TORONTO – While the CRTC has only just gathered opinions on how digital migration of specialty services might happen, Rogers Communications and six other programmers have already hammered out their own framework.
The new deal, called “historic” last week by RCI CEO Ted Rogers, outlines how the country’s largest cable company and the six biggest broadcasters will handle the migration of analog specialty services to digital. It was submitted to the CRTC under its call for proposals for a digital migration framework, PN 2005-1.
RCI vice-chairman Phil Lind, along with Rogers, first met with the chief executives of Alliance…
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OTTAWA – Serendipitously gathered together on the 10th anniversary of the launch of Rogers WAVE, the first North American high speed Internet on cable service, SCTE-Ontario members heard first hand that if traffic isn’t managed smartly, cable services, VOIP especially, will suffer.
About 100 of the chapter’s 400+ members came together at the Ottawa Travelodge West last Thursday and www.cartt.ca was there.
John Downey, broadband network engineer at Cisco; Tony Faccia, vice-president networks and capacity planning at Rogers Cable; Tom Donnelly, co-founder and v-p sales and marketing at Sandvine; and Lindsay Schroth of research company Yankee Group all made…
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TORONTO – The whole Rogers Communications campus is rather wrapped up in four little letters these days: VOIP.
Both 333 Bloor St. E and One Mount Pleasant are buzzing as the company gets set to launch its brand new voice over Internet protocol product in July. It’s the latest addition to the Rogers bundles and adds a crucial fourth tentacle to the company’s wireless, video and data offerings.
What’s newest about this product is that, according to company CEO Ted Rogers, one option will combine the wired and wireless phone. Think about it. One handset that acts as your…
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