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Monthly Archives: June 2004
CRTC's future
In the wake of Canada's federal election, the folks at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission must be relieved the Conservative Party came up disappointingly short of seats. If the Conservatives had won the most seats in the House of Parliament, they would have gutted the CRTC, while introducing more U.S. programming and allowing U.S. [...]
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Telus-Microcell
So what does Darren Entwistle do today about Microcell, which refuses to play nice with Telus' hostile $1.1 billion takeover offer. A likely scenario is Telus maintains its $29 a share bid, thereby forcing Microcell's hand. Microcell would then have to search for a white knight or begrudgingly accept Telus' entreaties. The wildcard could be [...]
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2004 Canadian Telecom Summit
The 2004 Canadian Telecom Summit lived up to lofty expectations as the who's who gathered in Toronto last week at a time when the industry is poised to go through massive changes.
The highlight was Cisco's John Chambers' statement his company would be interested in a partnership with Nortel. It is tough to tell whether [...]
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Ex-Nortel Execs Hung out to Dry
By Mark Evans
National Post, June 17, 2004
It was nice to see Bill Owens, Nortel Networks Corp.'s newly minted chief executive, give a keynote speech yesterday at the 2004 Canadian Telecom Summit in Toronto. Given Nortel's accounting, regulatory and, possibly, criminal woes, Mr. Owens deserves credit for stepping up the plate to talk publicly about one [...]
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Nortel: Closer to the Truth?