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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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….
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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…
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ORLANDO, Fla. – Mobility and flexibility in communications are driving the increasing enterprise convergence of multiple voice and data networks into one based on Internet protocol (IP) technologies, says…
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