TORONTO – Hollywood Suite will offer the red carpet treatment to new customers in Ontario, B.C., and Alberta after finalizing agreements with Cipher TV (AEBC Internet Corp), Beanfield Metroconnect and Frontline 360 Inc. for its four HDTV movie channels.
“We are thrilled to satisfy more and more Canadians’ appetites for nostalgic, high-quality programming with our growing service partnerships,” said Hollywood Suite content distribution VP Julie Kumaria, in the news release. “With an illustrious, expansive film catalogue and monthly movie premieres to boot, Hollywood Suite is excited to deliver the customers of Cipher TV, Beanfield Metro Connect and Frontline 360 unparalleled…
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TORONTO – Telus said Thursday that it will be the preferred Canadian carrier and retail partner of the new Essential Phone, available in store and online this summer.
The premium smartphone, the first from Android co-founder Andy Rubin’s new company Essential, will debut in Canada and the United States. The Essential Phone is expertly crafted using titanium and ceramic, and features an edge-to-edge full display and dual camera system that eliminates any 'camera bump' in the industrial design, reads the news release. It also comes with top-of-the-line specs and 128GB of memory. The device will be part of a modular…
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TORONTO—Although ISED Minister Navdeep Bains' call for lower wireless and broadband prices dominated the buzz at the Canadian Telecom Summit here last week, it was not the only hot subject on the agenda. Far from it, in fact.
During a panel discussion moderated by Cartt.ca editor and publisher Greg O'Brien, senior officials from Bell Canada, Rogers Communications, Telus, TekSavvy Solutions and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre scrimmaged over such other pressing subjects as software-based competition, low-income broadband subsidies, Wi-Fi-only services, unlimited broadband offerings, the future of the Broadcast and Telecom Acts and…
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TORONTO – An increasing number of Canadians are not only opting for alternative video services, their level of satisfaction is higher for alternatives than for their traditional pay TV service, according to new data from J.D. Power.
The Canadian Television Provider Customer Satisfaction Study measures overall satisfaction with television service providers based on six factors (in order of importance): performance and reliability; cost of service; programming; communication; billing; and customer service. The Canadian Internet Service Provider Customer Satisfaction Study is based on five factors (in order of importance): performance and reliability; cost of service; communication; billing; and customer service. Continue Reading
TORONTO—ISED Minister Navdeep Bains' clarion call Monday for the Canadian telecom industry to slash its wireless and broadband prices re-ignited a heated debate within the industry about the sector's direction.
That debate was on full display on the stage of the Canadian Telecom Summit here Tuesday evening. In a contentious 90-minute session moderated by Cartt.ca editor and publisher Greg O'Brien, senior officials from Bell Canada, Rogers Communications, Telus, TekSavvy Solutions and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre tangled over the industry's current pricing policies and the response needed to the Liberal Government's populist push for lower consumer…
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TORONTO – Telus has struck a technology and innovation partnership with the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) to support its conservation efforts in all 10 provinces.
The three-year, $750,000 agreement will provide NCC with internet connectivity, data capacity, hardware, a wide area network (WAN) and new phone systems, to help more effectively protect nearly 3,000,000 acres (1,214,056 hectares) of natural spaces. This will support direct protection of habitats for more than one-quarter of Canada's most imperiled plants and animals, including 75 of Canada's most endangered species, reads the news release.
"We are proud to be the official technology partner of…
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TORONTO – Canadian communications providers have to become leaders in the debate about the importance of privacy and cyber security to educate consumers, an expert has told a telecom conference.
“They have to be much more vocal,” Ann Cavoukian (pictured), executive director of Ryerson University’s Privacy and Big Data Institute, said Monday at the annual Canadian Telecom Summit in Toronto. “We’ve had a lot of conversations but we need much more to explain to the public: ‘This is your data. Telcos may have custody and control, but they don’t own your data. They don’t have right do what they want…
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Modernized OMNI on the way, too
TORONTO – Watch this (digital) space.
That's the word from Colette Watson, senior vice president of television and broadcast operations at Rogers Media, who told Cartt.ca on Tuesday the media player isn't done with the online TV space after it and Shaw’s failed bet on former streamer Shomi.
"We know we have to deliver content where viewers are. How that's packaged, how that's priced, how that's delivered, is still part of the plan, but we should have something to announce in the next few months," she said.
Watson gave no details on its latest over-the-top live TV…
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TORONTO – ISED Minister Navdeep Bains opened the 2017 Canadian Telecom Summit with a speech outlining a number of new government initiatives, but there was one overarching message that has to burn the ears of the incumbent network providers in attendance who were listening.
That is, your prices are far too high.
“The bigger barrier is prices, which are especially high for low-usage cellphone plans,” the Innovation, Science and Economic Development Minister said in his speech to delegates.
“I get letters regularly from Canadians who are concerned that they are being priced out of the market,” he added in the speech.
“Our government…
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EDMONTON – Telus will invest $4.2 billion in new communications infrastructure and technology across Alberta through 2020, including $900 million this year alone, the company said Monday.
Telus said that the funds will be used to extend its gigabit-enabled Telus PureFibre network directly to thousands more homes and businesses in rural and urban communities, further strengthen 4G LTE wireless service, and continue development and testing on next-generation 5G wireless service, plus support healthcare and education services with new technologies.
These investments are consistent with Telus' capital expenditure guidance for 2017, reads the press release.
"Our sustained investment across Alberta underpins our unwavering…
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