TORONTO – Nortel Networks’ global system for mobile communications (GSM) business, the popular wireless technology standard for mobile phones, is the next business on the auction block.
The company has filed…
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TORONTO – MTS Allstream has bought Montreal-based VisionIP Technologies Inc. to help bolster its unified communications solutions delivery and service capabilities in Quebec.
Financial terms of the acquisition…
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CALGARY – Shaw Communications has announced a senior note offering of $1.25 billion which it says will be used to repay debt, and could be used for “potential acquisitions”.
The…
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CALGARY – Middlebrook Engineering has named Michael MacNeill as a senior network architect responsible for carrier-grade IP networks, ISP data centres and software development for provisioning, billing systems and…
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OTTAWA – The geographical territory served by the 613 area code will get an additional area code starting next spring.
Beginning May 17, 2010, area code 343 will be introduced…
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TIMMINS, ON – EastLink will sink $7.5 million in to an upgrade of its network in the northern Ontario community of Timmins.
In a presentation to Timmins city council earlier…
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REGINA – SaskTel is tacking on new charges to its customer’s wireless bills which it says will bring the company in line with “the competitive marketplace”.
Starting in November, SaskTel will…
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OTTAWA – Four more telemarketers have been charged by the CRTC for violating the National Do Not Call List (DNCL) rules.
The Commission has fined Best Price Movers Ltd. $2,500;…
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GENEVA – The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) wants the importance of information and communication technologies (ICTs) as a cross-sectoral tool to combat climate change to be recognized in the upcoming Copenhagen…
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MONTREAL – The new area code 579 will be introduced in the territory served by the 450 code in Quebec beginning next August.
The CRTC made the decision to respond to…
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