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Telecom veteran joins Tranzeo’s board

Patrick Smith, president and CEO of Natural Convergence, a developer of carrier-grade VoIP products, has been appointed to Tranzeo Wireless Technologies’ board of directors. He is also chair of the board for Montreal-based Wavesat Inc. Smith replaces Tony Kot, Tranzeo’s VP of sales and marketing who has been a member of the board since 2005. Kot will maintain his position at the company.

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Mitel takes down Cisco, Avaya and Nortel in US SMB space

Mitel Corp. has taken top spot in the United States for IP Telephony (IPT) shipments to small business, according to data from InfoTech, a Parsippany, NJ-headquartered research firm. Mitel took top honours and has positioned itself for long-term growth by driving application adoption off of IP-based capabilities, often with a vertical market focus, says InfoTech.

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Wi-Fi service comes to Air Canada flights

Passengers on Air Canada flights will be able to access the Internet on board when the national carrier starts offering Wi-Fi service next spring. In a deal inked this week with Aircell, a provider of airborne communications, Air Canada will get the service through Aircell’s Gogo platform. It will enable passengers to access the Internet on wireless devices like laptops, smartphones, and PDAs.

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Acquisition increases Barrett’s Ontario coverage

Barrett Xplore Inc. has taken another small step forward in its bid to become a national rural broadband Internet provider. It announced today that it has added another 550 residential and business customers in Ontario through its acquisition of W3 Connex, which was placed into receivership in April. The purchase gives Barrett two wireless networks in Prince Edward County and South Dundas in southwestern Ontario. Last month, Barrett acquired 3.5 GHz WiMAX spectrum from Mipps Inc., which Barrett CEO John Maduri said will enable them to improve service in reliability for W3 Connex customers. While Barrett now has the spectrum to serve four million rural Canadians, the company is still looking to acquire bandwidth in Atlantic Canada to fill in the gaps in what could be a national rural wireless network.

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TeraGo appoints Jim Nikopoulos as VP

TeraGo Inc., a Toronto-based national wireless broadband service providers, has appointed Jim Nikopoulos as VP, Corporate Development in addition to his current duties as general counsel. Nikopoulos was formerly a partner at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, where he practiced in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and securities, and general corporate and commercial law.

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Redline and Tech Mahindra sign global WiMAX partnership

Toronto-based Redline Communications Group Inc., a provider of WiMAX and broadband wireless infrastructure products, and global telecom systems integrator Tech Mahindra have signed a global partnership agreement to deliver Mobile WiMAX solutions in the Asia-Pacific region starting this year. Redline’s RedMAX 4C(TM), which is based on the WiMAX industry’s 802.16e-2005 standards for mobile WiMAX, supports a wide range of fixed, portable and mobile wireless services including support Voice and Video over IP, broadband Internet access.

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Busy summer of lobbying precedes federal election call

As rumours of a fall election swirled this summer, some of Canada’s biggest communications companies were busy lobbying senior government officials on a range of issues including hot-button items, such as copyright reform.

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Make new media, wireless, broadband and telecom top research priorities: national body urges

New media, wireless, broadband and telecom equipment could see more federal funding for research and development if Industry Canada acts on recommendations released last week by a government advisory body. However, boosting R&D spending for ICT will not be enough to save Canada’s struggling IT and telecom sectors, Canada’s largest high tech lobby group warns.

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Future of Bell’s IPTV offering unclear

Bell Canada‘s announcement last month to deploy fibre to the neighbourhood (FTTN) in new suburban multiple dwelling units has raised questions about the future of the telecom giant’s Internet TV service. Touted as the next-generation in TV viewing by former president and CEO Michael Sabia nearly two years ago, Bell’s IPTV offering now appears sidelined and its future uncertain.

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Bell-Telus switch to HSPA questioned by analysts

Are Bell Mobility and Telus Mobility making unnecessary and expensive investments by overlaying a shared GSM-based network over their existing CDMA networks? Analysts are questioning many aspects of such a move, particularly when the fourth generation of wireless networks (4G) will begin rolling out around the world within the next couple of years.

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