VANCOUVER – Telus Optik TV subscribers can now watch TSN where and when they want now that the sports network's five national feeds and the TSN Go app are available through Optik on the go.
Access to TSN content and the TSN Go app is offered at no additional charge for Optik TV customers with a TSN subscription. Telus Optik TV subscribers can download the Optik on the go app as well as the TSN Go app from the Apple App Store and Google Play store.
In addition to all five TSN feeds, Optik on the go now provides mobile access…
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OTTAWA – Spectrum set asides, eligibility to purchase set-aside spectrum, and the band plan remain the primary sticking points for Canada’s wireless service providers in reply comments to Industry Canada’s consultation on the AWS-3 spectrum auction framework.
The country’s large wireless operators have panned many aspects of the department’s proposed approach to the AWS-3 auction. A 30 MHz set-aside that includes spectrum contiguous to previously auctioned AWS-1 spectrum gives new entrants a considerable leg up, they argue. Not only do they believe that the set aside is the wrong approach, they think if the department does indeed set…
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OTTAWA – The Wireless Code applies to retail mobile wireless voice and data services provided to both individuals and small businesses, the CRTC reiterated Wednesday.
Responding to an application from Telus, the Commission added that the Wireless Code applies to all contracts between an individual and a wireless service provider where the individual is responsible for some or all charges related to the contract.
Accordingly, the Commission found that both “corporate individual plans” and “employee purchase plans", as described by Telus, are wireless contracts between an individual and a service provider where the individual is responsible for some or all…
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TORONTO – “What’s the phone company doing in healthcare?”
That’s a question that Paul Lepage (right), president of Telus Health, and Michael Guerriere (left), its chief medical officer, hear often.
The answer, in short, is that healthcare is Telus’ content play. While its competitors snap up content providers or add to their list of media assets, Telus has jumped headlong into the healthcare field, investing more than $1 billion in Canadian health IT over the last six years to capitalize on what it sees as that industry's enormous growth potential.
“The other telcos and cable companies are all making investments in broadcast assets and sports teams…
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OTTAWA – The Recycle My Cell Student Challenge is back for a fifth year, so c’mon kids and gather up those old mobile devices.
Canadian students from kindergarten to post-secondary are challenged to recycle as many old wireless devices and accessories as possible between October 20 and November 21, 2014. The school in each province and territory that collects the most cell phones (based on school population) will be awarded $500 to be used towards a school environmental project. As a participation prize, eligible schools will receive $1 for every phone they collect and recycle through Recycle My Cell (up to a…
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THE INITIAL CALL FOR THE REVIEW of the broadcasting system and the launch of the Let’s Talk TV consultation process was met with both skepticism and guarded optimism in the industry.
In many ways the industry had this coming. The price for cable television has increased dramatically over the past few decades, outpacing rises in price of most household commodities. The associated explosion in the number of channels, combined with the rise in price has created what behavioral economists call a “correlation effect”. This causes people to assume that the number of channels is the main cause of…
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OTTAWA – The phrase ‘you win some, you lose some’ rang true this week for Sun News Network after it won one application for final offer arbitration with Telus, but lost another such application with Rogers.
In final offer arbitration, the Commission examines the final offers submitted by the parties and selects one in its entirety. The Commission’s decision is binding on the parties, though in rare instances, where neither offer is in the public interest, the Commission may reject both offers.
In its decision between Sun News Network (SNN) and Telus, the Commission said that it considered rates paid by…
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TORONTO – There’s only a few weeks left to register for the Canadian Wireless Trade Show scheduled for October 29-30 at the Toronto Congress Centre in Toronto.
Now in its fourth year, the B2B tech, telecom, and wireless networking event will feature over 100 exhibitors and last year attracted over 2,500 attendees. This year’s lineup of live talks includes Telus’ Sachin Mahajan on ‘M2M and the Art of of the Possible’ and Samsung Canada’s Paul Brannen on ‘Mobile Trends Changing the Role of the CIO’, in addition to presentations from representatives of Public Mobile, Best Buy and Visa.
Registration and parking is free.
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable could add wireless service to its mix as the country’s newest Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), a move that it said will help foster wireless competition in a market dominated by incumbent providers.
In advance of its appearance Monday at the CRTC’s review of wholesale mobile wireless services, Cogeco said in a statement that it will seek “the implementation of appropriate regulatory measures to allow it to enter the wireless market as an MVNO to offer customers more choice, better value and differentiated wireless services”. MVNOs are mobile wireless service providers that lease capacity from facilities-based wireless…
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OTTAWA–GATINEAU – With wireless service networks now accessible to 99% of the population, more and more Canadian households are dropping their landlines, according to the 2014 edition of the CRTC’s Communications Monitoring Report.
The report, released Thursday, provides an overview of the Canadian communication industry for the year ended August 31, 2013. This year, the CRTC is releasing the report in three parts. The first, about the country’s broadcasting sector, was released earlier this month, and the third part will be released in October with data on international comparisons, the National Do Not Call List and consumer spending on…
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