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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 [...]

Jean Monty built Nortel Networks into North America's 13th-largest firm from 1993-97. He plans to build Bell Canada parent BCE into a media powerhouse, with moves such as his buyout of cable TV giant CTV. While some have questioned his strategy, BCE's breadth and diversification plan could make it a prime takeover target.

TORONTO Canada's broadcast regulator is in a tricky position in the wake of two major newspaper and television mergers last year. The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is worried […]

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 [...]

The purpose of this study is to provide data that shed light on the reactions of workers to the introduction of the new technology in three different occupational groups within a segment of the Canadian telephone industry. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

A Gallup survey conducted Jan 9-15, 19945 found that 38% or Canadians feel that the quality of their long distance phone service has improved since the industry was deregulated, while 48% see no change in service resulting from deregulation, and 9% see a worsening. Canadians were also asked to rank the quality of service on a scale from one to five, with five being the highest. Forty-five percent rated their service a '5' and 34% rated theirs a '4'. 'Three,' the neutral point on the scale, was chosen by 14%.

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 [...]

Canadian market-makers sidetrack bold trial run To date, large broker/dealers in the U.S. have hardly given a thought to the Internet start-ups trying to get a toehold in the securities [...]

The Canadian Radio-Television and Communications Commission is expected to increase competition for telephone service throughout Canada by allowing smaller companies to provide service. Most European securities fell after Denmark rejected the Maastricht treaty because of economic uncertainty.

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. [...]