CRTC orders Bell, Telus and MTS to give consumers $310 million in rebates
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on Tuesday order Bell Aliant, Bell Canada, MTS Allstream and Telus to rebate $310.8 million to its urban landline customers.
The rebate, payable to customers residing in urban areas, must be paid out in the next six months and will range from approximately $25 to $90 per subscriber. Details on how the funds will be sent out will be made available by the respective companies in coming days.
Canada’s Largest Digital Service Providers
Digital Home routinely receives updates from Canada’s largest Video, Voice, data and wireless providers informing us how successful they have been in signing up new customers and pronouncing themselves the industry leader.
Every quarter, we bring this information together and find out which public companies are Canada’s biggest video, voice, data and wireless service providers.
BCE reports second quarter results
Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE), Canada’s largest communications company, today reported financial results for the second quarter of 2010.
BCE, which includes Bell Canada, Bell Aliant, Virgin Mobile, and the Source, reported a 3.3% increase in operating revenues to $4.4 billion and 22.0% increase in operating income to $1 billion, when compared to the same quarter in 2009.
Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant Smartphone coming to Bell this week
Samsung and Bell announced today that the Samsung Galaxy S Android smartphone will be launched in Canada this Friday August 6th on the Bell Mobility network.
First announced at the CTIA Wireless show in March, the smartphone boasts a 4-inch Super AMOLED display with 800 x 480 resolution, an ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor, surround sound capabilities, a 5-megapixel camera with HD video capture, MP3 player and a touch screen QWERTY keyboard.
Bell FibeTV pricing announced
Last month, at the Canadian Club in Toronto, George Cope President and CEO at Bell announced the official launch of Bell`s Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) service, called FibeTV, would occur in Toronto and Montreal this summer.
Ahead of the official launch in coming weeks, Bell has now released its FibeTV line-up of channels along with hardware and programming package pricing.
Al Jazeera English now on in Canada
Al Jazeera English, a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week English-language international news service, announced today that it has began broadcasting in Canada today on Bell TV, Rogers and Vidéotron.
“We are extremely pleased that AJE’s groundbreaking news and programming is now available in Canada, one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world.” said Tony Burman, the Managing Director of AJE and a former Editor in Chief for CBC News.
Craig Wireless selling spectrum to Bell and Rogers
Late last week, Craig Wireless Systems announced the sale of its Canadian wireless spectrum licences to Inukshuk Wireless subject to regulatory approvals.
Inukshuk Wireless is an equally owned partnership between Bell Canada and Rogers Communications which makes use of existing cellular towers to deliver wireless broadband services across Canada.
Bell says it’s unable to control where its web ads appear
Posted by Hugh Thompson on June 25, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Earlier this week, I wrote about the frustration I felt finding Bell TV advertising on websites which had stolen content from Digital Home. I also it found it quite shocking that Bell was advertising on sites advocating satellite piracy.
Since that article was written, I have been contacted by Bell Canada and Cossette Media, the media buying shop responsible for recommending where Bell Canada places their advertising.
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