Proposed roaming caps won’t hurt incumbents: experts

The government’s move to limit wholesale domestic roaming rates will have little impact on major wireless providers’ bottom lines, experts say, while not all agree on how much the move will help new entrants.

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MTS building data centre

Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. is building a $50-million data centre, the company said Wednesday.

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CRTC consulting on Newcap deal for BCE radio stations

The CRTC is consulting on the acquisition of five BCE Inc. radio stations by Newfoundland Capital Corp. subsidiary Newcap Inc., the commission said Wednesday.

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BlackBerry adds three executives

BlackBerry Ltd. appointed John Sims as its new president of global enterprise services, James Mackey as executive vice-president for corporate development and strategic planning and Mark Wilson as senior vice-president of marketing.
 
The company made the announcements in a pair of releases Tuesday and Wednesday.
 
Sims most recently served as president of mobile services at SAP AG, while “Mackey served as senior vice-president of corporate development at Open Text Corp., as well as head of corporate development at SAP,” and Wilson was chief marketing officer at Avaya Inc.
 
This follows news of three other executives leaving BlackBerry, which comes after last month’s departures of its chief operating, chief marketing and chief financial officers, as well as the Nov. 4 news that Chen would become interim chief executive, replacing former CEO Thorsten Heins.

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Facebook to ‘test’ video ads

Facebook Inc. said Tuesday it would start testing video advertisements that start playing in a user’s newsfeed as soon they come into view.

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CRTC forbids removal of communities’ last payphone

The CRTC is prohibiting incumbent local exchange carriers from taking out the last payphone left in a community.

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TSN, RDS retain rights to ESPN sports content

BCE Inc. said Tuesday it has renewed a multi-year agreement to get exclusive Canadian rights to content from U.S. sports broadcaster ESPN for its sports channels, TSN and RDS.

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How scarce is wireless spectrum, really?

The auction for 700 MHz spectrum — for years the focus of much anticipation within telecommunications circles — is almost upon us.

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Espial to provide technology for Norwegian cable operator

Espial Group Inc., an Ottawa-based provider of TV service software, said Tuesday it would begin providing Norway’s biggest cable operator with technology for its video-on-demand and time-shift TV services.

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Three more BlackBerry departures

BlackBerry Inc.’s executive vice-president of global sales, Rick Costanzo, and Chris Wormald, the company’s vice-president of strategic alliances, are leaving BlackBerry, Canadian Press reported Monday.

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