Communications & Telecom

The departure of Bell Aliant's CEO is part of a number of shakeups at parent BCE that may lead to the sale of its east coast telcommunications unit, says a consultant

Troubled telco Zamtel, which provides fixed, mobile and Internet services, may be split to save it from closing

European phone companies charge each other termination fees for accepting calls from one operator's network to another's. The telecommunications commissioner wants them chopped, but the industry says one pan-European fee won't work. Instead, they want individual countries to regulate the fees

Don Sheppard got his degree in electrical engineering before any of our editors were born, and helped develop the seven layers of the OSI reference model. Some insights from the first-timer who won first prize

Bell Canada has admitted defying regulations when it recently started throttling peer-to-peer traffic without permission, says an association representing Internet service providers trying to stop the telco's practice.

Canadian Internet providers make a vigorous rebuttal to the CRTC of Bell's defence of its new traffic-shaping policy. The providers allege Bell has all but admitted it could have sought commission approval but went ahead alone

A BitTorrent-based application looks for Internet communications interrupted by reset packets, so users can figure out if their ISP is manipulating traffic. There may, however, be a way around it

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