Telecom Hall of Fame hands out $86K in R&D funding

OTTAWA - Canada's Telecommunications Hall of Fame has awarded the first instalment in its new telecom research and development (R&D) funding program to Ottawa’s Carleton University and Algonquin College.The Hall of Fame said Tuesday that $60,000 was granted to Carleton’s department of electronics, and $26,587.00 was directed to Algonquin’s electronics/electro-mechanical studies department for new and on-going telecom research projects."Everyone wins under this new program - the industry wins through a simple mechanism to achieve and fulfil their R&D objectives and their government obligations, the academic institutions win from increased levels of funding for high-level telecom R&D and the research students...