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Summary: Vancouver Canadians and Rogers Communications announce Rogers Field at Nat Bailey Stadium. Five-year agreement includes naming rights, community initiatives, and unique experiences for Rogers customers. Partnership coincides with the return of full-season baseball and planned stadium renovations. The Vancouver Canadians baseball team and Rogers have announced a significant expansion of their partnership, including the...

Summary: Bell was the fastest mobile provider in Q1 2023, with Rogers having the highest upload speed. Bell's pure fibre led the fixed broadband segment in both download and upload speeds. No clear winners were identified for consistency, device performance, or chipset performance. Ookla's Speedtest Global Index has released its Q1 2023 Market Analysis for...

Summary: Member Mondays: exclusive weekly deals from select partners. Partners include Frank & Oak, G Adventures, and kick-off deals with New York Fries and Pizza Salvatoré. Members save up to $1,400 on everyday purchases using the personalized My Benefits app. Bell's Virgin Plus has launched Member Mondays, a new feature for its Member Benefits program,...

Rogers announced on Monday it plans to bring back outsourced Shaw customer service jobs back to Canada, part of the company’s pledge to have a 100% Canadian-based customer service team. The jobs will be relocated to British Columbia, Alberta, and Manitoba, ensuring all customer interactions by phone or online chat are handled by Canadian-based employees....

Opensignal released its first Canada Fixed Broadband Experience report yesterday, detailing its analysis of internet providers in Canada. The report analyzed fixed high-speed networks and rate them on six measures, such as broadband success rate, consistent quality, video experience, download speed, peak download speed and upload speed. The study showed that broadband download speeds in...

With SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellation growing by the month, internet users in remote areas continue to jump ship from legacy telecoms for better service. One former Bell customer has cleverly found a way to repurpose their satellite dish from the company. The old Bell dish is now being used as a platform for their SpaceX...

For those celebrating Vaisakhi, prepaid brands Chatr (Rogers) and Lucky Mobile (Bell) are offering up a data bonus for new activations. Chatr says you can get a 4GB data bonus for 12 months on plans $35/month or higher, at 3G speeds up to 10 Mbps. All plans include unlimited calling and messaging. The plans with...

Telus-owned prepaid brand, Public Mobile, has launched a sale on SIM cards offering them at 50% off. The company’s website recently was updated to say “for a limited time get SIM card for only $5” and it also includes free shipping. SIM cards should really be free when signing up for a mobile plan, but...

Summary: 92% of Canadians believe monopolies are driving up prices 69% believe competition laws and regulations benefit large companies over consumers 86% agree that more competition means lower prices and more choices for consumers A recent Mainstreet Research poll conducted by OpenMedia and Ekō shows that 92% of Canadians believe that high market concentration is...

For existing Fido customers seeking a new cellphone deal, you may want to check your online account for offers. Right now, Rogers-owned Fido is offering up a $43 plan with 35GB of data that includes unlimited global SMS/MMS, plus unlimited minutes. Also included are the usual features such as call and name display, voicemail, call...

Telus-owned Koodo has been sending out text messages to select customers, informing them of an “extremely affordable monthly bonus data offer." The message sent out on Wednesday to some customers states “today is your lucky day!” while stating the following monthly data add-on offers, according to a RFD user: $1 for 1GB (reply ADDONE) $2...

Summary: Quebecor's Videotron acquired Freedom Mobile from Shaw under the Rogers-Shaw deal. Quebecor CEO Péladeau plans to offer a better product and price to get market share from Rogers, Telus and Bell. Freedom Mobile will invest $150 million to upgrade the network, including 5G within two years. As part of the Rogers-Shaw deal, Quebecor’s Videotron...