Extreme’ package will see download speeds increase from up to 24 Mbps to up to 28 Mbps and data allowance from 100 GB to 120 GB. The package prices will also jump by an extra two dollars per month to $48.99 and $61.99, respectively.
Rogers said…
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GATINEAU – CRTC vice-chairman, telecom, Len Katz, has been elected acting chairman of the CRTC, the Commission confirmed Wednesday morning.
He will remain as acting, or interim, chair until such time as the Government of Canada names a new chairperson. Katz has been serving as vice-chairman of telecommunications since October 2007, and was previously the executive director of broadcasting and telecommunications. Before joining the CRTC, Katz spent 30 years in the private sector as president and COO of Digimerge Technologies and president of Rogers Business Solutions, among other senior roles. (And Cartt.ca profiled him here).
Under the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission…
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TORONTO – Rogers Radio has begun streaming the Humble and Fred Radio.com podcasts across 19 of its station's websites and through its mobile app.
Humble and Fred Radio.com is an uncut, uncensored and irreverent daily podcast hosted by Canadian radio personalities “Humble” Howard Glassman and Fred Patterson (and Cartt.ca profiled the series’ debut last October here).
“We are very proud to partner with Humble and Fred and offer this unique, innovative show to our Rogers Radio listeners,” said Julie Adam, VP of programming for Rogers Radio, in Tuesday’s announcement. “It’s like having another Rogers radio station that lives solely in…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has sided with online gamers in their complaints against Rogers Communications’ network management policies.
The Commission’s Chief Compliance and Enforcement Officer Andrea Rosen told Rogers in a letter on Friday that based on preliminary evidence, its Internet throttling practices are in breach of the net neutrality rules within the Telecommunications Act. It also gave the company two weeks to either dispute the evidence or provide a plan to come into compliance with the Act.
“Based on the preliminary results of our ongoing investigation, Commission staff is of the belief that Rogers Communications Inc. applies a technical ITMP…
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VANCOUVER – Rogers Communications and Wavefront, Canada's wireless centre of excellence for commercialization and research, are teaming up a on new centre that helps technology innovators develop products and bring them to market faster.
Called the Rogers Wireless Innovation Centre, the facility will offer innovators the opportunity to learn and connect with the latest global wireless technology, work with key developers, and share their solutions with industry leaders. It is scheduled to open in Vancouver this spring.
The two organizations also announced plans for the Rogers Wavefront Innovation Mentorship program, a national initiative that will pair early-stage wireless technology companies from…
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TORONTO – CTV Toronto has launched an interactive online video platform that it says puts viewers in the heart of its latest news stories.
Shot via iPhone with ‘Dot’ technology from Kogeto, CTV’s 360 View allows viewers to go to its website and immerse themselves in news stories by seeing everything that’s happening from a 360 degree viewpoint. Viewers can choose which viewpoint they want to watch, and then virtually spin around inside by swiping or clicking on the video. (Check out a sample online by clicking here.)
“We’re reinventing storytelling by 360 degrees,” said Paul Rogers, SVP of CTV…
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OTTAWA – Telus says that its proposal for an spectrum cap in the 700 MHz auction is the “fairest” way the federal government can meets its competition agenda and ensure that there are multiple winners outside of the three incumbent wireless players.
In an interview with Cartt.ca, Telus’ senior VP of regulatory and government affairs Michael Hennessy explains that the company has heard, loud and clear, the government’s message that it wants to continue with its competition agenda begun with the Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) auction, maximize investment in Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks and ensure that rural Canadians enjoy…
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TORONTO – Rogers Media has named Gavin Roth as vice-president of multiplatform sales, and expanded the role of Mitch Dent, executive vice-president of sales for Rogers TV.
Reporting to Dale Hooper, senior vice-president of sales and marketing, Roth (right) will be responsible for providing strategic account leadership for all of Rogers Media, with a strong focus on developing cross-platform sales initiatives across multiple brands. He assumes the newly created role on January 30.
Prior to joining Rogers Media, Roth was VP of…
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AFTER ITS HIGHEST voter turnout on record, the Ontario chapter of the SCTE has added three new members to its board of directors for the 2012 – 2013 term.
D’Arcy Brown (Rogers) and Joe Caruso (Clearcable Networks) were both named as directors, while Scott McPhail (Telonix) was named secretary. They join current board members Joe Ciccone, Mario Massi and James Myles.
The organization’s bylaws require six board members, elected for two year terms, with three board members replaced each year in order to provide continuity.
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