WINNIPEG – Canada’s largest ISPs have joined forces with Cybertip.ca, Canada’s child sexual exploitation tip line, to launch a new voluntary initiative to help in the battle against online child sexual abuse.
The new initiative, named "Project Cleanfeed Canada", is the latest contribution from the multi-stakeholder Canadian Coalition Against Internet Child Exploitation (C-CAICE). It’s intended to make the Internet safer for Canadians and their families by reducing their chances of coming across images of child sexual exploitation on the Internet.
The participating ISPs – which so far include Bell Aliant, Bell Canada, MTS Allstream, Rogers, SaskTel, Shaw Communications Inc.,…
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TORONTO – If Rogers and Bell are on the same side of an issue – working together even – you know they see a threat.
Today, Rogers Communications, Bell Canada, Telus, Sask Tel, MTS Allstream, and the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance released a research report saying 81% of Canadians do not want to pay a new fee for conventional broadcast stations.
As has been reported repeatedly by Cartt.ca the concept of fee for carriage has been pushed by Canadian broadcasters and will be front and centre at the upcoming CRTC Television Policy Review beginning Monday, November 27th in Hull….
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has added six new foreign ethnic channels have been added to the eligible satellite list.
All were sponsored by Rogers Cable and they are:
* Aaj Tak Channel is a 24/7 Hindi-language programming service providing news and information on world events, current affairs and financial developments. None of the programming offered on the service is accompanied by English- or French-language subtitles or secondary audio programming
* De Pelicula Channel is a niche service featuring Spanish-language films of different genres and epochs. Its programming includes contemporary and classic Spanish-language movies from all eras, including films from…
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LEONARD ASPER HAS been front-and-centre on the fight for regulatory change in broadcast television.
Of all the broadcast CEOs in Canada, he has stuck his neck out the farthest in demanding things as fee-for-carriage and increased advertising flexibility. As you’ll read, much is riding on his company’s submission and the eventual new policy emanating from the CRTC decision which will be announced in 2007.
During the hearing days, expect much hay to be made on CanWest’s request for an extra 50-cents per TV subscriber per month for each conventional broadcaster.
At the Canadian Association of Broadcasters annual conference in…
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IF CANADA’S INCUMBENT TELEPHONE companies want total deregulation quickly, they’re going to have to do it for (and to) themselves, in the marketplace.
Yesterday Industry Minister Maxime Bernier told the Economic Club of Toronto, with numerous telecom executives in the audience, that the federal government will force the CRTC to deregulate "access independent" VOIP services, no matter which company offers them or where.
The voice services offered by Primus and Vonage are prime examples. The consumer buys a special box, perhaps downloads some software and "poof", they have VOIP service in their homes –and perhaps portably, too.
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OTTAWA – Okay, perhaps they won’t re-name the second feed, but the CRTC Thursday granted TSN permission to offer additional programming channels on a digital-only basis.
The new condition of license will let the national sports network deliver specific feeds (most often live events that conflict) to individual BDUs. So, for example, if TSN holds the rights to a figure skating event and an NHL hockey game, it can show both live rather than shuffle one off to tape delay.
The CBC and CanWest objected while Rogers Sportsnet sought certain protections to ensure TSN didn’t turn into a full-time…
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TORONTO – Rogers Cable launched pay service NBA League Pass today.
The new addition (which provides access to all National Basketball Association games the same way MLB Extra Innings, NHL Centre Ice and NFL Sunday Ticket does) means Rogers Super Sports Pak customers will be able to enjoy more than 600 NBA games during the regular season (including some in HD).
"Rogers is also the first company worldwide to offer such an extensive sports package that includes more then 600 NBA games, 1100 NHL games, 2000 MLB games, over 200 NFL games, as well as un-matched coverage of the…
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APPROXIMATELY FIFTY SUPPLIERS from the U.S. and Canada are expected in Kelowna at the 2007 Canadian Communications & Technology Trade Show & Seminars.
This annual two-day event will take place at the Coast Capri Hotel in Kelowna, B.C. on May 30-31, 2007.
Vendor and sponsorship packages are now available plus the call for technical papers for seminar speakers.
Cable companies, telcos, sub-contractors, telecommunications providers, and utilities will be invited to attend the seminars and trade show. Attendee information will be distributed in January once the seminar topics are in place. By offering a low attendee fee, companies are able…
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OTTAWA – Is access to an ILEC’s local loop – or even a cable operator’s plant – an essential service that must be opened to competitors?
That’s just one of the questions being asked of the telecom industry by the CRTC in a public notice released Thursday. It will be a huge and complex undertaking that involves the Competition Bureau, the Telecom Policy Review Report and the federal government and could end up redrawing the rules of the telecom game so that the Competition Act, and not the Telecom Act, takes precedence over the industry’s disputes.
In legalese, the…
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TORONTO – Two of Canada’s big cable companies must think HDNet is a winner.
Both Rogers Cable Communications and Bell ExpressVu began courting the U.S. all-high definition channel in June, when the CRTC added HDNet to the list of approved satellite services.
On Tuesday, after a summer of rate haggling, HDNet announced it’s signed on with both.
In a statement, Mark Cuban, HDNet’s Chairman and co-founder as well as being owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, expressed delight with the deal with Rogers.
Then in a second statement, he expressed the same measure of delight in being ExpressVu’s partner….
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