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Jul 19, 19 •
0 Views • Business, Feature Story • Chatham Voice • 2 Comments
TekSavvy is taking its Internet TV service provincewide. The Chatham-based company and its affiliate cable company Hastings Cablevision Ltd. announced the launch of its IPTV service, TekSavvy TV, across the province of Ontario Monday. TekSavvy TV offers...
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Jul 24, 18 •
0 Views • Business, Feature Story • Bruce Corcoran • 6 Comments
And then there were two. That’s the number of Internet service providers who are installing kilometres of fibre optic cable in Chatham-Kent. Homegrown TekSavvy has shovels in the ground, joining Bell Canada running fibre in the municipality. TekSavvy, like...
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May 23, 18 •
0 Views • Business, Feature Story • Bruce Corcoran • 1 Comment
Chatham-Kent will soon be high in fibre; fibre optics, that is. Bell Canada and the municipality announced May 23 that Bell would deploy more than 270 kilometres of fibre optic cable throughout Chatham-Kent to bring its all-fibre broadband network to 38,000...
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Jul 18, 17 •
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The future of high-speed Internet in Southwestern Ontario is the topic of an online survey being carried out under the auspices of Southwestern Integrated Fibre Technology Inc. (SWIFT). The purpose of the survey http://www.swiftnetwork.ca/survey is to...
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Jul 1, 15 •
0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • Bruce Corcoran • No Comments
The Chatham-Kent Police Service is going high-tech with its annual auction of seized or found property, and expecting to raise more money in the process. The Police Services Board recently approved the shift from live auction to online hawking of wares....
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Jun 25, 15 •
0 Views • Business, Feature Story • Bruce Corcoran • 3 Comments
Tired of seeing the slowly spinning wheel or crawling upload line on your computer or device when you need faster Internet access for your business or home? That could change in the coming years in much of Chatham-Kent. Don Shropshire, CAO for the...
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Mar 24, 15 •
0 Views • Business, Feature Story • Bruce Corcoran • No Comments
TekSavvy Solution’s efforts to protect the privacy of its customers proved costly recently, to the tune of about $325,000. A federal court ordered Voltage Pictures to pay the Chatham company $21,500 in regards to its legal battle on behalf of “John and...
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Mar 12, 15 •
0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • Chatham Voice • 3 Comments
Following three months of investigating, Chatham-Kent police arrested a Chatham man this week in connection with an ongoing child luring investigation. Police say in December of last year, the Internet Child Exploitation Unit began looking into a case of a...
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Jun 18, 14 •
763 Views • Business, Feature Story • Jim Blake • No Comments
Chatham’s TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has just been named recipient of Canada’s 2014 Telecom Employer of Choice (EOC) Award, beating industry giants Rogers and Bell. The award was given during the Canadian Telecom Summit in Toronto. The competition was...
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Jan 21, 14 •
526 Views • Feature Story, Local News • Bruce Corcoran • No Comments
The Information Superhighway now has an updated rest stop for Chatham-Kent’s older adults – www.ckseniors.ca. The website delivers information of interest to seniors, and also informs them of local activities. The site has been around since 2011,...
