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Bell Mobility to offer BlackBerry device
Bell Mobility and Research in Motion have signed an agreement that will enable Bell to offer RIM’s BlackBerry wireless email solution over its ARDIS wireless data network. Additionally, Bell has partnered with Neomar Inc to put Neomar’s WAP microbrowser on the BlackBerry handhelds which enables consumers to access more than 40 wireless sites on Bell’s Mobile Browser service. Bell has also announced that it will provide access to MSN Hotmail on its PCS phones and RIM’s Blackberry device.

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COM DEV International unveils details of new wireless Internet system, M/ERGY

COM DEV International Ltd has unveiled a new wireless Internet system that promises to deliver broadband connectivity to laptops and desktop computers without using external roof top antennas. The Cambridge ON company licensed technology from wireless communications product developer Qualcomm Inc that will be used in its next generation base stations and mobile terminals. Qualcomm also took an undisclosed equity stake in COM DEV as part of the licensing agreement.

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More professors needed to increase number of qualified engineers in Canada

The critical shortage of information and communications technologies (ICT) professionals is one step closer to being addressed as key stakeholders hammered out a plan to attack the growing problem. Last week, major players from the telecommunications community, including industry, government and academia, put the final touches on a draft framework that they hope will convince the federal government to allocate between $550 and $600 million over the next five years in its February budget.

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CSP Internet, first to use 3.4 GHz band for fixed wireless services in Canada

Vancouver-based CSP Internet Ltd will one of the first wireless access providers to use the 3.4 GHz band to provide commercial non-military service after acquiring nearly 90 spectrum licences for the band in British Columbia and Saskatchewan early last month. An additional 55 licences in Alberta will be added to the company’s spectrum holdings when it receives approval for the licences, expected within the next couple of months.

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ABC waits for 38 GHz gear to drop in price, forges ahead in the 3.4 GHz band

High equipment prices for 24/38 GHz equipment is forcing at least one recent licence winner to launch its wireless Internet access service in the 3.5 GHz band as an interim measure. ABC Communications of St. Quesnel BC, which last year won the higher frequency spectrum licences (RoW, Oct. 18/99), says gear in the 38 GHz band costs about US$50,000. President Bob Allen says that’s too expensive for deployments in smaller urban and rural areas.

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eMPOWR says $550-$600M in federal funds needed to combat ICT skills shortage

At a meeting last week, major telecommunications players from industry, government and academia put the finishing touches on a new organization that would manage $550-$600 million in new federal funding over five years for information and communications technologies (ICT) studies at Canadian universities and colleges. The group’s stakeholders joined forces to create eMPOWR Canada, which is lobbying aggressively to have the new money earmarked in the next federal budget.

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