EMERYVILLE, Calif. – MobiTV, Inc. Monday announced the strategic hire of longtime music industry executive Nancy Levin as its executive producer of Music Television.
MobiTV is the enabling technology behind the mobile video service currently in the market from Telus Mobility, Bell Mobility and Rogers Wireless.
“Levin’s talents will be instrumental in building momentum in music content and music industry related media available through MobiTV’s global service,” says the MobiTV release.
Levin brings over 15 years of experience in senior management roles at several major record labels — including Warner Bros., Priority/EMI and MCI/Universal/Vivendi. Levin was most recently president…
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VANCOUVER – With its labour woes (hopefully) finally behind the company, Telus CEO Darren Entwistle said Thursday the company is moving quickly on two new technologies: its new wireless EVDO network, and its digital television solution, Telus TV.
During a quarterly conference call with financial analysts, Entwistle said beginning next week, Telus will launch its EVDO (Evolution Data Optimized) high speed wireless network in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto and Montreal. The new net will allow wireless data speeds of more than 700 Kbps, about six times faster than its current offering.
And launching this month, is Telus TV, its…
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TORONTO – We’ve seen e-commerce, t-commerce and plain old commerce, but thanks to an intiative by the country’s big three wireless operators, we’re about to see m-commerce.
Bell Mobility, Rogers Wireless and Telus Mobility, today announced the launch of Wireless Payment Services. The jointly-owned venture “will act as a mobile commerce, or m-commerce, gateway, facilitating secure wireless payment transactions while standardizing the user experience across Canadian wireless providers, devices and payment mechanisms,” says today’s press release.
"With anytime, anywhere payments representing the next frontier of wireless service, Wireless Payment Services’ mandate is to develop standardized, secure and easy-to-use mobile…
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VANCOUVER – Telus and the Telecommunications Workers Union have reached a memorandum of settlement, it was announced Sunday evening.
The memorandum contains the terms of a negotiated five-year collective agreement that will now be submitted to TWU members for ratification.
The TWU executive council and bargaining committee are recommending its members accept the agreement which, if ratified, is expected to be effective from November 17, 2005 to November 16, 2010.
TWU members are to vote by a mail-in balloting process. Ballots are expected to be mailed out by priority post beginning Monday, November 7 and returned by Tuesday, November…
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WINNIPEG – The media supply chain is irrevocably more complicated and potentially scary for Canadian broadcasters, according to two sessions on personal media on Monday at the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ annual convention.
The morning session was called “Personal Media Models: Who will supply the media-savvy consumer” and the afternoon session was entitled: “New Models, New Rules: Managing the personalized media revolution.”
On demand technology of all sorts, delivered from all platforms, is irrevocably altering the way media companies do business and on demand, specifically wireless on demand, content was front and centre for panelists as they discussed how…
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I THINK WE’VE ALL HIT the point of severe fatigue when it comes to talking about telecom policy.
A number of senior telecom executives rehashed their recent regulatory presentations this week in Toronto during the third annual Canadian Telecommunications Forum, put on by Insight Communications.
The sessions featured all the usual suspects from Telus (EVP Janet Yale), MTS (SVP Chris Peirce), the CCTA (president Michael Hennessy) and others. But in their sessions on Monday, let’s just say the spark was missing that has been there at other times this year.
Bell’s main regulatory honchos, Lawson Hunter and Mirko Bibic actually…
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BURNABY, B.C – A mere 54 votes came between acceptance and rejection of a new labour agreement between Telus and the Telecommunications Workers Union.
The workers voted 4,540 to 4,487 against the deal its bargaining committee agreed to with the western telco on October 9th, the union announced Sunday evening (the press release was entitled “The struggle continues”).
The TWU’s executive council voted earlier to endorse the committee’s recommendation of acceptance of the settlement package, “believing that it was the best deal that could be achieved under the circumstances,” said the union
A bare majority of the workers who…
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MONTREAL and THUNDER BAY – City-owned telco Thunder Bay Telephone and Bell Nordiq Income Fund have entered into a 45 day exclusivity agreement in order to look at a possible partnership.
Under the terms of the agreement, TBayTel has agreed not to solicit, initiate or encourage proposals from third parties or otherwise provide information to such parties. TBayTel has also agreed to allow Bell Nordiq to carry out a due diligence review of its business.
TBayTel sent out a request for proposals (RFP) looking for potential partners earlier this year. The telco wants to expand its service offering (including…
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CALGARY – This year’s WABE predicted change. Entitled “The Convergence of Change 2005,” the three-day convention took on many television, radio and IT topics in the hopes of “bringing things together”. From “The Impact of Networking on Broadcast Technology and how the dinosaurs are dying” to “The Future to Technology”, the topics are large and exciting.
Here is a snapshot of this year’s Western Association of Broadcast Engineers conference, held at the Telus Convention Centre in Calgary.
There’s no stopping it. The HD convoy is rolling through. The message: Be ready.
Phil Keeling of consultants Cocos and Keeling Inc….
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MONTREAL – In a high-level executive move not often seen in the Canadian telecom industry, George Cope has jumped from president and CEO of Telus Mobility to president and COO of Bell Canada, it was announced Wednesday.
However, both companies were basically mum about the non-competition agreement Cope surely has with Telus Mobility and how it will affect his new job, which he’s scheduled to begin in January. Executives in such senior positions normally are bound by contracts which do not allow them to go to a direct competitor for a long period of time – much longer than…
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