By Ahmad Hathout
The Competition Bureau’s deceptive marketing practices lawsuit against Rogers unfairly singles out the cable company’s “unlimited” wireless plans, cherry-picks out-of-context material, and doesn’t square with the fact that the plans have followed CRTC rules since they launched in the summer of 2019, according to the company’s reply submission to the Competition Tribunal.
The competition watchdog late last year filed a suit alleging Rogers has for years been misleading Canadians with its ‘Infinite’ mobile wireless plans, which it claims gave customers the impression that they were getting unlimited high-speed data when the speed of the data…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Rogers has filed an application requesting that the CRTC reverse its decision to expand the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) regime to internet of things (IoT) and enterprise services.
The market for those services, claims Rogers in its application to review-and-vary posted last week, “is likely one of the most competitive markets for telecommunications services in the country. Beyond Canada’s domestic national and regional , there are literally hundreds of service providers, including global wireless carriers, global and regional IoT/M2M aggregators of MVNOs, and global and regional IoT/M2M solutions providers in the Canadian market.”
The regulator affirmed…
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More details emerge in the previously confidential monthslong battle
By Ahmad Hathout
Corus and Rogers continue to butt heads over the CRTC’s standstill rule, with the former urging the Federal Court of Appeal to affirm it and the latter asking the regulator to lift it so it can shuffle Corus channels it no longer wants out of both its rotation and certain channel slots.
The result of the back and forth has unveiled more details in a carriage dispute that is now nearly two years old.
The latest development sees Corus requesting this month that the Federal Court of Appeal reject a December…
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Rogers announced Wednesday what it says is the first app-only bundle in Canada to bring live TV and streaming together in one plan.
The App TV plan for Rogers Xfinity Internet customers includes 40-plus live and on-demand channels, 20 free ad-supported (FAST) channels and Netflix Standard with ads, all for $25 per month when added to an existing Xfinity Internet package.
The app bundle allows customers to stream live and on-demand channels, including Rogers’s new HGTV, Food Network, Magnolia Network, Discovery, Investigation Discovery and Bravo channels, on the Rogers Xfinity Streaming app. Customers have the…
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Rogers and Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) announced Tuesday they have signed a three-year agreement that will see Rogers return as the official presenting partner of the festival and its People’s Choice Award through 2027.
The cable giant took over as presenting sponsor of TIFF in 2024, after long-time leading sponsor Bell ended its 28-year partnership with TIFF after the 2023 edition of the festival.
Rogers’s expanded partnership with TIFF “builds on the success of TIFF ’24, which welcomed a record-breaking 700,000 attendees and hundreds of the world’s biggest filmmakers and stars,” said a Rogers…
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By Ahmad Hathout
WildBrain is alleging that Rogers is giving competing discretionary channels and the Disney+ streaming service preferential treatment over its own programming in the cable company’s TV guide, according to a heavily-redacted Part 1 application dated September but made public by the CRTC on Monday.
The application alleges that WildBrain’s Family Channel, Family Jr., WildBrain TV and Telemagino are being torpedoed by Rogers in favour of other “comparable discretionary television programming services with which the WildBrain Services are in direct competition,” which the Toronto-based company is alleging is “disrupting the children’s discretionary television market for children’s programming, particularly on…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Bell Media has filed a complaint to the CRTC alleging Rogers wants to give itself an undue preference by replacing two of its newly rebranded channels with the cable company’s newly acquired programming — Discovery and Investigation Discovery (I.D.).
Bell previously had the rights to the Discovery and the I.D. brands, but lost them to Rogers when rights owner Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) signed a multi-year licensing deal with the cable giant this past summer. To make up for that, Bell announced in October that it acquired the rights to bring USA…
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Rogers and rSIM (which stands for resilient SIM) are collaborating to deliver innovative, high-resiliency connectivity solutions tailored specifically for IoT applications, according to a Tuesday press release.
Developed by UK-based CSL Group, rSIM is a patented, dual-core SIM designed to ensure reliable, always-on connectivity for critical IoT use cases.
“Built on GSMA standards, rSIM tests the data connection directly from the SIM and autonomously switches seamlessly to a backup profile when connectivity is lost,” the press release explains. “Designed to be device-agnostic, rSIM integrates this resilience directly into the SIM itself, ensuring uninterrupted…
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Rogers announced in late December it has turned on five new cellular towers along B.C.’s Highway 16, known as the Highway of Tears, providing additional 911 access for all travellers and 5G wireless coverage for Rogers customers.
This marks the substantial completion of the project, announced in April 2021, with nine out of 11 towers now in service, according to a Rogers press release.
“With nine towers in-service, we are proud to provide 166 kilometres of 5G cellular coverage on Highway 16, closing most of the wireless gap between Prince Rupert and Prince George,” Mark Kennedy, Rogers’s…
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By Ahmad Hathout
The Competition Bureau is suing Rogers at the Competition Tribunal for allegedly misleading customers by marketing its mobile wireless data as “unlimited” when speeds are throttled after the data cap has been exceeded.
“Rogers has made, and continues to make, representations to the public that convey the materially false or misleading general impression that Rogers Infinite Unlimited Plans offer unlimited and infinite data, allowing consumers to use as much data as they want, free from data limits,” the bureau claims in its tribunal application, filed Monday. “In fact, Rogers is providing plans whose high-speed data is limited to…
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