TORONTO – Moody’s Investors Service has rated Shaw Communication’s senior unsecured component of $2.5 billion multiple seniority shelf registration Baa3, while the preferred share component was rated Ba1.
The shelf…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications will purchase 930,000 of its outstanding class B non-voting shares for cancellation in a private purchase for an aggregate purchase price of $25,956,300.
This represents approximately 0.18%…
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OTTAWA – Telesat is working with the World Broadcasting Union to test advancements in high-definition television towards the goal of global interoperability of MPEG-4 hardware standards.
The satellite services…
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TORONTO – New wireless entrants are most likely to fail if they “look and smell like an incumbent,” one of the new Advanced Wireless Services spectrum licensees warned his…
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TORONTO – Mobile advertising should be part of marketers’ media buy now – “not next year, not in six months, the opportunity is now” – said Phil Barrett, vice-president…
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OTTAWA – Telesat has signed a multi-year agreement with Intersat Africa for more than a full transponder on its new Telstar 11N satellite.
Based in Nairobi, Kenya, broadband provider…
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WATERLOO, ON – Research In Motion (RIM) has added another Blackberry to its family of smart phones.
The Blackberry Tour was designed for CDMA customers in North America – such…
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TORONTO – Primus Telecommunications Canada has introduced new virtualization technology designed to help small and mid-sized businesses reduce costs and improve efficiency.
Called virtual managed machines (VMM), the software…
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TORONTO – Bell has created two new long distance calling plans for its residential customers.
The 500-minute and 1,000-minute plans are available now to all Bell Home Phone…
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