MCLEAN, Va-Trust Digital snared $9 million in its Series B funding round, the developer of mobile enterprise security software announced today. Bell Canada Enterprises affiliate BCE Capital led the round.Current investors Core Capital and Avansis Ventures also participated in the round, which follows last...
Canadian telecom giants Rogers Communications Inc. and Bell Canada said they plan to jointly build and manage a nationwide wireless broadband network that could include roaming opportunities with Craig McCaw's U.S.-based wireless broadband provider Clearwire Corp. Bell Canada and Rogers said they will pool...
Canadian telecom giants Rogers Communications Inc. and Bell Canada said they plan to jointly build and manage a nationwide wireless broadband network that through a potential roaming agreement could include Craig McCaw's U.S.-based wireless broadband provider Clearwire Corp. Bell Canada and Rogers said they...
Clearwire Corp. raised an additional $250 million in financing, according to reports, bringing the carrier's total war chest to a staggering $600 million. The news highlights investors' apparent interest in the wireless broadband space, as well as the technology's potential to agitate entrenched wireless...
Nortel Networks Ltd. seems to have emerged from under a financial cloud that has haunted it in recent years. The company recorded net earnings of $45 million, or 1 cent per share, during the second quarter. The results are in sharp contrast to the...
CHAPLEAU, Ontario-A study launched in Chapleau, Ontario, aims to discover the impact of advanced technologies on rural and dispersed communities.The research project is a joint effort among Bell Canada, Nortel Networks Ltd. and the Town of Chapleau, Ontario, a community in the northern part...
Red Bend SoftwareUdi Dagan joined Red Bend Software as chief financial officer. Dagan joined the company from IBM where he was business consulting services country manager in Israel. Before that he was CFO of IBM Israel, vice president of operations for IBM Global Services...
TORONTO-Canadian telecommunications provider Rogers Communications Inc. named Nadir Mohamed president and chief operating officer of the communications division of Rogers, which includes both Rogers Wireless and Rogers Cable. Mohamed also will join Rogers' board of directors. Mohamed previously served as president and chief executive...
BOSTON-Verizon Wireless trumped all other telecommunications providers in the latest online customer respect survey conducted by research and consulting firm The Customer Respect Group. TCRG said the index was a qualitative and quantitative analysis of a customer's online experience when interacting with companies via...
OAKVILLE, Ontario-Mail Boxes Etc. Canada said most of its 275 franchise locations in Canada are now operational as Wi-Fi hot spots. The company worked together with Bell Canada and BOLDstreet Wireless to launch the service across its locations. Customers can access the Internet while...
Canadian telecommunications provider Bell Canada reported an alliance with Craig McCaw's U.S.-based wireless broadband network operation Clearwire Corp. The alliance includes a $100 million investment, as well as a further investment in McCaw's NR Communications operations that currently provides wireless broadband services in parts...
TORONTO-The Virgin Mobile Group is reportedly set to launch a mobile virtual network operator-based wireless service in Canada March 1 using Bell Canada's CDMA network. The service is expected to be similar to Virgin's MVNO launch in the United States using Sprint PCS' network...
TORONTO-The Virgin Mobile Group is reportedly set to launch a mobile virtual network operator-based wireless service in Canada March 1 using Bell Canada's CDMA network. The service is expected to be similar to Virgin's MVNO launch in the United States using Sprint PCS' network...
OTTAWA-Canadian regulatory agency Industry Canada said it has conditionally assigned 306 wireless spectrum licenses in the 2.3 GHz and 3.5 GHz spectrum bands to 12 companies through a recently completed wireless spectrum auction. The auction, which concluded on Jan. 27 and generated $45.3 million...
Everything has to come to an end, whether it's Ken Jennings' winning streak on Jeopardy! or Tom Brokaw's 23-year reign on NBC Nightly News or wireline telephony.OK. That's a tad drastic. Wireline telephony isn't going to disappear, but it is morphing to remain relevant...
TORONTO-Bell Canada and BridgePort Networks said they have agreed to develop and trial Internet Protocol technology that integrates fixed and mobile voice services.The solution will provide seamless connectivity through one handset, one number and one mailbox, said BridgePort. BridgePort's solution integrates Bell Mobility's CDMA...
Rogers Wireless Communications Inc.'s $1.1 billion agreement to acquire Microcell Telecommunications Inc., Canada's smallest wireless operator, could propel Rogers Wireless past Bell Mobility as the nation's largest wireless operator with approximately 5.1 million total subscribers. The deal also trumps a long-standing unsolicited $800 million...
QUEBEC-Bell Canada and Ericsson Canada have partnered to expand Bell Canada's Alberta fixed wireless network.For the expansion, Ericsson will supply a complete MINI-LINK network including the point-to-point MINI-LINK High Capacity OC-3 equivalent solution, which provides data rates up to 155 megabits per second and...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced the closing of its sale of Vesper S.A. and Vesper Sao Paulo S.A., including their holding companies Vesper Holding S.A. and Vesper Holding Sao Paulo S.A., to Embratel Participacoes S.A.Vesper is a wireless local loop operator in Brazil.Through the sale,...
With public hot-spot locations popping up faster than reality-based TV shows, companies that provide support services are finding a market ripe for innovations, the most compelling of which is how to help companies operating in the public hot-spot space make money.One of the newest...
SAN DIEGO-In partnership with Bell Canada, San Diego-based inCode Telecom, a technology consulting firm, has launched AccessZone, a pilot service that lets North American wireline carriers transform pay phones into 802.11b hot spots.Each pay phones in high-traffic areas like airports, train stations, hotels, convention...
TORONTO-Joining the increasing number of fixed-line companies re-examining the wireless market, Bell Canada yesterday launched a trial of "hot spots" providing wireless high-speed Internet access.The service aimed at business customers is free until March. It is available at several sites in Montreal, Kingston and...
NEW YORK-The Liberty Alliance Project has released for public review on its Web site at www.projectliberty.org a draft of specifications for an open, interoperable standard for federated network identity for the Internet, designed to enable a single sign-on for individual businesses and consumers."In a...
SAN ANTONIO-Bell Canada Holdings repurchased approximately 4 percent of SBC Communications Inc.'s 20-percent interest in the company for $870 million.The companies also entered an agreement giving SBC the right to sell its remaining 16-percent interest in Bell Canada to BCE Inc. for a one-month...
