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Nine inducted into Canadian Telecom Hall

TORONTO – The Canadian Telecommunications Hall of Fame inducted its first nine laureates at a dinner last week in Toronto. Those honoured included posthumous contributors to Canada's telecommunications industry, namely, Alexander Graham Bell and Reginald Aubrey Fessenden in the Inventors and Innovators category, Dr. John H. Chapman in the Servants of the Public category and Charles Fleetford Sise (first Bell Canada CEO) in the Icons of Business category.Other laureates inducted were former CRTC vice-chair (telecom) David Colville in the Servants of the Public category, Professor and telecom law specialist Hudson Janisch and consultants Lis and Ian Angus in the Advocates...