Dave McMahon is the new VP operations/carrier relations/engineering and customer care for Telus Integrated Communications. He’ll cart that lengthy title all the way to the telco’s Toronto office from Calgary, where he most recently served as assistant VP, carrier services. He has nearly a quarter century of experience in the telecom field.

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Group Telecom takes over C1 assets in Atlantic Canada
Toronto-based CLEC GT Group Telecom Inc is spending $70 million to buy C1 Communications Inc’s assets in Atlantic Canada. The telco, which recently purchased Cable Atlantic’s telecom service, is taking over the fibre network, on-net buildings, customers and employees of C1 Communications.

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Utility companies may have several advantages when it comes to entering the telephony market but they have a lot to learn before they can exploit them, an industry conference has been told. Gregory Green, president and CEO of Avista Communications of Spokane WA, was a speaker at a session on CLEC business strategy at the recent United Telecom Council (UTC) meeting in Toronto.

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An Ottawa-based telecom equipment manufacturer is hoping to use its experience in fighting fraud as a springboard to help telcos sell more services. Magardi Inc has been in the telephone fraud business for 15 years, which has opened up opportunities to launch new product lines that anticipate consumer demand.

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