OTTAWA – Telus is telling Industry Canada that it stands to lose as much as $200 million in an auction of the 2500 MHz bandwidth if the current spectrum swap proposal remains unchanged.
The company’s comments come as verbal sparring over the specific rules for transitioning wireless broadband spectrum in the band continued this month with interested parties arguing over transition deadlines and the amount of spectrum to be given back to Industry Canada for auction.
Telus says that adopting the department’s plan would result in incumbents retaining 21% more spectrum than they currently have. This “would be…
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GATINEAU – Atop Broadband received a Class 1 Broadcast Distribution Undertaking license from the CRTC today to serve the Greater Toronto Area.
Under its license the company can serve Ajax, Aurora, Bolton, Brampton, Caledon, East Gwillimbury, Etobicoke, Georgetown, King City, Markham, Milton, Mississauga, Newmarket, Nobleton, Oakville, Orangeville, Oshawa, Pickering, Richmond Hill, Scarborough, Toronto, and Vaughan (Kleinberg, Maple and Woodbridge).
The company is owned by Robert Socci, president of Atop Communications, and according to the proceeding’s documents, it appears it will be an over-the-top video provider that will provide its own set-top box using its customers’ existing cable DOCSIS or telco…
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OTTAWA – Wind Mobile has asked the CRTC to step in to try and make sure its customers’ calls aren’t repeatedly fumbled with so-called “hard handoffs” from its roaming provider Rogers Communications.
Wind wants the Commission to toss a flag on Rogers and grant it seamless, or soft, handoffs. A hard handoff, for example, means a Wind customer call is cut off as he moves out of out of a Wind network zone into a Rogers area. A soft handoff would mean the call isn’t dropped as the subscriber moved from network to network while chatting.
In a Part VII filed…
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ROBERT RABINOVITCH guided the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for seven years, seeing it through a period of unprecedented change in the media business while enduring the apathy, if not utter disdain from the body which holds its purse strings: the federal government.
Running the CBC hasn’t gotten any easier since he left in early 2008. The CBC still faces disdain, if not now open hostility from the government in power and critical funding shortfalls amid global, ongoing media transformations that make even the most flexible organization dizzy and its employees fearful.
We wanted to know what the former CBC CEO thinks of…
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TORONTO – While many entrepreneurs understand marketing tools and the impact that they can have when building a successful business, many do not have the in-house expertise, time or budget to launch national campaigns to advertise their brands.
In celebration of Small Business Month, Rogers Communications has partnered with MasterCard and The UPS Store to provide entrepreneurs and small business owners with free access to promotional tools, insight into best practices, and the chance to win $35,000 in free advertising.
Throughout October, small business owners across the country are encouraged to visit www.celebratesmallbusiness.ca to access numerous resources, and to…
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AFTER MICROSOFT OFFICIALLY launched Windows Phone 7, the next major version of its mobile operating system, a flurry of press releases hit Cartt.ca’s inbox about new phones that will utilize the new technology.
HTC Corporation unveiled five new Windows Phone 7 smart phones – HTC 7 Surround, HTC 7 Mozart, HTC 7 Trophy, HTC 7 Pro and HTC HD7. The company described Windows Phone 7 as "carefully crafted to help users get more done in fewer steps" thanks a unique Hub and Tile interface. The Windows Phone 7 Hubs offer quick and easy access to a user’s most recent information including People, pictures, games, music and video,…
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IS CANADA READY for mobile money? Find out at the 2010 Mobile Money Forum – A Canadian Perspective scheduled for November 9 -10 at the Westin Hotel in Ottawa.
Hear and discuss the latest Canadian thinking on mobile money with speakers from Paypal, the Canadian Payments Association, the Retail Council of Canada, Research in Motion, Rogers Communications and more.
Register before October 16 and save $200 on a full forum pass. Click here for more information or to register.
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OTTAWA – Rogers Broadcasting will be flicking the switch on a new format in Ottawa on Monday.
The former Oldies 1310 will become 1310News, Ottawa’s only all news radio station. With local, regional, national and international news all day, every day, Ottawa listeners will now have a radio station that provides traffic and weather together every ten minutes, every hour, plus sports twice each hour, and business news and market updates when the North American stock markets are open.
“We’re delighted to have the opportunity to deliver comprehensive 24/7 news coverage to the residents of Ottawa and the Valley”, said local…
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TORONTO – The Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) says that it lauds the CRTC’s recent decision to reject requests from Rogers and CTVglobemedia to reduce their Canadian content requirements in order to provide increased programming flexibility for their conventional television stations.
In a statement on Tuesday, the organization accused the broadcasters of “making Canadian programming the scapegoat for Canadian broadcasters’ difficulties”.
“The Commission made the right call. The group licensing policy is a single framework for the television sector, and not a collection of individual policies that can be cherry-picked to suit the broadcasters’ purposes or applied inconsistently across competitive…
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TORONTO – The late Ted Rogers was inducted into the international Wireless History Foundation Hall of Fame at a gala dinner of the Wireless History Foundation held earlier this week in San Francisco.
Melinda M. Rogers, Ted’s daughter and SVP of strategy and development for Rogers Communications, accepted the award on behalf of the family and company.
"Until his death two years ago, Dad was often dubbed a ‘media mogul’ and a ‘cable czar’," Rogers said in a statement. "But arguably his greatest success came in wireless telecommunications.”
Today, Rogers is the largest wireless telecommunications company in Canada with 56% of its…
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