The debate over Net Neutrality is beginning to have a real impact on the telecommunications market and Sandvine Inc., the acknowledged leader in providing technology traffic shaping technology to ISPs, is beginning to feel the pinch. The company’s stock price has been pummelled after the Waterloo ON-based company posted disappointing quarterly revenue results last week. Sandvine’s earlier predictions that it would be getting more traction in the DSL and wireless markets have also been muted.  

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Here’s yet more evidence that landlines are kaput: The University of Waterloo (UW) is cutting its Bell Canada service for 5,000 landlines in student residences this fall.

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Saskatchewan and Ontario remain a stubborn battlegrounds as the seventh week of Industry Canada‘s Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) spectrum auction draws to a close.
Generally, the early rounds on Friday there were between one and three new bids, but by the middle of the day activity rose to between six and eight new bids.

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Some might have thought that with new bids per round dropping to a single bid several times yesterday that the auction was very close to coming to an end. Almost, but not quite. Yesterday Rogers Communications used the final round of the day to place five new bids on properties it already held – this is referred to in auction parlance as a jump bid.

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