Canada’s government intends to hold an auction for certain C-band frequencies. First up will be the sale of frequencies in the 3500 MHz band which will start next month on June 15th. The spectrum will be repurposed to suit 5G services. The decision scuppers Telesat’s hope to handle the auction themselves. A second stage auction […]
OneWeb has signed what it describes as a “key distribution partnership” with Rock Networks in Canada. Ottawa-based Rock Networks is an end-to-end communications systems integrator focused on wireless and broadband solutions. The announcement was made during The Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries Canadian Defence Marketplace event. Rock Networks is a Canada-wide telecommunications hardware […]
DAZN, the global sports streaming platform, has partnered with Ultimate Tennis Showdown (UTS) to bring its events to DAZN across Canada and Japan for the first time. Launched last year, UTS is the world’s newest tennis league that plays a reinvented format and a new set of rules. It is a year-round league created by […]
Ottawa-based Telesat is sitting on some valuable C-band spectrum, and completely favours selling off some of that spectrum itself. The sale of 200 MHz of capacity would generate cash to help pay for its fleet of Low Earth orbiting (LEO) satellites, called Lightspeed. Telesat’s CEO Dan Goldberg told analysts that it would like to handle […]
ESPN and La Liga have signed a long-term agreement that will make ESPN+ the new English- and Spanish-language home for La Liga Santander and La Liga SmartBank in the US for the next eight seasons (through 2028-29). Beginning in August, hundreds of live matches across both leagues will be available each year, exclusively on ESPN+. […]
Tremor Video, a programmatic video platform, has announced that the UnrulyEQ emotional and psychographic intelligence offering is now widely available to all Tremor Video clients in the US and Canada. Designed to maximise audience engagement and optimise campaign performance for advertisers across connected TV (CTV) and video, this proprietary suite of data-driven audience and content […]
MiQ, a global programmatic media partner, has announced a strategic partnership with Samba TV, a global player in omniscreen advertising and analytics, to provide an enhanced advanced TV solution to marketers. The joint solution will offer clients better planning, activation, and measurement by leveraging TV consumption insights across Samba TV’s extensive first-party dataset in Canada. […]
Canada-based satellite operator Telesat will raise some C$500 million (€333.5m) in fresh borrowings in order to fund its new fleet of Lightspeed low Earth orbiting satellites. The cash-raising exercise will happen before the end of April, according to CEO Dan Goldberg. The total cost of the Lightspeed 298 satellite project are reportedly about $5 billion. […]
Space and satellite specialist MDA has announced its share price offer for the upcoming IPO. It will offer shares at C$14 per common share, with the target to raise approximately C$400 million. The offer will close on April 7th. The Toronto Stock Exchange has conditionally approved the listing of the Common Shares, subject to the […]
Canada’s MDA, the satellite builder formerly known as MacDonald, Dettwiler & Assoc – but perhaps better known as the builders of the Space Shuttle’s sophisticated ‘Canadarm’ robotic crane and still used on the International Space Station – is mounting an IPO. MDA, founded in 1969 (by Dr John MacDonald and Vern Dettwiler) also helped build […]