Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Ex-Nortel CTO to Huawei North America R&D post John Roese will lead the Chinese telecom equipment maker's technology efforts, it announced Tuesday
Monday, November 22, 2010
Telus personal health portal gets hospital’s support A major Toronto hospital will link its online personal data portal for patients to Telus' upcoming repository, giving support to the carriers' national service
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Wireless speed war about to start Bell has doubled its wireless network speed maximum to 42 Mpbs and will begin selling laptop modems to take advantage of it in Toronto starting Nov. 23
Monday, November 15, 2010
Telecom providers are overbuilding: Cogeco exec Carriers and operators should be collaborating where they can instead of wasting money overbuilding building networks, says official -- but he doesn't want government-mandated open access
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Why data breach costs are really going down Telus says reported data breaches are on the rise in 2010, while the financial impact of the average breach is steadily decreasing. Rotman School of Business professor Walid Hejazi helps explain the peculiar trend
Monday, November 08, 2010
More rural broadband projects OK’d by Ottawa Third round of conditional funding from Industry Canada is announced as a hearing wraps up into whether the telecom regulator should set rural broadband goals
Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Carriers fire broadsides at CRTC hearing Rural service proposals are dismissed as “unadulterated nonsense,” “ludicrous” and “beyond outrageous”
Monday, November 01, 2010
Cablecos suggest 5 Mbps broadband target for nation Goal could be reached within five years, says proposal to public hearing. But the cable companies insist it not be a mandatory objective set by the telecom regulator
Friday, October 29, 2010
Bell tweaks rates, gets OK for rural wireless plan A Bell executive says the decision indicates the telecom regulator sees wireless broadband as an equal to wireline in rural areas
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Fight over basic phone services starts this week The CRTC will be told to modernize rules incumbent phone companies say are handcuffing them in fights with competitors. But also on the table is whether the ancient obligation to offer at least dialup Internet access to customers should be hiked to high speed
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Phone 7 makes the mobile war interesting OPINION: Microsoft was on the verge of irrelevance in the mobile marketplace. Its new smart phone OS should change that
Thursday, October 07, 2010
Takeover may help Wind Mobile’s hunt for funds With the takeover of banker Orascom Telecom, the Canadian startup's search for money to fund expansion may be easier. However, Ottawa has yet to detail its new foreign investment rules
Thursday, October 07, 2010
N.B. carrier says it will beat all to 4G wireless BREAKING NEWS - Barrett Xplornet, which provides fixed wireless broadband to businesses and homes across Canada, will launch a WiMAX-based network by the end of the year
Monday, September 27, 2010
Ericsson buying Nortel switch unit LM Ericsson has agreed to acquire Nortel Networks Corp.’s multi service switch unit, which includes the Shasta product line and employs 63 in Canada. Patrick Di Pietro, a former Nortel vice-president, is CEO of a company that had tried earlier to buy the switching assets
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
U.S. launches next-gen wireless; where's Canada? Now that MetroPCS has launched LTE service in Las Vegas, what's holding up Canadians? No network congestion and Industry Canada
Thursday, September 09, 2010
Videotron unveils 3G+ service on Google Nexus One The Quebecor Media subsidiary announced today its new mobile service in Quebec and Ottawa along with some firsts for Canada: four new handsets and the Android 2.2 OS. An IDC Canada analyst expects Bell and Telus to soon respond with their own competitive offerings
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Videotron set to launch wireless in Quebec Quebecor Media Inc’s Videotron subsidiary is expected to offer wireless cellular service to its cable and telephony customers in Quebec. They could stoke the flames of wireless competition in Eastern Canada, an IDC analyst says. It will be the fourth new wireless entrant to launch in Canada
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
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
CRTC OKs $730M rural broadband, urban rebate plan Decision opens way for 287 rural communities to get broadband from three big phone companies, while urban subscribers get rebate
Thursday, August 05, 2010
Startup Wind Mobile has 100,000 subscribers: Analyst Wind is showing 'encouraging' signs, says Wireless Intelligence, while Mobilicity and Public Mobile have modest sales. However, another analyst says those two startups are doing better
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Push-to-talk coming to Android phones Popular among public safety organizations and field workers, the capability has been limited to a small number of wireless carriers. But a U.S. company has found a way to add it to 3G/4G phones
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Telus to double wireless data speed to 42 Mbps Move may trigger a wireless speed war as carrier announces technology will start to be deployed in a few weeks. However, handsets and USB modems aren’t expected until early next year
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Telecom industry revenue slowed in 2009, says study Service revenues grew by only 1.8 per cent last year, but wireless and Internet revenue showed solid gains. However, an industry analyst wonders why so many Canadians still don't have broadband
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
How Telus runs three wireless networks Eros Spadotto, the company’s VP of technology, talks about the telco’s focus on costs, femtocells and the need for traffic management
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Digital strategy ideas call for 'grand challenge' Suggestions to Ottawa range from giving all residents access to 500 Mbps broadband by 2010 to keeping government away from the private sector