Spacecom, the satellite services provider and owner-operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with NuRAN Wireless, including a $3.2 million investment in the Canadian communications company. Spacecom is acquiring 9.3 per cent of NuRAN’s equity, subject to the contract’s conditions. NuRAN’s satellite-based wireless communications solutions enable mobile wireless operators (MNOs) […]
A+E Networks has acquired a 35 per cent stake in Newen’s majority-owned content provider Reel One, which is based in Montreal with offices also in with offices in Los Angeles, London and Buenos Aire. Newen remains a majority shareholder in Reel One with a 51 per cent stake. A+E Networks has also signed a multi-year […]
Research from Ampere Analysis into how people living in the US and Canada are consuming media – from SVoD to social media – has highlighted key similarities and differences between the two markets: More than half of US respondents are ‘Super Stackers’
On July 1st a Soyuz rocket is set to launch an additional 36 OneWeb broadband satellites into orbit. The launch will take place from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East, and handled by Arianespace and its local partner Starsem. Timings on launch day are: 13:48 BST / 8:48 AM ET / 4:48 AM Alaska […]
Stingray Group, a music, media, and technology company, has announced that Qello Concerts by Stingray, its multiplatform service that transforms any screen into a live concert experience, has released the livestreaming schedule of the 55th edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival, which will be held from July 2 to July 17, 2021. Set amidst the […]
Canada’s Innovation, Science & Economic Development (ISED) ministry has set out its proposals on how it will auction off satellite C-band frequencies in an 87-page document. Telesat, the current user of most of the C-band spectrum, had hoped to auction the spectrum itself in order to part-fund its expensive ‘Lightspeed’ Low Earth orbiting fleet of […]
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 […]