OTTAWA – Having received new applications for radio stations in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and Calgary, Alberta, the CRTC – in accordance with policy – has issued a broad call…
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MONTREAL – Canadian VOIP provider Babytel sharply criticized the CRTC for leaving Canadian cable companies unregulated in Thursday’s decision.
“This is asymmetrical regulation," said Stephen Dorsey, babyTEL president and…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – While the cable industry was fixated on the voice over Internet protocol decision yesterday, the CRTC issued another one at the same time which will affect a…
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OTTAWA – At least it won’t be an election issue this time around.
The CRTC today added Italian channel RAI International to the eligible satellite list of services for…
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EXTON, Pa. – The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) announced today that exhibitor floor space for the upcoming SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2005 is sold out.
The Society’s annual…
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OTTAWA – So I’m sitting in the Second Cup in Ottawa’s Byward Market yesterday, remembering that Rogers and the coffee chain have a deal to provide free WiFi hotspots…
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BURNABY, B.C. – The Telecommunications Workers Union doesn’t trust the free market and says that the CRTC’s VOIP decision issued yesterday was wrong-headed.
"The Commission dropped the ball with…
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OTTAWA – The Coalition for Competitive Telecommunications said today it too believes the CRTC’s VOIP decision wrong-headed.
"The Coalition argued that users ultimately pay for the entire telecommunications cost…
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SAINT JOHN – Saying it, too, thinks the CRTC’s decision stinks, eastern Canadian telco (and BCE division) Aliant reaffirmed today its commitment to offer voice over Internet protocol (VOIP)…
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OTTAWA – “We’re extremely pleased with the decision,” Chris Pierce, executive vice-president government and regulatory affairs for Manitoba Telecom Services, told www.cartt.ca on Thursday after the VOIP decision…
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