The CRTC is handing out $57.7 million through its Broadband Fund for the construction of thousands of kilometres of network transport infrastructure. The commission announced Friday that seven projects will be getting funding for almost 1,400 kilometres of fibre transport network in northern Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia, targeting 15 rural and remote communities, accounting for some 6,500 households. Most of the money goes to Kativik Regional Government in Quebec --...
BCE Inc.'s online TV-everywhere service, CTV Go, is now available to customers of Rogers Communications Inc. and four other TV service providers, CTV said Thursday. The network said in a press release that other broadcast distributors added include Bell subsidiary Northwestel Inc., Access Communications Co-operative Ltd., Cable Cable Inc. and Nexicom Systems Inc. CTV said its CTV Go service, available though Apple Inc.'s iOS and Google Inc.'s Android apps or through web browsers, is now available to 90 per cent of English Canada. Other TV distributors already offering CTV Go...
BCE Inc. is asking the CRTC to dismiss a “frivolous and vexatious” Feb. 6 complaint from the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) against the company’s CraveTV service, arguing that the case has no chance of...