Cablecos’ share of telephony market continues to grow at steady pace

The share of the local telephony market owned by cable companies continues to increase at a steady pace, according to figures released by the country’s major players. Vidéotron ltée, Shaw Communications Inc., Cogeco Cable Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. all released subscriber results in the past couple of weeks and they are all demonstrating healthy subscriber gains at this early stage of their service deployments (see table for subscriber figures).

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Grassroots effort calls on feds to preserve basic telecommunications goals

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Bell Canada axes 60 staffers from enterprise business group

Bell Canada is culling staff members from its enterprise-business workforce in an attempt to bring costs down. But, the move has one industry observer scratching his head.

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Interference a real concern for broadband over powerline implementation

Broadband over powerline (BPL) could cause harmful interference to a number of wireline-based Internet access systems, and Industry Canada should proceed cautiously before allowing any implementation. A number of interveners in an Industry Canada consultation on the matter raise particular concern with access BPL systems.

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CCR Editorial

The opinions expressed in this editorial are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Decima Reports.
 

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CAB gives “qualified support” to cablecos’ request on local avails

The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) is giving "qualified support" to Rogers Cable Communications Inc.’s and Shaw Communications Inc.’s requests to use the 25% portion of local avails – currently used to promote discretionary programming services and packages, customer service information, channel realignments, cable FM service and additional cable outlet – to promote non-programming services. Below is an excerpt from the CAB’s submission to the CRTC.

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CCR People

Peggy Tabet has been named as director of regulatory affairs and broadcasting at Quebecor Media. She assumed the new position on January 1. Previously, she worked at TVA for seven years where she held various positions in the traffic and sales and marketing division. She also worked as an affiliate relations representative.

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Rogers OMNI releases production benefits package details
Rogers OMNI Television has unveiled details of its $950,000 benefits package for independent documentary production in British Columbia and Manitoba over seven years. A maximum of $250,000 will be spent each year, with proposals being reviewed twice a year: January 1 to March 1, and September 1 to November 15. The money will go toward the creation of 30-minute and 60-minute religious and faith-based documentaries. The benefits package relates to Rogers’ purchase of NOWTV (CHNU-TV Fraser Valley), now called OMNI TV BC, and the launch of CIIT-TV Winnipeg, referred to as OMNI TV Manitoba (CCR, June 8/05). More information about applying to the fund is available online at www.omnibc.ca/info/funds/.

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Broadcast Standards Council issues record number of decisions in 2004-05

The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) calls 2004-05 a record year for complaints, with the number of decisions issued soaring to 125.

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