TORONTO – UBS Wireless Services said Wednesday it has added Rogers Communications and Bell Canada, who together own the Inukshuk Wireless Partnership as new defendants in a lawsuit it has filed.
UBS, the owner of Look Communications, filed a statement of claim on April 21, 2004 against Allstream Corp., Microcell Telecommunications, Microcell Solutions Inc. and Inukshuk Internet, for, "amongst other things, specific performance, breach of contract, breach of confidence and breach of fiduciary duty in respect of a Right of Use and Right to Match Agreement between UBS Wireless and Inukshuk Internet Inc. ("Inukshuk") for spectrum licenced to Inukshuk," says…
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TORONTO – Canadian animation fans will soon have two additional outlets from which to get their favourite Teletoon content.
The channel is taking some of its most popular Canadian cartoons to viewers "where and when they want them," says the press release, with the launch of two new digital services, video on demand on April 27 and mobile TV on May 15.
Building upon the recent re-branding of the network, the expansion positions Teletoon as a driver in the move towards fully integrated digital content. "Teletoon now offers a more flexible and far reaching suite of services from traditional…
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OTTAWA – If 2006 was the year of local forbearance and the fight over deregulating the wireline phone market, 2007 will be the year newcomers and incumbents wrestle over wireless.
In fact, the lobbying has already begun. Last week, as reported by Cartt.ca, Quebecor Media CEO Pierre Karl Peladeau told Ottawa’s Canadian Club that the cozy oligopoly of existing players keeps prices high, stifles innovation and ensures new wireless applications already available in other countries are slow to market in Canada.
On Monday at the Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa, a large roomful of wireless regulatory lawyers, financial analysts,…
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STREAMING THE TORONTO MAPLE Leafs online seems like a no-brainer. The team seems to have an insatiable, unlimited fan base.
But, there is much to consider when turning a sports team to the web, especially one that is limited to its own region. Just like LeafsTV is limited to Ontario (except Ottawa), so must any games carried on line be limited to viewing in the same geographic area.
Plus, the web experience can’t be just a rebroadcast of the televised game, otherwise, what’s the point, asks Chris Hebb, Maple Leafs Sports & Entertainment’s senior vice-president of broadcast.
Hebb oversees…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has added NASA Television to the list of foreign TV channels eligible for carriage in digital in Canada, despite objections from CTV’s Discovery Channel.
The CRTC noted in Broadcasting Decision 2007-43 that it found “the overlap between NASA TV and The Discovery Channel or Discovery HD is minimal and that NASA TV is sufficiently different in terms of target audience, service orientation, programming genres and programming to be considered neither partially or totally competitive with The Discovery Channel or Discovery HD.”
The request to bring the U.S. channel featuring documentaries, archival programming and coverage of…
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TORONTO – Rogers Cable has added ATV Home (Hong Kong), NTV Bangla (Bangladesh) and Dandana TV (Middle East) to its list of multicultural programming, which includes more than 60 multicultural channels offered in 24 languages.
ATV Home is a Hong Kong-based Cantonese network offering entertainment programming, including movies, dramas and children’s shows, along with news and current affairs to North American Chinese communities. A free preview is available to May 10th.
NTV Bangla offers news, entertainment, top drama serials such as “Sporsher Baire” and “Tin Purush”, musical programs, movies, documentaries, children’s programs, and cultural programs for Bangladeshis in North…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications` director and counsel – copyright and broadband law, David Laliberte, will be leaving the company at the end of next month.
He has accepted a job offer as general counsel and head of licensing and compliance at the Information and Communications Technology Authority (ICTA) in the Cayman Islands.
The ICTA performs a similar role in the Caymans as the CRTC in Canada, plus a few other functions such as spectrum allocation and domain name registration.
Based in the capital, Georgetown, the country`s regulatory framework is modelled after the Canadian one and “as a result, there…
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WHILE SITTING IN TUESDAY morning’s IPTV session at NAB 2007 in Las Vegas I was reminded of the Sesame Street song: “One of these things is not like the other.”
You know how the rest of it goes, asking kids to pick out the thing in a group of objects that doesn’t belong. Unlike Sesame Street, during this morning’s session kids wouldn’t have been able to tell by looking, but once everyone started talking, it would have been easy.
The panel this morning, led by Carmel Group’s Jimmy Schaeffler, consisted of executives from Verizon, SES Americom, OpenTV, and Qualcomm….
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ALEXANDRIA, VA – Two new corporate patrons are providing their support to the Educational Foundation of the Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM).
Rogers Cable has signed-on as a gold level patron and Suddenlink Communications as a bronze level patron, the CTAM announced Wednesday. They join the 34 companies who are Corporate Patrons of this prestigious program.
As a gold level patron, Rogers will be able to send three of its rising star executives to the Executive Management Program (CTAM U) at Harvard Business School each year.
Suddenlink Communications, as a bronze level patron, will send one executive…
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TORONTO – Canadian Satellite Radio Holdings reported a second quarter loss of $15.8 million Monday, an improvement over the same quarter of 2006.
In releasing its financial results, based on hitting 237,500 subscribers, the company reported revenue for the three-month period ending Feb. 28, 2007 of $4.9 million, also an improvement over the same quarter in 2006.
“We are pleased with our performance this quarter and are confirming our position as Canada’s premium digital audio entertainment and information company,” said John Bitove, CSR’s Chairman and CEO.
“We will continue to build our subscriber base through innovative partnerships such as…
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