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Absence of VRS in accessibility decision riles disability group

The Canadian Hearing Society (CHS) is criticizing a recent CRTC ruling on access to telecommunications and broadcast services for not mandating video relay service (VRS). Disability groups praise several directives but the provision exonerating companies from a mandatory VRS is not one of them.

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Rogers and MTS Allstream forge new relationship

Rogers Communications Inc. has inked an agreement with MTS Allstream Inc. that will see the Manitoba-based company launch a national wireless offering as a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) under the Allstream brand. The two companies have also agreed to jointly build an HSPA network in Manitoba.

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Venture capital association calls for national ICT strategy

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Globalive Wireless gives network build to Alcatel-Lucent

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Novus launches challenge on Shaw pricing with Competition Bureau

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Network management is essential, but shouldn’t be discriminatory: BitTorrent

BitTorrent Inc. has shot back at ISPs arguing that peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic is hogging the network and therefore requires them to perform application-specific throttling. In a letter to the CRTC, the company says that while “network management is essential to the preservation of Internet-based business models, it is our view that these management practices are not required to be, nor should they be, discriminatory in nature.”

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Create new agency to fix wireless regulation, says Hoey

Industry Canada’s close relationship with the wireless carriers and the CRTC’s willingness to turn a blind eye to the lack of competition in the mobile services sector needs to be reversed, according to a one of the country’s most outspoken telecom consultants. Speaking with Report on Wireless, Eamon Hoey says Canada needs a complete “rethink” to its wireless regulatory structure.

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Creators should take long view of mobile app success

Apple Inc.’s App Store features 70,000 applications for download. How can individual app developers stand out in such a big crowd? According to a researcher at the MaRS Centre in Toronto, patience is the name of the game.

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Rights of users and creators top concerns among respondents to public consultation on copyright

Balance between the rights of consumers and creators are some of the top concerns expressed by a number of parties to Industry Canada’s online consultation on copyright reform.

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Here are the facts on mobile spectrum use in Canada

Let’s get the facts straight. The complaint by Telus Corp. of paying too much for spectrum must be examined in light of the overall Canadian wireless situation.

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