TORONTO – "Work. Live. Play. – The Infinite Potential of Wireless", is the theme of the 2006 Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association annual conference.
The gathering, backed by major sponsors Bell Canada, Rogers, Telus and Nortel, will explore new business opportunities, converging technologies and life beyond 3G.
Set for May 16 and 17, 2006 at the Hilton Toronto Airport, the two-day symposium will feature more than 65 industry experts, business leaders and government officials in a series of panel discussions and workshops centred around three main tracks:
* Freedom to the Worker – Wireless Solutions for Business * Living in…
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TORONTO – If you thought clicking thumbs on BlackBerrys during business meetings was annoying, now Kevin Newman is going to be making appearances in them.
Saying the video quality is iPod-like, CanWest MediaWorks will begin making its content available to Blackberry users beginning this month.
Sixty to 90 second clips of Global National will be the first of many "berry casts" the company has planned, CanWest Interactive president Arturo Duran told www.cartt.ca today. Following the news, the company will make Entertainment Tonight Canada available and is looking into packaging sports content, "like plays of the day," as well, he added….
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VANCOUVER – TELUS announced today that it’s joining forces with Visto Corporation to offer secure two-way wireless email.
Business Inbox offers instant access to email via mobile devices, powered by Visto Mobile. The application can be downloaded over the air to any supported wireless data device, allowing clients to send and receive wireless email, and access their calendar and contacts files. It works with both Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino. The service will be free to TELUS email and Web monthly data subscribers.
"TELUS continues to expand its e-mail services portfolio with sophisticated wireless applications such as Business Inbox,…
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OTTAWA – TELUS today launched its high-speed wireless service in Ottawa, bringing broadband speeds to handheld devices.
The service began rolling out last November across the country and besides the nation’s capital is available so far in Vancouver, Whistler, Edmonton, Calgary, Fort McMurray, Toronto and Ontario’s Golden Horseshoe region, Montreal, Mont-Tremblant, St. Jovite, and Quebec City. Other cities will get the service through the year, the telco said.
“TELUS is excited to bring wireless high speed to Ottawa, a city recognized for the past three decades as being at the forefront of the wireless revolution and a leader in…
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TORONTO – Robert Dépatie, Michael Sabia, and Darren Entwistle have been added as keynote speakers at the upcoming Canadian Telecom Summit in Toronto.
Dépatie, president and CEO of Vidéotron, will be a keynote speaker while Sabia, president and CEO of BCE, and Entwistle, president and CEO of Telus, will deliver luncheon keynote addresses.
The summit will have sessions on wide-ranging telecom issues, including NextGen telecom services and platforms such as IMS, wireless applications such as mobile new media, VoIP technologies, and illegal content on the Internet.
Already announced are appearances by new Industry Minister Maxime Bernier and CRTC Chair…
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RESEARCH AND INVESTMENT BANKING FIRM Think Equity says it believes that American telco AT&T (the former SBC) will scale back its IPTV rollout for a number of reasons, the primary one being that providing a 25 Mbps service to consumers is simply not enough.
"We believe the so-called ‘Project Lightspeed’, substantially built on VDSL2, will see a scaling back in terms of homes passed over the next two to three years," says the Think Equity release. "The target had been 18 million homes in three years… We believe the fundamental reason AT&T is likely to do this, is…
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SEATTLE – Canadian telco Telus, along with manufacturer Cisco, have invested US$16 million in Widevine Technologies, a provider of downloadable content protection and digital forensics solutions aimed at IP video operators.
Widevine’s products enable the acquisition of premium broadcast and video-on-demand (VOD) content from all major studios and broadcasters. The company currently has over ninety telco, cable, satellite and internet service operator customers.
"When we looked at the overall market for content protection it became clear that Widevine was by far the most advanced vendor in the space. Widevine provides Telus with maximum flexibility with a proven solution spanning…
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OTTAWA – Contrary to how Canada’s incumbent telcos spun last week’s local forbearance decision, the deregulation process will not take a year or more, says the chair of the CRTC.
Last week, upon release of the CRTC’s local forbearance decision (which set out the rules upon which local telephony deregulation will happen), ILECs such as Bell, Telus and Aliant were up in arms, not just about the terms of deregulation, but of the process. They claimed it could take up to 18 months from an application to deregulation.
No way, CRTC chairman Charles Dalfen told www.cartt.ca on Wednesday. Four…
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VANCOUVER – Telus’ new high speed wireless service was launched in Whistler, Fort MacMurray, Alberta and Mont-Tremblant and Saint-Jovite, Quebec, on Wednesday
The service means consumer and business clients in those regions can have what Telus customers already have in the big cities: mobile access to the Internet, e-mail and other data at broadband speeds similar to desktop Internet access.
Bell Mobility also rolled out its broadband wireless service in the Mont-Tremblant region on the same day.
Typical download speeds are 400 to 700 Kbps, with possible speeds of more than 2 Mbps. Since November, Telus has already launched…
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OTTAWA – Mobile phone customers will not see the video available on their phone screens impacted by regulation, the CRTC announced this morning.
The Commission determined that the services provided by Bell Mobility, Rogers Wireless and Telus Mobility, in conjunction with MobiTV Inc., fall within the Commission’s New Media Exemption Order, which applies to services that are delivered and accessed over the Internet.
The Commission also determined that mobile television services, whether or not they are delivered and accessed over the Internet, should also be exempt from regulation, and issued a public notice asking for the input of Canadians…
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