Cable / Telecom News

The TUESDAY INTERVIEW: Boyd Craig, CEO Craig Wireless

BACK IN THE LATE 1990s, when his brother Drew Craig was still running Craig Media, whose primary assets back then were the A Channels, Boyd Craig was busy launching what was hoped then to be a “cable killer”. In its heyday, Sky Cable delivered digital television wirelessly to thousands of homes in Manitoba in the hopes of taking a big chunk of the TV distribution market. Alas, as with other “wireless cable” startups in North America, technical limitations plus the power of the incumbents and growing satellite companies, led to their limited growth and for some, demise. But Craig Wireless...