TORONTO - New CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein joined attendees on the last day of the Canadian Telecom Summit on Wednesday to recap a year of “considerable drama” in the... Continue Reading
TORONTO - The regulatory experts from competitors Bell Canada, Telus, Rogers Communications and MTS Allstream pulled no punches in their criticism of each other’s positions on the hot-button issue of... Continue Reading
KIRKLAND, Wash. – Clearwire’s wireless Internet will be carried on satellite in a unique deal with DIRECTV and EchoStar Communication’s DISH network. Both satellite companies will be able to offer... Continue Reading
OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Ten-digit telephone dialing will hit Alberta starting in June 2008. The CRTC has added Alberta’s two area codes, 403 and 780, to the growing list of regions requiring... Continue Reading
TORONTO - Putting six fierce competitors – armed with their own facts and relative truths about the current state of the wireless industry in Canada and abroad for a discussion... Continue Reading
WINNIPEG – MTS Allstream is offering its Manitoba subscribers something else to check from their wireless devices besides email and sports scores: listings for its video on demand movies. Can’t... Continue Reading
TORONTO - Recommendations by the Telecommunications Policy Review (TPR) panel, published in its March 2006 report, may have taken a step closer to implementation today with the release of a... Continue Reading
TORONTO - Taking a one-size-fits-all approach to tackling illegal content on the Internet won’t work, says Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of... Continue Reading
TORONTO – A poll of consumers conducted for Vidéotron shows they think that wireless services are too expensive and they want the government to open up the field to more... Continue Reading
TORONTO – The federal government has awarded licences for new broadcasting and telecom satellites to Telesat Canada and Ciel Satellite. The firms intend to spend several billion dollars building and... Continue Reading
