LE PDG DE LA CANADIAN Cable Systems Alliance, Jay Thomson connaît les réseaux et les médias canadiens de fond en comble. Comment pourrait-il en être autrement ? Avant de travailler à la CCSA, il a travaillé à l’Association canadienne des télécommunications par câble (ACTC), Canadian Association of Internet Providers, l’Association canadienne des radiodiffuseurs et la Canadian Media Producers Association (également à Telus et au CRTC).
Ce dirigeant de longue date d’Ottawa a été embauché comme PDG de la CCSA en remplacement de Alyson Townsend qui a quitté son poste à l’été 2016. Thomson est à l’aise dans ce secteur et, de manière aussi…
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CALGARY – Shaw Communications has unveiled a new product to help business owners monitor and protect their businesses while also providing analytical insights.
SmartSurveillance is an enterprise-grade managed video surveillance solution that offers features such as motion search analytics in a selected area of interest, heat mapping analytics for motion data to help gain insights into customer behaviour, or a video wall that groups multiple video streams into one view that can be watched from anywhere with an Internet connection.
SmartSurveillance may be bundled with Shaw Business' managed WiFi and network security solutions SmartWiFi and SmartSecurity and maintained through one integrated dashboard. Professionally…
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Whatever the future of TV may hold
GATINEAU – The rise of online TV distribution platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and others are upending the delicate balance of the Canadian broadcasting system and that means the federal government and the CRTC need to change the way they regulate the sector. In a nutshell, Canadian broadcasters, producers and distributors want these platforms treated the same way they are.
In comments to the CRTC’s consultation on new TV program distribution models (which was requested by the federal government ostensibly as the first step towards modernizing the Broadcasting Act and Telecom Act), many…
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LONDON and BARRIE – Logistics company Drexel Industries this week announced it will acquire mobile phone accessories and consumer electronics devices company Affinity Electronics of Canada.
The acquisition will combine Affinity’s assets and experience as an established mobile phone solutions company with Drexel’s strength in third party logistics, says the company’s press release. “Drexel’s retailer connected digital infrastructure is the catalyst for further growth and expansion into the mobility and connected home arena,” it adds.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
Affinity and Drexel distribute products through Canadian partners, including: Amazon, Bell, Best Buy, Canadian Tire, Costco, Giant Tiger, Home Depot, Hudson…
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OTTAWA – The majority of Canada’s mobile wireless carriers have told the CRTC that redefining home network to include public Wi-Fi will have serious negative consequences on the mobile market while smaller providers Ice Wireless and Execulink argue Wi-Fi First providers are needed to inject much needed competition to an already highly concentrated market.
The final round of submissions on the CRTC’s Governor-in-Council demand that it reconsider its March wholesale wireless roaming decision were due December 1st. This is something ISED Minister Navdeep Bains announced during June’s Canadian Telecom Summit.
For Bell Canada, the only issue…
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MONTREAL – As Bell Canada CEO George Cope warned a month ago – his company was not about to let Telus, Rogers and Freedom keep the low-cost wireless market to themselves and in response, the company announced the launch of Lucky Mobile today.
Created to compete with Rogers’ chatr, Telus’ Public Moble and Shaw’s Freedom (and it seems the initial markets being launched are exactly Freedom’s footprint), the low-cost prepaid brand’s plans start at $20/month, for talk and text, but not data, a price which generally undercuts everyone in the space. (Chatr offers a…
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TORONTO – Almost 30% of Canadians watched some or all of Sunday’s thrilling Grey Cup game, the CFL said citing overnight data from Numeris.
An average audience of 4.3 million Canadians tuned in to TSN (4.1 million) and RDS (220,000) to watch the Toronto Argonauts’ dramatic come-from-behind victory over the Calgary Stampeders in the championship game.
Overall, nearly 10 million unique viewers took in some or all of the tilt. The game achieved a 34% share, meaning more than one in three Canadians watching television on Sunday tuned in.
The audience for the 105th Grey Cup presented by Shaw peaked at nearly…
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A PATENT DISPUTE OVER Comcast’s X1 operating system could have a wide-ranging impact on Canadian cablecos' plans to rollout the set-tops here.
The International Trade Commission (ITC) issued a final ruling upholding a claim by TiVo parent Rovi Corp. that Comcast violated patents on technologies that let users schedule set-top DVR recordings remotely via mobile device, according to a FierceCable report.
The ruling will put pressure on Comcast to forge a licensing deal, the report continues. Comcast, however, said it will simply remove features related to the patents while it pursues an appeal.
In addition to halting imports of X1 set-tops from…
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TORONTO – Freedom Mobile will accept orders Friday for the iPhone X, iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus and promises to deliver the devices before the holidays.
The Shaw-owned wireless provider said that customers will be able to pre-order all three devices beginning November 24 and they will be available in all Freedom Mobile retail locations across Canada on December 8.
"Canadians have told us they want access to Apple's range of products on a vastly improving network at a reasonable price," said Shaw president Jay Mehr, in the news release. "By offering iPhone in combination with our Big Gig data…
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BEFORE DELVING INTO the backbone issues, what is current the state of broadband in the Far North? What levels of service are currently available? According to Northwestel’s COO Curtis Shaw, residential customers in the western part of the North can purchase a 125 Mbps service while businesses can get 150 Mbps over the regions where it offers a DOCSIS 3.0 network on its hybrid-fibre-coax cable plant.
By the end of this year, however, Northwestel will be able to offer all 59 communities in the western arctic region a minimum 15/1 Mbps service. “We've done 51 communities to date, we've got…
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