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Cable / Telecom News

Dalfen to close Telecom Summit

TORONTO – CRTC chairman Charles Dalfen will deliver the closing keynote address at the 2006 Canadian Telecom Summit. Canada’s leading event for the telecommunications industry, the summit attracts more than 500 from the telecom industry. Other speakers are: Mitel chairman Terry Matthews, Telus CEO Darren Entwistle, Vonage founder Jeffrey Citron, Avaya Chair and CEO Donald Peterson; IBM Canada president Dan Fortin; Alcatel North America CEO Hubert de Pesquidoux; Allstream president John MacDonald; Mark Henderson, president of Ericsson Canada; Michael Moskowitz, president of Palm Canada; Chris Rooney from the new AT&T; Nortel North America president Dion Joannou, Siemens Group executive… Continue Reading

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COMMENTARY: A new phone plan from Ma Bell: Competition without competitors

It has now been a year since Videotron launched its cable telephone service, offering consumers an affordable alternative to the residential phone service provided by the major telephone companies such as Bell and Telus. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has allowed competition in local telephone markets since 1997 but this is the first real breach in the big phone companies’ age-old monopoly. Jumping into a market in which giants such as AT&T and Sprint have foundered meant a massive investment in infrastructure and technology for Videotron, and of course a big risk. The response from the marketplace… Continue Reading

Cable / Telecom News

Bell plans price increases, more job cuts

TORONTO – Saying (many, many, times) that the company is “rebuilding Bell” or moving towards “the new Bell”, Bell Canada Enterprises senior management made a number of announcements this morning that will be hard on workers and customers. CEO Michael Sabia told those in attendance at this morning’s company “Business Review” 2006 investors day that the company intends to cut between 3,000 and 4,000 people from its work force “primarily through attrition,” he said. This will lead to savings of around $2 billion between now and the end of 2007\ he said. Newly minted Bell COO George Cope (who… Continue Reading

Cable / Telecom News

Registrations brisk for Canadian Telecom Summit

TORONTO – Registrations for the 2006 Canadian Telecom Summit are tracking well ahead of last year’s sell-out crowd. Delegates will be able to join 500 of their colleagues to listen to executive presentations from around the world from those who have the greatest influence on the direction of Canadian telecom. For three full days, June 12 to 14, to the Canadian Telecom Summit will deliver thought-provoking insight from the prime movers of the industry such as Telus CEO Darren Entwistle, Vonage chairman Jeffrey Citron, IBM Canada president Dan Fortin, Allstream president John MacDonald, Ericsson CEO Mark Henderson, Mitel chairman… Continue Reading

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CommTech Trade Show filling up, www.cartt.ca comes on as sponsor

KELOWNA, B.C. – The Canadian CommTech Trade Show & Training Seminars supplier tables are now 40% sold out. This brand new, much-anticipated two-day trade show and seminar series will take place at the Coast Capri Hotel in Kelowna, B.C. on May 17 & 18. The full hotel and its facilities have been reserved due to the anticipation of this trade show being a sell-out. It is anticipated that this greatly expanded trade show should attract approximately 40 to 50 technology, communications and outside plant suppliers from Canada and the U.S. Cable companies, telecommunications providers, sub-contractors and telcos will be… Continue Reading

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COMMENTARY: Fearless predictions for 2006

CHUM WILL BE SOLD. Shaw, too. Telus will buy Bell. Foreign ownership rules will be abolished. CRTC regs, too. Now those are some seriously fearless predictions for the new year. They’re all poppycock, too. Made ’em up (although a couple could happen). The slowdown time during the 14 days or so around Christmas and New Years (and Hanukkah, too), coupled with the fact that a new year is beginning, spawns all sorts of lists and predictions and reviews in the media. I didn’t want to be left out, but I didn’t want to try to add to the M&A… Continue Reading

Radio / Television News

Hockey Canada and CTV extend, expand broadcast deal

VANCOUVER – As ratings for the World Junior Hockey Championships grow stronger every year, CTV Specialty and Hockey Canada announced Tuesday it was extending their contract and expanding the number of outlets viewers may take in on-ice action. Under the new seven-year pact, which will begin in 2007 and end in 2014, CTV’s sports nets TSN and RDS retain the exclusive broadcast rights to Hockey Canada events, as well as the addition of multimedia rights, strengthening the networks’ position as the home for hockey. Financial terms of the deal were not made public. The announcement was made on TSN… Continue Reading

Cable / Telecom News

COMMENTARY: Is Shaw in play?

OF COURSE, UNLESS I CRAWL into the head of JR Shaw and probe his synapses – or see him in a law firm signing documents with Michael Sabia – neither I nor anyone else can answer the question in the headline. Same goes with all of the Canadian media and cable companies, actually, all of which are controlled by their founding families. No one can really know what’s going on until it happens. Hostile takeovers are impossible. But, the rumors surrounding Shaw Communications have reached a fever pitch over the past few months. They’re too loud to ignore. In… Continue Reading

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AND THE WINNERS ARE…

JUST IN TIME FOR Christmas, www.cartt.ca has given away a 42” HDTV. We did the draw Friday evening and the winner is Nigel Fuller, regional vice-president, CHUM Television Ontario (right). Second prize, the iPod nano, is going to Rick Fraser v-p marketing at Access Communications. As for the 50 winners of signed copies of the children’s book M is for Maple. They are: Brad Phillips, Citytv Vancouver Gordon Lee, CTV Specialty Victor Haddad, Milk River Cable Club, Georgina Schnubb, Masset-Haida TV Society Steve Ward, Grand Bend Cable TV Brett Manlove, CanWest MediaWorks Sam Fiander. Ramea Broadcasting Richard French, CRTC Glenn O’Farrell, CAB… Continue Reading

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Watch those wireless contracts; WNP coming in Spring 2007

OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Wireless phone number portability will come to Canada six months sooner than the major wireless carriers said they could make it happen. In a decision released late this afternoon, the CRTC is requiring Canadian wireless telephone companies to implement wireless number portability (WNP) by March 14, 2007, in most of Canada. Today’s decision follows a public notice issued on September 16, 2005, in which the Commission invited comments on several issues related to the implementation of WNP. The decision will see Canadians be able to take their phone numbers with them, no matter for which wired or… Continue Reading