KENORA – "Thank you for choosing Shaw" is the new way to answer the phones this week at the former Norcom Communications.
The $13.5 million deal to purchase the cable company serving about 6,000 customers in Kenora, Ont., and area was completed this week (that’s approximately $2,250 per subscriber).
Shaw also took on ownership of broadcast outlet CJBN-TV in the deal and will pay out over $110,000 in CRTC-mandated "tangible benefits" even though the station has been far from profitable for a number of years and that, according to Commission filings by Shaw, the company assigned no value to…
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VICTORIA – Shaw Communications will be Dockside Green’s preferred telecommunications provider, the new community has announced.
Dockside Green, located within Victoria, B.C., is a mixed residential, office, retail and industrial space and a partnership between Vancity and Windmill Developments. It says it is "North America’s first community to target LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) Platinum-certification."
"We anticipate that Dockside Green will be a community where people will live, work, and play and therefore it was important for us to find a supplier who could provide us with the best and most reliable technology possible," said Joe Van…
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CALGARY – Shaw Communications announced Wednesday the addition of Sony Pictures’ line-up of movies to its video on demand service.
Shaw VOD customers will now be able to get titles such as RV, Ultraviolet and The Benchwarmers. New titles will be added over the next couple of months including Click, Monster House, Little Man, The Da Vinci Code, and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.
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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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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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CALGARY – As reported last month by Cartt.ca, Shaw Communications is dropping the Cancom name from its repertoire of brands, changing it to Shaw Broadcast Services.
The company also announced some other new names:
* Cancom Tracking, a leading provider of electronic on-board computing and communication solutions for the Canadian trucking industry, will be re-named as Shaw Tracking.
* Star Choice Communications, Canada’s second-largest DTH satellite television provider, will now be branded as Star Choice, a Shaw Company.
* Big Pipe, an operator of a national fibre-optic backbone network of data networking and Internet services, will change its name…
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CALGARY – As if there aren’t enough gobblers on the TV schedule already, Shaw Cable will mark the Thanksgiving holiday with Turkey TV, a signature channel featuring all turkey, all the time, the company announced today.
Shaw customers can tune in to Shaw’s community cable channel for Turkey TV on Thanksgiving Day for "on-going coverage of exciting turkey action and entertain your family and friends with this exclusive, premiere holiday blockbuster," says the press release.
Turkey TV will offer non-stop coverage of "a beautiful, roasted turkey, surrounded by fresh greens, carrots and tomatoes in an open flame forno oven….
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