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Telus beats out Mitel for strategic healthcare contract

Telus Corp.’s new contract with CritiCall Ontario, the province’s 24-hour-a-day emergency referral service for hospital-based physicians, is a big win for the western-based telco, which is targeting the healthcare vertical as a key growth sector. It follows Telus’ acquisition in January of Emergis Inc., an IT company focusing on the health and financial services sectors.

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EastLink will launch wireless services

Bragg Communications, the owner of cable, telephony and Internet provider EastLink, has announced that it indeed plans to launch a wireless service in the future in Atlantic Canada, northern and southern Ontario as well as Grand Prairie AB – areas where the company won spectrum licences.

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Canadians slow to adopt mobile

A new report from TNS indicates that Canadians about two-thirds of Canadians aged 16 to 60 regularly uses a cell phone, below the global average of 80%. While this is unlikely to be a surprise to many in the industry as Canada’s cell phone penetration rate is only slightly higher than 60%, what should come as a wakeup call to the country’s service providers is that the majority of the non-cell phone users aren’t interested in getting one in the next 12 months.

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Auction Day 39: AWS auction comes to an end

After nearly eight weeks of bidding, Industry Canada‘s Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) spectrum auction came to a close on Monday morning. It generated more than $4.25 billion in revenue for the federal government and opened the Canadian wireless market to more competitors including cable companies Shaw Communications and Bragg Communications as well as other new comers such as Globalive Communications and Data & Audio-Visual Enterprises Wireless (DAVE).

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Auction Day 38: Close but no cigar – auction nearly ends on Friday

Industry Canada‘s Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) spectrum auction almost came to a close on Friday when participants didn’t place a bid in Round 318. But after a proactive waiver was submitted – something that has to be done over the phone – the auction continued, albeit at a snail’s pace.

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Professor launches YouTube video to protest copyright bill

University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist is taking his campaign for a fair copyright law to new levels with the launch of a national video competition channel on YouTube. The channel, a pun on Bill C-61, the copyright bill tabled by Industry Minister Jim Prentice in June, is dubbed C61 in 61 seconds.

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Auction Day 37: SaskTel and Bragg on track to control home territories

SaskTel and Bragg Communications may want to start chilling that Champaign. Yesterday, the two companies gained solid control over their home territories of Saskatchewan and Atlantic Canada, following a surprisingly active day of bidding in a spectrum auction that has turned into an endurance competition for its remaining bidders.

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Tech issues delay Visa, RBC mobile payments trial; still aiming for 2008 launch

Visa Canada and Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) say they’re still on track to launch a mobile payments trial with southern Ontario merchants by year end, despite a few technical glitches.

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John Hayes steps down as Corus Radio head

After a seven-year stint as president of Corus Radio, John Hayes is stepping down at the end of the company’s fiscal year at the end of August. Corus Entertainment Inc., which owns Corus Radio, said in a statement that his legacy will be the building of a dedicated team that was responsible for maintaining Corus Radio as a top performing broadcaster in Canada.

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Zarlink products used in new cable modem standard

Zarlink Semiconductor has noted that CableLabs reports all digital voice cable modem products certified to the latest DOCSIS3.0 specification use Zarlink’s voice solution. The list of products include those from industry leaders and emphasizes the broad reach the certification has in the industry.

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