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Colligo signs licensing agreement with Palm, mobile collaboration gains credibility

Colligo Networks has licensed its peer-to-peer collaboration software to one of the world’s largest handheld device manufacturers, providing the Vancouver-based company some international muscle to promote its portable collaboration applications. Palm Inc. of Santa Clara CA has licensed two of Colligo’s Portable Collaborative Networking (PCN) applications, BlueChat and BlueBoard, that it will in turn offer as part of a Bluetooth expansion card. Colligo executives say the deal with well-known Palm is just the first of several high-profile agreements to come.

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Ascendent Telecom brings wireless PBX system to Canadian market

Ascendent Telecom has developed a product that can extend the reach of corporate PBX telephone networks to cell phones and other remote devices, and allow these devices to function as if they were hardwired to the PBX. The Encino CA-based company has hired some Canadian telecom muscle to help sell the system, dubbed Wireless Connect, in Canada. Ascendent was in Toronto a few weeks ago to discuss details of an agreement with Telus Mobility that would see the wireless operator sell the Wireless Connect product to its enterprise customers here.

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WNI Networks granted service deployment extension; other extensions likely to come

The extension of a deadline to deploy LMCS service granted to WNI Networks Inc. won’t be the only one granted, predicts a senior-level Industry Canada official. The department is anticipating applications from other licensees as the deadline for deploying services fast approaches.

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Stream in receivership; questions arise about viability of high-frequency wireless

The long-term viability of high-frequency and LMCS-type services is in serious doubt now that an important 38 GHz spectrum holder has been forced into receivership by one of its financial backers (RoW Update, Feb. 26/02). On February 25, GE Capital Canada pulled the plug on further financial support for Stream Intelligent Networks Corp., and went to court to force the Toronto-based company into receivership.

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Stream was put into receivership by GE Capital
General Electric Capital Canada Inc. was the investor that drove Stream Intelligent Networks Corp. into receivership. The financial giant was owed $13 million by the fibre provider, according to documents filed with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. Stream’s executive officers have resigned and the company is being run by receiver PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc. To read Network Letter’s earlier story on Stream’s demise, click here.

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Telemanagement: March 1, 2002

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    CCR Editorial

    The opinions expressed in this editorial are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Decima Reports.

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    CCR People

    Suzanna Mandryk has been named VP of communications and marketing at VisionTV. She will oversee corporate communications and spearhead the organization’s branding and marketing initiatives. She was most recently senior VP of marketing at the online tee-time reservation network Book4golf.com Corp. Previously, she joined YTV as VP of marketing and public relations in 1997, and was promoted to VP of corporate marketing and communications at YTV’s parent company Corus Entertainment Inc. She has also served as VP of marketing for the small business market at Bell Canada, and as VP of the consumer services group at American Express Inc.

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    CCR Short Takes

    Star Choice amends conditions for additional receiver fees
    Star Choice Communications Inc. has decided to exempt some customers from the $4.99 fee for additional receivers it planned to begin charging on March 1. In a message on its web site, Star Choice now says that customers who take a package valued at $58.99 per month or more won’t have to pay the fee. Letters sent previously to Star Choice customers indicated that only those who took the most expensive package priced at $74.99 per month would be exempt (CCR Update, Feb. 20/02). The company has also changed the name of the plan to Multi-Receiver Fee. Star Choice’s web site notes, "The multi-receiver fee is associated with the costs of providing programming and services to multiple receivers." Star Choice says it will discontinue service on the extra receivers if the fee is not paid.

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    Digital icon or digital road kill? asks Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment CEO

    Should the digital launch of about 50 new channels, including Leafs TV and Raptors TV, be considered a digital icon or digital road kill? That’s the question Richard Peddie, president and CEO of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment Ltd. (MLSE) and president of the Raptors, asked during a February 27 speech to the Broadcast Executives Society. He told broadcast executives that MLSE was ahead of the game in forming its own sports channel, and predicted that more sporting events will move from free television to pay-per-view or higher subscriber fee channels. Below is an edited excerpt of his comments.

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