Bell expanding fibre to P.E.I. cities

Bell Aliant announced Wednesday that it will expand its fibre-to-the-home into Charlottetown and Summerside, P.E.I. 

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Heritage committee membership changes

The parties of the House have changed the membership of the Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, which is set to elect a new chair at a meeting next week. 

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Astral rejoins Quebec Press Council

Astral Media Inc. has announced that it is rejoining the Quebec Press Council, a non-profit organization supporting freedom of the press in Quebec.

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Cogeco warns it would abandon Corus purchase if CKOI excluded

MONTREAL—Cogeco Inc. will abandon its acquisition of Corus Entertainment Inc.’s 11 Quebec radio stations if Montreal’s popular French-language music station CKOI-FM isn’t part of the deal, Yves Mayrand, Cogeco’s vice-president of corporate affairs, told the commission Tuesday.

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Mobilicity announces new executive appointments

Mobilicity announced new appointments Tuesday, grabbing executives with several years’ experience at Telus Communications Co., Bell Canada and Rogers Communications Inc. 

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CRTC to amend pay TV and specialty channel regs

The CRTC plans to amend the pay TV and specialty service regulations to prevent distributors from requiring channels to transmit their signals only by fibre. 

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Commission releases list of transmitters for digital transition

The CRTC released a full list Tuesday of transmitters subject to the transition from analogue to digital television signals by the Aug. 31, 2011 deadline. 

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FCC adopts order for public ‘white space’ spectrum

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced it has taken new steps to open up spectrum “white spaces”—which freed up when over-the-air television broadcasting was moved to digital—for unlicensed use.

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RIM expected to sell six million PlayBooks in first year

Waterloo, Ont.-based Research in Motion (RIM) has unveiled its new tablet, the BlackBerry PlayBook, to compete with Apple’s popular iPad and allow for multitasking with a 1 GHz dual-core processor. 

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Telus seeking phone service deregulation in more than 85 communities

After granting Telus Communications Co. an exemption from residential phone service regulation in several jurisdictions last week, the CRTC is now considering one of the provider’s last outstanding applications under opposition from MTS Allstream

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