Communications & Telecom

The Conference Board says prices will only go up marginally as competition increases. Read why an industry analyst believes that if board looked deeper it would have found

A bitter exchange of words has marked a fight between Telus and a U.S.-based operator before the Canadian telecom regulator. Its decision will have an impact on the number of providers selling fibre optic services

Telus is objecting to the subsidiary of U.S. provider that wants to light and sell dark fibre it buys from the Canadian telco from being declared a reseller of telecom services. Instead, it has asked the telecom regulator to declare the subsidiary a telecom carrier. That, industry analysts say, would set off a foreign control fight, a fight Telus says isn't its intention

At a conference to launch the Centre for Law, Technology and Society at the University of Ottawa, Harvard professor Yochai Benkler said broadband connection speeds depend partly on facilities based competition, not just requiring incumbent telecommunications carriers to sell capacity on their networks at wholesale rates. Find out what Benkler said of Canada

The US$4.6 billion-a-year program that subsidizes telephone service to rural areas will go to broadband if a proposal from the federal regulator goes through. It's a move that's only just starting to be studied in Canada

In the past seven years there have been three reports urging the government to encourage foreign investment in telecom carriers by removing investment restrictions. A look at what those reports said may suggest where the Conservative government will go with its new telecom policy

The throne speech made reference to opening the doors to more investment from non-Canadians, but it

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