16 Facts About Shaw Communications

Shaw Communications Inc is a Canadian telecommunications company which provides telephone, Internet, television, and mobile services.

Shaw Communications provides mobile services through its subsidiary Freedom Mobile, under both the Freedom and Shaw Communications Mobile brands, in areas of Alberta, British Columbia, and Southern Ontario.

Shaw Communications was founded in 1966 by JR Shaw Communications as Capital Cable Television Company, Ltd.

Shaw Communications grew during the 1980s and 1990s through acquisitions of firms including Classicomm in the Toronto area, Access Communications in Nova Scotia, Fundy Cable in New Brunswick, Trillium Cable in Ontario, Telecable in Saskatchewan, Greater Winnipeg Cablevision, and Videon Cablesystems of Winnipeg, which, back in 1998, had itself previously acquired Videotron's assets in Alberta.

In 1999, Shaw Communications spun out its media properties into a second publicly traded company, Corus Entertainment.

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In 2008, Shaw Communications entered the AWS spectrum auction with the intention of possibly becoming a wireless phone provider.

In July 2009, Shaw Communications announced its acquisition of Mountain Cablevision; in September, Rogers sued Shaw Communications to block the sale, citing violations of a non-compete clause.

In November 2012, Shaw Communications underwent a corporate re-branding, introducing an updated logo and slogan, along with a new promotional campaign featuring animated robots that live in a representation of Shaw Communications's infrastructure, depicting them as being responsible for how their services work.

In 2014, Shaw partnered with Rogers Communications to launch Shomi, a subscription video on demand service.

In February 2015, Shaw Communications announced that they would close operations for service call centres in Edmonton, Calgary and Kelowna, and consolidate operations in Victoria, Vancouver, Winnipeg and Montreal.

Shaw Communications offered affected employees the option to relocate to its centralised offices, apply for a new job at their location, or leave the company with a severance package for former employees unable to relocate.

In 2013, Shaw Communications attempted to begin developing an IPTV-based platform for its television services.

However, after experiencing issues developing the platform, Shaw Communications took a $55 million write-down in June 2015, and announced that it was licensing Comcast's cloud-based Xfinity X1 architecture.

In January 2016, Shaw Communications launched its mobile television app FreeRange TV, based on X1 infrastructure, which allows Shaw Communications subscribers to stream selected TV channels and on-demand content.

Shaw Communications launched "BlueCurve", a new suite of routers which was likewise based on Comcast's xFi platform and hardware.

In December 2010, Shaw Communications filed complaints with the CRTC to have competing internet video services such as Netflix classified as broadcasters under Canadian law.