Monthly Archives: November 2004

Mea Culpa

By Mark Evans | Published: November 29, 2004
You've got to hand it to Nortel CEO Bill Owens who said today he is “embarassed” by the company's failure to get out its restated financial results. It's healthy to see a CEO admit to being anything other than confident and/or arrogant. The again, Owens set himself up to be embarassed when he vowed a couple weeks ago Nortel [...]
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What will Bill Say?

By Mark Evans | Published: November 29, 2004
You have to wonder what Nortel CEO Bill Owens will say today when he speaks at Scotia Capital's Institutional Lunch in Toronto. One would hope for his sake that Owens doesn't say “our restated results will be out next week, I guarantee it” because that's what he said last month at an investment conference, and [...]
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Last Mile Strategy

By Mark Evans | Published: November 27, 2004
With all the talk about VOIP and telecom TV these days, it has got me thinking about how big of a “pipe” the carriers need to deliver the growing vareity of IP-based services into the homes of consumers. At the present time, the general thinking is they will need 20 to 25Mbps to deliver data, [...]
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CRTC Wants More Competition

By Mark Evans | Published: November 26, 2004
The CRTC issued its annual report for 2003 on Canada's telecom industry. Once again, the focus was on the need for more competition, particularly in local telephony where the ILECs still dominate the market. Of course, the ILECs argue their market share is far less when you take into account wireless usage and wireless substitution. [...]
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Hello, 311?

By Mark Evans | Published: November 25, 2004
If you've ever had trouble reaching someone at city hall (what's with those confusing Blue Pages, anyway?), help is on the way. The CRTC has approved a joint application from the cities of Calgary, Toronto, Halifax and Halton to use 3-1-1 for non-emergency municipal government services. For those of us in Toronto, this is a far [...]
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Comparing VOIP in Canada

By Mark Evans | Published: November 24, 2004
A friend who's interested in getting Internet telephony service stumbled across a pretty good story outlining what's available in Canada and the pros and cons of each service provider. The companies in the story include Vonage, Primus, Call-Net, TeleHop and Yak. Here's the link: http://www.broadbandmarket.ca/news1027.html On another note, I received a comment about an assertion I made [...]
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