VANCOUVER – Canadians are tuning in to the 2010 Olympic Games in record numbers.
Live coverage of the Opening Ceremony on Friday night made history as the most-watched television event ever in Canadian history. On average, 13.3 million Canadians watched every minute of the 3.5 hour ceremony. The figure eclipses the previous record-holder, the Gold Medal hockey game at the Salt Lake City Games in 2002 (10.3 million), by 29%.
Airing live across 11 television networks in 11 languages, 23 million viewers, or two in every three Canadians (69%), tuned in to some part of the ceremony.
A total of 27.7 million Canadians, representing 83%…
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FREDERICTON – Here comes another lawsuit between Canadian Internet service providers.
Bell Aliant has brought legal action against Rogers over its claims of having the “fastest and most reliable" high speed Internet product, the company announced Monday.
In a legal claim filed in the Court of Queen’s Bench in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Bell Aliant said that current advertising by Rogers is “false and misleading”, and said that it’s own FibreOP service provides speeds that are superior to those advertised by Rogers. With respect to network reliability, Bell Aliant said that it has one of the most reliable networks in North America,…
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RALEIGH – The world’s smallest M2M wireless communications module has been certified for launch on the Rogers Wireless Network.
Telit Wireless’ GE865-QUAD, the smallest globally available GSM/GPRS module, is the seventh Telit M2M module to be certified by Rogers. All of the modules support a range of applications such as consumer electronics, security and surveillance, smart grid, fleet management, asset tracking, and remote device management and maintenance.
With its small form factor and optimized power consumption, Telit says the GE865-QUAD is ideal for consumer electronics or body-worn tracking and tracing or telemedicine applications.
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MONTREAL – Perhaps due in part to some public pressure, Cogeco Cable has signed on to offer the video-on-demand coverage of the Olympics offered by the Games’ Broadcast Media Consortium.
Cogeco joins Rogers Cable, Shaw Cable, EastLink and its subsidiary Delta Cable and Source Cable in offering the 700 hours of VOD content free of charge beginning February 13 with the Opening Ceremony.
All coverage will be available within 24 hours after its original airing to Cogeco’s digital cable customers in Québec and Ontario that have access to VOD on channel 600.
A Cogeco spokesperson wrote in an email to Cartt.ca that…
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OAKVILLE and TORONTO – Rogers Communications has bought Oakville Hydro telecom Blink Communications. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Blink Communications provides business data and Internet services to customers in Toronto, Mississauga, Oakville, Milton, Burlington, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville, Port Hope, and Belleville, ON.
“Oakville Hydro has been very successful in developing Blink Communications over the past 11 years,” said Oakville Hydro chair Gary Burkett, in the announcement. “But Rogers can now bring the capital resources and expertise required to continue to grow the business to meet the needs of Blink’s customers.”
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TORONTO – Canadian Women in Communications has named their annual award winners for 2010.
Kirstine Stewart, GM of CBC Television, has been named the CWC 2010 Woman Of The Year. This award recognizes an outstanding woman who has made a significant contribution to the communications industry throughout her career, and who has contributed materially to the advancement of women within the industry.
The CWC Leadership Excellence Awards celebrate women of achievement who have distinguished themselves in any sector of the communications industry and have, in recent years, contributed to the industry through their achievements.
This year’s winners are:– Change Leader: Valerie…
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OTTAWA – Wireless industry stakeholders are calling on the CRTC to initiate a separate review of the mobile data services framework and its applicability under the recently established Internet traffic management practices (ITMP) framework, rather than include the matter in a broader consultation on certain legacy telecom obligations.
They say the matter is largely administrative in nature and can be best handled separately.
“It would be a lot simpler in my mind to have dealt with that in a very small paper proceeding,” Michael Hennessy, Telus’ senior VP of regulatory and government affairs said in an interview.
“I suspect…
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OTTAWA – Three of Canada’s largest telecommunications service providers agree that it’s time to review the nearly 10-year-old contribution regime and make changes to the local subsidy that better reflect the reality of today’s telephony landscape.
Their comments come after the CRTC issued a consultation on the contribution regime and other related matters last week (Telecom Notice of Consultation 2010-43).
The current contribution regime, established back in 2000 (Telecom Decision 2000-745), requires all TSPs with revenues greater than $10 million to provide a portion of their earnings to a national pool that would be made available to telecom…
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EXTON, PA – Cable television pioneer Israel “Sruki” Switzer will deliver the keynote address at the upcoming SCTE Canadian Summit 2010.
Widely regarded as the most knowledgeable cable technology engineer Canada has ever produced, Switzer provided leadership and advocacy in the development of concepts and practices that advanced the cable television industry and inspired other great Canadian broadcast entrepreneurs such as Ted Rogers and Moses Znaimer. His profound understanding of cable technology and his vision and advocacy in support of the unlimited technical capabilities of the network helped to pave the phenomenal growth of the cable industry in Canada.
The second…
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QUEBEC CITY – Radio-Canada has launched a new Internet site, TOU.TV, the first in Canada offering free access to a well-stocked library of old and current French-language television dramas, variety shows, and current affairs productions.
The launch of the new site, enriched by the content from 20 other broadcasters and production companies, puts the public broadcaster firmly in a leadership position, said Radio-Canada vice-president Sylvain Lafrance, because viewers are quickly adopting the web as the place to get their television fix and they have nothing else quite like it, in English or in French.
Already, more than 2,000 hours of…
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