TORONTO - Globalive Wireless Management Corp. has “officially” received its wireless spectrum licenses from Industry Canada. The wireless newcomer, which offers the Yak long distance product, VOIP and third-party ISP... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – BCE has asked the federal cabinet to overturn a CRTC decision, saying investment in next-generation communications networks should be encouraged “as a matter of policy”. At issue is... Continue Reading
GATINEAU – With the CRTC panel sounding increasingly like an ISP levy-for-broadband-Cancon is under serious consideration, leave it to Telus’ Michael Hennessy to bring peals of laughter into the hearing... Continue Reading
THE ORIGINAL PURPOSE of wireless walled garden (as referenced in Tuesday morning’s story “Closed wireless networks face broadcasters’ wrath”) was to control the experience because a lack of common interfaces made... Continue Reading
After seeing a fourfold increase in phone and email scams in recent weeks, Telus issued a public service announcement encouraging its customers to “just hang up when scammers call”. The... Continue Reading
MARKHAM – The 39 member companies of the Canadian Independent Telecommunications Association (those stubborn, often innovative, mostly rural, holdout telcos who never ever sold to Bell or Telus or another... Continue Reading
SEATTLE, WA - NetMotion Wireless has received a Canadian patent for its mobile virtual private network software Mobility XE. Mobility XE is utilized by more than 1,400 business and agencies worldwide to... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – Bell Canada is buying national consumer electronics retailer The Source, the companies announced Monday. While the purchase price was not released, Bell said it would be "materially less"... Continue Reading
VANCOUVER – Telus Corporation reported a 6% growth in revenue to $9.65 billion, and a 5% growth in EBITDA for its fiscal year ended December 31, 2008. Revenue for its... Continue Reading
BACK IN NOVEMBER, on a regulatory panel at the Canadian Association of Broadcasters final convention, I said then that the broadcasting in new media hearing, which is beginning this Tuesday... Continue Reading
