Another 260 homes, businesses to have access by fall 2022
OXFORD COUNTY – The Government of Ontario and Southwestern Integrated Fibre Technology (SWIFT) today announced 675 homes and businesses in Oxford County now have access to high-speed Internet and another 260 will have access by fall 2022.
The governments of Canada and Ontario have each invested over $950,000 through SWIFT to make this happen, according to a press release issued today by the province.
Details of the now completed projects are as follows:
Rogers Communications has been providing 484 homes and businesses in Drumbo and Gobles with service since May 17,…
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OTTAWA – Today and yesterday witnesses stressed the importance of getting Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, right to members of the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications – right for both broadcasters navigating a changing media landscape and for content creators who have built careers around the way things work online now.
Brad Danks, CEO of OUTtv spoke about the difficulties they have faced negotiating carriage on some online platforms and specified what he believes is needed is for the CRTC to be a backstop in the online environment as it currently is for Canada’s traditional broadcasting system.
“We…
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By Connie Thiessen
OTTAWA – New data shows the Canadian Energy Efficiency Voluntary Agreement (CEEVA) for Set-Top Boxes has resulted in a 58% drop in average energy consumption since the program’s launch in 2017.
Five of the largest Canadian Pay TV service providers (Bell Canada, Cogeco, Rogers Communications, Shaw Communications, and Videotron) are signed on to the program in addition to manufacturers (CommScope, EchoStar Technologies, and Technicolor, soon to become VANTIVA), the Consumer Technology Association and CableLabs. A second program was launched in 2019 for small network equipment (SNE), such as modems and routers.
According to a new independent annual report, the program has resulted in a fifth consecutive year of…
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LONDON U.K. — Canada’s national mobile operators — Bell, Rogers and Telus — have all been named as “5G Global High Performers for 5G Reach” in Opensignal’s 5G Global Mobile Network Experience Awards 2022 report, released today.
The report from Opensignal, a U.K.-based mobile analytics company, compared users’ 5G mobile network experience by operator, to see how the operators stacked up globally. Data for the report was collected from Jan. 1 to June 29, 2022.
Opensignal’s 5G Reach metric “measures how users experience the geographical extent of an operator’s 5G network. It analyzes the average proportion of locations where users were…
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MONTREAL — Bell announced today availability of Bell Fibe Gigabit 8.0, offering symmetrical download and upload speeds of 8 Gbps, in eligible areas of Toronto.
In addition, the new Bell Giga Hub with Wi-Fi 6E is now available for customers throughout Ontario and Quebec, says a Bell press release.
“Bell pure fibre Internet Gigabit 8.0 Internet speeds deliver download speeds five times faster than cable technology and upload speeds 250 times faster than cable technology. These gigabit speeds are the fastest available on the market today among major Internet service providers (ISPs) in North America,” the release reads.
Bell Fibe Gigabit 8.0…
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OTTAWA – In a response last week to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage’s May 2022 report on the impact of the proposed merger of Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications on local news, heritage minister Pablo Rodriguez suggested there is enough being done already to mitigate the potential negative impacts highlighted in the report.
The minister acknowledged the Canadian broadcasting system is facing a time of “significant transformation”.
“Canadians’ viewing habits are shifting online, and service providers are adapting to compete within Canada and with service providers from around the world,” his response reads. “The proposed transaction is taking place against…
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Documents filed with Competition Tribunal make full hearing seem likely
By Amanda OYE
OTTAWA and TORONTO – Rogers Communications is still hoping for an expedited resolution to the Competition Bureau’s challenge to its proposed merger with Shaw Communications at the Competition Tribunal but is prepared in the event the deal is not approved by the end of the year.
“Our expectation is that there is a possibility to get a decision from the tribunal this year, following that we would then look to the minister and ISED to provide their approval, which we would expect in due course,” Rogers’ president and…
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SEVERAL CANADIAN BROADCASTERS will air live coverage of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral on Monday, Sept. 19.
The funeral itself will take place at Westminster Abbey and is scheduled to begin at 6 a.m. ET.
CBC will broadcast CBC News Special: Funeral for Queen Elizabeth on CBC TV, CBC News Network and CBC Gem starting at 5 a.m. ET.
Coverage will be led by CBC News’ chief correspondent, Adrienne Arsenault and Morning Live host Heather Hiscox live from London, a press release says.
The national public broadcaster will also cover the funeral on CBC Radio One and CBC Listen starting at 5:30 a.m….
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HAMILTON – A local fire in Hamilton last Friday night impacted Rogers’ customers, some of whom were without service into Sunday evening.
“We are aware of a service interruption impacting some areas of Hamilton due to a fibre cut caused by a local fire,” a tweet from the @RogersHelps Twitter account on Saturday says. The tweet also indicates wireless services were not impacted.
By 2:50 p.m. Saturday, Rogers indicated many of its customers were back online and that it anticipated service to be fully restored later that day.
At 11:35 p.m., however, the company announced it was “taking time…
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OTTAWA – Telus has told the CRTC this week that Timeless Inc.’s complaint that Rogers’s refusal to carry its OneSoccer channel gives it an undue preference should be investigated by the regulator as “timely,” as Rogers pushes to buy Shaw Communications.
Rogers has refused to carry the channel because it said it has limited appeal with its viewers. Timeless, which said it has been trying to get a carriage agreement with Rogers for over a year, has argued in its original complaint last month that there is a “surge in popularity and success for Canadian soccer” and that Rogers…
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