CALGARY – Shaw launched a faster Internet service, called High-Speed Nitro, to their customers in Saskatchewan on Tuesday.
Using DOCSIS 3.0 technology, the press release called the new service “unquestionably the fastest Internet speed available across Canada” at 100 Mbps.
Shaw has upgraded its package of Internet services and will roll-out High-Speed Nitro and its other speed enhancements to its remaining communities over the next few months.
"Our current speed enhancements and increase in people power is just one more indicator of Shaw’s commitment to satisfying our customers’ needs with greater choice for Internet speed, support and reliability," said…
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TORONTO – While saying the business environment and financial performance of companies across Canada are likely to be adversely affected by the ongoing recession and the relative scarcity of financing, advertising-sensitive companies in the newspaper and television broadcasting sectors are likely to be most affected, according to Moody’s Investors Service.
"The recession will adversely affect advertising revenues and EBITDA will decline," said Moody’s vice-president – senior credit officer Bill Wolfe, "and this temporal matter may have lasting implications for these two struggling sectors."
While telecommunications and cable companies are unlikely to experience revenue or cash flow declines and their…
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TORONTO – Praise was near universal for the brand new Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers Canadian Summit, which wrapped up Wednesday afternoon at the Toronto Congress Centre.
The final registration number for delegates has not yet been tallied as there were a large number who registered on site, but the show was very well attended with delegates from across Canada – from the Territories to Regina to Newfoundland – and all points in between.
If there were any complaints, it’s that the show wasn’t big enough (and that it snowed too much on Tuesday…). The 40 vendor tables sold…
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TORONTO – Peer-to-peer file sharing is no longer the number one concern for cable company engineers managing their IP networks as web surfing – thanks to the growing popularity of streaming video – has taken over as the top consumer of bandwidth.
Shaw Cable’s director of Internet systems engineering, David Wodelet, during a session Tuesday morning on Internet capacity management at the SCTE Canadian Summit at the Toronto Congress Centre, noted that “P2P is on the decline… web traffic has now exceeded P2P,” thanks to the likes of YouTube, Google Video and myriad other sites where high quality video…
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EXTON, PA and TORONTO – The inaugural Canadian Summit of The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) will be held in at the Toronto Congress Cente next week, February 3 – 4, 2009.
It is designed to facilitate the exchange of technical information specific to Canada among engineering professionals. Cartt.ca is the media partner for the event.
Speakers will include Dermot O’Carroll and Tony Faccia of Rogers Cable, Chris MacFarlane of Cogeco Cable, Dennis Steiger of Shaw Cablesytems, Pierre Roy Poretta of Videotron, Steve Irvine of EastLink, Preston Gilmer of Sigma Systems, Oleh Sneizko of Aurora Networks, Scott Atkinson of Shaw…
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CALGARY – Just in time for the Super Bowl, CTV said officially today it is broadcasting a high definition signal in Calgary.
(Which may not be good news for fans of American Super Bowl commercials… more on that below)
CTV HD Calgary is now transmitting from CTV Calgary’s Patina Rise headquarters and is the only broadcaster now transmitting over-the-air in HD in Calgary. CTV is also the only one to have HD transmitters in all three markets metered by BBM Nielsen Media Research, Vancouver and Toronto being the other two.
CTV HD Calgary can be accessed by viewers with…
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HALIFAX – EastLink and its programming partners from across Canada will provide over 65 digital channels to EastLink Digital Cable customers to view at no additional charge during the month of February, the company announced this morning.
“The February Freeview will provide programming from Canadian media companies such as Alliance Atlantis Communications, CanWest Media Works and Shaw. Programming highlights include action, sports, music, movies, lifestyle, education, and more,” reads the press release.
www.eastlink.ca
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TORONTO — Moody’s Investors Service said this week it has placed the long term debt ratings of Shaw Communications on review for possible upgrade.
The rating action “was prompted by the company’s ongoing strong financial performance and solid credit protection measures,” says the Moody’s release.
The review will focus on Shaw’s future prospects in the context of its business and financial strategies, management’s commitment to strong and stable credit protection measures, liquidity planning, term debt refinance plans, and cable licence renewal. Moody’s will also review Shaw’s plans to exploit its recently acquired wireless telephony spectrum and anticipates that the…
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CALGARY – Shaw’s board of directors has appointed Michael O’Brien as lead director to replace retiring board member Don Mazankowski.
In this role, O’Brien will “provide independent leadership to the board and maintain and enhance the quality of the company’s corporate governance practices”, said the release announcing his appointment.
O’Brien has been a member of Shaw’s board since 2003, and served as chair of its audit committee since 2004.
Ron Joyce, co-founder of Tim Horton’s, is also retiring from the board after 9 years.
www.shaw.ca
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CALGARY – Thanks to a new box rental program, Shaw Cable has now surpassed the one-million mark when it comes to digital subscribers.
While that didn’t happen in the first quarter of fiscal 2009, ended November 30th, 2008, it has happened since, the company said late Wednesday.
Consolidated service revenue and service operating income before amortization of $817 million and $368 million, respectively, improved 10% and 11% in the first quarter of the fiscal year, compared to Q1 2008. Funds flow from operations increased to $312 million compared to $286 million in the same period last year.
During the…
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