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Bell Aliant expands Atlantic fibre service

BCE Inc. subsidiary Bell Aliant said Wednesday that it is investing $11.5 million to expand its fibre optic Internet service to 22,000 more homes and businesses in Atlantic Canada.

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Bell says Astral deal will benefit Quebec

BCE Inc.’s $3.38 billion bid to acquire Astral Media Inc., will drive broadcasting investment, innovation and choice in the province of Quebec, Bell said in a press release Wednesday.

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Social TV functions don’t change broadcast signal: Mainville-Neeson

The CRTC should back off its demand that broadcast distributors apply for the commission’s approval to run social media functions on top of traditional TV programming, Ann Mainville-Neeson, Telus Corp.’s director of broadcast regulations, said in an interview.

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Public Mobile to release ‘unlimited’ music service

Public Mobile is partnering with mobile media firm Livewire Mobile Inc. to offer the new entrant carrier’s subscribers “Canada’s first truly unlimited mobile music experience,” the companies said Tuesday.

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Android surged in Q2 despite weakened cell phone sales: Gartner

Worldwide smartphone sales increased year-over-year by 42.7 per cent in the second quarter of 2012 despite a 2.3 per cent decline in overall cell phone sales, research firm Gartner Inc. said in a new report released Tuesday.

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7.5m Canadians watched Olympic closing ceremony: consortium

The closing ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games was the “most-watched” Summer Olympics broadcast in Canadian history, Canada’s Olympic Media Broadcast Consortium said Monday.

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CRTC orders Telus to answer foreign ownership questions

The CRTC is giving Telus Corp. until Aug. 24 to answer questions about its foreign ownership levels and the mechanisms it uses to ensure it does not pass federal foreign ownership limits for large telecom providers.

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CBC Music doesn’t benefit from undue preference: CRTC

Public broadcaster CBC/Radio-Canada did not grant itself an unfair advantage by using both public funding and advertising revenues to support its new CBC Music service, the CRTC said in a decision Tuesday.

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Satellite service continues to provide free APTN signal to northern residents

A free satellite service offered by the federal government, BCE Inc. and the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) is allowing northern residents to continue receiving APTN despite the loss of 32 over-the-air signal transmitters, Jean LaRose, CEO of APTN, said in an interview.

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SaskTel launches fibre optik network

SaskTel launched a new “fibre to the premises” network service Friday that promises download speeds of up to 200 Mbps, the company said in a release.

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