OTTAWA – The owner of OneSoccer, Timeless Inc., has filed a part one application with the CRTC alleging Rogers Cable is in breach of the Broadcasting Distribution Regulations by refusing to carry the dedicated Canadian soccer channel on its cable systems.
Timeless claims despite a “surge in popularity and success for Canadian soccer” Rogers has denied OneSoccer carriage. Its application indicates only Telus customers can currently receive it (although the channel is also available as a direct-to-consumer OTT offering and is available on Fubo TV in Canada).
Timeless argues Rogers will not carry OneSoccer as a cable channel because it has…
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VANCOUVER – Telus Corporation today released its second quarter 2022 results, reporting operating revenues increased 6.4% to $4.4 billion compared to the same quarter of 2021 and adjusted EBITDA increased 8.9% to $1.6 billion.
The company’s mobile network revenue was reported to have increased by $97 million, or 6.4%, for Q2 2022 compared to Q2 2021, “due to growth in the mobile phones and connected device subscriber bases over the past 12 months, in addition to higher mobile phone ARPU,” a press release says.
Mobile phone ARPU was reported to be $57.74 for Q2 2022, an increase of $1.18 or 2.1%…
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OTTAWA and GATINEAU – The CRTC today announced 10 projects will receive up to $20.5 million in funding from its Broadband Fund.
“The projects will support the rollout of fourth-generation (also known as LTE or LTE-A) mobile wireless access along 425 kilometres of roads and highways in Manitoba, Quebec, and Newfoundland and Labrador,” a press release explains. “They will also support improved Internet and mobile wireless access that will benefit 2,250 households in 35 communities, including five Indigenous communities and one official language minority community, in the three provinces.”
The Broadband Fund has now committed up to $226.5 million to…
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VANCOUVER – With road trip season in full swing, Telus today launched exclusive, complimentary access to Telus Health MyCare Travel for Telus and Koodo customers with a US Easy Roam package or Canada-US plan.
Telus Health MyCare Travel is available through the Telus Health MyCare app. It enables Telus and Koodo customers travelling in the US to connect to a team of US registered nurses over the phone, according to an email from a Telus spokesperson.
Customers have 24/7 access to confidential triage services, information on navigating the US healthcare system and “Trusted medical advice for non-urgent health concerns and symptoms,”…
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LEDUC, Alta. – Telus announced today it is investing $10 million in Leduc this year as part of its $17 billion investment in operations and infrastructure in Alberta from now through 2026.
“Earlier this year, TELUS announced it is using the power of its Smart Hub technology and award-winning 5G network to bring rural Canadians in B.C. and Alberta home Internet speeds up to 100 Mbps,” a press release says.
“Residents in Leduc were among the first in the country to access these ultrafast home Internet speeds, which is up to four times faster than speeds currently available through a 4G…
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SEATTLE – Telus was Canada’s fastest mobile network during the first two quarters of 2022, according to the Seattle-based broadband and mobile network testing company Ookla.
Ookla gave Telus a speed score of 91.3 – which is faster than Bell (87.78), Rogers (69.94), Fido (67.57) and Videotron (55.71).
The results are based on “703,540 user-initiated tests taken on the Speedtest iOS and Android mobile apps from all the major mobile carriers in Canada during the award period,” Ookla’s report explains. The results consider only carriers with at least 3% of the total test samples in the market for the award period.
Ookla’s…
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OTTAWA – TekSavvy and Bell have both proposed changes to the federal government’s proposed policy direction to the CRTC, which would impact how the government directs the Commission to handle its regulated wholesale Internet regime in very different ways.
TekSavvy argues the government’s proposed policy direction “emphasizes the importance of a healthy wholesale regime” and yet “does nothing concrete to address any of the basic problems that have destabilized the regime over the past 7 years.”
The independent Internet and voice service provider points out the policy direction was issued as the government also rejected petitions to overrule the CRTC’s…
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TELUS FLANKER BRAND Koodo announced today its customers can now add the Stream+ bundle, announced by Telus in April, to their plan for $25 per month.
Stream+ bundles together Netflix Premium, Apple TV+ and discovery+.
“Whether you’re a fan of Stranger Things on Netflix, Severance on Apple TV+ or Shark Week on discovery+, your household can now watch from numerous devices simultaneously, and combine your bundle with your existing Koodo plan so you can stay caught up on your favourite shows at home or on the go,” reads an emailed press announcement.
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has denied Bell Mobility’s request for it to review and vary a decision directing the company, along with Rogers and Telus, to make changes to the proposed terms and conditions outlined in their GSM-based wholesale mobile roaming tariffs incorporating seamless hand-off and 5G roaming.
“Bell has not presented any compelling arguments or evidence to support its review and vary application,” reads a CRTC letter to Bell, dated July 21, 2022.
Bell’s application, submitted to the CRTC earlier this month, argued the decision (TD 2022-102) reaches beyond the scope of the proceedings that led to it and…
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IT HAS NOW BEEN over two weeks since the start of Rogers Communications’ nationwide network outage, which impacted the company’s phone, Internet and cable subscribers – some, for days.
Rogers’ president and CEO Tony Staffieri has issued an apology and attributed the outage to “a network system failure following a maintenance update in our core network”, the company submitted a detailed report to the CRTC about what happened, and a House of Commons standing committee spent the day yesterday hearing from witnesses about the outage – what went wrong, why and what needs to be done…
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