Thursday, May 16, 2013
Anti-piracy firm caught using photos without consent Canipre helps firms track down illegal downloaders of their copyrighted content, but this week it was caught using copyrighted photos on its Web site without securing permission
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Rogers’s LTE covers 44 more markets From Saint John to Medicine Hat, more Canadian communities will get high-speed wireless coverage
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
Application-targeted DDoS attacks increasing: Expert Brute bandwidth attacks are disappearing in favour of application-layer incursions, a Canadian ISP conference has been told
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
Internet access here ‘terrible,’ conference told The Canadian head of an Internet registrar and U.S. wireless operator says independent ISPs should build infrastructure themselves rather than rely on Ottawa
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Copyright Modernization Act set to come into force Not all of the new law's provisions will take effect immediately, including protection for ISPs from the copyright violations made by their customers
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
CIRA voting for new board begins Prominent names are among those running to be directors of the authority that oversees the .ca domain name
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Canadian firm updates software for service providers Incognito Software announces version 12 of its Service Activation Center, which now adds support for video-on-demand services
Friday, August 17, 2012
Canadian Internet throttling is the worst: study IT WORLD CANADA CURATED Bell and Rogers cited as the most restrictive carriers
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Cisco: Video will soon dominate Internet traffic IT WORLD CANADA CURATED: Cisco predicts that video traffic will account for up to 90% of data flowing over networks in the next few years
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
UK wants ISPs, telcos to store subscriber data Newspaper says government about to require carriers and operators to keep information about subscriber communications 
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
HP analytics tech powers Rogers' wireless profiling With the shift from analogue to digital networks, profiling wireless usage becomes more critical. Plus, how a lack of legacy is an advantage for new carriers
Thursday, November 17, 2011
ISP complaints over CRTC decision increase With a day to look in detail at the commission's wholesale billing ruling, some independent Internet service providers are finding more faults
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
ISP future is a four-letter word, conference told IPTV is the way independent Internet providers can fight integrated carriers who own television networks, says a consultant. Read why
Wednesday, August 03, 2011
House panel votes to require ISPs to keep customer records The bill targeting child pornography raises privacy concerns from Democrats and other critics. The bill is "an outrageous expansion of the power of the federal government," said Representative Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
ISPs hesitate to add faster speeds The federal telecom regulator thought it was doing independent providers a favour by setting out interim rates so they could offer high speed services sooner than expected. However, there are a few unpalatable strings
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
OECD Internet policy angers civil liberty groups The OECD represents 34 governments including European Union member states, the U.S., Canada, Australia, Mexico and Korea. Wednesday's communication focuses on copyright infringement and the measures ISPs could take to deter this
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Liberals would ‘look’ at functional separation ELECTION 2001: Separating the wholesale network operations from retail sales to allow independent ISPs better access to broadband is worth considering, says the party.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Bell Canada backs down on UBB proposal The company withdraws a plan that critics said would make it impossible for small firms to compete. But will "aggregated volume pricing" go over any better with the industry and the CRTC?
Friday, March 18, 2011
ISPs gain from CRTC ruling on switching providers Upcoming rule change will make it easier for subscribers to switch service providers, giving ISPs an equal chance in the hot communications market
Friday, March 11, 2011
CRTC sets July date for another UBB hearing Telecommunications carriers and Internet providers will slug out their differences over wholesale billing publicly this summer when the federal telecommunications regulator holds another public hearing
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Feds to review CRTC’s 'metered Internet' ruling The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s decision to force independent ISPs to move to usage-based billing has been criticized by thousands of Canadians, including PM Stephen Harper. Why one online activist and Liberal MP Marc Garneau both say its too early to start the parade
Monday, January 10, 2011
ISPs to focus on charging for content: Vendor In Canada and elsewhere, the race to build faster wired and wireless infrastructure is over. Now, providers are focusing more on seeking new ways to monetize the networks
Monday, December 20, 2010
UK government to force ISPs to block porn sites The government wants ISPs to block access to pornography websites, so web users can ensure safe surfing
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
China Internet 'hijack' overblown, says researcher The diverted traffic was nowhere near the claimed 15 per cent, according to Arbor Networks
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
IP addresses will run out in two to three years There’s no ifs, ands or buts about it – IPv4 addresses are going to run out in the next year and end users will feel the effects in 24 to 36 months, says CIRA’s CEO. What governments, enterprises and end users can do to speed up the move to IPv6