TORONTO – Faced with an onslaught of advertising and other messaging from Canadian cable, satellite and telco TV companies that began in earnest this week, CTV will play host…
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OTTAWA – The government of Canada and Canada’s broadcasters have decided to walk away from their Part II fee legal battle, Heritage Minister James Moore and the Canadian Association…
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OTTAWA – As more Canadians live their lives on-line, the Privacy Commissioner is cautioning them to take greater responsibility for securing their privacy and thinking twice about what they…
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MONTREAL – Videotron is continuing the roll-out of its new Internet packages in the greater Montréal area.
More than 1.5 million Montréal-area households and businesses now have access to the…
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TORONTO – Nortel Networks has entered in to a ‘stalking horse’ asset sale agreement with Ciena for its global optical networking and carrier Ethernet businesses.
Financial terms of the deal are US$390…
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OTTAWA – Halifax is getting a new FM station.
The CRTC approved an application for a new English-language commercial FM station run by HFX Broadcasting Inc. after a public…
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GENEVA – Attendees at this year’s ITU Telecom World conference had a first hand look at the world’s most advanced system against global cyberattacks.
With cybersecurity a key theme at…
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TORONTO – MTS Allstream has renewed its contract with WestJet for its global multi protocol label switching (GMPLS) network for another two years.
MTS Allstream will continue to service the…
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WATERLOO, ON – There could soon be a lot more applications available for the BlackBerry smart phone.
Parent company Research in Motion (RIM) has released a widget software development kit which…
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GENEVA – Mobile broadband subscriptions have overtaken fixed broadband subscribers, according to new data from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).
Calling mobile cellular “the most rapidly adopted technology in history”,…
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