OTTAWA – NBCUniversal will head to Parliament Hill to lobby on favourable tax measures for the company that has created content in the country, as it prepares to push new products in the new year.
It’s the first time the mega media company out of New York (and of course owned by Comcast Corp.) has registered to lobby the feds after having done so with Alberta and Ontario this past fall. The federal registration, effective January 6, targets Canadian Heritage and seeks to “monitor” and “assist” in the “development of policies that encourage and not hamper the development of film…
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TORONTO — Telus is adding a dedicated hayu app to its Optik TV service interface to enable its Western Canada customers to easily access NBCUniversal International’s all-reality subscription video-on-demand service.
Telus customers in B.C. and Alberta can now access NBCUniversal’s hayu service directly within Telus Optik TV, via either channel 336 or from the app home page. Telus is the only carrier in Canada to offer customers a dedicated hayu app directly within the TV interface, the company said in its news release.
“Since launching in Canada over one year ago, hayu has grown to become the premiere destination for must-have reality…
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By Christopher Guly
OTTAWA – On any given day last month, about 180 drug users dropped by a supervised injection site operated by Ottawa Inner City Health in the parking lot of a homeless shelter in the city’s Byward Market neighbourhood. Most were men, with an average age of 45, struggling with mental-health issues and addicted to opioids.
“Many of them don’t have access to healthcare and mental-health care, which will drive opioid use,” Wendy Muckle, CEO of Ottawa Inner City Health, told Cartt.ca.
That will now change following Telus’s announcement on Tuesday that it has expanded its Health for Good program…
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MONTREAL — Connected vehicle device manufacturer Siyata Mobile has hired Jamie Kitson as its new vice-president of sales for Canada, the company announced Tuesday.
Kitson most recently was vice-president of sales for Bell business dealer Preston Mobility, according to Siyata Mobile’s news release.
Kitson’s 15 years of previous sales experience includes positions at Telus Client Solutions, Bell Mobility as Push-to-Talk and IoT Solutions team lead, Rogers Communications as a sales manager and an IoT Solutions sales executive, and Shaw Communications as an enterprise account executive.
Siyata Mobile is a global developer and provider of cellular communications systems for enterprise customers, specializing…
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OTTAWA — The CRTC has agreed to direct the Competition Bureau to disclose certain confidential information that was redacted in the economic report submitted by the Commissioner of Competition in November to the CRTC’s wireless policy review proceeding. That is, the CRTC is agreeing to disclosure requests from Bell and Rogers; but it’s still considering similar requests from Telus and CNOC.
In a letter posted to the CRTC website on January 10, the CRTC says it is of the view that, generally speaking, the public disclosure of the redacted information, as requested by Bell and Rogers, would pose minimal…
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QUEBECOR’S GROUPE TVA FORMALLY filed in December its appeal in Federal Court against a CRTC decision that forced it to continue to provide a sports channel signal to Bell customers.
But the submission to the court came before the Supreme Court of Canada determined in a set of cases late last month how it would exercise its ability to review decisions made by administrative bodies such as the CRTC – otherwise known as the standard of review. Bell was successful in having the highest court in the land reverse a 2016 decision by the CRTC that said it could…
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TORONTO — Coming off Sunday’s thrilling Team Canada gold medal victory over Team Russia at the 2020 IIHF World Junior Championship, TSN and RDS announced Tuesday they have signed a long-term media rights agreement with Hockey Canada that extends through the 2033-34 season, continuing their long-standing partnership that dates back to 1991.
The rights extension ensures that TSN and RDS will continue to hold the exclusive, multiplatform media rights to Hockey Canada events, including the IIHF World Junior Championship, which Canadian hockey fans enjoy watching every year during the post-Christmas holidays and has become one of the networks’ most-watched properties….
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Wants independent experts to examine Competition Bureau’s confidential information
By Denis Carmel
GATINEAU – Telus has asked the CRTC to again delay the public hearing portion of its wireless policy review hearing because it says the Competition Bureau’s handling of confidential information filed with to the Commission in November is unfair to other participants.
In its November 22nd submission to the CRTC’s wireless policy review proceeding, the Competition Bureau, “makes a number of findings that directly contradict Telus’s own submissions,” reads a document sent to the CRTC on December 23. “These findings are based on data that certain providers were directed…
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By Etan Vlessing
SAN FRANCISCO – The march to 5G promises the newest and fastest networks where wireless carriers can offer next generation applications like VR, better and faster online gaming, driverless cars and improved VOD and TV to consumer and business subscribers.
But how to get the Canadian carriers and service providers from here – current 4G LTE networks – to future 5G and more G deployments as Moore’s Law slows and the operating cost and complexity of Internet plumbing grows?
Cisco, insisting it has tackled the network challenges slowing the race to 5G (which needs significant, deep, fibre backhaul), in…
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MONTREAL – When Cogeco Connexion announced in 2018 its next generation video platform would come via MediaKind’s MediaFirst TV Platform, it said the new product would be in the market by the end of 2019.
While it is currently being tested in employee and other friendly homes, the company won’t be taking it to its Ontario and Quebec customers until sometime in the first quarter of 2020, a spokesperson told Cartt.ca this week.
“We’re getting ready to launch it progressively in 2020,” said Marie-Hélène Labrie, the company’s senior vice-president of public affairs and communications in an interview. Once launched, the…
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