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.
While Bell Canada Enterprises CEO Michael Sabia’s keynote on Tuesday said the telecom regs were just plain wrong, Telus Communications CEO Darren Entwistle backed him up the next day.
Both executives are peeved at the May 12th voice over Internet protocol regulatory decision which said, mainly, that for the incumbent local exchange carriers VOIP will be regulated as their traditional circuit-switched systems in that they must file tariffs each…
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OTTAWA – Rules that go too far in preventing telcos from contacting customers in order to win them back is contrary to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, say Canada’s incumbent telcos.
A submission to the CRTC last month from Eastern telco Aliant (since supported by Bell Canada, Telus and Sasktel) says, in part, “that the Commission’s order extending the ‘no-contact’ rule beyond local residential service is inconsistent with the principle of freedom of expression, encompassed in s. 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.”
As a way to foster competition, telco regs have prevented the…
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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) telephony to Atlantic Canadians in 2005.
While Thursday’s CRTC decision determined that Aliant’s VoIP service will be price regulated, the company remains committed to bring this new technology to the region.
Aliant faces a different competitive market than its fellow incumbents as it has been locked in a battle for several years with MSO EastLink, which continues to make strong inroads in the voice market in Nova Scotia and Prince…
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HAVING COVERED THE Cable, radio, television and telecom markets for well over seven years now, you could say I was inspired.
I’ve written about so many entrepreneurs who gambled and won (and a few who gambled and lost, too) that I suppose it had to rub off on me.
Warning, blatant self-promotion now follows.
So, on Monday, May 2 at 4:13 p.m., www.cartt.ca went live and on Tuesday, our first-ever newsletter went out filled with original stories you…
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SAINT JOHN – Eastern telco Aliant said last week that it is on schedule for the launch of digital television in the second quarter of the current fiscal year.
While the company didn’t release details of the service or where, exactly, it will launch (although we’re betting they’re about to try and swing back at MSO EastLink, which has made deep inroads into the telco’s voice market, especially in Nova Scotia).
With revenue and earnings up in the first quarter, ended March 31st, Aliant president and CEO Jay Forbes said, "Our wireless business serves as a perfect example of…
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HALIFAX – EastLink, the first Canadian cable company to offer phone service to its customers, recently announced a deal to publish the first ever EastLink PhoneGuide.
The company has partnered with ypOne Canada Ltd. to produce an EastLink branded telephone directory in the Halifax Regional Municipality.
"We are pleased to be working with ypOne on the new directory who have a proven track record in producing a high-quality, easy-to-use directory," said Dan McKeen, Co-CEO, EastLink. "The EastLink PhoneGuide will offer customers several features and benefits including full colour city and area maps and community pages that contain points of…
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