Rogers Cable Inc.
Type	Subsidiary of Rogers Communications
Founded	Toronto, Ontario (1967)
Headquarters	Toronto, Ontario
Key people	Edward Rogers III - President Michael A. A subsidiary, in business matters is an entity that is controlled by a bigger and more powerful entity Rogers Communications Inc (,) is one of Canada's largest communications companies particularly in the field of wireless communications and Cable television, with additional Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario Ontario (ɒnˈtɛrioʊ is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest after Quebec Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario Ontario (ɒnˈtɛrioʊ is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest after Quebec Edward S Rogers III is President of Rogers Cable, a subsidiary of the Canadian media conglomerate Rogers Communications. President is a Title leaders of Organizations companies, Trade unions universities, and countries. Adams - COO
Industry	Cable Services
Products	Cable TV, Movie Rentals, broadband Internet access
Revenue	$1. For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" A cable is one or more Wires or Optical fibers bound together typically in a common protective jacket or sheath In Marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a Market that might satisfy a want or need A rental shop is a business that allows a Consumer to temporarily obtain a reusable good or Product for a specified period of time in exchange for payment In business revenue or revenues is Income that a company receives from its normal business activities usually from the sale of goods and services 95 billion CAD
Operating income	$708 million CAD
Owner	Rogers Communications
Employees	5,922 (2004)
Website	www.rogers.com

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The company's digital cable service is branded as Rogers Personal TV. Digital cable is a type of Cable television distribution using Digital Video compression.

Contents 1 History 2 Management 3 Canadian cable territories 4 Competitors 5 Other investments 5.1 CPAC 5.2 Video stores 6 Controversy 6.1 Negative Option Billing 6.2 Project Cleanfeed 6.3 Throttling 6.4 Injection of content 7 References 8 External links

History

Rogers was one of the first cable-system operators in Canada, having secured licences covering much of the city of Toronto in the mid-1960s. Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 One of the first important acquisitions was in 1979, when Ted Rogers purchased a controlling interest in Canadian Cablesystems and joined it with his broadcast interests. In 1980, Rogers purchased Premier Cable, which controlled the system in Vancouver. Rogers continued to buy other operators, the largest such acquisition came with Rogers' 1994 acquisition of Maclean-Hunter, at that time also among the largest cable operators. Maclean-Hunter was a Canadian communications company which had diversified holdings in Radio, Television, Magazines Newspapers and Rogers has also owned cable systems in the United States. In 2008, Rogers announced a takeover offer for Aurora Cable, a cable service provider in York Region, Ontario (pending approval by Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)^[1]. CRTC may also stand for Cathode Ray Tube Controller. Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC, in French Conseil

Management

• Nadir Mohamed, C. A. - President and Chief Operating Officer Communications Group
• Edward Rogers III - President Rogers Cable Inc. Edward S Rogers III is President of Rogers Cable, a subsidiary of the Canadian media conglomerate Rogers Communications.
• Michael A. Adams - Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer

Canadian cable territories

Rogers Cable's territories now consist of: most larger communities in Newfoundland and Labrador, virtually the whole of New Brunswick, selected areas of eastern Quebec near the New Brunswick border, and, in Ontario: nearly all of the Toronto area as well as the areas of Ottawa, London, Kitchener-Waterloo, and Barrie. Quebec (kwɨˈbɛk Ottawa (ˈɒtəwə or sometimes /ˈɒtəwɑː/ is the Capital of Canada and the country's fourth largest municipality. London is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada along the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor with a metropolitan area population of 457720 the city proper Kitchener-Waterloo ( K-W) is an unofficial but ubiquitous name for the area in Ontario, Canada, consisting of the Twin cities of Kitchener With the Rogers takeover of Aurora Cable (pending CRTC approval), Aurora, Ontario along with most areas in York Region will also be added in the Canadian cable territories area. Aurora ( 2006 Population 47629 is an affluent Canadian town in York Region, approximately 40 km north of Toronto

Over the years, and at various times, Rogers has owned all or part of various cable operators serving areas across Canada, including Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Northern Ontario, and the Hamilton area. Vancouver (vænˈkuːvɚ is a coastal Victoria (vɪkˈtɔɹiə is the capital city of British Columbia. Calgary (ˈkælgəriː is the largest city in the Province of Alberta, Canada Territorial evolution Those areas which formed part of New France in the pays d'en haut, essentially the watersheds of the Ottawa River, Hamilton (ˈhæməltən ( 2006 population 504559 UA population 647634 CMA population All of the systems in western Canada were traded to Shaw Communications in late 2000 in exchange for that company's assets in Ontario and New Brunswick, and many of the others were sold to Cogeco. Shaw Communications is a Canadian Telecommunications company that provides telephone internet and television services Cogeco Inc ( is a Canadian media and communications company The corporation first entered the television business in the mid-1950s with the launch of a

Because of its size, Rogers has been able to spur innovation in the cable industry, and in the telecommunications industry in general. Its growing digital cable service provides access to technologies such as high definition television, video on demand, interactive television and enhanced television. Digital cable is a type of Cable television distribution using Digital Video compression. High-definition television (HDTV is a Digital television Broadcasting system with higher resolution than traditional television systems (standard-definition Video on demand ( VOD) or Audio video on demand ( AVOD) systems allow users to select and watch/listen Interactive television (generally known as iTV describes a number of techniques that allow viewers to interact with Television content as they view it Rogers also provides broadband Internet access, co-marketed with Yahoo!. Broadband Internet access, often shortened to just Broadband, is high-speed Internet access—typically contrasted with dial-up access over a Modem The company employs traffic shaping and has been widely criticized for this. Traffic shaping (also known as "packet shaping" is the control of Computer network traffic in order to optimize or guarantee performance lower latency,

Competitors

Rogers main competitors include satellite companies Bell ExpressVu and Star Choice. Star Choice is a Direct broadcast satellite Television distributor in Canada which is majority-owned by Cable TV operator Shaw Communications

Other investments

CPAC

Through Rogers Cable Inc. , Rogers holds a majority interest (41. 4%) in CPAC, a public affairs and politics cable channel that consists of both an English and French language feeds. CPAC ( English: Cable Public Affairs Channel and French: La Chaîne d'affaires publiques par câble) is a Canadian Cable television

Video stores

Rogers Video, Canada's largest domestically owned chain of video stores, operates as a subsidiary of Rogers Cable. Rogers Plus is the overall banner for the retail operations of the Rogers Cable subsidiary of Rogers Communications. One of its biggest competitors is Blockbuster Video. Blockbuster Inc ( is the largest chain of DVD and Video game rental stores in the world

Controversy

Negative Option Billing

In the beginning of 1995, Rogers along with several other cable companies, took part in what became to be known as negative option billing. By adding specialty channels to all users account and billing accordingly, participating cable companies were hit by both regulatory and public opinion backlash when they forced customers to appear at the offices in person to cancel the premium packages.

Project Cleanfeed

Internet service providers Bell, Bell Aliant, MTS Allstream, Rogers, Shaw, SaskTel, Telus, and Videotron announced "Project Cleanfeed Canada" in November 2006; this involves the blocking of access to hundreds of child pornography sites. Bell Canada, commonly shortened to "Bell" is a major Canadian Telecommunications company Bell Aliant Regional Communications is a communications company providing services primarily in rural areas throughout eastern Manitoba Telecom Services Inc through its wholly owned subsidiary MTS Allstream Inc Shaw Communications is a Canadian Telecommunications company that provides telephone internet and television services Saskatchewan Telecommunications (SaskTel is a provincial Crown Corporation operating under the authority of the Saskatchewan Telecommunications Act Telus ( TSX: T TA NYSE: TU is a national Telecommunications company in Canada that provides a wide range of communications products and Vidéotron Limited is an integrated Telecommunications company active in Cable television, Interactive Multimedia development Some users consider this to be tantamount to censorship. Censorship is the suppression of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable harmful or sensitive as determined by a censor ^[2]

Throttling

BitTorrent traffic is restricted through bandwidth throttling, which has caused complaints as users feel Rogers is overstepping their bounds as a service provider and despite Rogers advertising their service “for sharing large files and much more”. BitTorrent is a Peer-to-peer File sharing protocol used to distribute large amounts of Data. Bandwidth throttling is a method of ensuring a bandwidth intensive device such as a server, will limit ("throttle" the quantity of data it transmits and/or Rogers has previously denied such allegations, despite widespread reports of the issue. Further controversy arose when in May 2007, Rogers began throttling all encrypted file transfers allegedly to combat BitTorrent traffic, but affecting all encrypted transfers regardless if they are BitTorrent traffic or not. ^{[3] [4]}

Injection of content

Since early December, 2007, Rogers has been injecting their own content into other company's websites without permission. ^[5] Rogers users who are close to the maximum download limit are seeing red text appear above the content of every website they visit. The notice continues to appear on every page until the user either clicks a link acknowledging that they have seen the message or chooses to opt out of the notification. ^[6]

References

External links

• Rogers Communications Website
• Rogers Personal TV
• Rogers Plus
• Rogers Television

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