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Bell ordered to provide rural rollout updates

The CRTC said it is concerned BCE Inc. may not meet its 2014 deadline to roll out rural broadband services using commissioned-approved deferral accounts.

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Toronto Star to introduce paywall in 2013

The Toronto Star will launch a “paid-subscription program” next year for online access to the newspaper's content, publisher John Cruickshank said in a column Monday.

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Small ISPs happy with new cost disclosure rules for large telcos

Canada’s telephone and cable companies will have to make more information about their costs publicly available when they propose rates for the wholesale network services they sell to small phone and Internet service providers, the CRTC said Friday in a decision supported by small providers.

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Bell, TV workers settle on new collective agreement

Workers with the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP) voted Thursday to accept a collective agreement with BCE Inc., the union said in a release Friday.

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Samsung, Apple, RIM lead global smartphone shipments in Q3

Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. led smartphone shipments during the third quarter of 2012 as RIM Ltd. moved up to rank third and Nokia Co. dropped off the list of top five smartphone manufacturers, research firm IDC said Thursday.

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Broadcasters should develop ‘second screen’ apps for top shows: report

Broadcasters should develop “second screen” apps associated with their top shows and content to better draw in viewers and sell more effective advertising, said a new report by Evolumedia Group and co-published by the Canada Media Fund (CMF).

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Microsoft launches Windows 8 Surface as Apple unveils mini tab

Microsoft Corp. released its new Windows 8 operating system for computers and mobile devices.

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Corus ad revenues rise 7% in Q4

Corus Entertainment Inc.'s fourth-quarter television revenues fell three per cent as advertising revenues for its specialty channels rose seven per cent, the company said in a quarterly and year-end financial statement Thursday.

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Rogers registers highest customer complaints, CCTS says

Consumer complaints about Rogers Communications Inc. more than doubled during the past year, ranking the company as the country’s most complained about telecom provider, the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services (CCTS) said in an annual report.

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Shaw, Rogers, focus on sustaining overall wireline customers

Canada's largest two cable companies are trying to offset subscriber losses in their television segments by cutting costs and focusing on growing their Internet customers, the companies and analysts said.

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