VANCOUVER – While Telus has been making waves in Bell Canada’s Ontario region, today Bell Canada announced it will help deliver "the world’s most technologically advanced meeting facility" in Vancouver.
In partnership with the Vancouver Convention Centre Expansion Project (VCCEP), Bell will deliver a fully outsourced information and communication technology (ICT) solution to support the Centre’s 2008 expansion, its 2010 Winter Games needs and more.
"Our business partnership with the Vancouver Convention Centre Expansion Project marks a significant milestone in Bell’s growth plan for Western Canada," said Charles Brown, president, Bell Western Region, in a release. "We understand…
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WINNIPEG – Canada’s largest ISPs have joined forces with Cybertip.ca, Canada’s child sexual exploitation tip line, to launch a new voluntary initiative to help in the battle against online child sexual abuse.
The new initiative, named "Project Cleanfeed Canada", is the latest contribution from the multi-stakeholder Canadian Coalition Against Internet Child Exploitation (C-CAICE). It’s intended to make the Internet safer for Canadians and their families by reducing their chances of coming across images of child sexual exploitation on the Internet.
The participating ISPs – which so far include Bell Aliant, Bell Canada, MTS Allstream, Rogers, SaskTel, Shaw Communications Inc.,…
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TORONTO – If Rogers and Bell are on the same side of an issue – working together even – you know they see a threat.
Today, Rogers Communications, Bell Canada, Telus, Sask Tel, MTS Allstream, and the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance released a research report saying 81% of Canadians do not want to pay a new fee for conventional broadcast stations.
As has been reported repeatedly by Cartt.ca the concept of fee for carriage has been pushed by Canadian broadcasters and will be front and centre at the upcoming CRTC Television Policy Review beginning Monday, November 27th in Hull….
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – In a decision that will may have more immediate impact on the telecom industry than last week’s voice over IP deregulation announcement by the Minister of Industry, the CRTC today approved local telephone rate ranges for incumbent telcos.
What is means is that ILECs (Bell Canada, Telus, SaskTel, MTS, Bell Aliant and the like) will now be able to submit to the Commission – confidentially – a low and high range of rates for certain services and as long as their pricing stays within that range, will not have to file for tariff approvals prior to altering…
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TORONTO – Among Canadian wireless carriers, SaskTel and Virgin Mobile have the most satisfied customers, according to a survey released today by JD Power and Associates.
Now in its second year, the Canadian Wireless Customer Satisfaction Study, which is paid for by the wireless industry, "examines attitudes of wireless customers with their service, mobile phone and retail experience," says the press release.
Rankings are provided for contract service and prepaid service providers, as well as for mobile phone providers. SaskTel Mobility ranks highest in customer satisfaction among contract service providers, while Virgin Mobile ranks highest among prepaid providers. LG…
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VANCOUVER – Syntagma Network Services, led by former Telus executive Theresa Carbonneau, last week launched on the Canadian telecom scene.
It says it has "Canada’s first independent, fully integrated telephony, IT and data service," in the press release.
"Syntagma’s innovative service allows businesses and consumers to bypass the big phone companies, allowing subscribers to get all of their phone, fax and Internet services together on one bill, at a 30% to 50% savings. Syntagma’s new service puts an end to costly user fees such as extra charges for voicemail, call waiting, call forwarding, as well as expensive long-distance charges."…
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VANCOUVER – Bell Mobility has launched a lawsuit against Telus over the latter’s recent ad campaign, saying it’s wireless plans are every bit as flexible as Telus’.
Telus launched an ad campaign this month touting its Flexible Share Plans", where more than one family member can share their wireless minutes.
Bell’s problem is the Telus line found in the ads: "only from Telus." Bell’s statement of claim decries its rival’s "exclusivity claim" as false and misleading.
"The Exclusivity Claim is calculated to give the impression, and does give the impression, that only Telus Mobility offers wireless communications services rate…
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IF CANADA’S INCUMBENT TELEPHONE companies want total deregulation quickly, they’re going to have to do it for (and to) themselves, in the marketplace.
Yesterday Industry Minister Maxime Bernier told the Economic Club of Toronto, with numerous telecom executives in the audience, that the federal government will force the CRTC to deregulate "access independent" VOIP services, no matter which company offers them or where.
The voice services offered by Primus and Vonage are prime examples. The consumer buys a special box, perhaps downloads some software and "poof", they have VOIP service in their homes –and perhaps portably, too.
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AS A BIT OF A GIMMICK, the moderator of Monday’s personal programming session on mobile video held up a recently released Palm Treo 700wx running on the Bell Mobility EVDO network.
Linked into his PVR at home in Ontario using a Slingbox and the Sling Mobile software, the Treo ably displayed the Sunday Night Football game on the device. Turning to the panel, the smart alecky moderator (that would be your humble author, actually) asked the panel, "If I can do this with a $300 Slingbox, why do I need you guys?"
Those "guys" were from Telus, Bell, The…
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VANCOUVER – Stephen Armstrong didn’t exactly have the easiest of tasks in front of him yesterday: Explain all new and developing media trends in 75 minutes.
The massive shifts in media consumption is keyed off of one major growth product: broadband. Quoting research, Armstrong said that by 2010, 422 million homes around the world will have broadband access. That works out to about 18.5% of all the world’s households, he calculated.
In Canada, 51% of us have broadband in our homes and growth continues. Plus, "it’s no longer the exclusive preserve of wireline carriers," he added, pointing to developments…
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