OTTAWA – Satellite service operator Telesat reported a net loss of $822 million for 2008, which it explained as a result of “non-cash losses arising from foreign exchange fluctuations and an... Continue Reading
TORONTO - Globalive Wireless Management Corp. has “officially” received its wireless spectrum licenses from Industry Canada. The wireless newcomer, which offers the Yak long distance product, VOIP and third-party ISP... Continue Reading
TORONTO - Moody's Investors Service has upgraded Shaw Communications’ senior unsecured debt ratings to Baa3 from Ba1, after concluding a ratings review that began at the end of January. Shaw's ratings outlook... Continue Reading
TORONTO - On the heels of the CRTC new media hearings, a new survey from Angus Reid Strategies says a proposed levy on Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to support the... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – BCE has asked the federal cabinet to overturn a CRTC decision, saying investment in next-generation communications networks should be encouraged “as a matter of policy”. At issue is... Continue Reading
WINNIPEG – Craig Wireless has completed the sale of half of its spectrum rights in Norway and New Zealand to U.S. venture capital firm Everest Wireless Partners I LP, for... Continue Reading
IN AN OFFICIAL COMPANY blog post last night, Google announced the official release of its latest free application: Google Voice. With Google Voice, users can get all their calls through... Continue Reading
GATINEAU – With the CRTC panel sounding increasingly like an ISP levy-for-broadband-Cancon is under serious consideration, leave it to Telus’ Michael Hennessy to bring peals of laughter into the hearing... Continue Reading
THE ORIGINAL PURPOSE of wireless walled garden (as referenced in Tuesday morning’s story “Closed wireless networks face broadcasters’ wrath”) was to control the experience because a lack of common interfaces made... Continue Reading
MONTREAL - A tax promoting the production of Canadian content for the Internet “is not needed”, and taxing Internet service providers for this purpose “amounts to taxing Canadian consumers under... Continue Reading
