By Ahmad Hathout
The Federal Court of Appeal has set a date for a hearing into whether the CRTC erred in freezing Rogers’s ability to move and remove certain Corus channels.
The court will hear the case on September 23 at 9:30 am in a special sitting in Toronto, according to an order dated Friday.
Rogers filed the original application against two confidential November decisions of the CRTC that froze its ability to remove or relocate three Corus channels: Slice, Home Network, and Flavour Network.
Rogers has argued that the Broadcasting Act’s standstill rule – which requires the two companies…
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Rogers announced last week it has launched new Roam Like Home Travel Passes that allow customers travelling internationally to roam worry-free for 14 or 30 days at a time, “for one all-in price”, it says.
Customers can pick a travel pass based on where they’re going and for how long, with tailored options for the U.S., Mexico and the Caribbean, or Europe, or the Roam Like Home International Pass with up to 185 destinations.
“Our travel passes are great for trips with multiple stops — travellers can hop between different destinations…
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By Ahmad Hathout
A landowner is asking a British Columbia court to scrap a right-of-way that gives Rogers the authority to build a 115-foot cell tower because it says the term “telecommunications facility” in the contract it inherited is vague and provides no certainty as to the size of the tower Rogers intended to build.
In September 2024, Surrey-based glazing and aluminum company Alummen Holdings Inc. (dba Vision West Aluminum) purchased from CPO Enterprises Ltd. the property located in the Gloucester Industrial Park in Langley. With the purchase came a statutory right-of-way (SROW) registered to the title of the property that…
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The United Steelworkers union (USW) is alleging Rogers is refusing to return to the bargaining table with striking workers in Abbotsford, B.C., and is instead bringing in managers from Alberta and other parts of British Columbia to do the work of unionized employees on strike.
The 25 technicians who are members of USW Local 1944 have been on strike since June 19, after negotiations with Rogers failed to deliver a contract that ensured equal pay for the Abbotsford workers when compared to their counterparts in Vancouver and Surrey, the USW says. The Abbotsford…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Rogers says it is being hamstrung by having to set aside money for the $750-million Broadband Fund that it says is not efficiently distributing money to projects.
The cable giant said in a Part 1 application made public Monday that it has to tie-up millions of dollars in “uncalled” contributions – amounts that the telecom must be ready deliver to the National Contribution Fund (NCF) when requested – which is creating large liabilities on its balance sheet.
It is asking the CRTC to change the NCF’s collection practices to prioritize the amounts that are waiting to be collected over…
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Rogers announced Monday it is now offering next-generation Wi-Fi 7 to Rogers Xfinity customers in select areas of Calgary.
The cable giant said Rogers Xfinity will roll out Wi-Fi 7 to the rest of Canada this year.
“The launch of the Rogers Xfinity router in Alberta is the company’s most powerful,” said a Rogers press release. “It is capable of delivering multi-gig symmetrical speeds over WiFi with the ability to connect 200+ devices at one time. The router is available exclusively with Rogers Xfinity’s Pro 4G plan, delivering up to 4 Gbps…
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By Ahmad Hathout
As Corus and Rogers battle in court over carriage of programs, both urged the CRTC Friday to take a closer look at how the regulator reviews the issues that give rise to such disputes.
The CRTC is currently reviewing the dynamics between the distributor and the programmer as the regulator moves to incorporate online streamers into the regulatory fold.
One issue the commission is examining – and one that has embroiled Rogers and Corus for nearly two years – is the use of the standstill rule, which stipulates that disputing parties must maintain carriage of programs on the same…
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Rogers announced Monday it has installed a new 5G+ in-building network system and antenna infrastructure to support 50,000 fans at the new seasonal outdoor concert venue Rogers Stadium located at YZD (the former Downsview Airport lands) in Toronto.
Representing a $5.2-million investment, the Rogers Stadium 5G+ network project required 3,800 hours of planning and 2,300 hours of equipment installation by the Rogers team, including more than 50 antennas around the lower bowl and at the top of the stadium over 20 metres from the ground, according to a Rogers press release.
Designed to…
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Telus alleges Bell complaint a delay tactic
By Ahmad Hathout
Bell is alleging that Telus is unduly disadvantaging its newly branded television networks after the broadcaster signed a deal in March to carry Rogers’s Warner Bros. Discovery programming.
In the partially redacted complaint, dated late April but only made public by the CRTC last week, Bell says its USA Network, Oxygen True Crime, CTV Nature, CTV Speed, and CTV Wild services are being treated unfairly because the broadcaster is allegedly looking to remove the services from some packages containing Rogers’s Discovery content.
“We are not trying to maintain a de facto access right…
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By Ahmad Hathout
If the CRTC mandates information disclosure for wireless services like its 5G home internet, then it could stunt Rogers’s effort to bridge the digital divide, the cable giant said Thursday.
“Introducing what’s being considered here, for something that’s not captured by the legislation, could impose costs and burdens upon Rogers in the infancy of its launch of this product that actually undermine achievement of that critical public policy objective,” Dean Shaikh, Rogers’s senior vice president of regulatory affairs, told the commission studying the implementation of standardized information to make it easier for customers to choose internet services.
“This is…
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