TORONTO and MUMBAI — QYou Media Inc. announced today The Q India is set to launch both its flagship Hindi channel The Q and its recently launched channel The Q Marathi to the global India diaspora via toober, a live TV app offering popular channels from around the world in more than 20 languages.
The toober app is currently available in Canada on Rogers, Shaw, Videotron and Apple TV. It is expected to soon be available on Roku and Android as well, according to a QYou Media press release.
Video broadcast solutions provider Nextologies Limited is the company behind…
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OTTAWA – Canadian consumer complaints made to the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS) are down 26%, according to CCTS’s mid-year report, which covers the timeframe between Aug. 1, 2021, and Jan. 31, 2022.
During this period there were 6,682 complaints accepted and 6,655 complaints concluded, according to the report. Of the complaints concluded, 797 were closed, 5,857 were resolved and 1 recommendation was accepted.
“We continue to observe problems with service providers failing to disclose important information to their customers when signing up for a new phone, internet or TV service,” said CCTS Commissioner and CEO, Howard Maker, in…
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OTTAWA – The Government of Canada announced today is supporting affordable high-speed Internet in Canada through a second phase of the Connecting Families initiative.
“In partnership with 14 participating ISPs across the country that are voluntarily contributing to the initiative by offering $20 a month high-speed Internet services, the Government of Canada will help connect hundreds of thousands of low-income families and seniors to affordable high-speed Internet,” a press release explains.
The second phase of Connecting Families, which was originally announced last August, is introducing faster speeds, in line with the government’s connectivity strategy, which aims to ensure all Canadians…
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HAZELTON, B.C. – Rogers Communications announced today it will deploy two more cellular towers as it accelerates construction on its project bringing wireless service to B.C.’s Highway 16, also known as the Highway of Tears.
Rogers announced last April it would be building new cell towers along Highways 14 and 16 to improve connectivity on these routes. For Highway 16, there is to be 12 new towers built – the first of which Rogers started construction on last December.
The first tower is to provide coverage between Prince Rupert and Prince George, while the two towers announced today will…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications announced today it has launched a 5G Transportation Challenge with the Ontario Vehicle Innovation Network (OVIN) for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) based in Ontario.
“As part of the challenge, mobility and transportation SMEs that operate in Ontario, including designers, innovators and strategists, are encouraged to envision how they might use the Rogers 5G network for an innovative and ultra-low latency application, using the benefits of 5G networks, high precision positioning technologies and multi-access edge computing (MEC),” a press release explains.
Participating enterprises will pitch, build and test a proof-of-concept that uses Rogers 5G. The challenge is…
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SEVERAL CANADIAN TELECOMS have decided to continue waiving fees for Canadians connecting to loved ones in Ukraine.
As Cartt.ca reported last month, many Canadian telecoms chose to waive fees for calls and texts from Canada to Ukraine, with several stating they intended to do so until the end of this month. Most, however, have now extended this deadline.
SaskTel announced last Friday it will continue to waive long-distance charges for wireless, landline and business calls from Canada to Ukraine, international text messages from Canada to Ukraine and roaming charges for calls, texts and data overages for customers currently in…
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TORONTO — Rogers Communications announced today it has launched the first commercially available 5G standalone network in Canada and one of the first globally.
This follows the completion of Rogers’ rollout of its national standalone 5G core network last year and the first 5G standalone device certification in Canada, explains a press release.
“We are thrilled to be the first in Canada to launch a commercial 5G standalone service,” said Jorge Fernandes, chief technology officer at Rogers Communications, in the release. “This milestone underscores our ongoing leadership in 5G and will bring immediate benefits to customers by increasing coverage, scalability…
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VICTORIA – The British Columbia government today announced improved cellular coverage is coming to Highway 3 between Hope and Keremeos, providing better safety for travellers along the route.
Rogers Communications is the service provider for the project, which involves the addition of 11 new cell towers and will expand coverage over approximately 92 kilometres of the highway, according to a press release. The project is expected to be completed by the fall of 2024.
“Cellular coverage along this section of Highway 3 is intermittent, with coverage gaps between Hope and Manning Park and between Princeton and Keremeos presenting the greatest challenge,”…
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PORT WILLIAMS, NS – Rogers Communications recently bought Nova Scotia-based Internet service provider Cross Country TV.
The news has been shared with customers in a letter on Cross Country’s website from Steve Scott, the company’s founder and senior manager of operations and Rob Paradis, Rogers’ vice-president of Rogers Community Operators.
“We want to reassure you that business will go on as usual for Cross Country, and that the same local team is here to provide the services you’ve come to know and trust, and that we will continue working out of Cross Country’s offices on Belcher Street,” the letter says.
“Rogers…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC today approved the broadcast side of the merger between Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications, with several conditions attached.
The Commission concluded the transaction – when modified – “is in the public interest and advances the objectives set out for the Canadian broadcasting system in the Broadcasting Act,” its decision reads. “Canadians as consumers will benefit from this transaction.”
One of the conditions included in the decision requires Rogers to submit a revised tangible benefits proposal. Tangible benefits were a significant topic of discussion during the CRTC’s hearing last November.
Originally, Rogers proposed a tangible benefits package…
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