TORONTO – Rogers Communications announced today it will begin offering smartphone repair services at select Rogers retail locations.
Rogers will bring WeFix smartphone repair services, in partnership with its owner Brightstar Device Protection, to select Rogers stores across the GTA starting today making Rogers outlets a one-stop-shop for all their customers’ device needs. In April this year, Brightstar (which already offers device insurance to Rogers customers) acquired the U.K.’s WeFix, a “manufacturer-approved” smartphone repair company.
“With this service, Canadians can get their smartphones repaired by an expert at one of our Rogers stores, within hours, and have it backed…
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IQALUIT — Three Inuit broadcasters this week appealed to Shaw Communications to add IsumaTV’s 24-hour Inuktut-language television channel to Shaw’s satellite TV service in Nunavut.
IsumaTV Nunavut Independent Inuit Broadcasting is operated by non-profit Nunavut Independent Television Network (NITV) in partnership with Inuit Broadcasting Corporation (IBC). The three broadcasters sent a letter September 28 to Shaw CEO Brad Shaw requesting the IsumaTV Nunavut channel be added to Shaw Direct as soon as possible.
This followed an earlier appeal on September 10 to BDU Arctic Co-ops Limited CEO Ron Wilson asking for IsumaTV Nunavut…
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GATINEAU — As the CRTC continues a Review and Vary of its August 2019 order which slashed the wholesale rates third-party Internet access (TPIA) companies pay to the incumbent network owners, the Commission announced today it is approving a stay of the order’s implementation while it completes its review.
The stay was requested by Bell Canada and cable companies Cogeco, Eastlink, Rogers, Shaw and Videotron when those incumbents requested in December 2019 that the Commission review and vary its Telecom Order 2019-288 decision.
The Commission’s announcement today comes after the Federal Court of Appeal on September 10 dismissed the…
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MONTREAL — Incendo announced today principal photography has begun in Montreal on As Gouda As It Gets, the latest TV movie being produced by the company for Rogers Sports and Media to air as part of Citytv’s Fall in Love Friday lineup.
Written by James Phillips and directed by Anne De Léan (Within These Walls, L’heure Bleue, Le Jeu), As Gouda As It Gets stars Canadians Kim Shaw (The Lead, Christmas Scavenger Hunt, Saving Hope), Clayton James (When Calls the Heart, Made For You With Love, A Christmas Arrangement) and Tara Joshi (Grounded for Christmas, Nostalgic Christmas, V Morgan is…
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GATINEAU – Despite the demand it and others made to the CRTC for revised tariffs filed since the incumbent carriers lost their court case, no new revised tariff pages have yet been filed with the Commission by the network owners and until they are, independent ISP TekSavvy will stop paying its wholesale fees to Rogers and Bell.
On September 11th, TekSavvy, Distributel and the Competitive Network Operators of Canada each filed applications with the CRTC demanding the incumbent telco and cable carriers file new tariff pages as ordered by the Commission in its August 2019 decision setting new wholesale…
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CALGARY — Saying it’s a solution to help business owners build customer relationships and increase in-store traffic, Shaw Communications today announced the launch of SmartTarget for Shaw Business customers.
The all-in-one digital marketing and advanced insights solution leverages Shaw’s SmartWiFi service and new technology to give business owners a deeper understanding of who their customers are and what they want, as well as the ability to drive traffic to their brick-and-mortar locations, boost revenue and create repeat customers, says the Shaw press release.
SmartTarget is available as an add-on to Shaw’s SmartWiFi service, providing businesses with detailed customer demographic insights…
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OTTAWA – The federal government and the B.C. government today said a 40 km fibre-optic run north of Whistler, British Columbia will be completed next month which will result in increased connectivity speeds in Mount Currie and the Lil’wat Nation – and also provide connectivity to the Ts’zil Learning Centre.
It’s part of a $5.6 million extension called the Whistler-Cache Creek Transport Fibre Build project, says the federal government press release.
Future construction will connect communities such as Birken, Seton Lake, Tsal’alh Nation, T’it’q’et, Cayoose Creek Band, Xaxli’p, Ts’kw’ayalaxw First Nation, N’Quatqua First Nation and Bonaparte First Nation along the total…
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VANCOUVER – A British Columbia court has dismissed an injunction application filed by Telus over Shaw’s promotion of its new Fibre+ internet product launched earlier this year.
In a September 11 ruling made public this week, the B.C. Supreme Court said it is unconvinced by Telus’ argument that the average customer would care about the differences between Shaw’s hybrid fibre-coaxial cable network and Telus’ fibre to the home technology when deciding on a broadband provider.
Telus asked the court in June to force Shaw to stop using “Fibre+” for its highest internet speeds until a final determination is made…
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EXTON, Pa. — SCTE-ISBE, organizers of the annual Cable-Tec Expo, announced today a global cast of cable companies and organizations has stepped forward to provide sponsorship support for this year’s free virtual event, which will take place October 12-15.
Canada’s Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications, as well as Liberty Global in Europe, Millicom in Latin America, Midco in the United States, and the U.S.’s National Cable Television Cooperative all have become attendee registration sponsors of the all-digital event. Charter Communications, Comcast, Cox Communications and the SCTE Foundation had previously committed sponsorship dollars to make Cable-Tec Expo Virtual Experience free for…
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GATINEAU — The CRTC announced today it has agreed to a nine-month extension of the deadline for the implementation of the STIR/SHAKEN framework for authenticating caller ID information for IP-based voice calls. The implementation deadline is now June 30, 2021.
STIR/SHAKEN stands for Secure Telephony Identity Revisited/Signature-based Handling of Asserted information using toKENs. The framework provides a suite of protocols and procedures intended to combat fraudulent caller ID spoofing by authenticating and verifying the caller ID information. It’s something upon which the federal government is focused.
In December 2019, the Commission mandated Canadian telecommunications service providers (TSPs) implement the security…
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