Deal over board representation ducks a confrontation between enterpreneur and chairman Terry Matthews and Eric Rosenfeld outspoken fund manager who runs New York investor Crescendo Partners
Bell Canada buys 360networks Corp. Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. (MTS) acquires Allstream. Telus Corp. aims to take over Microcell Telecommunications Inc.
A complex interplay of technology, services and end-user requirements inform the rules that govern phone companies, according to Charles Dalfen, chair of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), indicating that the regulation process is more complicated than it's sometimes made out to be.
Call-Net Enterprises Inc. announced the addition of three network rings in Central and Western Canada, marking the completion of its national optical fibre network. The 14,600-kilometre network, consisting of four rings in total, uses technology from Nortel Networks, including OC-192 SONET and Nortel Networks Multi-wavelength Optical Repeater (MOR) Systems. The new rings added an additional 12,3000 route kilometres to the existing network. The Central ring connects Toronto to Winnipeg through Sudbury, Ont., and Thunder Bay, Ont., and the Southern U.S. route links Winnipeg and Toronto through Minneapolis/St. Paul, Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit and Sarnia, Ont. The Prairie ring connects Winnipeg to Calgary through Regina, Saskatoon, Medicine Hat and Edmonton. Kamloops, Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton are linked through the West ring. Call-Net is at www.sprintcanada.ca.