Jeanette Irekvist is proud when people call her an honourary Canadian. She shares the Swedish citizenship of her employer, Ericsson AB, but lives in Canada.
The president of Ericsson Canada, she has worked for the telecom manufacturer for 25 years.
“I really feel...
Ericsson AB has extended and broadened its partnership with Montreal’s Concordia University, the two parties announced Monday. The pact is focused on advancing research and education on information and communications technology.
The pair initially entered into an...
TORONTO – Connectivity is not only a tool for good, it is a human right, the president of Ericsson...
TORONTO – Simply reducing prices is not enough to attract customers...
Ericsson AB and Quebecor Inc. subsidiary Videotron have renewed their...
To celebrate Earth Day on Monday, Ericsson AB signed on with the federal...
Rogers Communications Inc., in partnership with Ericsson AB, announced it has successfully tested 5G network slicing technology, marking the first nationwide live test....
Ericsson AB and Telus Corp. have linked up to roll out a 5G standalone network, it was announced Monday....
Public safety networks in Canada need to be...
Swedish telecom manufacturer Ericsson AB and Bragg Communications Inc.’s...
The government of Canada announced Monday it was investing $470 million in...
Ericsson Canada announced Tuesday that Jeanette Irekvist has been appointed president of the telecom manufacturer. The appointment is effective immediately.
She will remain as VP and head of customer unit Canada. She succeeds...
Canadians are eager to upgrade to 5G services in theory, but are slow to...
A Federal Court judge has dismissed an attempt by BCE Inc. and Ericsson AB...
The federal government Thursday announced that it would be banning equipment from "high risk vendors",...
Monday Rogers Communications Inc. announced it was partnering with Ericsson AB on rolling out Canada’s first standalone 5G network. The Toronto-based telecom had earlier deployed the country’s first standalone 5G core and first standalone device certification.
“This milestone underscores our ongoing leadership in 5G and will bring immediate benefits to customers by increasing coverage, scalability and availability and improving network response times, enabling a...
Swedish telecom manufacturer Ericsson AB is buying Vonage Holdings Corp. for US$6.2 billion, the firms...
Through its newly acquired fibre-based service provider Ocdotus Inc. — which operates as Metro Loop — Xplornet Communications Inc. is expanding its fibre network in Haldimand County, Ontario. New Brunswick-based Xplornet...
Rogers Communications Inc. is in the midst of a wireless outage, with reports of service dropping early...
The United States State Department said that if Canada doesn’t ban...
On Tuesday, BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. announced new partnerships with Ericsson AB and Nokia Corp. on 5G network rollouts, but what that means for their existing 4G network...
BCE Inc. will start building out its 5G network with equipment supplied by...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron said Friday it has chosen Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. as its equipment supplier for the deployment of LTE-A and 5G networks. “This partnership is the result of an extensive selection process to...
Rogers Communications Inc. and the University of British Columbia said they have powered the first fully-functional 5G “smart campus” to test applications for the next-generation network. The campus includes 5G towers and...
As the Liberals head back to Parliament following the Oct. 21 federal election, they’ll be returning to...
The public-private partnership known as ENCQOR 5G has now made mmWave spectrum available to participants. ENCQOR 5G was first announced in 2018 as a 5G laboratory of sorts, funded by $400 million from the federal government...
Rogers Communications Inc. is lobbying the City of Montreal to be involved in the city’s 5G pilot...
A wireless network announced last year that allows small- and medium-sized businesses to test 5G technology is now operational, according to a press release. The ENCQOR 5G test bed, part of a public-private partnership to...
A new report by Ericsson AB suggests an accelerated timeline for the...
A public-private partnership has posted a call for project proposals to develop equipment that can make use of an inactive 5 GHz band for 5G technology. The notice for a whitespace project was posted Wednesday on the ENCQOR 5G website, sent in by Ericsson Inc.’s Canada division. It calls for project pitches from Ontario small or medium-sized enterprises that find ways to use an unlicensed 20MHz chunk of the 5GHz band while complying with out-of-band emissions requirements in Canada and the U.S. “There are chunks of unlicensed spectrum at 5GHz that go unused due to strict...
The panel in charge of reviewing the broadcasting and telecom acts received...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is embarking this year on a massive...
The likelihood Canada will ban Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. equipment from...
A new report by Ericsson AB projects that by the end of 2024, some 1.5 billion people worldwide will have 5G wireless internet subscriptions and about 40 per cent of the world’s population could...
Manon Brouillette, who has been at the helm of Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron for the past five years, is leaving the company in what National Bank analyst Adam Shine said is a surprise move.
Quebecor announced in a press release Tuesday morning that Brouillette would be leaving for personal reasons at...
Cogeco Inc. has staked out parts of Ontario for a gigabit expansion that features its DOCSIS 3.1 technology, it said in a Friday release.
The Montreal-based cable company announced the high-speed offerings will now be...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. (SaskTel) announced the launch of a new TV service using Ericsson AB’s MediaFirst-powered IPTV platform in a press release on Wednesday. Dubbed the maxTV Stream, according to the...
Cogeco Inc. is going with MediaFirst for its first IPTV platform, a move...
Just under half of Canadians, or 47.2 per cent, use subscription over-the-top (OTT) services, according...
Rogers Communications Inc. estimates its gigabit-speed LTE network will be available later this, or early next, year following 5G demonstrations at the Rogers Centre in Toronto on Monday, according to an email from a company...
OTTAWA — A public-private partnership to foster 5G technology research in...
BCE Inc. said Thursday it has signed a deal with Ericsson AB to use its TV platform, following a similar...
In a statement on Twitter on Wednesday, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) announced the...
Today, approximately 70 per cent of consumers watch TV and video content on their smartphone devices, double the number from 2012, according to the eighth edition of Ericsson AB’s annual ConsumerLab TV and Media report. The study predicted only one in ten consumers will still be watching video content exclusively on their televisions, and a third of consumers will be using virtual reality (VR) by the start of the next decade, according to the report released Monday. The way people get their news is changing, with 27 per cent of the respondents saying they’ll use social media to get the...
Telus Corp. has achieved nearly 1 Gbps speeds on LTE as part of a test, it said in a press...
Even with an accelerated arrival date for the next generation of wireless...
Leif Johansson, chairman of the board at Ericsson AB, will not be available for re-election at the...
Early adopters of virtual reality (VR) technology believe VR is poised to change pastimes like social networking and video viewing, though issues...
MONTREAL — Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron gave an update on the progress of a partnership focused on testing 5G-related technology Wednesday, and announced the project will start accepting submissions from businesses, researchers and the public in the fall.
“There are...
Rima Qureshi is leaving Ericsson AB as senior vice-president and head of market area North America, effective May 11.
Qureshi is pursuing “another opportunity in the industry,” according to a Thursday press release. A profile page on...
Canada should allow high-power and outdoor devices (HPODs) in the 5GHz band before the World Radiocommunications Conference in 2019 (WRC-19), Canada's major telecom companies said in comments to the Ministry of Innovation,...
Despite a projected 1,000-per-cent increase in 5G connections between 2020 and 2021, less than half a per cent of all devices and connections will have 5G capability in that same time period, according to a new Cisco Systems Inc....
An Ericsson AB report is projecting that more than 550 million subscribers will be on 5G networks by 2022. The latest Ericsson Mobility Report, released Tuesday, said that...
Ericsson AB and Rogers Communications Inc. are participating in a project to help monitor water quality in Ottawa, the companies said in a press release Tuesday. The pilot project...
MONTREAL — Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron said Tuesday it will begin to test 5G technologies as part of a new project, in a move that appears to be part of an increasing push...
TORONTO — With customers’ usage of data increasing exponentially, and carriers limited in how much they can charge for that data, telecoms will have to turn to 5G networks, Ericsson...
The majority of the 28 billion devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) by 2021 won’t be mobile phones, according to the latest edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report. IoT devices are...
Small Internet service providers (ISPs) are asking the government to reject an appeal, filed by BCE Inc., of a CRTC decision that mandated access by smaller competitors to fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks, stating Bell’s arguments in the case contradict statements it has made to investors. The Canadian Network Operators Consortium (CNOC) said in a document filed in late December that despite Bell’s assurances to investors that the CRTC decision would “have no material...
Ericsson AB announced Thursday that it has renewed its agreement with Eastlink to expand and upgrade its LTE and HSPA networks, as well as continue to be the exclusive supplier for radio access network equipment for another three...
The amount of data flowing through cellular networks, both in North America and around the world, will increase almost 10 times over the next six years as growth in smartphone adoption continues and video consumption becomes more...
Cisco Systems Inc. and Ericsson AB announced Monday they are combining efforts to develop networking technology in areas such as mobile, routing, cloud and data centres. The companies said in a news release that this represents "a global business and technology partnership to create the networks of the future."...
Telus Corp. announced Thursday it will be providing its fibre-optic network to connect and power a simulated smart home in Edmonton. It said in the press release that it has partnered with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Ericsson AB and Alcatel-Lucent to provide the technology for the 560-square-foot home, which resembles a...
BCE Inc. and Roger Communications Inc. have begun supporting calls and texts over WiFi networks with the latest iPhone. "You can call and text wherever you have a Wi-Fi connection in places like basements, condos and tall buildings — places where you may have had trouble getting reception before," Rogers says on its website. Bell says on its website: "Wi-Fi Calling lets you expand your mobile coverage in locations across Canada where you may not have cell reception." WiFi calling is available for Bell mobile customers with plans that include unlimited in-Canada...
Ericsson AB announced on Thursday that its cloud-based TV platform, MediaFirst, is now commercially available to operators and content providers, noting that Telus Corp. will be utilizing the service to enhance service for its TV...
Verizon Communications Inc. announced Tuesday it has created a roadmap to begin field trials for 5G wireless technology as early as 2016. The company said in a press release it is partnering with Alcatel-Lucent, Ericson AB,...
A new report from Ericsson AB shows that while people are increasingly consuming video on mobile devices, the cost of data limits many from taking advantage of what the technology makes possible. The report released Thursday from...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. said Wednesday it has launched a machine-to-machine (M2M) management centre, which is an online portal for its business customers to control and monitor devices linked to an M2M...
Ericsson AB said in a press release Tuesday it is moving its Montreal-based research-and-development centre to a new location near the Trans-Canada Highway in the borough of Saint-Laurent. The press release added that the facility would house more than 1,700 employees. Ericsson Canada spokeswoman Patricia MacLean said in an email that this facility...
Ericsson AB said Thursday it has completed its purchase of Mississauga, Ont. consulting and systems integration company TimelessMind. Ericsson said in a press release that the acquisition includes around 30 employees and consultants. TimelessMind, according to the release, specializes in “operations and business support” and the buyout...
A new report from Ericsson AG suggests Apple Inc.’s upcoming Apple Watch could address a market that's far larger than what current wearable sales would indicate. In a worldwide study of...
Ericsson AB said Friday it has reached an agreement to purchase TimelessMind Inc., a Mississauga, Ont.-based provider of technological services for the telecommunications sector. Ericsson said in a press release that with the purchase, expected to close before the end of June, the company will "gain access to a flexible, cloud-based intranet...
BCE Inc. will be among an international coalition of six telecommunications service providers demonstrating what it called a "revolutionary" new integrated platform for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications at next month's Mobile World Congress. Bell said in a press release Wednesday that it is part of the Global M2M Association (GMA), along with Deutsche Telekom AG, Orange SA, TeliaSonera, SoftBank Corp. and Telecom Italia. Bell said the group will demonstrate at the conference in Barcelona its Multi-Domestic Service, which features an M2M platform provided by Ericsson AB...
As data consumption by smartphone users increases exponentially every year, wireless technology companies are looking to harness the unlicensed spectrum normally used for WiFi connections to improve...
Wi-Lan Inc., an Ottawa-based licenser of technology patents, said Monday it has acquired a portfolio of patents related to power inversion, which is a technology used for chargers of cellphones, tablets and laptops. The company...
Ericsson AB and International Business Machines (IBM) Corp. announced Monday that they are working together researching antennas for the future era of 5G wireless communications. The companies said in a press release that they...
