GATINEAU – Revenue from Canadian broadcasting services declined 6.6% to $15.8 billion in 2019-2020 compared to 2018-2019, the CRTC says.
This is highlighted in the broadcasting portion of the CRTC’s Communications Market Report (CMR; formally the Communications Monitoring Report), released last month, which covers the broadcast year spanning from Sept. 1, 2019, to Aug. 31, 2020, and as such includes around six months of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The $15.8 billion in revenue does not include revenues from Internet-based services, known as over-the-top services (OTT), operating under the CRTC’s digital media exemption order.
Over half of the revenues were generated by broadcasting distribution…
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GATINEAU – Total revenue for Canada’s telecommunications sector was $53.4 billion in 2020, a decrease of 1.4% compared to 2019, the CRTC says.
This is according to the telecom portion of the CRTC’s Communications Market Report (CMR; formally the Communications Monitoring Report), released last month.
The report features data from 2020, during which the Covid-19 pandemic began, non-essential travel was curtailed and many Canadians ended up working from home. During this time, there were higher volumes of wireline voice calling, significantly increased Internet data usage and decreased mobile roaming, the report explains.
The 1.4% total revenue decrease for telecommunications in 2020 is…
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TORONTO – Dave Fuller (above), president of Rogers Wireless, is leaving the company, according to the Globe and Mail.
A report today says an unnamed source told the Globe Fuller, who has been president of Rogers’ wireless division since April 2021, will be replaced by Phil Hartling, a long-time Rogers executive who was in charge of expanding Rogers rurally last year.
This follows a boardroom dispute that saw Edward Rogers, chair of the Rogers Control Trust and of the Rogers board, removing and replacing several board members, his decision to do so being upheld by the Supreme…
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OTTAWA – Fraudulent calls continue to be an issue for Canadians despite the recent implementation of measures to try to combat them.
In April of this year, the CRTC directed telecommunications service providers (TSPs) to implement STIR/SHAKEN (Secure Telephony Identity Revisited/Signature-based Handling of Asserted information using toKENs), which is intended to combat caller ID spoofing, by Nov. 30 as a condition of providing telecommunication services.
As of Nov. 30, TSPs are expected to “certify whether a caller’s identity can be trusted by verifying the caller ID information for Internet Protocol-based voice calls,” a CRTC press release explains. The…
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TORONTO – Rogers Sports and Media’s Sportsnet announced today it will live stream the Professional Women’s Hockey Players Association’s (PWHPA) Secret Dream Gap Tour’s final game on its TikTok account.
This marks a first in Canadian broadcast history, according to a press release.
In addition to airing on Sportsnet’s TikTok account, the game, which will feature the winner of a game between Team adidas from Minnesota and Team Scotiabank from Calgary, versus Team Sonnet from Toronto, will be aired live on TV on Sportsnet and Sportsnet One on Sunday Dec. 19 at 2 p.m. ET/ 11 a.m. PT.
The game is being…
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NFTC begins construction in Mono and Amaranth
DUFFERIN, Ont. – Southwestern Integrated Fibre Technology (SWIFT) announced today Rogers Communications finished construction on a fibre-optic network that now offers high-speed Internet to 107 homes and businesses in Dufferin County in the community of Garafraxa Woods.
Rogers broke ground on the project, which was announced in September 2020, this past summer. The Governments of Canada and Ontario contributed $419,036 to the project through SWIFT, according to SWIFT’s website. The total value of the project is $687,804.
“Today marks an important milestone as our teams, in partnership with SWIFT, completed the construction in…
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OTTAWA and GATINEAU – The CRTC announced yesterday four projects in Alberta and Nova Scotia will receive up to $8.8 million in funding from its Broadband Fund.
“The projects will target approximately 680 households in five communities, including four Indigenous communities,” a CRTC press release says.
ATG Arrow Technology Group Limited Partnership was allocated up to $7.9 million to build or upgrade local fixed access infrastructure in three Indigenous communities in Alberta, according to the CRTC’s decision on the matter.
Of that funding, the Commission approved up to $3.8 million for the community of Louis Bull 138B (approximately 165 households), up…
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TORONTO and WINNIPEG – Rogers Sports and Media’s Sportsnet and APTN announced today Cree-language NHL broadcasts are returning with the debut of Hockey Night in Canada in Cree in January.
“Building on the historic debut of Rogers Hometown Hockey in Cree in 2019 and the ensuing landmark three-year deal to produce and air NHL on Sportsnet games in Plains Cree, Sportsnet and APTN are set to return to Canadian screens with Cree-language NHL coverage – now on Saturday night,” a press release says.
Hockey Night in Canada in Cree will broadcast nationally on APTN and feature six games starting Jan. 15….
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CORNER BROOK, NL – Rogers Communications today announced it will expand its fibre network to connect 1,780 homes and businesses in Humber Village, Little Rapids and Bell Island, Newfoundland and Labrador.
In addition to the network expansion, which will reach across 163 kilometers, Rogers will install a new wireless tower “and the existing tower will be upgraded on Bell Island to provide reliable wireless connectivity throughout the island,” a press release says.
“Over the past year, when Canadians relied on connectivity more than ever before, we made significant investments in our network to connect communities across Atlantic Canada,” said Matt MacLellan,…
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HALIFAX – Rogers Communications announced today Rogers Pro On-the-Go is now rolling out in Halifax, the first city in Atlantic Canada to get access to the service.
“The innovative Pro On-the-Go service offers personalized one-to-one support and phone delivery to Rogers wireless subscribers as soon as the same day, at no extra cost,” a press release says.
“The Rogers Pro will hand-deliver the device and guide customers step by step on how to set it up, while also helping to transfer applications, contacts and photos, and set up email, all based on their personal preferences. The Rogers Pro will also bring…
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