OTTAWA-GATINEAU – A local market won't be considered competitive until one-quarter of the households in it get their home phone from a newcomer, the CRTC said Thursday. The 44,000-word decision... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – In what's got to be a first, a Canadian group is actually calling for a bigger CRTC. The 150,000-member Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada said Wednesday... Continue Reading
SHOULD BROADCASTERS RECEIVE a wholesale fee for their signals from BDUs? That will be one of the key questions for the industry and the Commission to answer in the coming... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Who needs to be tethered to a home phone anymore when the phone can be tethered to you wherever you are? The proportion of Canadian households relying only... Continue Reading
TORONTO – With the recent signing of several U.S. clients, including Impulse Media Sales (IMS) in New York and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in Connecticut, Specialty Data Systems is expanding... Continue Reading
MONTREAL - The Canadian Telecommunications Employees' Association said Monday it is "appalled at Bell Canada's announcement of their decision to outsource jobs to a company that is offshore." The union... Continue Reading
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – Nine locations in Ontario were raided two weeks ago in order to put a stop to satellite signal piracy. EchoStar Communications, along with encryption company NagraStar, and... Continue Reading
TORONTO – New Canadians are avid users of mobile phones and alternative long distance calling options -- and spend more on wireless and home phone combined, according to a new... Continue Reading
TORONTO - By the end of 2006 Canadian cable companies will have 12% (1.57 million) of residential telephone subscribers in Canada and 27% by year-end 2009 (3.35 million), says a... Continue Reading
PARIS and MURRAY HILL NJ – Wireless and wireline equipment manufacturers Lucent and Alcatel announced today that the two companies are merging. The combined company will have revenues of about... Continue Reading