CTS 2015: TV market in Canada “really f****d up”
TORONTO — Adding some broadcast content into the mix at the Canadian Telecom Summit last week, experts from the video content creation and distribution industries discussed the challenges and opportunities […]
CTS 2015: The mansions on the hill vs. the scrappy underdogs and do wholesale rates crush competition, or slow investment?
TORONTO — This year’s regulatory blockbuster panel at the Canadian Telecom Summit on Tuesday turned into a bit of a public hearing on wholesale telecom rates as the Big Three […]
CTS 2015: With net neutrality debate “done”, vertical integration and discriminatory telecom practices are the next battles
TORONTO – Calling ongoing discussions on net neutrality a “distraction”, John Lawford, executive director and general counsel for the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) said the bigger issues needing to […]
Why aren’t regulators helping AM radio and forcing carriers to turn on the FM chips in smartphones?
TORONTO – While radio stations in general face many of the same issues thanks to burgeoning competition from streaming audio services, the separate AM and FM bands have their own […]
NABA: Is “live, local, personal” enough for radio?
TORONTO – Broadcast radio’s primary sustainable advantages over streaming audio services will continue to be its live and local content for the foreseeable future, according to industry experts who spoke […]
NABA: Radio must embrace the connected car
TORONTO – Faced with an increasing number of streaming audio services and mobile radio apps competing for space on the dashboards of modern cars (not like the one on the […]
SaskTel CEO Styles on roaming caps, auctions, wireline, TV and 25 Mbps broadband
TORONTO – As part of a media tour in Toronto last week, SaskTel president and CEO Ron Styles sat down with Cartt.ca to discuss the telecom company’s most recent financial […]
Subscription streaming services are growing fast in Canada, will dominate
TORONTO – While there’s no question over-the-top video services such as Netflix have become a “phenomenon” in Canada, the same can’t be said about subscription music streaming services, which have […]
Addressable TV ads driving “insane” revenue growth
LONDON – Addressable TV ad campaigns are driving TV ad revenues to “insane” levels in some markets, according to David Downey, CEO and president of Invidi Technologies, a developer of […]
Group wants feds to ban expiry dates on pre-paid phone cards
OTTAWA – There are rules which say pre-paid retail gift cards and pre-paid credit cards can not expire, but pre-paid phone cards are exempt from that legislation – and that’s […]