July 2017 - The Wire Report

July 31, 2017

CRTC rejects proposed St. John’s radio station

The CRTC has declined an application to establish a new FM radio station in St. John’s, N.L.

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July 31, 2017August 8, 2017

Transparency reporting in Canada: still opaque?

Without an Edward Snowden-like scandal, exposing inappropriate government access of citizens’ personal information, the current landscape may be as good as it gets for transparency reporting in Canada, a privacy expert says.

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July 31, 2017July 31, 2017

Self-driving car crosses U.S.-Canada border

The first cross-border test in North America involving self-driving vehicles took place Monday with a demonstration at the Canadian-U.S. border.

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July 31, 2017

Telecoms call for 20-year term for AWS-1, no R&D minimum

Canada’s largest wireless providers told Innovation Canada that they support its suggested 20-year term for AWS-1 and G Block Spectrum, but asked the department to eliminate a research and development requirement tied to the licences.

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July 31, 2017

YouTube introducing new CanCon channel

In a company first, Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube will begin specifically highlighting Canadian content on its website.

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July 28, 2017

Non-profit gives tech leg up to telecoms, smaller businesses

Canada’s big three wireless providers are now cooperating on a not-for-profit initiative that offers small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) a networking test bed to experiment with new technologies, such as 5G communications.

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July 28, 2017

CRTC asks telecoms about MVNOs, plans for low-income customers

The CRTC is asking wireless service providers about whether they’ve been approached by potential mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) and their service offerings for low-income individuals.

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July 27, 2017August 1, 2017

BDU revenue losses accelerate to 2.1%: CRTC

Canadian TV providers’ revenues dropped 2.1 per cent in 2016 — a marked increase from the 0.1 per cent fall a year earlier, which was the first such decline in a decade.

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July 27, 2017

Ethnic channel applicants get more time to apply

Prospective applicants looking to provide the country with a new multilingual, multi-ethnic channel have more time to put their ideas together, the CRTC announced Thursday.

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July 27, 2017July 27, 2017

Gerry MacKrell to head Canadian Broadcast Sales

Gerry MacKrell will be the new head of the country’s biggest radio sales company as of Sept. 1, Canadian Broadcast Sales announced in a press release Thursday.

Month: July 2017

CRTC rejects proposed St. John’s radio station

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Transparency reporting in Canada: still opaque?

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Self-driving car crosses U.S.-Canada border

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Telecoms call for 20-year term for AWS-1, no R&D minimum

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YouTube introducing new CanCon channel

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Non-profit gives tech leg up to telecoms, smaller businesses

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CRTC asks telecoms about MVNOs, plans for low-income customers

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BDU revenue losses accelerate to 2.1%: CRTC

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Ethnic channel applicants get more time to apply

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Gerry MacKrell to head Canadian Broadcast Sales

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