WATERLOO – Rogers Communications has announced a three-year partnership with Waterloo’s Communitech to open a new 5G innovation lab.
As part of the partnership, the new lab, opening in September, will accelerate and launch smart city, IoT and enterprise 5G applications that will change the way we live and work. The lab’s goal is ultimately to advance made-in-Canada 5G technology and commercialize 5G use cases.
Waterloo’s Communitech is a public-private hub that supports over 1,400 companies, helping them grow in the digital economy.
“Canada needs a strong 5G ecosystem to thrive and grow in our increasingly connected world,” said Jorge Fernandes, Rogers’…
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Many customers may want it, but is it contrary to the CRTC’s Code?
TORONTO – Rogers Communications today said it will now offer customers the ability to pay for new devices over 24- or 36-month time frames, at $0 down with no interest.
Wireless policy watchers will say immediately, of course, that the CRTC’s 2013 Wireless Code only effectively allows carriers to offer a maximum two-year contract to their customers. Telus wireless chief Jim Senko told Cartt.ca last week he believes the company can’t go any longer than the two-year financing offer it just launched – even though he’d like…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications has signed a multi-year partnership with Toronto’s Pearson Airport to be its official telecommunications partner.
As part of the deal, Rogers will have category exclusivity for media, branding, advertising, and in-terminal brand experiences at Canada’s largest airport. The partnership also includes a premium Ignite TV lounge in both Terminal 1 and Terminal 3.
“We’re thrilled to announce this first of its kind partnership with Rogers, uniting an airport and an industry-leading telecommunications company, enabling us to provide innovative experiences and entertainment for our travellers from the first time they step foot in our terminal until they board…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications today announced its new device financing options mentioned last month when it debuted its new pricing are officially on the way next week.
These new device purchasing options, launching July 10 and called Edge Financing, will give customers more choice and flexibility “to purchase any device, anytime, at $0 down and 0% interest,” reads its press release (which was sent about two hours after Telus launched its own repricing and device financing, just like Bell and Telus responded within hours to Rogers’ new pricing last month. Who says the…
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OTTAWA – Corriere Canadese has formally appealed to federal Cabinet the CRTC decision to grant a multilingual national multi-ethnic discretionary service with mandatory 9(1)(h) distribution to Rogers, as Cartt.ca had previously reported.
“In the Decision’s relegation and monopoly granted to a single corporate entity, to purportedly speak for all other linguistic and ‘ethnic’ Canadians, who are non-Anglo and non-Franco, the Decision violates the very essence of sections 2,7,15 and 27 of the Charter, as well as the underlying constitutional imperative to Federalism and Respect for Minorities as enunciated by the SCC, in…
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BRAMPTON – At a Rogers Communications, Ryerson and ISED cybersecurity announcement on Friday, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains took a moment during the event to thank Rogers for lowering its wireless pricing.
Rogers was announced as one of the founding partners of a new national cybersecurity centre in downtown Brampton that will be known as Ryerson University’s Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst.
A not-for-profit organization owned and operated by Toronto’s Ryerson University, the Catalyst will offer specialized training programs for Canada’s growing cybersecurity sector. Bains pledged $10 million to the venture through FedDev Ontario, a move…
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Infinite Wireless data plans have no overage charges
TORONTO – Rogers Communications today said it will introduce unlimited wireless data plans with no overage charges starting tomorrow (Thursday), on its main Rogers brand.
Also, said the company, it plans to launch new financing options to give customers more affordable smartphone and device options.
Rogers Infinite Wireless plans with unlimited wireless data will start at $75 for 10GB of high speed data for every line on its fastest LTE network, reads the company release. Service plans of $95 and $125 a month will also be offered for 20 GB and 50 GB, respectively.
What…
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ST. JOHN’S – Rogers launched its Ignite TV service in Newfoundland Monday, almost a year after the service first debuted in Ontario.
The cloud-based IPTV service allows customers to find their favourite show or movie through ‘All-in-one Search’ that brings together live TV, on demand, recordings and Netflix, and also displays where and how to watch it. Other features include a personalized sports hub called SportsApp that allows users to set favourite teams/leagues and watch live games while tracking scores from another game at the same time, plus a kid-friendly space with age-appropriate shows and parental controls known as KidsZone.
Ignite TV’s…
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TORONTO – Canadian media circles have long been gripped by a dramatic industry narrative that Netflix and other U.S. tech giants will kill their pay TV business as audiences shift online.
The quieter truth is traditional Canadian distributors are still in business as (cord cutting aside) TV viewers mostly still refuse to part with the cable bundle while also embracing Netflix, Amazon and other digital alternatives.
"Year over year, it's always a bit of doom and gloom. Is TV in decline, is it going away? We believe TV has lots of runway," a bullish Rogers Media president Rick Brace said Thursday…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC has decided Rogers will continue to operate its must-carry national ethnic language TV channel after renewing its license for OMNI Regional for three years until August 2023. Its current license expires next summer.
This means the Commission has denied all of the other hopefuls, each of whom had rather interesting proposals for a new channel to serve the ethnic market (see links below).
“The new service, which will succeed Rogers’ existing OMNI Regional service, will be available on all digital basic television packages throughout Canada,” reads the CRTC press release. “The new OMNI…
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