Telus has made a series of new appointments. Paul Goldman is the new VP/GM national systems. The 16-year telecom veteran will manage the overall operations of the service that sells data, voice, video and Internet throughout the country. Brian Ridgway is now VP sales for central and eastern Canada for the client solutions division. He previously worked for GE Capital IT Solutions where he was EVP, IT products/Net solutions. Rocco Lallone is VP marketing for the client solutions sector. After several years at Bell Canada, Lallone joined Telus in January 2000 as assistant VP, product marketing.

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FCC dismisses Bell motion on non-dominance
Bell Canada has been told by the Federal Communications Commission that it does not meet the criteria to be removed from the list of dominant carriers (NL, March 8/00).The FCC found Bell's 95% presence in the six provinces east of Manitoba make it too big to be added to the roster of non-dominant carriers. A related filing, asking the commission to waive the rule for good cause, was also dismissed.

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Ando Corp is the American subsidiary of Japan's Ando Electric Co. It is currently conducting trials for its first OC-48c IP Core Network Probe. The gigabit speed router is a hardware accelerated statistics engine. The American division of Ando has been in operation for two decades and coordinates with the company's other operations in Asia and in Europe. In this article, a senior executive with the firm looks at the need for state-of-the-art equipment.

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Free trade with Central and South America will create more opportunities for Canadian telecom companies, lure new competitors to our domestic market, and at the same time, cause concerns for domestic policy, according to experts reviewing the recently released draft agreement of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).

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The number of DSL lines is expected to exceed the number of cable modems globally by next year, a new study predicts, although it likely won't happen that fast in Canada. The report, released by IDC Canada, also questions how much of that growing DSL market will be ceded to the established telcos.

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The groundswell of support for AT&T Canada Corp in its fight with the City of Toronto has raised the hackles of the municipality and it's asking the CRTC to ignore their interventions. The city claims that other CLECs, telcos and cablecos are attempting to turn a contract dispute between itself and AT&T into a larger public policy issue.

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