Hydro One Telecom will subtract out the refresh of the northwestern network to the carrier, owned by the city of Thunder Bay. Plus, one child's virtual visits to Sick Children's Hospital
The Ontario utility plans to spend the next year rolling out a customer information system that could become a template for other firms in the province. The IT director is mulling HR and financial intergration, too
The Smart Systems for Health Agency has announced an agreement to use broadband network infrastructure from Hydro One Telecom as the new core for its province-wide system, which hospitals and health clinics can plug into for sharing information electronically. The agency says the new system should both improve health care and help to better protect patient information privacy.
In a little more than a month from now, users of the country's largest Wi-Fi network - Toronto's recently launched One Zone - will begin paying up to $29 a month for the privilege of cruising the information highway wirelessly.
The WiFi divide between Fredericton and Toronto resides not in technology or funding but rather in vision and political will, according to an information studies professor.