EVERY VOICE OVER IP CALL that is routed through the PSTN is a lost opportunity, says Dr. Baruch Sterman, CEO of Kayote Networks, a company which can provide and operate a complete VOIP system for any size broadband operator.
Cable companies and other VOIP companies should be peering, he says, working together to make sure that calls placed on a cable system, for example, are routed over IP from cable company to cable company. Not only will it save money, but it will boost the feature set.
Every call that hits the PSTN will have features VOIP providers would…
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GATINEAU – Bell Canada has applied to the CRTC to be allowed to carry one or both of Canada’s satellite radio subscription services on its cable BDUs serving parts of Ontario and Quebec.
Bell has two regional Class 1 digital licences, serving Toronto, Hamilton/Niagara, Oshawa, Kitchener, London, Windsor, Ottawa, and the surrounding areas, and one serving Montreal, Gatineau, Sherbrooke, Quebec City, and the surrounding areas. The Ontario BDU will roll out starting in Toronto later this year, while the Quebec service is already operating in parts of Montreal, the company said in its application. Bell wants to be able…
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TORONTO – It’s fitting that a company so committed to technology has commissioned an electronic work of art. Rogers Communications has unveiled a piece of public art at its downtown Toronto building on Bloor near Jarvis.
Created by British artist Julian Opie, “People Walking 2006” is a huge flatscreen, measuring 10 feet by 6 feet, using tens of thousands of tiny LED lights that form life-sized electronic stick figure drawings that seem to walk. There are nine figures, male and female, based on the artist’s line drawings of actual people, whose patterns of movement are generated at random. It is…
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TORONTO – Rogers Cable is offering its high-speed Internet service to customers in Vancouver and southern Ontario who are outside their cabled areas.
Customers in Greater Vancouver and Ontario communities including St. Catharines, Hamilton, Burlington, and Oakville will get the Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet at three levels of service, starting from $24.95 a month. The Internet service is available outside of Rogers Cable areas only when customers sign up for the Home Phone service, which ranges from $29.95 to $46.95 a month.
"Customers now have an alternative choice for their high speed Internet connection," said Terry Canning, Vice-President and…
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IF RHETORIC AND HYPERBOLE were gasoline, a single spark would have razed the entire Toronto Congress Centre this week.
The speeches from Bell Canada Enterprises CEO Michael Sabia and Telus CEO Darren Entwistle at this week’s excellent Canadian Telecom Summit – as well as comments from a few others who work under them – suggest that not only are the communications of all Canadians utterly crippled by wacky regulation, but that our CRTC stands in the way of all Canuck creativity, innovation and productivity.
It’s an absurd notion, really. But it’s one much of the nation’s consumer media has…
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TORONTO – TSN announced today that it has locked up most of the major Canadian curling rights until 2014.
The Bell Globemedia-owned sports channel and the Canadian Curling Association (CCA) today announced a six-year broadcast and multimedia deal, providing TSN with exclusive broadcast and online Canadian rights to Season of Champions events each year, "making TSN the one and only home of curling in Canada," says the release.
The deal shuts out CBC beginning in 2008, which has been the home of the final rounds of bonspiels like the Brier and the Tournament of Hearts, well, forever.
(The move…
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ALVISO, Calif. – TiVoCast will deliver broadband video directly to the television sets of TiVo subscribers, turning web video into television by bringing top broadband content now only available on the PC to the TV set, the company has announced.
"The range and quality of broadband video is exploding on the web, but it’s not TV until it is on the TV," said Tom Rogers, CEO of TiVo. "With the TiVoCast service, we are once again transforming the television experience by bringing the rapidly expanding array of video content on the Internet into the living room."
"Television is still…
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BANFF – Canadian industry execs filling the halls at the Banff World Television Festival told Cartt.ca they welcome CRTC review of conventional television and the request from the Heritage Minister Beverley Oda to study the technological changes facing the broadcast industry.
“We want a little freedom,” says Phil Lind, vice-chairman, Rogers Communications.
“We have been shackled to death with regulation over the years, and we want to break out of that somehow. We’ve got to realize that people just don’t really understand all of these arcane rules and regulations that have been developed in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s,…
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THE WORLD CUP IS THE most popular sporting event on the globe. Certain ethnic sections in towns and cities across Canada shut down during their games. Monday in Toronto’s Little Italy, everything ground to a standstill for the Italians’ World Cup opener against Ghana.
People there happily took to the streets after the 2-0 win by Italy. Against Ghana. In the opening round. Similar sights could be seen in the Portuguese section of town during its opener – and just wait until Brazil starts play.
As a TV rights holder, how could you not show every minute of every…
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TORONTO – The Canadian Telecom Summit’s "regulatory blockbuster" session is a must-view event every year.
This year was no different as regulatory chiefs from Bell Canada (Mirko Bibic), Rogers Communications (Ken Englehart), Telus (Janet Yale), Shaw Communications (Jean Brazeau), and MTS Allstream (Chris Peirce) traded barbs for over an hour about the competitive state of the industry, and just whom is benefiting most from the current state of regulation. It was funny and terse and interesting. ("Ken Englehart’s has such a learned and scholarly style, you automoatically think what he’s saying must be true, even though it isn’t," said…
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