EastLink debuts new LD plans

HALIFAX – EastLink is celebrating the new year with three new long distance plans. The company said in a press release the new plans “will offer customers long distance… Continue Reading

Satellite TV pirate jailed

TORONTO – EchoStar Communications, along with security partner NagraStar LLC and Bell ExpressVu Limited Partnership, today announced “another victory against satellite piracy in the Canadian court system,” reads a… Continue Reading

Union may appeal CanWest/AA decision

OTTAWA – The Communications Energy and Paperworkers Union, Canada’s largest media union, said today it is consulting lawyers to explore avenues of appeal of the CRTC CanWest/Alliance deal, Continue Reading

CBC promotes Kilpatrick

TORONTO – CBC Media Sales and Marketing has promoted Paula Kilpatrick to the position of director, national sales, the company announced this week. She will oversee Toronto sales and… Continue Reading

Consumers can call in complaints

GATINEAU – A newly established consumer agency, the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services, was given a conditional go-ahead by the CRTC this Thursday afternoon. "We are very pleased… Continue Reading

Bell to operate Do Not Call List

GATINEAU – Bell Canada has won a five-year contract to run the newly established National Do Not Call List (DNCL), the CRTC announced today. The company was the only… Continue Reading

Goodmans’ Robinson to retire

TORONTO – After 31 years with Goodmans LLP, senior partner and leading Canadian communications lawyer Kathryn Robinson has decided to retire at the end of 2007. Continue Reading