Phase one of “Total Business Transformation” had targeted just 650
CALGARY – Over the next 18 months, fully 25% of Shaw Communications’ current workforce will leave. Company president Jay Mehr says that’s a good thing.
Last month the company offered 6,500 employees the chance to move on with their careers outside of Shaw, enticing them to think hard about their futures with one of the most generous severance packages we’ve ever heard of – six months of full pay plus one month of pay for every year worked at Shaw. These are the types of buyouts companies normally save for executives.
When…
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CALGARY – Shaw Communications today announced a new company-wide initiative which it says is “designed to reinvent its operating model to better meet the changing tastes and expectations of consumers and businesses.”
As part of the overhaul, which is expected to take a number of years, the company is looking to trim its 14,000 person payroll by about 650 and so has offered 6,500 of its employees to opportunity to take a voluntary buyout package.
“Customers want their services from Shaw to be just like everything else in their life – delivered quickly, reliably, and on their terms,” said Jay Mehr,…
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BELLEVUE, WA – Shaw Communications has been elected to join the board of governors of 5G Americas, an industry trade association and voice of 5G and LTE for the Americas region.
Shaw joins wireless industry operators and manufacturers América Móvil, AT&T, Cable & Wireless, Cisco, CommScope, Entel, Ericsson, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intel, Kathrein, Mavenir, Nokia, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sprint, T-Mobile US, and Telefónica in their mission to advocate for and foster the advancement and full capabilities of LTE wireless technology and its evolution to 5G.
“We are committed to powering connections for our customers,” said Shaw’s EVP and CTO Zoran Stakic,…
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VANCOUVER – Shaw Communications is helping the City of Vancouver to grow its free public Wi-Fi network to over 600 locations throughout the city.
About 550 free public Wi-Fi locations are currently active, with the remaining locations becoming active over the coming months. Bandwidth speed will generally be 10 Mbps and there is no limit or cap on data usage. No personal information is required to access the VanWiFi network.
“Like our partners at the City of Vancouver, we understand how important it is to have access to a broadly available Wi-Fi network in the places we frequent the most,” said…
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CALGARY – A surge in wireless customers helped to lift first quarter results at Shaw Communications, the Calgary-based company said Thursday.
For the three month period ended November 30, 2017, net income jumped 28% to $114 million from $89 million in the same period last year. The increase reflects a prior period non-operating loss partially offset by lower operating income from continuing operations and higher income taxes in the current quarter.
Consolidated revenue from continuing operations for the quarter of $1.25 billion increased by 2.7% year-over-year, while operating income before restructuring costs and amortization of $481 million was down 4.6% over…
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I WAS NOT SURPRISED to learn that one of Jim Shaw’s role models was former U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
In his time, Churchill was considered a political outsider, a brash maverick, seemingly unwavering in his convictions, fiercely loyal to his homeland and someone who inspired similar loyalty in so many others. Along the way of course, Churchill was exactly what his country needed at the time and he found enormous successes – but his sometimes irascible nature also antagonized more than a few.
For those of us who have been in the cable industry for a while, there are many…
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A hard-nosed businessman, he made a brilliant cable territory swap, competed ferociously with Telus and pulled Global television from the Canwest inferno
FEW OCCASIONS BETTER illustrated the cultural divide between the world of the western bottom-up entrepreneur and that of Ottawa’s top-down public service bureaucracy than when Jim Shaw and Konrad von Finckenstein crossed swords in a hearing room.
There, front and centre of the raised platform bearing commissioners, would be the multilingual von Finckenstein, a six-foot-something-awesome lawyer who was chief legal adviser on the original North American Free Trade negotiations, served as head of the Competition Bureau, became a Federal…
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CALGARY – Shaw Communications vice chair and former CEO Jim Shaw has died at the age of 60, the Shaw family announced today.
“It is with great sadness that the family of James R. Shaw (Jim Shaw) announces his passing on Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018 after a brief illness,” reads a statement from the family.
“A leader and visionary who never stopped caring for others,” says the statement, Jim is survived by his wife Kathryn, his mother Carol, his father JR, his children Haley (Fred), Parker (Megan), Kennedy, Kathryn’s children Monty, Katelyn, Carly, his mother-in-law Janet, his sisters Heather (Jim) and…
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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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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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