Sentences with phrase «unbundling cable»

Last week, the Canadian Radio - Television and Telecommuncations Commission decided to start unbundling cable packages, the annoying practice of packaging channels you do watch with those that you don't, like BookTelevision and the Rural Channel.

Stewart expects that Canadians may be surprised that unbundling cable channels, or paying for an over-the-top service, may be more expensive than they assume.

U.S. media giant Viacom made a submission to the regulator saying that unbundling cable packages would send the existing Canadian TV business into a «death spiral.»

Not exact matches

The Canadian Radio - television Telecommunications Commission, at the request of the federal government, is investigating the impact of cable unbundling and is due to report by the end of April.

As the CRTC gets serious about cable unbundling, broadcasters are scrambling to find sure - thing content and unexplored niches.

Comparable services were previously only available to cable subscribers, but Rogers is looking to get ahead of the unbundling wave

Cord cutting is expected to accelerate, cable packages are being unbundled, and consumers are spending more and more time with mobile devices.

Name a burning issue in the Canadian telecom business — wireless data rates, cable unbundling, media competition, foreign ownership — and Jean - Pierre Blais is probably involved.

Customers don't want to buy 500 channels anymore and only watch 12, says Wilderotter, weighing in on the unbundling of cable TV.

It has already announced plans to reduce cellphone roaming charges, force cable companies to unbundle TV packages and seek ways to reduce the gap in retail prices between Canada and the United States.

The plaintiffs claimed that the defendants violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act by entering into a series of vertical agreements that required the distributors to sell cable television channels only in prepackaged bundles and prohibited sale to consumers on an «a la carte» or unbundled basis.

Canadian government to bring new regulations forcing cable providers to unbundle channels, Reuters

But it's also an interesting example for unbundling, since Sesame Go offers access to episodes currently airing on TV, but doesn't require a subscription to a cable offering.

In industry jargon, we're years into the great «unbundling» of cable television.

Naturally, the cable industry has little interest in unbundling channels.

In the UK, the unbundling policy was ineffective until the government forced BT, the dominant cable provider, to create a separate unit dedicated to selling network access to BT and its competitors.