Monthly Archives: October 2004

Local Competition According to the ILECs

By Mark Evans | Published: October 30, 2004
Any time you write about local competition in Canada, there is a tendency to cite the 95% or so of the market share controlled by incumbent carriers such as Bell or Telus. In an apples to apples world, this makes complete sense if you want to compare competition within the traditional wireline world. The wireline [...]
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Local Competition in Canada

By Mark Evans | Published: October 28, 2004
So how do you gauge the success of Call-Net Enterprises Inc. in the local telephony market? The company added about 34,000 new customers in the third-quarter, which brings its subscriber base to about 370,000. It's not a bad number but barely registers when you consider there are about 12 million residential households in Canada. One [...]
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Wireless Porn

By Mark Evans | Published: October 26, 2004
Looks like the telecom carriers in their search for new revenue sources are looking to jump on the porn bandwagon. In a new report, the Yankee Group suggests that revenue from “adult content” will climb to US$90-million in the U.S. and US$1-billion globally by 2008. In the U.S., the carriers will have to [...]
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Wireless TV

By Mark Evans | Published: October 23, 2004
I'm into new technology as the next guy and willing to concede there are all kinds of tech toys destined to be popular that I would never find useful. One of these items may be a wireless phone that can received high-definition TV signals. Texas Instruments Inc. has apparenetly come up with a new chip, [...]
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Is Telecom Doomed?

By Mark Evans | Published: October 22, 2004
This may be an extreme position but a fundamental part of the telecommunications industry appears to be doomed. The culprit is Internet-based technology, otherwise known as IP, used to send bits of information along high-speed networks. While IP technology will provide new and innovative services to residential and business customers, it will also increase competition dramatically and [...]
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Motorola: Good News, Bad News

By Mark Evans | Published: October 21, 2004
Motorola Inc. may have taken the air out of the telecom equipment industry's recovery hopes when it talked about slower growth in the fourth-quarter – after posting slightly better-than-expected third-quarter profits and a 26% sales increase. The company said it expects to boost its share of the wireless phone market with the introduction of 17 [...]
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