TORONTO – The Association of Canadian Advertisers is demanding that proposed changes to the Internet domain program be scrapped, warning it “could become a minefield for criminal activity, aimed at consumers especially, if it remains possible for others to hijack trusted brand names”.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has proposed a new program that would permit applicants to claim virtually any word – generic or branded – as domain suffixes (for example .shaw, .rogers., .bell, .beer, .toys), supplementing the 22 generic top-level domains (TLDs) now in use, such as .com, .edu, .net, .gov, and .org. The…
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OTTAWA – Rogers Broadcasting and Astral Media Radio were among a handful of radio broadcasters that received only short term licence renewals after the CRTC questioned their adherence to regulatory obligations.
The Commission renewed the broadcasting licence for Rogers’ CFUN-FM Chilliwack and its transmitters CFUN-FM-1 Abbotsford and CFUN-FM-2 Vancouver for only one year – from September 1, 2011 to August 31, 2012 – to allow for an earlier review of its compliance with the radio regulations and its conditions of licence. It also issued a mandatory order requiring the station to comply with its conditions of licence relating to local…
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GATINEAU – As more Wind Mobile customers endure dropped calls when they get beyond the reaches of the company’s wireless network and roam onto the Rogers Wireless net, the wireless newcomer has told the CRTC it has had enough – again – and that the Commission must act and set aside its recent decision.
Wind Mobile has asked the CRTC to review and vary a decision rendered on June 3 (TD CRTC 2011-360) which dismissed the Wind’s undue preference complaint against Rogers over the hard handoffs from network to network when Wind customers roam, mid-call, onto the Rogers’…
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TORONTO – Veteran business journalist Craig Leddy and technology writer Leslie Ellis have been confirmed as the instructors for CTAM Canada’s next day-long course called ‘How Cable Goes to Market’.
Scheduled for October 18 at Rogers Cable at 333 Bloor Street East in downtown Toronto, the course is open to and applicable to cable and programming marketing professionals. It will provide participants with a better understanding of:
– The latest cable technologies and new products;
– Complex technologies and terms in a non-technical language;
– Emerging technologies’ effect on cable business and marketing;
– The opportunities and challenges of deploying new products;
– Requirements to meet…
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TORONTO – Rogers will launch its Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in Toronto on September 28, the company confirmed Tuesday.
Rogers customers in both Toronto and Ottawa (where Rogers launched LTE in July), may now reserve a selection of LTE wireless devices through its new reservation system available here. To date, Rogers’ LTE product line includes a smart phone from HTC and the Samsung Galaxy S II; the LTE Rocket mobile hotspot (Sierra Wireless AirCard 754S); the Rogers LTE Rocket stick, and an LTE tablet.
Rogers said that its LTE devices are capable of maximum theoretical download speeds of…
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OUTSPOKEN CONSUMER GROUP OpenMedia.ca is miffed that it has yet to be invited to meet with new Industry Minister Christian Paradis.
After a report on Bloomberg noted that Minister Paradis held meetings earlier this month with 13 of Canada’s largest telcos – including Bell, Rogers, Telus, and Shaw – the organization issued a statement claiming that “positions the Industry Minister to create key digital policies in the Big Telecom lobby’s narrow commercial interests rather than those of Canadians”.
“Time and again the Big Telecom lobby has shown its neglect, and even disdain, for the Canadian public’s communications interests”, said OpenMedia.ca executive director Steve…
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ANTHONY LACAVERA CARRIES two BlackBerrys with him wherever he goes. One is a Wind Mobile handset, of course. The other, Rogers (with the logo scratched off).
The Globalive chairman and Wind Mobile CEO wants to make sure wherever he goes, he can do a real-time comparison of his own of his company’s network performance versus the Canadian mobile market leader, via his own handset. Just last week he was doing that in Kitchener-Waterloo, Wind’s newest market.
In a couple of years, he hopes to be able to do the same thing in many more places using a more robust bit…
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TORONTO and MONTREAL – Rogers Sportsnet is partnering with Quebecor-owned TVA on the new French-language sports channel TVA Sports that will launch nationally on September 12.
The new channel plans to air more than 60 Toronto Blue Jays baseball games and 25 regional Ottawa Senators hockey games (Rogers owns the English-language broadcast rights to these properties, plus the Blue Jays team). TVA Sports has declared itself the official broadcaster of Major League Soccer’s Montreal Impact, plus has signed a multi-year agreement with Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) for live fights and The Ultimate Fighter series (which also airs on Rogers Sportsnet).
The…
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MONTREAL – Montreal’s Metro 14 will launch in high definition this Saturday.
The Channel Zero-owned station also confirmed that it will be launching in HD on Cogeco systems around the Montréal area later this fall. It is currently available on Videotron, Bell TV, Shaw Direct Rogers, and over-the-air in HD.
New to channel’s fall primetime lineup, which debuts September 12, are series The Insider, Hart of Dixie, and The Secret Circle, plus a new morning show that will premier in early October.
www.metro14.ca
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TELEVISION HAS ALWAYS been served to a household. At first, people had one TV in their homes, then another and then another which received the signals from broadcasters over the air, then via cable, satellite and now telco TV too.
The signals were – and are – the same, sent at the same times to everyone, whole households, which contain any number of people at any age with many tastes. As the TV phenomenon exploded through the 1960s and ’70s, broadcasters began to segment, finding spaces in their schedule to serve, for example, stay at home moms (soaps) or kids…
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