SAN ANTONIO, TX – AT&T will cast a wider net for mobile customers this year by building out its network to make catching a high speed wireless web connection easier coast-to-coast.
The big telco today announced highlights of the company’s 2008 wireless network expansion plans, including the deployment of third-generation (3G) wireless broadband service to more than 80 additional cities in the United States through the course of the year.
The planned expansion is expected to deliver GSM provider AT&T 3G services to nearly 350 leading U.S. markets by the end of 2008, including all of the top 100…
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WINNIPEG – MTS announced Tuesday that it had achieved its 2007 revenue guidance, hit the high end of predicted EBITDA and free cash flow guidance, and exceeded its earnings per share guidance for the fiscal year 2007, ended December 31.
In 2007, growth services (wireless, Internet, TV, unified communications) revenues increased by 12.6%, and EPS from continuing operations increased by 15.6%.
"These results underline how 2007 marked a turning point for MTS. With the successful execution of the strategy we developed in 2006, we have proven that we can meet the competitive challenges of our industry and we are…
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TORONTO – Beginning today, The Score will provide sports updates to broadcaster Global News Ontario.
The Score’s daily sports coverage will be seen during Global’s 6 a.m. Morning News, Noon News, 6 p.m. News Hour, and 11 p.m. News Final.
The sports channel’s updates replace those of Rogers Sportsnet, which supplied sports updates for Global previously. But with Rogers now owning Global Television competitor Citytv, that supply deal couldn’t continue.
Global outsourced its sports coverage to Sportsnet after firing nearly all of its sports staff in 2006.
“The Score’s sports coverage will bring the Global News Ontario…
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TORONTO – Bell Canada today announced a new agreement with CBC/Radio-Canada to deliver the broadcaster’s coverage of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Summer Games to Bell mobile phone, digital satellite television and high-speed Internet customers across Canada.
Bell and CBC had a similar deal during the Torino Olympics of 2006.
As the official Canadian broadcaster of the Beijing Games, CBC/Radio-Canada will offer extensive and in-depth Olympic coverage, which will be made available to Bell customers across Canada in forms ranging from video streaming on mobile phones to full high definition television feeds of specific sports during the Games.
"This agreement…
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TORONTO – Barbara Williams, Canwest Broadcasting’s executive vice-president, content, made official her new direct reports last week, pulling together the assets of both Global Television and the newly acquired Alliance Atlantis assets.
“What results from the combination of these two teams is that Canwest Broadcasting now has the top talent in every genre and on every platform – lifestyle, comedy, hard news, drama, documentary, magazine, and all the hybrids in between,” said Williams, in a release today. “I am so impressed with the expertise and the experience of each and every person, and am truly excited about the potential…
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CALGARY – The Shaw family purchased a million shares of their own company this week, which would have cost them about $19.5 million.
A month ago, it would have cost them about $25 million, but the stock price – along with many on the TSX, has drifted downwards in the past 30 days. Rogers Communications has dropped from $45 to $38 over the same time frame and Cogeco Cable has tumbled from $48 to the $39 range as well.
The Shaw family now holds 47,669,356 Class A and Class B shares of their company.
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HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of new dollars could pour into the Canadian television system under a new fee-for-carriage plan proposed by Canada’s two main private broadcast networks.
Rivals CTVglobemedia and Canwest made a little history Friday by filing a joint submission to the CRTC’s review of its policies governing broadcast distribution undertakings (cable and satellite companies) and specialty services. Those hearings are set to begin April 7th.
Saying conventional television – thanks to the ever-increasing rate of audience fragmentation driven by specialty services and new media outlets – is in “crisis”, the broadcasters want the Commission to add a subscriber…
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YOU’D THINK THAT headline is just common sense, given the glut of propaganda on Facebook but visitors to the social network site of late have been faced with ads from a company called iPhonenow.ca which promises to sell you an Apple iPhone for $549 that will work in Canada.
They offer “Extreme Limited Quantities” and promise delivery in three to six weeks. The web site also says “telephone support is extremely limited,” so don’t go looking for any help when you try to unlock a phone that both Apple and Rogers aren’t willing or able to offer in Canada…
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MONTREAL – Quebecor Media’s Videotron now has over 636,000 local telephony customers, the company announced this morning.
Three years to the day of the company’s launch of the service, the cable company’s voice over IP phone customer list continues to grow at a pretty amazing rate.
Powered by a very low price, at year end, there were more than 636,000 residential and business subscribers to Videotron cable telephone service, a year-over-year increase of 238,500, or 60%, announced the company.
In 2006, there was a net increase of nearly 235,000 in the number of consumers who opted for it. Between…
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TORONTO – The speed at which change arrives and is being forced on everyone in the media space is still so breathtaking that hard and fast answers on what we must do today, tomorrow and well beyond are still pretty elusive.
After listening to some strategy, regulatory and technical sessions at this week’s annual Canadian Broadcast Distribution Association conference (formerly the Canadian Satellite Users Association), those were my conclusions, anyway.
The last 12 months have born witness to four large mergers: CanWest now owns Alliance Atlantis; CTVglobemedia runs the former CHUM channels; Rogers has Citytv; and Telesat got together…
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