TORONTO – Trust Ted Rogers to have a sense of history.
Twenty years to the day after his company (which employs a corporate historian) launched wireless telephony in Canada…
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OTTAWA – Canada’s wireless service providers will introduce inter-carrier multimedia message services (MMS) to wireless phone customers across the country on July 1.
This is the broadest initiative of…
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BURNABY, B.C. – Telus and the Telecommunications Workers Union met briefly today for further negotiations, but union president Bruce Bell expressed disappointment at the results of the meeting in…
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that cable operators in the States do not have to open their networks to competitive third party Internet service providers if…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable launched its voice over Internet protocol service in its Quebec territories today.
This launch follows the introduction, on June 8, of the same service in…
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WINNIPEG – Proving again that maybe these telcos are going to get this video thing right after all, Manitoba Telecom Services today announced the addition of video on demand….
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RICHMOND, B.C. – Rogers Video today announced the launch of an online subscription rental service, Rogers Video Direct.
With more than 33,000 DVD titles to choose from, Rogers Video…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC released its annual look at the financial performance of the broadcast distribution undertaking sector (cable and satellite) today.
Using its traditional August 31st year-end the…
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OTTAWA – Industry Canada announced today the signing of a new agreement with the United States to set aside a significant portion of the 700 megahertz (MHz) frequency band…
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