TORONTO – In the wake of Tony Staffieri being made permanent president and CEO of Rogers Communications, there have been several major changes to the company’s leadership team.
To start, the role of chief legal and regulatory officer, which was held by Lisa Damiani since spring of 2021, is no longer listed on the company’s leadership page. (Update: Damiani is staying on as an advisor for the Shaw transaction.)
Instead, Ted Woodhead, who was the company’s senior vice-president of regulatory, is now listed as chief regulatory officer and government affairs and Marisa Wyse is listed as chief legal officer. Woodhead first…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications announced today Glenn Brandt (above) is the company’s new permanent chief financial officer, effective today.
Paulina Molnar has been the company’s interim CFO since Tony Staffieri left company abruptly last September. (Staffieri has since returned to the company and is now its president and CEO after a months-long power struggle you can read about here, here, and here.)
“I want to thank Paulina for her terrific work as Interim CFO and look forward to her continued leadership across our organization as SVP Controller and Risk Management,” Staffieri said, in a press release announcing…
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Reliant on service, member association may seek help from government or CRTC
By Ahmad Hathout
TELEVISION SERVICE PROVIDERS in remote parts of the country may see a disruption in television services at the end of the year due to an American company’s decision to end support for technology that distributes satellite TV signals.
U.S.-based network technology provider CommScope said late last year it is ending support for the Quick Take Plus (QT+) system used by Shaw Communications, which relays satellite TV signals to Canadian customers living in certain areas of the country that may lack traditional wired infrastructure.
Jay Thomson, CEO of the…
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WHITEHOUSE and YELLOWKNIFE – Northwestel announced today it received approval from the CRTC to lower its unlimited home Internet rates by $10 per month, with the rate changes being made effective immediately.
“Northwestel will also be upgrading all home Internet 125 and Internet 250 monthly data plans to unlimited Internet at no additional cost,” a press release explains.
The company currently has unlimited Internet plans available in the Northern communities of Carcross, Dawson City, Upper Liard, Watson Lake and Whitehorse in the Yukon as well as Behchokǫ̀, Fort Smith, Hay River, Inuvik, Norman Wells, and Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories and in Fort Nelson in B.C.
“We’re…
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Expects Shaw transaction to close in first half of 2022
TORONTO – Rogers Communications Inc. today reported its total revenue is up 6% to $3.9 billion for the quarter ended Dec. 31 compared to the same quarter the previous year.
Broken down by segment, wireless revenue increased 5% to $2.4 billion, media revenue increased 26% to $516 million and cable revenue was flat at $1 billion for the company’s fourth quarter of 2021.
For wireless, service revenue was up 6% to $1.7 billion and equipment revenue was up 4% to $680 million. Rogers reported 130,000 net postpaid wireless subscriber additions in…
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$250,000 to support CERVO Foundation; $250,000 joint gift with Northwestel for Yukon mental health programs
QUÉBEC CITY and WHITEHORSE — Today, on Bell Let’s Talk Day, Bell Canada announced two major donations from Bell Let’s Talk that will help support mental health care and programs in Québec’s Capitale-Nationale region and the Yukon.
Bell Let’s Talk is donating $250,000 to the CERVO Foundation to facilitate the purchase of a second neuromodulation device (one is shown above, left) at the Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux (CIUSSS) de la Capitale-Nationale, “which will help develop new avenues for mental health care,”…
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Looking to expand into four to six more cities in Canada over the next two years
By Amanda OYE
TORONTO – Telstra Americas has big plans to expand its year-old Canadian operations and connect the country to Asia.
“We’re there for the long haul – this is something where we’re going to continue to invest and grow,” said Nicholas Collins (above), president of Telstra Americas, in an interview with Cartt.ca.
Telstra, an Australian-based global telecom, is positioning itself in the Canadian market as a carrier that will “be solely focused on connecting Canadian enterprises to Asia,” he explained.
“We are not existing in Canada…
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Shaw still fastest fixed broadband provider in latest quarter
SEATTLE — Telus Communications was once again the fastest mobile operator among top providers in Canada in the fourth quarter of 2021, according to Seattle-based mobile and broadband network testing company Ookla’s most recent quarterly report on the Canadian market.
Released today, Ookla’s Q4 2021 Speedtest Global Index market analysis for Canada also shows Shaw Communications retained its top ranking as the country’s fastest fixed broadband provider.
Using its Speedtest Intelligence data for Q4 2021, Ookla gave Telus a speed score of 98.29 for its mobile network performance (see chart above), which…
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IGLOOLIK, Nunavut — Canada’s first and only all-Inuktut TV channel, Uvagut TV, is celebrating its first anniversary this week.
The channel was launched on Monday, Jan. 18, 2021 by Nunavut Independent Television (NITV) and started out broadcasting 168 hours a week of Inuit-produced culture, arts, movies and information programming.
Uvagut TV is available nationally to more than 610,000 customers across the country via Shaw Direct satellite service and can also be streamed via uvagut.tv. The channel is also carried by Arctic Co-op Cable in Nunavut and Northwest Territories and by FCNQ in Nunavik, in northern Quebec.
“Thank you to everyone…
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BEHCHOKǪ̀, NT — Northwestel announced today the launch of full-fibre Internet service with unlimited data to homes and businesses in Behchokǫ̀, Northwest Territories.
With the launch, the home Internet speeds now available in Behchokǫ̀ have increased from 15 Mbps to 250 Mbps for downloads, which far surpasses the CRTC’s universal service objective of 50 Mbps, says a Northwestel press release.
“Alongside faster unlimited Internet, Behchokǫ̀ now has Internet rates that match those available in major Northern centres,” the release says.
Northwestel’s unlimited Internet plans range in price from $161 per month for its Internet 50 service with download speeds up to 50 Mbps to…
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