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Monthly Archives: April 2004
CRTC gives in
After being pestered by several carriers, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommmunications Commission has decided to extend the process to create new rules for Internet telephony. Rather than an April 28 deadline for submissions, the CRTC will now give interested parties – mostly incumbents carriers – until June 18. A two-day discussion session will be held [...]
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Hockey Night in Canada theme song on the Web
By Mark Evans
With the playoffs in full swing and three Canadian teams still in contention for the Stanley Cup, hockey fans may be happy to discover they can now buy the theme song from Hockey Night in Canada.
For the first time since Dolores Claman wrote The Hockey Theme in 1968, fans can purchase the song [...]
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And the envelope says : Nortel's Q1 results are…..
I'm not sure about you but the suspense about Nortel's first-quarter results is excruciating – okay, that's somewhat melodramatic but you don't get this kind of telecom suspense too often. With Lucent, Motorola and Sony Ericsson posting good quarterly results this week, all eyes will be on how Nortel fares. From the outside looking in, [...]
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CRTC Re-thinks VOIP Process
Looks like the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission may be re-thinking its expedited process to establish new rules for VOIP. Today, it announced an April 28th deadline for industry participants to make submissions has been put on hold. This could mean the VOIP process will be extended so that a more in-depth discussion and thinking [...]
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Nortel Beyond the Accounting Woes
Mark Evans
Financial Post, April 15
Amid the regulatory investigations into Nortel Networks Corp.'s accounting troubles, there has been little attention paid to the telecom equipment maker's business and the modest improvement happening in an industry recovering from a severe three-year slump.
Granted, it is difficult to seriously look at Nortel's fundamentals when there are U.S. Securities & [...]






Will Frank Dunn, Google come out this week?