MONTREAL — A team from Montreal’s INRS (Institut national de la recherche scientifique) has been using its unique simulator to participate in the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) evaluation of new proposed standards for 5G.
INRS presented the results of its evaluations of various candidates’ Radio Interface Technology (RIT) specifications at an ITU meeting in Geneva in February 2020. To be approved by the ITU, 5G technology standards must meet a set of criteria known as IMT-2020 (International Mobile Telecommunications-2020), and several countries and consortiums of companies are proposing RIT as a new standard for 5G.
For the past two years,…
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LONDON, U.K. — After saying in January it would allow some Huawei telecom equipment to be used in the non-core parts of the U.K.’s 5G networks, the U.K. government has announced purchases of the Chinese company’s 5G gear will be banned after December 31, says this BBC report today.
In addition, all Huawei equipment must be removed from U.K. operators’ 5G networks by 2027.
According to the BBC report, the U.K.’s Digital Secretary, Oliver Dowden, said the decision would delay the country’s 5G rollout by a year.
Meanwhile, Canadian network operators continue to wait for our federal government’s decision on whether…
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TORONTO — Rogers Communications has been ranked as the number one wireless carrier overall in Canada in a new study released today by umlaut, a global mobile network testing and benchmarking company.
This is the second year in a row Rogers has won umlaut’s proprietary “Best in Test” mobile benchmark award, this year achieving a total score of 920 points out of a maximum of 1,000 points. Bell and Telus were close behind with scores of 908 and 887, respectively. Umlaut also said Rogers provides the best network in Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal, says the news…
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KIBBUTZ SHEFAYIM, Israel and VANCOUVER – Deep-learning medical imaging analytics company Zebra Medical Vision announced today it has entered a strategic collaboration with Telus Ventures to grow Zebra-Med’s presence in North America.
With FDA clearances and Health Canada approvals in hand, the company’s technology “provides a fully automated analysis of images generated in the imaging system using clinically proven AI solutions trained on hundreds of millions of patient scans to identify acute medical findings and chronic diseases,” reads the press release. The company’s AI solution has also been deployed for Covid-19 detection and disease progression tracking.
“Zebra-Med is deeply committed…
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VANCOUVER and RIMOUSKI, Que. — Telus announced Tuesday it is expanding its Internet for Good program to support people living with disabilities who receive financial disability assistance from the provincial governments in British Columbia, Alberta and Quebec.
The Internet for Good program (known as the Internet for the Future program in Quebec) currently provides high-speed broadband Internet at home for only $9.95 per month ($10/month in Quebec) to families receiving the Canada Child Benefit from the federal government.
In order to help more Canadians, Telus has expanded the program’s eligibility to also include more than 110,000 British Columbians and…
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GATINEAU — The CRTC announced Tuesday it’s extending the deadline for interventions to its review of the rate-setting methodology for wholesale telecom services.
When the wholesale rate-setting review proceeding was announced in April, the intervention deadline was set as July 23, with replies to interventions due August 24.
In an updated notice of consultation today, the Commission has revised the intervention deadline to August 13 and is suspending the deadline for replies.
This comes after Rogers and TekSavvy separately asked for extensions to the deadlines. Rogers made its request for various reasons, including competing priorities related to other regulatory proceedings,…
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EDMONTON — Telus Health’s Home Health Monitoring solution is being used in a technology trial for people with chronic health conditions living in central Alberta, it was announced Tuesday by Edmonton’s Health City, a not-for-profit economic development initiative focused on the health sector.
The technology trial is a collaborative effort between Alberta Central Zone Primary Care Networks (PCNs), Telus Health, Health City, Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Ltd., Alberta Innovates, and Alberta Health Services. Wolf Creek, Drayton Valley and Kalyna Country PCNs will be the first central Alberta PCNs to trial the technology for people with chronic health conditions, with potential to…
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TORONTO — With its manufacturing and brand licensing agreement with BlackBerry coming to an end, Chinese smartphone manufacturer TCL Communication is officially entering the Canadian market with its own TCL Mobile brand of devices in partnership with Bell, Koodo, Telus and Virgin Mobile, the manufacturer announced Tuesday.
Available July 10, the TCL 10 Pro (pictured) and TCL 10L Android smartphones provide high-resolution displays, next-generation visual technology, quad rear-camera setup and other flagship-style features at an attractive price point, says the news release.
“Following the successful global launch of the TCL 10-Series of smartphones, we are pleased to have the opportunity…
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TORONTO — Canadian smartphone/tablet repair company Mobile Klinik announced Monday it has been acquired by Telus, but will continue to operate as an independent business division. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Mobile Syrup was first to report this story.
Since opening its first store in Ottawa in September 2015, Mobile Klinik has expanded to 80 stores in eight provinces. The smartphone repair chain has been on an acquisition spree itself this past year, acquiring Fonelab in January 2020 and Device Care in July 2019. In 2017, Mobile Klinik acquired mobilFIX and Dr. Mobile to…
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STOCKHOLM — Ericsson announced Monday the commercial availability of its Standalone 5G New Radio (NR) software for 5G mid- and low bands, which allows communications service providers to operate 5G NR independently of 4G networks.
To date, 5G networks have been deployed in Non-standalone (NSA) mode where the underlying 4G network layer supports the necessary signalling. Standalone 5G NR removes this 4G dependency, explains the news release.
The new Ericsson software will allow service providers to add 5G NR to existing 4G sites with a simpler architecture, or deploy 5G independently in new areas such as factories, to support enterprise…
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