CALGARY – Shaw Communications opened brand new stores in Vancouver, Langley, and Nanaimo this week.
The company opened the doors on its 2,025 sq.-ft. retail store at Woodgrove Centre in Nanaimo this week and that followed the opening of 2,295 sq.-ft. retail store in Langley at Willowbrook Shopping Centre and another retail store at Shaw Tower in Vancouver.
The new locations allow customers to explore all of the company’s latest products, from Shaw Mobile to Shaw Fibre+ Gig to Shaw BlueCurve TV.
“Shopping is all about creating a positive and informative experience, and our redesigned stores are where Shaw products and services…
Continue Reading
CALGARY – Shaw Communications’ top-end broadband service got even faster today.
The company launched Fibre+ Gig 1.5, which it says is “a new internet plan designed to provide gamers, streamers and other heavy data users the speed and bandwidth they need.
“We know that there’s a growing segment of people — including heavy gamers, content creators and super streamers — who need access to ultrafast internet services, and that need has only increased during the pandemic as many of our customers manage the reality of having multiple people working from home and sharing bandwidth,” said Paul Deverell, Shaw’s consumer division president,…
Continue Reading
Company adds 60,000 wireless subs in Q4
CALGARY – While so many industries and companies have suffered through the Covid-19 crisis, Canadian telecoms like Shaw Communications have proven resilient because people need connectivity. This pandemic has shown that like never before.
The company’s fiscal 2020 results released Friday were in line with pre-Covid guidance, including adjusted EBITDA growth of 3.7% and free cash flow of $747 million, and included an addition of 60,000 new wireless subscribers in the fourth quarter (which includes Freedom Mobile and newly launched Shaw Mobile), ended August 31st. Wireless service revenue grew 17.4% to approximately $815 million…
Continue Reading
CALGARY – Westerners can now buy Shaw Fibre+ Gig along with Shaw Mobile at any of The Mobile Shop locations found in 52 Real Canadian Superstore and T&T Supermarket stores, the company announced Thursday.
“We’re working, learning and socializing more online with more devices than ever before, so everyone is looking to maximize their home internet value without sacrificing connectivity. That’s why we wanted to make it easier for Western Canadians to get the internet and wireless services they need at the same place they go every week for their groceries,” said Paul Deverell, Shaw’s president, consumer, in the press…
Continue Reading
CALGARY — In what it calls a first for Western Canada, Shaw Business today announced it has deployed an industrial-grade private LTE network custom-built for mining systems, which will used to provide greater coverage and connectivity at Teck Resources’ Elkview Operations in British Columbia.
(Private LTE networks have been deployed at mining sites in other parts of the country, including Agnico Eagle’s LaRonde mine in Abitibi, Quebec.)
Developed in partnership with Nokia, the 5G-ready private LTE network built exclusively for Teck was created to support the mining company’s RACE21 initiative designed to transform how the company mines by harnessing technology…
Continue Reading
CALGARY — As Shaw Communications continues to push its new wireless service, the company announced today it’s dropping the starting price of Shaw Mobile’s Unlimited Data plan to a very low $25, but it’s an exclusive rate available to subscribers of Shaw’s residential Fibre+ Gig Internet service.
Starting today in B.C. and Alberta, new and existing Shaw Fibre+ Gig Internet customers can get Shaw Mobile’s Unlimited Data plan with 25 GB of Fast LTE data (speeds are slowed if the 25 GB monthly threshold is surpassed) and unlimited nationwide calling and global texting for $25 per month. When Shaw…
Continue Reading
CALGARY – Shaw Communications today launched Cyber Protect for Shaw Business, a new service which will provide increased network security measures for business customers.
“Cyberattacks are becoming more frequent and increasingly sophisticated. With the amount of sensitive and confidential information that businesses share and store online, a single cyberattack has the potential to be absolutely crippling,” said Katherine Emberly, Shaw’s business division president. “By acting as a key line of defence against cybercriminals, Cyber Protect from Shaw Business will help alleviate the uncertainty and worry many customers feel when it comes to network security, and allow them to focus on…
Continue Reading
From 18-year-old Canadian writer’s work
TORONTO – Kids media investor Shaw Rocket Fund along with Toronto’s global social storytelling platform Wattpad and noted production company Shaftesbury, today announced a new narrative podcast project.
The inaugural Shaw Rocket Fund Accelerator Writing Contest, co-sponsored by Wattpad, asked writers to create inclusive stories for Canadian teens with the goal of pairing an emerging creative writer with industry mentors needed to guide them throughout the creative process of creating a finished podcast. Shaftesbury will serve as the project’s first production partner and will lead the mentorship, working with 18-year-old winner Loridee De Villa across all…
Continue Reading
GATINEAU — In what could be a precedent-setting proceeding, Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications have asked the CRTC to issue an order which would grant reasonable compensation to the two companies for the costs of relocating their transmission lines along (or on, over, or under) provincial highways in British Columbia.
Rogers and Shaw are seeking compensation for costs associated with mandatory relocations of their transmission lines due to B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI) work or requirements, regardless of who owns the supporting structures for the transmission lines. In virtually all cases, the telephone poles supporting Rogers’ and Shaw’s…
Continue Reading
So northern BDU can offer the channel there
IQALUIT — Three Inuit broadcasters this week appealed to Shaw Communications to add IsumaTV’s 24-hour Inuktut-language television channel to Shaw’s satellite TV service in Nunavut.
IsumaTV Nunavut Independent Inuit Broadcasting is operated by non-profit Nunavut Independent Television Network (NITV) in partnership with Inuit Broadcasting Corporation (IBC). The three broadcasters sent a letter September 28 to Shaw CEO Brad Shaw requesting the IsumaTV Nunavut channel be added to Shaw Direct as soon as possible.
This followed an earlier appeal on September 10 to BDU Arctic Co-ops Limited CEO Ron Wilson asking for IsumaTV Nunavut…
Continue Reading
