Some cell phone subscribers may end up with more digits to dial when number exhaustion reaches its limit sometime in the next decade or so. While that may seem a long time off, contingency plans are already being developed for the inevitable day when Toronto and Vancouver run out of telephone numbers.

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Telesat Canada and TMI Communications have filed a review and vary (R&V) application with the CRTC asking that satellite carriers be exempt from the new telephone subsidy regime that came into effect Jan 1. While the two companies agree with the commission’s Decision 2000-745 to treat all telecom service providers equally, they say they should be excluded from the regime because of their track record in providing basic service to rural and remote Canada.

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Paradigm Advanced Technologies Inc has hired one of the top lawyers in the United States to crack down on companies that use its wireless location technology without a licence. David Boies, who came to litigation fame defending Napster Inc, arguing the U.S.

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