VANCOUVER – While revenue growth was flat and high speed Internet subscriber additions surprisingly low in the first quarter of 2010, ended March 31st, Telus still managed to please the street, thanks in part to a 5.3% increase in the dividend to shareholders and growth in other areas.
Over the 12 month period, total customer connections increased 2.4% or 276,000, driven by a 6.4% increase in wireless subscribers and 103% growth in Telus TV customers, partially offset by declines in legacy landline connections the company said in its quarterly report to shareholders on Wednesday. Telus now has over 200,000 TV…
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THE LEADERS OF SHAW Communications took a look at the media landscape around us and decided that if they’re going to be a player in the new always on, video on demand culture, one which is expanding by the second, they had better own some hit shows. Some good brands.
And Monday it announced a $2 billion deal to purchase the TV assets of Canwest Global outright – a move that will cement it as the leading media and distribution company in Canada. The prior deal Shaw announced earlier this year was to purchase just 20% of the company.
Rogers…
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FREDERICTON – Bell Aliant has won a court injunction preventing Rogers from claiming to have the ‘fastest and most reliable’ high speed Internet product.
Tuesday’s ruling in a New Brunswick court ordered Rogers to stop using phrases like the “fastest speed,” “most reliable speed,” or “fastest and most reliable speed” in its advertising. Bell Aliant president and CEO Karen Sheriff said that the company “very pleased with the judge’s ruling”.
“We undertook this action to ensure that our customers have access to clear and accurate information”, Sheriff said in a statement. “We understand that marketing and advertising in a competitive industry is…
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THE TRANSITION TO DIGITAL television in Canada is officially Heritage Minister James Moore’s to deal with, but Industry Minister Tony Clement doesn’t want to see the August 31, 2011 deadline moved.
That was the word we received directly from Industry Minister Tony Clement on Friday during an interview (which you’ll read below) in his Parliament Hill office.
Cartt.ca readers will know we’ve been prodding the industry and the federal government about their inaction on the transition to digital broadcast television. Using our bully pulpit here and directly with the ministers on Twitter (they are @TonyClement_MP and @mpjamesmoore).
In a…
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OTTAWA – The case goes back a few years and involves a complex network migration of Department of National Defence telecom services from Bell to Telus, but Telus is again insisting to the CRTC that its decisions in the DND versus Bell Canada dispute will have a negative impact on future competition in the large enterprise market.
The western-based telco filed the Part VII on April 12, appealing two previous rulings in the case (Decisions 2009-85 and 2010-11).
The CRTC ultimately determined that DND would have to pay Bell for a set period of time while services were…
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OTTAWA – It’s not very often the country’s telecommunications and cable firms agree with anything the regulator has to say, but on foreign ownership rules, they at least partially support the CRTC’s proposal to a Parliamentary committee studying the matter.
One after the other last week, they addressed the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology on the need to liberalize current foreign investment restrictions for both telecommunications and broadcasting companies. They echoed the CRTC’s position that regulations can protect Canadian content on television and radio.
“While we do not believe there is a problem today, given…
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OTTAWA – Chinese networking and telecommunications equipment supplier Huawei opened its first Canadian research and development centre just outside of Ottawa on Tuesday.
The Ottawa R&D Centre is working on multiple, strategic product initiatives in the wireline, wireless, optical, and IP networking areas, the company said. Located in Kanata, the facility has more than 70 company employees to date.
“The opening of this facility represents another major step in Huawei’s growth in North America,” said Carl Liu, president of Huawei Canada, in the announcement. “Our ability to innovate and develop solutions for customers depends on adding the right people, and Ottawa…
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TORONTO – By the end of 2014, new wireless entrants will capture 22% of the Canadian wireless market, says a study from Toronto’s Convergence Consulting.
And the effect of the newcomers is already being felt – and will continue to be. Despite wireless data’s 36% revenue growth in 2009, total wireless service ARPU declined, says the report. New wireless entrants will increasingly put pressure on both data & voice prices (the US has already seen major impact in this regard) leading to lower ARPU (at least over the next three years), regional (West, Quebec, Atlantic) bundle battles, a shift in…
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OTTAWA – Telus has pledged to invest $150 million this year in Ontario, with $9 million earmarked for the Ottawa region.
Monday’s announcement detailed that the company would direct $1.5 million to Mississauga, $1 million to Windsor, $2 million to the Kitchener-Waterloo region, $2 million to Kingston, and $2.5 million to London in order to expand its advanced wireline and wireless broadband services.
“Telus’ massive investment in information, communications and technology is also delivering advances in priority areas such as healthcare, the environment and small business”, said president and CEO Darren Entwistle, in a statement. “Additionally, access to our leading connectivity, collaboration and network services is changing the game…
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VANCOUVER – Telus is offering Poland’s TVP Polonia on a free preview to all Telus TV subscribers through Monday “as an act of goodwill” to Canada’s Polish community.
"On behalf of Telus, we offer our heartfelt condolences to the Polish community across Canada in this time of mourning", said Greg Goodwin, VP of consumer solutions marketing, in a statement on Saturday. "Telus believes in the importance of community and is providing TVP Polonia free for Telus TV customers so they can watch with the rest of the world on Sunday the state funeral for Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his…
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