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Verizon Wireless announces end of CDPD wireless network
Verizon Wireless has quietly announced the end of its CDPD wireless data network. The U.S.-based wireless operator will officially shut the network down at the end of 2005, according to a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Verizon customers will be migrated to the company's CDMA 1XRTT voice and data network. Other carriers, including AT&T Wireless Corp., have also announced plans to shutter their CDPD networks and transition customers to other more efficient networks. Report on Wireless previously reported that Telus Mobility was planning on shutting its CDPD network down within the next few years (RoW, Dec. 9/02).

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Former Wavesat Wireless Inc. chief executive Mark Holleran has been appointed VP of sales at Xplore Technologies Corp. Holleran will lead the sales initiatives of the company's iX104 family of rugged mobile computing systems, which was recently commercially released. Holleran has more than 20 years of sales and marketing experience having spent more than 16 years at Digital Equipment Corp.

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Ontario man arrested with illegal satellite equipment
The RCMP, with assistance from Industry Canada, has arrested Terry Belanger of James St. in Mattawa ON and charged him with several counts under the Radiocommunication Act and the Criminal Code of Canada. The RCMP seized several pieces of equipment traditionally used to reprogram access cards used to illegally obtain U.S. satellite signals.

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Telecom Ottawa deploying high-capacity wireless technology to expand network

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TrueContext aims to make enterprise content more accessible to mobile workers

Ottawa-based start-up TrueContext Inc. sees an enormous opportunity in easing the use and management of enterprise applications and content by mobile workers, and the company recently won a major boost when it received an injection of cash from CANARIE Inc. Earlier this month, the company, funded in part by Skypoint Capital, received $1.5 million from the not-for-profit corporation.

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Carriers struggle to find ways to increase ARPU despite jump in minutes of use

Canada's wireless carriers are struggling to find ways to translate a significant jump in the average monthly minutes of use (MOU) into improved average revenue per user (ARPU). That is one of the key findings of a May 20 Yankee Group audio conference that compared Canadian operators to their counterparts south of border in terms of the key wireless measurement metrics, and that also highlighted the similarities between the Canadian and U.S. wireless industries.

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Microcell wins right to opt out of new subsidy regime for expanded LCAs

Microcell Telecommunications Inc. is cheering a CRTC decision allowing it to opt out of the controversial plan to compensate long distance service providers for lost revenue from expanded local calling areas (LCAs). In Telecom Decision 2003-28, the CRTC ruled that it had made incorrect assumptions about the ability of a wireless CLEC to effectively participate in the new LCA framework as set out in Telecom Decision 2002-56.

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Canadian mobile service prices nearly identical to those in the U.S., study finds

Canadian wireless operators can no longer claim lower prices than those of their American counterparts, says a new report on telephone service pricing, and the low cost of wireline service here may even be slowing wireless-only adoption rates. According to Communications Pricing for Consumers: A Cross-National Survey, prepared by SeaBoard Group, consumers in both countries now pay nearly identical prices on average for mobile wireless services when Canadian dollars are converted to the American greenback. The report runs counter to the widespread perception that Canadians enjoy the lowest wireless rates in the world.

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