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Non-profit gives tech leg up to telecoms, smaller businesses
telecom | 07/28/2017 4:09 pm EDT
Canada’s big three wireless providers are now cooperating on a not-for-profit initiative that offers small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) a networking test bed to experiment with new technologies, such as 5G communications.
BCE Inc. is the latest Canadian telecom...
50 Mbps speeds, LTE part of CRTC’s new basic service requirements
telecom | 12/21/2016 9:14 pm EST
GATINEAU, Que. — Advocates are calling the CRTC’s new basic service requirements — which include a minimum of 50 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload speeds and LTE coverage — “transformative” and “game-changing” while financial analysts said the new rules won’t have an impact on companies’ bottom lines. On Wednesday, the CRTC released details of its new universal service objective, with the commission establishing a $750 million...
Telecom policy should focus on innovation, not competition: report
telecom | 03/03/2016 10:34 pm EST
Shaw Communications Inc.'s acquisition of Wind Mobile has fulfilled the previous federal government's push for four national carriers, which means the new government has the chance to hit the...