TORONTO – Saying it makes the company the fastest wireless carrier in Canada, Rogers Wireless today launched high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) technology – its next generation voice and data network.
Available for now throughout Ontario’s "Golden Horseshoe", the debut of HSDPA places the company among the first operators in the world to deploy this latest evolution of GSM, the dominant global standard for mobile wireless communications with over two billion users worldwide, says the company.
HSDPA is a 3.5G protocol for mobile data transmission that, says the release, "significantly improves data transfer rates, enabling network users to download…
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CALGARY – Shaw Communications said today it now offers local phone service to 23 regions throughout British Columbia, Alberta and Manitoba.
Today it expanded its voice over IP offering to Medicine Hat, Lethbridge and Red Deer, Alberta. Since its launch in 2005, Shaw had over 212,000 customers at the end of August, 2006.
Also today, the company debuted Shaw High-Speed Nitro Internet, "the fastest Internet service available in Canada," says the press release, which boasts a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 1 Mbps.
Nitro will be available for ordering in the Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg,…
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CALGARY – Shaw Communications said today it has increased the download speed of its High-Speed Xtreme-I Internet service by over 40% from 7 Mbps to 10 Mbps AND launched it in Canmore, Alberta
"Shaw’s High-Speed Xtreme-I service is the fastest Internet service available in Canmore, and is one of the fastest Internet services available in Canada," said Peter Bissonnette, president of Shaw Communications, in a release.
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CALGARY – Every quarter financial analysts question Shaw Communications CEO Jim Shaw about his interest in wireless and every quarter he says the same thing: he has none.
This quarter, however, Shaw was even more effusive in describing his company’s indifference to the fourth leg of the so-called quad-play of video, data, wireline voice and wireless service which communications companies around the world are pursuing.
He insisted that Shaw is much better off serving customers’ homes with three products rather than getting into the game of providing for the little device they carry around with them. "I could make…
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CALGARY – Thanks to the addition of 43,744 local phone customers in the fourth quarter, bringing its total to 212,707 voice subscribers, Shaw Communications today announced net income of $210.4 million in the quarter ended August 31, three times its net income of $70 million for the same quarter of 2005.
Net income for the year was $458.3 million, up from $153.2 million last year.
While digital phone subs grew pretty quickly (although a little off the pace of the third quarter), new Internet customers also grew at a good clip, adding 25,907 in the fourth quarter. Digital TV…
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WHILE THE SENIOR REGULATORY EXECUTIVES of all the nation’s telcos, cablecos and other parties met with federal MPs Thursday in Ottawa to plead their cases on telecom regulation, across the river in Gatineau, the CRTC was receiving its newest application for local forbearance – in Fort McMurray, Alberta.
Saying it has already passed the threshold of local line customer losses (25%) in the Alberta oil-boom-town about 450 kms north of Edmonton – thanks to rigorous competition from Shaw Cable – Telus wants the CRTC to deregulate the market, as outlined in its April 2006 local forbearance decision.
Shaw…
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CALGARY – Thanks to the addition of 43,744 local phone customers in the fourth quarter, bringing its total to 212,707 voice subscribers, Shaw Communications today announced net income of $210.4 million in the quarter ended August 31, three times its net income of $70 million for the same quarter of 2005.
Net income for the year was $458.3 million, up from $153.2 million last year.
Net income also included non-operating items such as tax recoveries in the first, third and fourth quarters of 2006 primarily related to reductions in enacted income tax rates, a gain on the sale of…
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OSHAWA – The 50,000th vehicle with factory-installed XM Satellite Radio was delivered this week.
“Delivering 50,000 vehicles with factory-installed XM Satellite Radio in less than a year has exceeded our expectations,” says Marc Comeau, vice-president, sales, service and marketing, GM Canada, in a press release. “Customers have embraced satellite radio and we continue to see an increased demand for the service. In fact, along with our 50,000th delivery, we have an additional 50,000 customer orders for vehicles with XM Satellite Radio in our production schedule.”
GM Canada factory-installs XM Satellite Radio in more than 50 models and GM Canada…
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OTTAWA – No longer will DTH customers with a system at their home and their cottage be able to pay just a single bill.
The CRTC calls it account stacking, while others call it account splitting. Specialty service owners in Canada called it a way to siphon off revenue and want to be paid a wholesale fee for each address. Cable companies called it an unfair advantage. The DTH companies called it consumer-friendly since, because if people are watching TV at the cottage, they aren’t watching at home, too, and should be treated as a single account.
As noted…
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TORONTO – The owners of Bridges TV took their fight for carriage on Rogers Cable to the media late on Wednesday.
An incendiary press release from the English-language Muslim specialty service obviously meant as an unvarnished public attempt to bully the cable company into capitulation, says that by not letting Bridges TV into its channel lineup Rogers is ignoring and discriminating against the Muslim community, is censoring Islam and disrupting dialog between the Muslim community and all Canadians.
By not adding American-owned Bridges TV, Rogers may even be at fault for the fact Muslims in Canada "continue to bear…
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