CALGARY – Shaw Communications announced today that after it finished network upgrades in Drayton Valley this week, it is now able to offer gigabit download speeds to all of its residential customers in Alberta.
Drayton Valley is a community of 7,200 people about 140 kms west of Edmonton.
By completing that upgrade, Shaw now delivers its fastest internet tier, Fibre+ Gig, to every community that it services in more than 100 municipalities and First Nations across the province.
“We understand a fast and reliable internet connection is critical for our customers whether they are at home, in the office, or on-the-go, which…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC announced this afternoon over 10,100 households in rural Manitoba, the Yukon and Northwest Territories will soon get access to improved broadband.
The Commission’s Broadband Fund will contribute $72 million to the selected five projects which will cover 51 communities, the majority of which are Indigenous. The total size of the fund is $750 million, to be distributed over five years, and the Regulator is currently considering applications made to its second round of funding.
The money from this first round will go to Broadband Communications North for a satellite project in northern Manitoba, and to Bell Canada…
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CALGARY — Shaw Communications today launched a teleworking gateway called Smart Remote Office which brings the security and functionality of working in the office to the homes of employees of Shaw Business customers.
“The pandemic forced many businesses to accelerate their remote working policies or build new ones entirely from scratch,” said Katherine Emberly, president of business, brand and communications, Shaw Communications, in the news release. “After working from home for five months, businesses realize they need technology that can keep their employees securely connected while working with critical files and applications. Smart Remote Office is a solution that…
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TORONTO — Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) announced Tuesday its new original production Level Playing Field, hosted by Paralympian Greg Westlake, will debut on AMI-tv on September 7.
Consisting of eight half-hour episodes, the series celebrates the power of sports by introducing audiences to the athletes, community groups, healthcare professionals and grassroots innovators across the country who are helping to drive positive change through sport.
The premiere episode features Rob Shaw, a 30-year-old para-athlete from North Bay, Ont., who has been playing tennis competitively from a young age and coaching, including coaching wheelchair tennis. After sustaining a spinal cord injury which resulted…
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WOODSTOCK, Ont. — Moviegoers in Oxford County, Ont., have been enjoying a drive-in movie experience this summer at the newly restored Oxford Drive In, despite the Covid-19 pandemic, and local telecom provider Execulink Telecom announced Tuesday it is now the Platinum Season Sponsor for the outdoor movie theatre.
“We pride ourselves on being fiercely local and supporting local initiatives that better our communities,” said Ian Stevens, president and CEO of Execulink Telecom, in the news release. “Oxford County is full of kind, hard-working people who deserve peace of mind in knowing they’re staying safe while enjoying all that summer has…
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By Greg O’Brien
VANCOUVER – As expected, Telus executives said their company is very well positioned to weather whatever storm the newly launched Shaw Mobile releases into the Albert and British Columbia telecom marketplace.
Pointing to its long-term track record, relationships with its customers and solid distribution channels (Telus has 300-plus retail stores in the two provinces compared to 19 for Shaw, although the latter does have additional retail partners like Wal-Mart), company executives on its second quarter results conference call with financial analysts on Friday sounded pretty confident they have prepared well for this new competitive brand.
“We’ve been…
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By Greg O’Brien
WHEN TELUS RELEASES its second quarter results July 31st, company executives will surely have to answer a fair number of questions about their primary western Canadian competitor’s new brand, Shaw Mobile, when they host their quarterly conference call with financial analysts at noon ET.
Those analysts all published their takes on the launch of Shaw Mobile and agree the dramatic discounts offered by Shaw will surely draw customers away from Telus, Rogers and Bell – while shoring up Shaw’s wireline customer base at the same time. As we reported, Shaw has gone to market in Alberta and…
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Prediction: Shaw Internet customers will really like this
By Greg O’Brien
CALGARY — In a move the company says is meant to reward its wired broadband customers while building its wireless subscriber count out west, Shaw Communications is launching today its new Shaw Mobile branded service.
Exclusive to British Columbia and Alberta, Shaw Mobile is meant to leverage the company’s LTE network, its Fibre+ network and 450,000 Wi-Fi hotspots to offer Shaw Internet customers a way to add wireless that promises to dramatically reduce their monthly wireless data bill.
Beginning today, Shaw Fibre+ Internet subscribers can add up to six wireless lines of…
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By Denis Carmel
GATINEAU – In May, Eastlink challenged CRTC Telecom Order 2020-660 issued in February where the Commission denied a request from Eastlink to impose customer credit limits that would help Eastlink mitigate delinquent third party internet access customers.
The Halifax-based company filed the application requesting the CRTC review and vary the decision, in light of the pandemic and the financial situation the crisis has created.
After requests for information and procedural requests, the final deadline to file intervention was pushed back to July 24.
In interventions, Shaw and Videotron agreed with Eastlink saying the Commission was wrong in denying…
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Rogers in favour of transport subsidies for rural fund
By Ahmad Hathout
OTTAWA – Rogers and Bell are among those in favour of a “flexible” approach for the use of the Federal government’s yet-to-be-announced $1 billion Universal Broadband Fund (UBF) to support rural backbone, transport and last-mile projects, according to Rogers and a briefing note prepared for the rural economic development minister.
In a stakeholder page on its website, ISED asks those providing feedback on the program’s design to answer questions including: “In situations where government is only funding backbone investments, how could last-mile investments be facilitated?” And, “Are there particular…
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