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THE SHAREHOLDERS OF NORTHern Telecom Ltd. are not accustomed to hearing bad news at their annual meetings. And when they gathered one day last April in an opulent meeting room [...]

Ringing in the New The telecom industry is ringing with new service providers, new alliances, and amazing new products and services--all, appropriately enough, in a new millennium that will likely [...]

Can you imagine a weirder home video than CTV and its astonishing $2.3-billion sale price? I don't know about you, but as far as I'm concerned the best show on [...]

Talk is cheap, and getting even cheaper. Which is great if you make a lot of long-distance calls, but not so nice if you're in the phone business. That, in [...]

BELL LOSES ITS LONG-DISTANCE MONOPOLY AS OTTAWA OPENS THE PHONE LINES TO COMPETITION Shaking hands with Michael Kedar is like shaking hands with a vise. But even his handshake is [...]

A few weeks ago in Ottawa, a doen or so randomly selected men and women gathered around a boardroom table in a downtown office block to take part in a [...]

Sam Masus is senior editor at Telecommunications. ISPs are thriving on competition. Unlike the local and international telecom markets, where monopolies are only now beginning to fade away, Canada's Internet […]

Merle Smith wondered what the heck was happening. When the spry 75-year-old reached for his phone to make a local call one evening last month, the dial tone had mysteriously [...]

Everybody's talking mergers in Canadian telecom. Why can't anyone actually do a deal? When Toronto-based Call-Net Enterprises Inc. made a $1.6-billion unsolicited bid for Montreal-based Fonorola Inc. in mid-April, the [...]

Ever since it stunned the business community in 1987 by winning a bidding war for control over Canada's overseas telephone links, Montreal-based Memotec Data Inc. has been wreathed in controversy. [...]