Howard Solomon

Currently a freelance writer, I'm the former editor of ITWorldCanada.com and Computing Canada. An IT journalist since 1997, I've written for several of ITWC's sister publications including ITBusiness.ca and Computer Dealer News. Before that I was a staff reporter at the Calgary Herald and the Brampton (Ont.) Daily Times. I can be reached at hsolomon [@] soloreporter.com

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Rogers sets the beat with LTE in Ottawa

Dancing teens preceded the launch of the first LTE wireless network in the country. But an industry analyst says operators will have to do more than that to excite businesses

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To tout its technology, the network equipment maker has set up a Wi-Fi network at the festival it is sponsoring for the expected 250,000 fans to usern

RIM in winning group for Nortel patents

A consortium including the BlackBerry maker keeps Google from buying any wireless patents as the last auction for Nortel assets finishes

U.S. fibre provider expands Toronto service

First Communications now has two points of presence in the city's financial district to better serve bank, hedge fund and brokerage customers

Competition Bureau rings Bell for misleadaing ads

Ever wonder why sometimes you can't get the delicious advertised price of some services offered by BCE Inc.'s Bell Canada? That's because they didn't exist,...

Gigamon adds chassis-based data access switch

A Canadian telco is among the first customers for the unit, which can handle up to eight line cards offering almost 100 10g ports

Don’t hold back spectrum, conference told

Rogers Communications president Robert Bruce stressed the theme of this year's Canadian Telecom Summit, referring to the demand for wireless as "unprecedented"

Time to transform carrier networks, Juniper exec says

Service providers will have to turn to

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