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Monthly Archives: June 2004
The Who's Who of Canadian Telecom
In an industry starting to see more than its share of conferences again with less-than-inspiring speakers, the 2004 Canadian Telecom Summit has managed to come up with an impressive list of speakers. The agenda includes Cisco CEO John Chambers, Nortel CEO Bill Owens, Telus CEO Darren Entwistle and CRTC chair Charles Dalfen. Chambers is clearly [...]
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Wi-fi Marries Cellular
One of the more intriguing developments is how wireless carriers are looking to off-load some of their traffic to broadband or PSTN networks when customers are in their homes. The idea is that a person's wireless phone would connect to a Wi-Fi base station, and then onto the PSTN or Internet – rather than [...]
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RIM's Patent Fight
It will be interesting to see the transcripts of RIM's 15 minutes in court yesterday as it battles NTP over patents apparently crucial to the Blackberry. This battle is already costing RIM millions of dollars in contingency and legal fees. The potential for a licensing agreement seems unlikely given that court-imposed talks between RIM and [...]
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Is that it?
After day after Nortel CEO Bill Owens and CFO Bill Kerr finally provided analysts with an audience, we now know the slow talking Owens is bullish about the company's future and committed to installing new financial systems. Unfortunately, there remain no clues into why Frank Dunn was canned as CEO and the magnitude of the [...]
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Will RIM Surrender?