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.
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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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By Connie Thiessen
CityNews has announced that Lisa LaFlamme will help anchor its coverage of the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, as a special correspondent.
LaFlamme, 58, joins Rogers Sports & Media just four weeks after the announcement of her departure from CTV National News where she’d been chief anchor and senior editor since 2011 and with CTV for 35 years. The premature termination of the veteran journalist’s contract has continued to make headlines ever since with a petition calling for her reinstatement collecting over 200,000 signatures.
Acting as a special correspondent to CityNews, Rogers says LaFlamme will head to London to…
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OTTAWA – Rogers Communications has filed with the Competition Tribunal a request for more information about how, according to the competition commissioner, Videotron will be negatively impacted by its acquisition of Shaw Communications — despite the sale of wireless assets to the Montreal-based company.
The cable giant filed a request for more detail Tuesday as to allegations that Videotron, which agreed to acquire Shaw’s Freedom wireless business, would face difficulties in the market and its competitiveness would be reduced if the deal is allowed to happen.
The allegations were made in a submission to the Tribunal earlier this month by…
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OTTAWA – Canada’s major telecommunications providers have agreed on an initial five-year term to allow customers to roam on each others’ networks on an emergency basis in the event of a major network outage to ensure Canadians are not left out of essential services, such as 911 access, according to a formal agreement announced Wednesday by the Minister of Innovation.
The companies, including Bell, Rogers, Telus, and Shaw, have also committed to assisting each other in such an event and also “to providing clear and timely communications to keep Canadians and appropriate authorities informed about response and restoration during major…
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OTTAWA – The operator of the country’s emergency alert system is suggesting possibly developing “protocols and procedures” for distributors to inform it about any disruptions to the delivery of alerts.
In a Wednesday response to the CRTC’s request for more information about the Rogers network outage in July, Pelmorex said such measures could enable it to quickly notify government issuers of the alert about the problem. Pelmorex was asked by the regulator to provide comment earlier this month.
The company also suggested that it could potentially work with trade associations representing the broadcasters of the alert — including Rogers in…
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