TORONTO – Mobisodes from TVOntario and its French language counterpart TFO are now available to Bell Mobility, Telus, Rogers Wireless, Aliant, Sasktel and MTS cellular customers.
Thanks to a partnership with Toronto’s QuickPlay Media, a company which is quickly ascending to the leadership spot among Canadian broadcasters wanting to go wireless, kids and parents will be able to stream or download an array of kids content from TVO/TFO anytime, anywhere on their mobile phones.
The partnership provides French-speaking teens, traditionally underserved in the mobile market, the opportunity to view mobisodes of TFO’s award-winning youth magazine show, Volt, the first…
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BOSTON – The future weighed heavily on the minds of marketers at this week’s Cable Telecommunications Association for Marketing Summit held in Boston Monday to Wednesday. ********** At first glance, having the vice-president of product marketing from Neustar – a third party provider of local telephone number portability for network operators – seemed a bit of a stretch. But, said John Ticer, he’s in a unique position, having to deal with wireless, wired, VOIP and cable telephony providers and make their systems talk to one another.
Each of those networks and their companies were developed "in stovepipes" aimed at…
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IT’S EASY TO FIGURE OUT just what the American cable operators are doing when you travel to conferences Stateside.
The SCTE Cable-Tec show in Denver last month was no different. Network DVR, switched digital, VOIP, analog reclamation and MPEG4 – attendees sure were able to get a handle on what our U.S. neighbours are up to.
But what of Canadian cable plans? Why not ask Rogers Cable senior vice-president network engineering and operations (and the SCTE board’s Canadian rep) Dermot O’Carroll? All new cable concepts and new gear for Rogers passes through his office so if anyone knows where we’re at…
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RIMOUSKI, Que. – Telus Communications has reached a tentative agreement with its nearly 1,000 employees in Quebec, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.
Meetings will be held throughout the company’s territory in late August so members can hear details of the agreement and express their views. The union’s leadership will be recommending that members sign the deal, which would expire on Dec. 31, 2009.
Negotiations began in October 2005 and this agreement was reached in 29 days.
The new contract maintains the “bumping” procedure for technological change and abolishing positions. It also implements an on-call program to…
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TORONTO – XM Canada said this morning it plans to bump its rates up by $2 a month (matching rival Sirius Canada) while reporting solid growth through its third quarter, ended May 31st.
Canadian Satellite Radio, which operates as XM Canada, reports 80,000 subscribers since service launch, however, 64,000 are paid while 16,000 are OEM trial subscribers (mostly in-car listeners who are not paying monthly fees during various trial periods, thanks to the deals signed by XM where in order to have the receivers installed in Hondas, Toyotas and others, XM has promised the car companies which install their…
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VANCOUVER – Telus has expanded its wireless high speed service to Kamloops and Kelowna, B.C., the company announced Wednesday.
Clients can get mobile access to the Internet, e-mail and other multimedia applications "at broadband-like download speeds similar to desktop Internet access at home," says the Telus release.
However, with typical download speeds of approximately 400 to 700 kilobits per second, and maximum possible speeds of more than 2 megabits per second, the service really falls short of most at home broadband performance.
Telus wireless high speed is delivered via the company’s CDMA 1xEVDO standard, the newest 3G wireless data technology…
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CALGARY and TORONTO – Menkes Developments and Telus announced today they will build a 30-storey office tower in downtown Toronto.
"Telus is putting down deeper roots in Ontario," said Joseph Natale, president, Telus Business Solutions. "It is an important growth market for us and our decision to invest in a new building in the heart of downtown Toronto demonstrates our long-term commitment to Toronto and the province.
"The new Telus tower will be the most advanced technology-equipped facility in Canada, allowing us to showcase our leadership in innovation in a signature building that will become part of Toronto’s cityscape,"…
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VANCOUVER – In a move that will likely send more shivers through the traditional radio community, Telus and XM Canada today announced the exclusive availability of Telus Mobile Radio – powered by XM Canada.
It’s the first service to offer Canadians access to real-time streaming satellite radio programming, including music, comedy, talk and entertainment – all from their mobile phones.
"This is another fantastic ‘first’ for XM Canada. The launch today represents the first time that satellite radio will be distributed in partnership with a wireless provider in Canada," said Stephen Tapp, president and COO of XM Canada.
Operating…
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MONTREAL – Bell Canada announced Wednesday that Robert Odendaal, president of Bell Mobility and BDI (Bell Canada’s sales and distribution business), has decided to leave the company after three years to pursue other interests.
Odendaal was shifted over to Mobility from Bell Video/ExpressVu only in September of 2005 to help lead the wireless unit out from under a lingering storm of bad publicity and operational difficulties which stemmed from a billing system overhaul gone bad in 2004.
After not even a year in the role though, his departure could be seen as a bit of a surprise, but it…
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MONTREAL – The opening of a new Telus call centre will create at least 150 new jobs in the heart of Montreal by the end of June 2007, Telus announced Wednesday.
"The fact that a high-performing and thriving company like Telus chose to set up a call centre dedicated to businesses in the Montreal region shows once again that the province of Québec is a highly competitive place for companies that wish to expand their business," said Québec Minister of Economic Development, Innovation and Export, Raymond Bachand.
That’s not the only reason why Telus is setting up there. The Government…
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