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Shaw Communications Inc. is a Canadian telecommunications company that provides telephone, Internet and television services as well as mass media related services. Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Shaw provides services mostly in British Columbia and Alberta, with smaller systems in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Northern Ontario. == History == Shaw was founded as ''Capital Cable Television Company, Ltd.'' in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1966. The company changed its name to Shaw Cablesystems Ltd. and went public on the TSX in 1983. The company 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 (serving areas east of the Red River), and Videon Cablesystems of Winnipeg (serving areas west of the Red River), which had itself previously acquired Vidéotron's assets in Alberta. However, two swaps, in 1994 and 2001, with Rogers Cable have resulted in its assets being restricted to Western Canada and a few areas of Northern Ontario. Prior to 2003, Shaw owned cable systems in the United States previously owned by Moffat Communications, serving six communities in Florida (Eastern Pasco County, Clermont, Palm Coast, Ormond Beach, West Palm Beach and Doral), and the Houston, Texas suburbs of Kingwood, Lake Conroe and Lake Livingston. In February 2003, the Florida systems would be sold to Time Warner Cable (with the West Palm Beach and Doral systems later sold to Comcast, and the other systems spun off to Bright House Networks), while the Texas systems were sold to Cequel III, as part of its then-Cebridge Connections subsidiary (now Suddenlink Communications).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pasco: Time Warner to expand with Shaw purchase )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cequel III to buy Shaw's Texas systems )〕 In July 2009, Shaw announced that they will be acquiring Mountain Cablevision〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Shaw Communications - Page Not Found - Shaw.ca )〕 in Hamilton, Ontario, ending a ten-year-old non-competition agreement with rival Rogers Cable. Approval of the purchase on October 22, 2009 by the regulatory body, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), has been granted, and it was stated to be in the public's interest. The acquisition was Shaw's first cable property east of Sault Ste. Marie since the 2001 swaps with Rogers and Cogeco. Shaw's re-entry into Southern Ontario would be short-lived, as its Hamilton system would be resold to Rogers in early 2013.〔(reported in the Globe and Mail at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/rogers-to-buy-shaws-wireless-spectrum-mountain-cablevision/article7340045/ )〕 In April 2011, Shaw announced that it would not be launching a wireless (i.e. cellular) network until 2012, but later decided not launch a wireless network. In 2008, Shaw had purchased wireless spectrum for areas covering Western Canada and Northern Ontario. As of April 2015, Shaw has not launched a wireless network and has announced no plans to use this spectrum. In May 2011, Shaw announced its intent to spend $100 million, to convert its analog tiered cable service to digital over a 16-month period starting August 2011. Its 20% of subscribers still on analog tiered cable service would receive a free digital cable box rental. This conversion does not apply to basic cable channels, thus subscribers to basic cable will continue to be able to obtain their signal in analog. Switching to digital has the effect of freeing up bandwidth, which Shaw plans on re-allocating for internet bandwidth. 100 and 250 Mbit/s internet speeds will be phased in throughout this timeframe. In November 2012, Shaw underwent a corporate re-branding, introducing an updated logo and slogan, along with a new promotional campaign featuring animated robots (with particular focus on two, Bit and Bud) that live in a representation of Shaw's infrastructure, depicting them as being responsible for how their services work. The campaign was designed by the Vancouver-based agency Rethink, who were also responsible for Bell Canada's beaver characters Frank and Gordon.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://business.financialpost.com/2012/11/02/shaw-robot-mascots-recall-bells-beavers/ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.marketingmag.ca/news/agency-news/shaw-rebrands-launches-national-campaign-64953 )〕 In April 2013, Shaw Business Solutions took over Enmax's Envision subsidiary, which had built a fiber-optic network throughout Calgary. The acquisition was completed for $225 Million.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Shaw Buys Enmax Envision )〕 In February 2015, Shaw Communications announced that they will be closing operations for service call centers in Edmonton, Calgary and Kelowna. In turn the company will be consolidating operations in Victoria, Vancouver, Winnipeg and Montreal. They will attempt to augment the efficiency of their customer service. 1600 Shaw employees, that is 11% of its 14,000 workforce will be affected, however the company will offer affected employees the option to relocate to its centralized offices, apply for a new job at their location, or leave the company with a severance package for former employees unable to relocate.〔〔Stephenson, Amanda.'Shaw communications relocating customer care operations; 1,000 jobs in Calgary affected'.Calgary Herald, February 11, 2015. http://calgaryherald.com/business/local-business/shaw-communications-relocating-customer-care-operations-1000-jobs-in-calgary-affected. Retrieved February 12, 2015.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shaw Communications」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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