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Videotron Launches 6GB/$30 Smartphone Plan; Will Bell, Rogers, and Telus Follow?
Videotron has opened a new window of opportunity for wireless users looking for higher usage smartphone data allowances with the introduction of a 6GB for $30 plan the company says is available for a...
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Canada Moves to Digital TV: Canadian Pay TV Providers Move to Cash In
Two years after Americans dumped analog television in favor of digital over the air broadcasting, in just over two weeks many Canadians will discover their favorite free-TV signals gone from the analog...
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Canada’s Cellular Cartel: 3 Wireless Companies Control 94 Percent of the Market
Next time you wonder why you are paying substantially higher cell phone bills than your neighbors abroad, take note: just three cell phone companies control 94 percent of the wireless marketplace in...
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Canada’s Fiber Future: A Pipe Dream for Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, and B.C.
Fiber optic cable spool For the most populated provinces in Canada, questions about when fiber-to-the-home service will become a reality are easy to answer: Never, indefinitely. Some of Canada’s...
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Montréal métro to Get Underground Cell Service by 2013; Wi-Fi Later
A joint venture between Rogers, Videotron, Bell and Telus will bring major improvements in cell phone service in Montréal’s métro by the end of 2013. Isabelle Tremblay, a spokesperson for the Société...
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Cell Phone Companies Hoarding Cash/Credit for Spending Blitz on Canadian...
Upcoming wireless spectrum auctions are critically important for some of Canada’s newest players in the cell phone marketplace. Most are working hard to make sure they have plenty to spend to secure...
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Vidéotron Secretly Filming Technicians on Fake Service Calls; Watch the Results
Vidéotron, Quebec’s largest cable operator, is secretly filming some of their technicians on fake service calls to verify they are providing professional service to the company’s customers. But instead...
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Vidéotron Announces 200Mbps Service for Quebec City, Beating Bell’s 175Mbps
Quebec City residents are enjoying the benefits of an Internet speed race between incumbent cable operator Vidéotron Ltée and telephone company Bell, with both bringing some of Canada’s fastest...
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New Cell Tower Nightmare: Industry Canada Math Intrudes on Reality
Canadians: Get ready for more cell towers in your neighborhood. Industry Canada’s fuzzy math threatens to allow cell phone companies to erect new cell towers in some of the country’s most scenic areas,...
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Montreal Prepares to Say Goodbye to Analog Cable
Analog cable service is on the way out in Montreal. Vidéotron Ltd. has stopped accepting orders for analog cable service from new customers as it prepares to make the transition to all-digital...
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HissyFitWatch: Canadian Telecom Companies Annoyed Consumers Getting The Upper...
Canadians are demanding a better deal from their cable and phone companies and they are forced to respond. As the United States battles back against the introduction of usage caps and rising prices for...
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Vidéotron Launches 4G LTE Network in Quebec With Speeds Up to 40Mbps
Vidéotron, Quebec’s largest cable operator, has switched on its upgraded 4G LTE wireless network for the benefit of its mobile customers, offering real world wireless speeds up to 40Mbps. LTE-capable...
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Vidéotron Will Offer 1Gbps Broadband Speed in Montréal
Montréal cable subscribers will soon be able to buy gigabit broadband speeds from Vidéotron after a successful pilot project demonstrated the cable company’s existing DOCSIS 3.0 network was up to the...
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Rogers Communications: Canada’s Newest Net Neutrality Advocate?!; Blasts...
Canada’s largest wireless carrier and near-largest Internet Service Provider has just become one of Canada’s largest Net Neutrality advocates. How did that happen? In an ironic move, Alphabeatic...
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Regulators Want to Know Why Vidéotron Has Room for Unlimited Data for Some...
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is asking some hard questions of Quebec-based mobile provider Vidéotron, which began zero-rating preferred partner music streaming...
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Canadian Telecom Cos. Raid Montreal Software Developer’s Home, Interrogate...
6A group of five men representing Bell, Rogers, and Vidéotron burst into the private home of a Montreal man at 8 a.m. on June 12 without notice and interrogated him for nine hours about his involvement...
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HissyFitWatch: Canadian Telecom Companies Annoyed Consumers Getting The Upper...
Canadians are demanding a better deal from their cable and phone companies and they are forced to respond. As the United States battles back against the introduction of usage caps and rising prices for...
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