George Horhota has been named to the board of directors of Wi-Lan Inc. Horhota is co-founder, executive VP and CFO of Suiteworks Inc. He fills a vacancy left by the departure of Robert Schulz in March 2004, and he will sit on the audit committee. Horhota is a well-known figure in Canadian telecommunications, having served in the Royal Bank of Canada's information technology and media portfolio group before moving on to become CFO and VP corporate development at ACC Canada until 1998 when that companay was acquired by AT&T Corp. He then spent three years as president of Cannect Networks until, in 2002, he joined BCE Emergis as VP of operations.

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Bell enhances business services in Eastern Quebec
Bell Canada is adding local telephone and high-speed Internet services to its suite of offerings for businesses in Eastern Quebec. Starting in January 2005, Bell business customers will have the new service available to them. Bell will invest $10 million over three years to build, deploy and operate the necessary infrastructure. The new services will be available to customers in St-Georges de Beauce, Ste-Marie de Beauce, Rimouski and Baie-Comeau PQ. The services will be offered through five different resellers.

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The CRTC appears to be struggling with the price floor safeguards for retail tariffed services based on the interrogatories recently replied to by parties. The commission poses questions, a number of which raise possibilities outside that found in Public Notice 2003-10.

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