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Shaw family buys more stock in Shaw

Shaw Communications Inc.’s founding family purchased an additional 750,000 non-voting shares in the company, Shaw said Friday.

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CRTC opens consultation on 9(1)(h) applications

CBC/Radio-Canada, Quebecor Media Inc. and ZoomerMedia Ltd. are among 21 broadcasters seeking CRTC mandatory distribution orders for carriage of their specialty channels, the CRTC said.

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Where are Canada’s startups? The second tier, emerging tech hubs

Startup activity across Canada is spreading to smaller, unlikely cities. While well-known tech startup hubs like Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo, Vancouver and Montreal continue to thrive, more entrepreneurs are looking at lesser-known options like Calgary and the small coastal town of Lunenburg, N.S., to launch tech companies.

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Rogers enters LTE roaming agreement with 3 Hong Kong

Rogers Communications Inc.’s has reached a deal to allow its fourth-generation LTE customers to roam on 3 Hong Kong’s network in Hong Kong, the company said Thursday.

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CMF awards $4.2 million to digital media startups

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) awarded $4.2 million to 19 Canadian companies as part of its Experimental Stream fund for innovative projects, the organization said Wednesday.

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OMNI.2 to feature ethnic programming exclusively

Rogers Communications Inc.’s OMNI.2 conventional television station will feature ethnic-focused content “exclusively,” OMNI said Friday.

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Mobile data costs to rise, Deloitte says

Prices for mobile wireless data will rise and tiered “quality of service options” will emerge in the U.S. in 2013, with Canada following 18 months later, Deloitte and Touche LLP said in its annual technology, media and telecom predictions.

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Lacavera steps aside as Orascom moves to gain control of Wind

Anthony Lacavera will sell off his share of Wind Mobile and step down as its chairman and CEO as foreign parent company Orascom Telecom Holdings S.A.E. moves to convert its non-voting stake in the new entrant carrier into full operational control, Wind said Friday.

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Northwestel focuses on upgrading fixed wireless services in revised modernization plan

Northwestel Inc. will roll out third-generation fixed wireless services to 41 northern Canadian communities over the next five years and seek partnership funding to reach 26 more, the company said in a revised modernization plan.

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Internet throttling complaints drop after March

The CRTC received 75 complaints about Internet throttling in 2012 but saw complaints decline after the first three months, the commission said in a status report released Thursday.

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