MONTREAL - Bell Canada today announced the acquisition of Winnipeg-based CSB Systems, an established enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems integrator in Western Canada. Bell will integrate CSB Systems' portfolio of... Continue Reading
THE 2005 SOCIETY OF CABLE Telecommunications Engineers’ main trade show, the 2005 Cable-Tec Expo, begins next week in San Antonio, Texas. As a service to our cable technical readers, here... Continue Reading
VANCOUVER - Telus and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) have launched a new annual contest which features $20,000 in cash prizes and an opportunity to present their... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – Canada’s fourth-largest cable operator, Cogeco Cable, will announce details of its impending launch of voice over Internet protocol telephony this morning. The company has been testing and quietly launching... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Shaw Communications has asked the CRTC to free its pay-per-view service from its geographic shackles. In its license renewal application for Shaw Pay-Per-View, the company has asked the... Continue Reading
OTTAWA - The Telecommunications Policy Review Panel today launched its formal stakeholder consultation process by releasing a consultation document inviting input from interested stakeholders. The Industry Canada-appointed panel hopes to... Continue Reading
QUISPAMSIS, N.B. – Independent digital specialty service Wild TV and the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance recently announced the completion of a five-year master affiliation agreement. The new channel is all... Continue Reading
CHICAGO - Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. and Microsoft Corp. announced today the two companies will collaborate on developing IPTV. S-A (which supplies digital cable set-top boxes to Rogers Cable and Videotron in... Continue Reading
TORONTO - Last week’s Canadian Telecom Summit saw the leaders of Canada’s largest ILECs stay relentlessly on the attack, hitting at the CRTC as well as Canadian cable companies. While... Continue Reading
TORONTO – With the telecom industry taking swing after swing at the Commission he runs for three straight days, CRTC chairman Charles Dalfen jabbed back on Wednesday. He was given... Continue Reading
