CALGARY – Rogers Wireless is partnering with local technology companies to help employers keep their lone workers safe and comply with new provincial legislation mandating that employers must be in constant contact with employees working alone.
The company is offering portable wireless safety communication products such as the tiny ‘Loner’ by Blackline GPS which provides its GPS location and includes a panic button for emergencies and a motion detector that tracks lack of motion which can indicate a worker in distress.
For oil and gas workers who may be traveling alone in their vehicles, NelTrak, an Alberta-based wireless solutions provider, has developed a GPS unit…
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OTTAWA – Canadian Wireless Telecommunications (CWTA) members have created a new code of conduct to underscore their commitment to high standards of service and support to their customers.
The new code will “safeguard the rights of consumers”, and serve as a resource in the complaint resolution process by Canada’s Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services (CCTS). Unlike other jurisdictions that have developed wireless carrier conduct guidelines, such as in the U.S. where the code is strictly voluntary, the Canadian code will be backstopped by the third-party and independent CCTS, the announcement detailed.
“This new Code will ensure that customers have the…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications Inc. has agreed to purchase for cancellation 1.8 million its outstanding Class B non-voting shares for $49,381,920 pursuant to a private agreement between it and an arm’s-length third party seller.
The shares represent approximately 0.36% of the Class B shares outstanding at August 31, 2009. The private purchase was made under an issuer bid exemption order issued by the Ontario Securities Commission.
The Class B shares purchased under the private purchase will be included in calculating the number of Class B shares that Rogers may purchase through its outstanding normal course issuer bid.
All of the 22,029,900 Class…
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TORONTO – Happy 25th Birthday TSN.
The self proclaimed “Canada’s Sports Leader” is marking the event with a cross-country promotional tour, the launch of e-store TSNShop.ca, the release of a coffee table book called TSN 25 Years, a TSN25 micro-site on TSN.ca, and the debut of a revamped on-air look for its flagship daily show Sportscentre.
So what’s changed since the station launched from its modest facilities in Don Mills, ON back on September 1, 1984?
“Pretty much everything”, laughs president Phil King in an interview with Cartt.ca.
King, a chartered accountant by trade, started with TSN in 1989 in its programming…
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TORONTO – While the 2010 Winter Games are still months away, pre-Olympic programming started Monday night on Canada’s Olympic broadcast media consortium’s array of television networks and promotional partners.
From athlete profiles, to a look back at Olympic greats, to no less than 10 hockey-themed specials, it seems as though there will be no shortage of build up and hype across CTV, Rogers Sportsnet, TSN, RDS, RIS Info Sports, OMNI, OLN, APTN, Discovery Channel, Bravo!, NHL Network and V, the rebranded French network TQS which is available in Quebec over the air, and nationally on cable and satellite.
“The plethora…
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TORONTO – These are busy days for Boris Culum, the winner of the SCTE’s first Young Canadian Engineering Professional of the Year award.
The manager of voice network planning at Rogers Cable has been an important part of the massive growth of the company’s Home Phone product, which has gone from essentially zero to nearly 900,000 wireline customers in just over four years.
While the service is still growing (adding 21,000 customers in the last reported quarter, ended June 30th, for Rogers), that growth has slowed this year as its penetration among basic cable customers approaches 50%.
Culum and the eight senior…
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ALEXANDRIA, VA – Rogers has picked up four nominations for the 2009 CTAM Mark Awards, to be handed out October 26 at the CTAM Summit in Denver.
The MSO received nominations in the ‘Acquisition and Upgrade Marketing/Campaign’ category for Rogers Cable Q4 TV Superiority: HD; in the ‘Competitive Marketing/Campaign’ category for its Rogers Hi-Speed Internet Superiority campaign; in the ‘Multicultural Marketing/Campaign’ category for The Whole World Plan – New International Long Distance Launch campaign; and in the ‘Traditional Direct Response Marketing/TV Spot/Promo (Non Campaign)’ category for Loading Bar DRTV.
Teams of marketing and agency executives chose the finalists over five days of judging…
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TORONTO – Errol Hinds spent the early part of this summer assuring people that Setanta Canada was doing just fine, thanks.
The reason? The company’s U.K. subsidiary went under, losing English Premier League soccer and other rights on its way to the dustbin.
“I don’t know a huge amount of what happened there,” said Hinds, Setanta Canada’s general manager in a recent interview with Cartt.ca of the British Setanta channel. “The way Setanta is set up though is that it is different entities in different countries… so our rights deals were independent of the English company.”
However, that bit of bad news…
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WHILE WE WAIT for the CRTC to decide whether or not Al Jazeera English can be distributed in Canada by cable, satellite and telco TV companies, I already have it in my office.
Actually, I have both the English and Arabic versions, right now, on my television. (No Canadian BDU offers the Arabic version because even though it’s on the eligible satellite list, the regs around it say that BDUs must employ Arabic language censors to monitor it 24/7, if they want to launch.)
And yet, here they both are, in standard definition, full-screen quality, on my 30-inch LCD television thanks…
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OTTAWA – After renewing the broadcasting licences of Rogers’ OMNI television stations for another six years, the CRTC has denied its request to broadcast ethnic programming during "peak" time, and to remove the conditions of licence relating to the overlap of programming between OMNI and Rogers’ Citytv stations.
The Commission did approve Rogers’ request to “harmonize” its requirement for Canadian programming across all of its multiethnic OMNI stations. It further agreed to amend the requirement of CJMT-TV Toronto (OMNI.2) for the provision of ethnic programming in order to harmonize it with the conditions of licence of the other OMNI stations, and will…
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