TORONTO – Rogers announced today it will be exclusively offering customers deals for six to 12 months of Disney+ when they sign up for the streaming service through Rogers, which has now integrated Disney+ into its services.
Select Rogers Infinite plans will now come with an offer of six months while select Ignite TV and SmartStream plans come with an offer of up to 12 months of Disney+.
“Rogers is the first telecommunications provider in Canada to join with Disney to bring its rich mix of original content that includes beloved classics, compelling series, and recent blockbuster releases to customers’ screens,”…
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Will overbuild Cogeco
TORONTO – Rogers announced today it is investing over $140 million to connect over 20,000 homes and businesses to high-speed Internet.
The investment will bring the company’s fibre-powered network Quinte West, Belleville and Prince Edward Country.
“Once completed, residents and business owners will have access to the full suite of services including Rogers Ignite Internet with download speeds of up to 1.5 gigabit per second and Rogers’ leading IPTV service, Ignite TV,” says a press release.
A Rogers spokesperson confirmed via email the entire project is being funded entirely by the company.
August 4th UPDATE : What’s rather interesting with this…
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Bureau notes past Shaw comments about its influence in the market
By Ahmad Hathout
OTTAWA – The Competition Bureau has asked the Federal Court to compel the disclosure of records from four telecoms related to its inquiry into the proposed purchase of Shaw by Rogers.
The competition watchdog filed the first in a possible series of document requests on July 22, which, if approved, will force Bell, Telus, Quebecor, and Xplornet (respondents) to disclose related information on mobile wireless activity in the shared operating provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Manitoba, and outside.
That information, which falls roughly within the timeframe between…
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GATINEAU – OUTtv, Canada’s only specialty service dedicated to LGBTQ2+ communities, submitted a letter to the CRTC this week, replying to interventions submitted on its licence renewal application and calling out Rogers and Bell for using double-standards.
“Regrettably, while claiming to support OUTtv’s service, programming and mandate to serve and reflect LGBTQ2+ communities, both companies are opposed to OUTtv’s request to ensure that OUTtv is widely offered to Canadians and properly compensated by a fair and adequate wholesale fee,” the letter reads.
OUTtv’s renewal application requests a distribution order that would require Broadcasting Distribution Undertakings (BDUs) to carry OUTtv both on…
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TORONTO — Rogers Communications this morning reported solid results for the second quarter of 2021, including strong wireless and Ignite TV subscriber net additions and a 14% increase in total revenue.
For the three months ended June 30, 2021, Rogers reported wireless postpaid net subscriber additions of 99,000, Internet net subscriber adds of 9,000 (including 15,000 net new broadband subscribers), and Ignite TV net subscriber adds of 66,000.
That brings Rogers’s subscriber totals to 9.8 million wireless postpaid subscribers, 1.2 million wireless prepaid subscribers, 2.6 million Internet subscribers and 668,000 Ignite TV subscribers as of the end of the quarter.
“Our solid…
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TORONTO — Rogers Communications ranked highest overall among Canadian wireless carriers in a new study released today by umlaut, a global mobile network testing and benchmarking company.
For its audit report, which was commissioned by Rogers, umlaut tested and measured the performance of voice and data services on smartphones based on drive tests in Canadian cities and towns, as well as on connection roads, between March 22 and June 18, 2021.
Overall, Rogers was the winner of umlaut’s “Best in Test” mobile benchmark award with a total score of 911 points out of a maximum of 1,000 points.
In addition, Rogers was…
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Telus fastest mobile operator during the quarter
SEATTLE — Shaw Communications and Rogers Communications were the fastest fixed broadband providers in Canada in the second quarter of 2021, according to Seattle-based broadband and mobile network testing company Ookla, which released its Q2 2021 Canada Market Report today.
Using Speedtest Intelligence data from the second quarter, Ookla gave Shaw and Rogers speed scores of 181.66 and 179.95, respectively, for their fixed broadband network performance. Ookla’s speed score incorporates measurements of each provider’s download and upload speeds to rank network speed performance, with 90% of the final score being attributed to download…
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Rogers, Telus and Bell have all put out new low-cost and occasional-use wireless plans in compliance with a CRTC directive to do so by today.
The directive was part of the outcome of the CRTC’s recent review of mobile wireless services and required each of the three national companies to provide customers with three new low-cost mobile plan options.
The Commission mandate says the carriers must include unlimited Canada-wide calling, unlimited text messaging, and a minimum of 3 GB of data. Fido (owned by Rogers), Koodo (owned by Telus) and Virgin (owned by Bell), are all…
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MONTREAL — Rogers Communications announced today it has expanded its 5G network to reach 14 new communities in Quebec, bringing the total number of towns and cities in the province that currently have access to Rogers 5G to more than 80.
The 14 communities where Rogers has recently expanded its 5G network are Beauharnois, Beloeil, Blainville, Châteauguay, Dollard-des-Ormeaux, La Prairie, L’île-Perrot, Pointe-Claire, Repentigny, Rosemère, Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Saint-Charles-Borromée, Saint-Lazare and Vaudreuil-Dorion.
The 5G expansion is part of Rogers’s investments over the last 18 months to enhance wireless network connectivity in more than 162 communities throughout the province, according to a Rogers press…
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Rogers Communications announced today that Spotify is now available on Ignite TV and Ignite SmartStream.
This gives Rogers Ignite customers “access to more than 70 million tracks and over 2.6 million podcast titles,” according to a Rogers press release.
This content can be accessed by saying “Spotify” into the Ignite voice remote.
“Customers can get started with Spotify Free or subscribe to Spotify Premium for an enhanced listening experience, including ad-free music listening.”
For more, click here.
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