Internet, TV providers focus on new video packages as 1 million Canadians watch unlicensed content on Android boxes

[ad_1] “Movies, TV shows, TV from all over the world!!!” So blares an online advertisement for fully-loaded Android boxes that let people stream content, including live sports, without paying for cable packages or online streaming services. The devices use open source software called Kodi that’ are legal, but third-party add-ons that make it easy to…

‘Best deal in town’: Rogers steeply discounts high-speed broadband to make up for ‘inferior’ TV offering, analyst says

[ad_1] Rogers Communications Inc. introduced a “steep and extended discount” for a package with gigabit Internet and television, a move Barclays analyst Phillip Huang sees as a way for the cable giant to keep broadband customers given its “inferior” television product. Rogers is offering 1 gigabit per second Internet and 100 channels (including HBO) for…