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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Application comes after CRTC also said Rogers can’t change Corus channel numbers
By Ahmad Hathout
The CRTC ruled in a confidential decision last month that Rogers must continue carrying certain Corus channels and refrain from altering their channel numbers, even after the cable giant obtained an Ontario court opinion allowing it to make unilateral changes under its carriage agreements, according to new documents filed by Rogers at the Federal Court of Appeal Thursday.
The CRTC’s rulings on November 18 and 29 resulted from a confidential application filed by Rogers earlier this year that sought to have the CRTC lift a standstill and…
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Rogers Communications last week announced it has received clearance from the Competition Bureau to proceed with its acquisition of Bell’s 37.5-per-cent stake in Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE).
Rogers said the two telecom giants received a “no-action letter” on Dec. 12 from the Bureau, indicating the Commissioner of Competition will not challenge Rogers’s acquisition of Bell’s interest in MLSE, a deal announced in September and valued at $4.7 billion. The acquisition is still subject to league approvals and approval from the CRTC.
MLSE owns the Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto Raptors, Toronto FC and Toronto…
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Rogers announced Tuesday morning the launch of Rogers Xfinity Storm-Ready WiFi, what it calls “Canada’s first home internet back-up solution”.
The new product combines Rogers advanced network technology with a device that automatically switches to the Rogers cellular network when there is an internet service or power outage. The product’s extended, rechargeable battery backup allows customers to keep working online and streaming without interruption for up to four hours during an outage. Battery status notifications are delivered via the Rogers Xfinity app.
The launch of Storm-Ready WiFi follows the recent introduction of Rogers Xfinity, a suite of in-home…
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Fans attending Taylor Swift’s final concert of her Eras Tour at BC Place in Vancouver on Sunday set a new record for the most data used at a single event on the Rogers 5G network, using more than 11 terabytes (TB) of mobile data to share and stream the concert experience, according to a Roger press release.
This shatters the previous record set Nov. 21 at the Taylor Swift concert at Rogers Centre in Toronto, when fans used 7.4 TB of data on the Rogers 5G network in just a few hours.
“Taylor fans use…
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