CALGARY – Shaw Communications launched its VoIP service in Fort McMurray, AB today, offering unlimited local and long distance calls within Canada and the U.S. for a flat monthly rate.
The service is at an introductory rate of $29.95 per month for the first three months and then $55 a month after that when bundled with at least one other Shaw service.
“Shaw digital phone is providing phenomenal value to our customers and we look forward to providing that same quality experience to Fort McMurray residents,” said Jim Shaw, CEO of Shaw Communications Inc. “With a large number of…
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CALGARY – Shaw Communications said Friday its Digital Phone service is now available to Airdrie, Cochrane, High River and Okotoks, all communities surrounding Calgary.
Shaw Digital Phone offers unlimited local and long distance calls within Canada and the U.S., including Hawaii and Alaska, plus 1,000 international calling minutes per month to certain regions in Asia Pacific, Europe and the U.K
Shaw Digital Phone is currently offered in Calgary, Edmonton, Victoria and Vancouver at an introductory rate of $29.95 per month for the first three months, and $55/month after that, when bundled with any other Shaw service. For those who…
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CALGARY – The claims Vonage is making are wrong and misleading, Shaw Communications CEO Jim Shaw said today in a press release responding to the VOIP company’s CRTC application.
This week, as reported here, Vonage announced it has asked the Commission to look into the $10 fee (calling it a VOIP tax) Shaw recommends consumers pay per month in order to guarantee quality of service if and when they are using a third party voice provider for local telephony (other than Shaw’s own digital telephony product).
"Vonage’s news release concerning Shaw’s quality of service enhancement is both wrong and…
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MISSISSAUGA, ON – Internet telephony provider Vonage Canada announced today it has appealed to the CRTC to investigate Shaw Communications’ "thinly veiled VOIP tax to determine if Shaw is unfairly driving up competitor’s prices and forcing Western Canadians to pay more for phone service," says the company release.
Shaw tells its high-speed Internet customers that they should pay an extra $10 charge per month if they use a Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) phone service provider such as Vonage Canada.
The big western MSO says the fee it meant to ensure that customers of Vonage, for example, using Shaw’s…
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SASKATOON – Canadian broadcaster Keith Morrison, a former Saskatoon broadcaster who now works for NBC in Los Angeles, is coming back to the Prairie province to host Crystal Meth: Toxic Speed, a one-hour, open line program which will be broadcast live on Sunday, February 12 from 6 to 7 p.m. on Shaw TV as well as most other media outlets in the province.
Spearheaded by Shaw Communications, the program will be hosted and moderated by Morrison, and a primary panel of four will facilitate a meaningful discussion with a live studio audience of experts and interested parties. Viewer and…
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SASKATOON – While his brainchild, Crystal Meth: Toxic Speed, will air as planned on Sunday, Shaw Cable program manager Jim Mattern has been fired, says the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix.
Two reports in the newspaper say that Mattern was fired last week and that Mattern thinks it stems from a political call-in show during the election.
On January 17th, a live telecast saw an anonymous caller accuse Conservative candidate Maurice Vellacott of sexual assault. According to the newspaper Vellacott demanded the phone number and immediately promised libel action, because the now-MP (he won the election handily) had never been accused…
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TORONTO – A story in today’s National Post which said Rogers Communications made a friendly, informal, $9.3 billion all-share offer to purchase Shaw Communications is wrong.
A terse two-sentence release put out by Rogers this morning says: "The purported meeting and offer described in the story did not occur."
Shortly after noon today, Shaw put out its own firm denial. "The Shaw Family has advised the company that it is not in discussions with any party to sell its controlling interest in the company. The purported meeting and offer described in the National Post story did not occur."
In…
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OTTAWA – Shaw Cable is selling commercial advertising on its community channels during Western Hockey League games, says the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, which contravenes CRTC regulations.
While Canadian cable companies are allowed to offer sponsorships to local companies for some of its programming, like Joe’s Garage sponsoring a car repair program, for example, they are prohibited by regulation from selling commercial advertisements promoting products on their community channels.
During a WHL game last May, says the CAB’s complaint, Shaw aired 14 commercial messages, at least 11 of which contravened the regs by actively promoting certain products….
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CALGARY – Thanks to some accounting and tax changes, net income at Shaw Communications was $75.7 million for the first quarter, ended November 30, 2005 compared to net income of $44.7 million for the same quarter last year.
(The numbers include a tax recovery related to a reduction in enacted income tax rates as well as amounts related to the retroactive adoption of a Canadian accounting pronouncement. Excluding these non-operating items, net income for the quarter ended November 30, 2005 would have been $38.8 million compared to net income of $15.7 million last year.)
“Subscriber growth in the quarter…
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VANCOUVER – Shaw Communications executive chairman JR Shaw had to fight his emotions during a tribute to his friend Charlie Keating at this morning’s annual general meeting at the new waterfront Shaw Tower in Vancouver.
Keating, a Shaw board member since 1985 and founder of Access Cable of Dartmouth, N.S., died of cancer in the fall. The Shaw and Keating families are very close and Keating’s son Greg attended the meeting today. Access sold to Shaw in 1999.
“Most of us in this room knew him and most of us has the privilege of…
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