Telecom Hall Of Fame Inductees 2009
The Canadian Telecom Hall of Fame recently got a few new members. During recent weeks the board of governors announced the five new inductees. Continue reading ‘Telecom Hall Of Fame Inductees 2009’ »
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Canada’s Influential 25
We, as a mostly frozen country, are not known for our “giants of industry”. In fact it is a reality that, for most really great Canadian folks, you could walk by them on the street and not recognize them. We generally like it that way.
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Funding Falling
We’ve written about the fall of investment funding within the telecom industry before and are always interested in what other folks have to say. It seems a lot.
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To Twitter?
Two intersecting ideas came across my workspace yesterday. Both have significance for those of us interested in the wide world of the web and how we might present our ideas there.
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Telecom Is Bumpy
Back in 2005, Thomas L. Friedman wrote The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century an interesting history of our recent past. We read it with great interest and imagined what it might mean to the world of telecom. The book was a bit of a wake up call to many industries and we recommended it to many of our colleagues. A world without barriers to business had a very compelling ring to it.
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Batteries Not Included
Bell’s recent announcement of it’s purchase of 750 The Source Stores here in the GWN is a bit of an odd move. Bell has operated its own stores for years. A Bell store has always been as barren as a Russian grocery store during the cold war. They always have massive displays, almost no staff and no inventory.
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Just The Facts Ma’am
We are factbook junkies. Almost any kind of facts get our attention. The latest gem to come across our radar screen is the Benton Foundation Broadband Fact Book.
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Farewell Vertical
In a classic science fiction novel titled “Farewell Horizontal” the author, K.W. Jeter describes a world of network ubiquity. Data is accessed anywhere in a universal grid and is paid for in credits. One network for all uses—and no one seems to ever need to call their carrier!
A report recently released (PDF version here) by Deloitte looking at their predictions for Telecoms in 2009 is required reading for anyone interested in the global telecoms market.
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Finally The Pursestrings Open
It was with some happiness that we saw that BlackBerry Partners Fund has joined BDC Venture Capital and Vertex Venture Capital in adding a $3M top up to what will be a &10M Round B investment in Neuralitic Systems Inc. This is great news for OSS and BSS in OHANL.
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Customer Complaints
With the continued growth in telecom competitive services and in combination with the increasingly de-clawed CRTC, back in 2007 in Telecom Decision CRTC 2007-130 the office of the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services (CCTS) started its not-for-profit business of helping us unfortunate Canucks in resolving what appears to be an endless stream of problems with telecom providers.
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