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Rogers Cable Inc.
Type	Subsidiary of Rogers Communications
Founded	Toronto, Ontario (1967)
Headquarters	Toronto, Ontario
Key people	Edward Rogers III - President Michael A. Adams - COO
Industry	Cable Services
Products	Cable TV, Movie Rentals, broadband Internet access
Revenue	$1.95 billion CAD
Operating income	$708 million CAD
Owner	Rogers Communications
Employees	5,922 (2004)
Website	www.rogers.com

Rogers Cable Inc., a subsidiary of Rogers Communications Inc., is Canada's largest cable television service provider with about 2.25 million television customers, and over 930,000 Internet subscribers, in Southern Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador.

The company's digital cable service is branded as Rogers Personal TV.

Contents 1 History 2 Management 3 Canadian cable territories 4 Competitors 5 Video stores 6 Call centres 7 Controversy 7.1 Project Cleanfeed 7.2 Throttling 7.3 Injection of content 8 References 9 External links

Rogers was one of the first cable-system operators in Canada, having secured licenses covering much of the city of Toronto in the mid-1960s. 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. Rogers has also owned cable systems in the United States.

• Nadir Mohamed, C.A. - President and Chief Operating Officer Communications Group
• Edward Rogers III - President Rogers Cable Inc.
• Michael A. Adams - Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer

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.

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. All of the systems in western Canada have been traded to Shaw Communications in exchange for that company's large majority assets in Ontario and New Brunswick, and many of the others were sold to Cogeco. Due to its size, Rogers has been able to be one of the major innovators 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. Rogers also provides broadband Internet access, co-marketed with Yahoo!. The company employs traffic shaping and has been widely criticized for this.

Rogers main competitors include satellite companies Bell ExpressVu and Star Choice.

Rogers Video, Canada's largest domestically owned chain of video stores, operates as a subsidiary of Rogers Cable. One of its biggest competitors is Blockbuster Video.

Rogers uses all Canadian based call centres. These centres are operated by the Rogers Shared Services division in:

• Brampton, ON
• Burnaby, BC
• Calgary, AB (slated to be closed and representatives become home-based in a virtual call centre)
• Kitchener, ON
• Moncton, NB
• Montreal, QC
• Ottawa, ON
• St. John's, NL (only for Newfoundland customers)

Rogers also contracts out their customer service and other operations to numerous local agents:

• Atelka
• ICT Group, Inc.
• NuComm International
• Online Support (OLS)
• Resolve Corporation (Formally known as Watts Group)
• SITEL (Formerly known as ClientLogic)
• Webhelp

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. Some users consider this to be tantamount to censorship.^[1]

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”. 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.^{[2] [3]}

Since early December, 2007, Rogers has been injecting their own content into other company's websites without permission.^[4] 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.^[5]

• Rogers Communications Website
• Rogers Personal TV
• Rogers Plus
• Rogers Television
• Citizen information website on Rogers

v • d • e Rogers Communications Inc.
Corporate Directors:	Ronald Besse · Charles Birchall · H. Garfield Emerson · Peter Godsoe · Thomas Hull · Philip Lind · Nadir Mohamed · David Peterson · Ted Rogers · Edward Rogers III · Loretta Rogers · Melinda Rogers · William Schleyer · John A. Tory · J. Christopher Wansbrough · Colin Watson
Magazines:	Canadian Business · Chatelaine (English) · Châtelaine (French) · Flare · glow · L'actualité · LOU LOU · Maclean's · Marketing · MoneySense · Ontario Out of Doors · Profit · Today's Parent
Cable television:	The Biography Channel · CPAC · G4techTV Canada · OLN1 · Rogers Sportsnet · Rogers Television3 · Télévision Rogers3 · TVtropolis  · The Shopping Channel · Viewers Choice
Conventional television:	OMNI Television: CFMT  · CHXC  · CHXE  · CIIT4  · CJMT  · Citytv: CITY  · CHMI  · CKAL  · CKEM  · CKVU  · Independent: CHNU4
Other assets:	Fido  · Jack FM (most Canadian stations)  · Rogers Cable  · Rogers Building  · Rogers Centre  · CFMT Building  · 35 Dundas Street East  · Rogers Park  · Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet  · Rogers Telecom  · Rogers Media  · Rogers Plus  · Rogers Wireless  · Spring Fishing Show  · Toronto Blue Jays
Radio stations:	CFAC  · CFFR  · CFRV  · CFSR  · CFTR  · CHEZ · CHFI · CHFM · CHMN · CHNI · CHTT · CHUR · CHYM · CICX2 · CIGM · CIOC · CISQ · CISS · CISW · CITI · CIWW · CJAQ · CJCL · CJET · CJMX · CJNI · CJQM · CJQQ · CJRQ · CJRX · CKAT · CKBY · CKCL · CKER · CKFX · CKGB · CKGL · CKIS · CKLG · CKNI · CKQC · CKSR · CKWX · CKY
Notes	1Co-owned with CTVglobemedia and Comcast. Rogers currently does not manage the channel. There is a sale pending that will give 100% control of OLN to Rogers. 2Sale to Larche Communications pending; if approved, Rogers will acquire CIKZ in the same transaction. 3These channels are only available on Rogers Cable and are not available on satellite or through other cable service providers. 4 As a condition of the CRTC approval of Citytv, Rogers must sell these stations in order to comply with CRTC restrictions on owning multiple stations in one market. These stations are now being sold to S-VOX pending CRTC approval.
Annual Revenue: $5.60 billion CAD (24% FY 2004) · Employees: 18,057 · Stock Symbols: TSX: RCI.A, TSX: RCI.B, NYSE: RG · Website: www.rogers.com

v • d • e Cable and direct broadcast satellite companies in Canada
Cable television	Access · Aurora · Cable Axion · Cablevision · Cogeco · Dery · EastLink · Look · Mountain Cable · Persona · Rogers · Shaw · Source Cable · Vidéotron · Westman
Satellite television	Bell ExpressVu · Star Choice
IPTV	Aliant TV · MTS · SaskTel · Telus
Defunct providers	Access (Nova Scotia) · CF · Cablecasting · Classicomm · Fundy · Maclean-Hunter · Moffat Communications · Northern · Rush · Selkirk · Trillium · Videon