{"id":390,"date":"2015-05-08T13:38:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T18:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vmedia.ca\/blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2024-04-22T15:54:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T20:54:24","slug":"vmedia-goes-coast-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vmedia.ca\/blog\/en\/vmedia-goes-coast-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"VMedia Goes Coast to Coast!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vmedia.ca\/content\/promotion\/emails\/images\/blog-nationwide.jpg\" alt=\"Canadian Radio\" width=\"700\" height=\"355\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>CRTC Grants Licences to Provide TV Services Across Canada!<\/h4>\n<p>TORONTO, Ontario, May 8, 2015 &#8212; <b>VMedia<\/b> is pleased to announce that the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission has awarded VMedia four licences to offer its unique TV services across Canada.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very grateful to the Commission for its decisions,&#8221; said Alexei Tchernobrivets, Chief Executive Officer of VMedia. &#8220;These licences now position us to be the first independent ISP\u00a0and BDU serving customers across Canada.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With its unique Android set top box, the <b>VBox<\/b>, which makes every TV &#8220;smart&#8221;, and a channel selection approach that is very close to the new rules set out by the Commission in its recent &#8220;Let&#8217;s Talk TV&#8221; process, VMedia has established itself as the leading alternative to the major players in providing TV and internet services, and home phone, to Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission&#8217;s decisions contained extensive comments on the innovative business model introduced by VMedia when it launched two years ago, and about the interaction between the Commission&#8217;s digital media exemption order, which governs over the top content distribution by companies like Netflix, and licenced BDU services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our industry leadership and new approaches to content distribution drew a lot of attention to our applications, and in the course of the process, the CRTC addressed some pretty important issues,&#8221; said George Burger, the company&#8217;s advisor. &#8220;We feel this is a mini-policy decision that provides a roadmap for how independent ISPs can conduct themselves as licenced broadcasting distribution undertakings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>VMedia Inc.<\/b>, based in Toronto, Ontario, provides innovative TV, high-speed internet and home phone services, offering more choice and flexibility, unique features and lower prices than the major players. VMedia is a leader in IPTV and the company&#8217;s cool, affordable TV platform delivers a whole new home entertainment experience, enabling consumers to seamlessly enjoy conventional TV, over the top content, video on demand, social media and a world of apps. VMedia makes every TV smart!<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] CRTC Grants Licences to Provide TV Services Across Canada! TORONTO, Ontario, May 8, 2015 &#8212; VMedia is pleased to announce that the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission has awarded VMedia four licences to offer its unique TV services across Canada. &#8220;We are very grateful to the Commission for its decisions,&#8221; said Alexei Tchernobrivets, Chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[1558],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.1 (Yoast SEO v22.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>VMedia Goes Coast to Coast! - VMedia Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"VMedia Goes Coast to Coast!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"CRTC Grants Licences to Provide TV Services Across Canada! 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