TORONTO – Suppliers Telonix and Sunrise Telecom are hitting the road in September and October to update the engineering and technician community on all those flowing 0s and 1s.
A series of four half-day seminars (morning or afternoon, your choice) are scheduled for September 12 in Montreal, September 14 in Halifax, October 3 in Toronto and October 5 in Calgary. They’re $50 each.
Shawn Armstrong on Telonix and John Samoluk of Sunrise will host and cover topics from basic knowledge of digital signals and key terms and acronyms, to downstream and upstream issues and an architectural overview.
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BOSTON – The future weighed heavily on the minds of marketers at this week’s Cable Telecommunications Association for Marketing Summit held in Boston Monday to Wednesday. ********** At first glance, having the vice-president of product marketing from Neustar – a third party provider of local telephone number portability for network operators – seemed a bit of a stretch. But, said John Ticer, he’s in a unique position, having to deal with wireless, wired, VOIP and cable telephony providers and make their systems talk to one another.
Each of those networks and their companies were developed "in stovepipes" aimed at…
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TORONTO – Don Iannetta of Toronto will get a $10,000 Sony entertainment system and a free subscription for a year for being Rogers Cable’s one millionth digital cable customer, the company announced today.
The company said its "dramatic growth in digital penetration is evidenced by the 187% increase from December 2003 until the company reached its millionth customer in June 2006.
"Rogers On Demand on channel 100 is fantastic. I’ve been able to watch all kinds of programming and movies whenever I want. My favourite so far was being able to watch all of the FIFA World Cup soccer…
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VANCOUVER – Canadian production company Shavick Entertainment has purchased gay and lesbian digital specialty service OUTtv, but the release touting the sale has a key fact wrong.
The purchase price was not announced and the deal is subject to CRTC approval. This is the second time the category one digi-net launched in 2001 has been sold. The service has had its problems.
It was originally launched and owned by Score Media and named Pridevision. It aired a variety of gay and lesbian programming as well as many hours of adult content late at night. The adult content scared some…
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OTTAWA – After consulting with the space players over the past eight months, Industry Canada today called for applications to fill satellite slots over Canada.
The launch of this licensing initiative to authorize the development of Canadian satellites says that up to 29 satellite licences may be assigned. It will be the largest spectrum licensing initiative ever undertaken in Canada. A comparative competitive licensing process will be used in which applicants will be required to submit proposals to Industry Canada but license winners will be expected to have birds operational in the 2008-10 time frame.
"We need to increase…
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ONE UNINTENDED HAZARD of deregulation is that all other news outlets will be under-reporting the size of the Canadian cable industry this morning.
On Wednesday, the CRTC released the Canadian broadcast distribution industry’s statistical and financial summaries. But the report doesn’t include all distributors.
From 2004 to 2005, revenues, as well as number of subscribers, remained more or less constant for Class 1 cable carriers. However, with growing investments in voice over IP, for example – as evidenced in Shaw Communications’ third quarter report that said capex will rise at a good clip for the next 24 months…
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CALGARY – While the company that bears his name posted another strong quarter and is quickly closing in on 200,000 phone customers, Shaw Communications founder and chairman JR Shaw was again asked about rumors that the company would be sold during Friday afternoon’s conference call with financial analysts.
Pointing out that the family has been very active purchasers of Shaw shares, the chairman added, "The family is very content with the ownership that they have… We have no intention of doing anything with this property, or any other properties that we have, on an exit basis… Someone asked me…
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LONDON – Coverage of the Bandido biker murders near Shedden, Ont., helped Fanshawe College student Katie Simpson win the Broadcast Educators Association 2006 president’s award for Spot News Coverage, sponsored by MediaIntelligence.ca.
"Katie Simpson is the first of a new breed of broadcast journalism student," said Jim Van Horne, professor, broadcast journalism, at Fanshawe. "Katie is a part of our first graduating class of a collaborative program between the University of Western Ontario and Fanshawe College (both are in London, Ont.)."
Her talent has "been recognized by Corus Entertainment," added Van Horne. "She has been employed at AM 980…
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TORONTO – John H. Clappison has been added to the board of directors at Rogers Communications.
Ted Rogers, president and CEO, and Alan Horn, chair announced the appointment on Monday.
Clappison is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario and has had an extensive and successful business career. He was most recently the Greater Toronto Area Managing Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers and sits on a number of corporate boards. Clappison is also active in the community with the Shaw Festival and St. Michael’s Hospital.
He will also become a member of the Audit Committee of RCI.
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CALGARY – Shaw Communications has joined a campaign to promote customer safety and security online as it partners with the Microsoft Security Response Alliance.
Shaw is supporting the alliance’s week-long campaign this week by offering advice on its www.start.shaw.ca Web page about how to protect their identities, information and computers. Shaw is the only Canadian communications company to participate.
Information includes steps to protect people from online predators; avoid identity theft, spam, and credit card fraud; and protect their PC from spyware and other threats.
"Shaw is excited to be partnering with the Microsoft Security Response Alliance for the…
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