July 2008 - Industry Watch

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  • And the winner is . . . everyone

    By Howard Solomon Assistant editor, Network World Canada It's now four days after the AWS spectrum auction closed, time enough take a breath and ask who won and who lost. "Everybody lost," says Mark Tauschek, a telecom analyst at Info-Tech Research. The...

  • Kevin Johnson's soft landing

    Kevin Johnson -- whether he jumped or was pushed from his perch at Microsoft -- must be breathing easier today, and not because he's landed the CEO gig at network gear manufacturer Juniper Netwoks effective September. Johnson's job at Microsoft, head...

  • Chaos in the data centre

    By Howard Solomon Assistant editor Network World Canada IT is a relatively young discipline, particularly if you date it from the advent of PCs, networking and the Internet. But it isn’t young enough to have prevented some data centres from becoming centres...

  • Keeping them in their place

    By Howard Solomon Assistant editor, Network World Canada We should be cheering that the AWS spectrum auction will likely provide some healthy wireless competition once the dust has settled, thanks to Industry Canada's decision to set aside 40 per cent...

  • Is this what we prayed for?

    Is this what we prayed for? By Howard Solomon Assistant editor, Network World Canada We're on the eve of a new wireless era in Canada thanks to the AWS spectrum auction - assuming it ends this decade. There will be more competition, but what will providers...

  • Let us count the ways ...

    How are Canadian wireless customers being screwed? Let us count the ways. Or, actually, let Carmi Levy count the ways. Levy, the senior vice-president of strategic consulting for AR Communications Inc., is fresh off a series of interviews in the wake...

  • Good-cop, bad-cop

    By Howard Solomon Assistant editor, Network World Canada Industry Canada is playing good-cop bad-cop with the AWS spectrum auction. On Friday it will increase pressure on the remaining few bidders by shortening the time between rounds to 20 minutes from...

  • Did Rogers try the patience of Jobs?

    No one's returning phone calls right now, not Rogers, not Apple. This does not surprise me, but it's certainly frustrating. What I'm looking for is confirmation of and comment on recent published reports that a) Apple has diverted a "significant amount...

  • Who’s holding up the spectrum auction?

    Who’s holding up the spectrum auction? By Howard Solomon Assistant editor, Network World Canada After Monday's 10 sessions bids were going up less than $90,000 a round, suggesting most of the gang are satisfied with what they've got. So who's holding...

  • East of Sweden

    My best friend and I have a running gag about our affinity for all things Swedish. We spend far too much time at Ikea without a trace of irony; I declared myself an honorary Swede for the purposes of the recent UEFA Euro Cup and mourned the team's early...

  • Canada's 'cozy oligarchy'; Bell slewfoots iRogers

    I often suffer from that peculiar Canadian condition: While we pretend we don't care, we're secretly insecure about whether or not anybody south of the border pays any attention to us, our culture and our industry. So it was refreshing to read American...

  • Petition won't budge Rogers on data rates

    As I write this column, almost 8,400 people had signed a petition in an effort to pressure Rogers Wireless to lower data access charges for iPhone users. (The petition also asks that Rogers lift the 25 MB cap on its ludicrously named Unlimited data plan...