BURNABY, BC – Telecom retailer Glentel reported a 31% increase in consolidated sales for their 2008 fiscal year, thanks in part to opening 24 new retail stores across Canada.
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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