MISSISSAUGA – The SCTE Ontario chapter is looking for speakers for its fall meeting, to be held Thursday, October 12, 2006 in Mississauga. The theme of the meeting will be: Testing and Troubleshooting Advanced Cable Networks.
The chapter is inviting anyone with unique skills or procedures for testing and troubleshooting some aspect of HFC plant and services to share that unique knowledge gained during a career in broadband cable telecommunications with your fellow members.
Potential participants are invited to provide a one paragraph description of what they would like to talk about in a 15 to 30 minute presentation…
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TORONTO – Bill Harper, Rogers Communications’ vice-president and chief procurement officer is going coastal.
The Pacific Gas and Electric Company, of San Francisco, Calif., announced today it has hired Harper as vice-president of strategic sourcing and operations support, effective August 21.
Harper will lead the utility’s supply chain, sourcing, materials operations, supplier diversity, transportation services, corporate real estate, transformation, environmental services, safety, health and claims, technical and land services and environmental quality assurance work.
“Bill brings more than two decades of experience in leading procurement and sourcing initiatives,” said Tom King, president and CEO of PG&E.
Prior to his stint…
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WINNIPEG – MTS Allstream and Rogers announced Thursday they are going to get along.
MTS said it reached a settlement with Rogers Communications over the provision of certain long distance traffic under the terms of a Long Distance Services Agreement entered into in November 2004.
Under the terms of the settlement, the two companies have entered into a new agreement for MTS Allstream to continue to provide web hosting services to Rogers, and that work is continuing to finalize an agreement respecting the ongoing provision of data services. The revised LD Agreement will continue until its expiry on December…
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TORONTO – Having family and friends in an overseas war zone is harrowing enough without having to pay a massive cell phone bill.
So, through August 31st, Rogers Communications employees can make calls and send text messages to Lebanon, Israel, Cyprus and Turkey for free.
A memo sent last week by RCI president and COO Nadir Mohamed outlined the offer. "It’s almost impossible to miss the daily media coverage of the events in Lebanon and Israel," he wrote. "And I imagine that if you have family or friends in the area, you are paying even closer attention – searching…
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THE CREATORS OF ICRAVETV.COM (remember that?) predicted, just by launching their web streaming service in 1999, that the momentum pushing TV programming off the tube and onto the net – and beyond – was unstoppable.
Although they hadn’t sorted out licensing and rights issues before making online streaming a tantalizing, if forbidden, fruit, the service was too far ahead of their time.
That time is now.
Content producers of all kinds are on the cusp of a frenzied push to move digital video beyond TV, to make greater use than ever of Internet-based broadband channels, and to go further,…
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MISSISSAUGA – Tuesday morning’s topic was plant powering. About what works best and most efficiently – and how to work safely.
The afternoon was concentrated on trying to put a little white ball into a slightly larger white hole – otherwise known as golf.
The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers Ontario chapter’s annual golf tournament is growing in popularity and this year 148 members came to Mississauga’s Lionhead Golf Course for the event on July 25th.
Rogers Cable’s Vasile Jerca was first to speak on HFC outside plant powering. Thomas Humphrey of APC’s topic was about essential power requirements for…
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ALVISO, Calif. – Digital video recorder pioneer TiVo said this week it has created TiVo Audience Research and Measurement (ARM), a division of the company which will offer advertisers and advertising agencies, for the first time, second-by-second data and analysis on DVR viewing of advertising content.
"TiVo’s commercial viewership reports provide advertisers an unrivaled, comprehensive and detailed look at how commercial content is viewed and consumed on a second-by-second basis," said Tom Rogers, president and CEO, TiVo. "Through our unique technology, in households serving 4.4 million subscribers, and our close co-operation with advertisers and advertising agencies, we have developed…
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THE TECHNOLOGY IS the easy part. Everything else is maybe just a bit frustrating.
The regulatory landscape for voice over Internet protocol, Vonage Canada’s raison d’etre, may be changing underfoot and the company has had its share of scrapes with incumbent telcos and cable companies. A particularly bitter one with Shaw Communications is still active in the courts and in front of the Commission, as we’ve reported.
Through it all, Vonage’s chief Canadian executive, president Bill Rainey, seems pretty upbeat. The former Group Telecom and Telus executive and manager is convinced he can beat the bundle being…
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TORONTO – Mobisodes from TVOntario and its French language counterpart TFO are now available to Bell Mobility, Telus, Rogers Wireless, Aliant, Sasktel and MTS cellular customers.
Thanks to a partnership with Toronto’s QuickPlay Media, a company which is quickly ascending to the leadership spot among Canadian broadcasters wanting to go wireless, kids and parents will be able to stream or download an array of kids content from TVO/TFO anytime, anywhere on their mobile phones.
The partnership provides French-speaking teens, traditionally underserved in the mobile market, the opportunity to view mobisodes of TFO’s award-winning youth magazine show, Volt, the first…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications will grow its western presence, assuming its $39.8 million purchase agreement with OK Radio passes the regulatory test.
As originally reported here by Cartt.ca, the two companies have been negotiating for some time.
OK Radio’s Alberta stations include CHDI-FM (Radiosonic FM – modern rock) and CKER-FM (World FM – multicultural) in Edmonton, CJOK-FM (Country 93.3); CKYX-FM (A/C) and its transmitter CJOK-FM-1 in Fort McMurray; and CFGP-FM (Sun FM) Grande Prairie and its transmitters CFGP-FM-1 Peace River and CFGP-FM-2 Tumbler Ridge.
OK also owns 100.3 the Q (rock) and The Zone 91.3 (modern rock) in Victoria,…
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