Blog Profile / The Telecom Blog
| URL : | http://www.thetelecomblog.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Utilities / Communication | |
| Posts on Regator: | 1392 | |
| Posts / Week: | 14.9 | |
| Archived Since: | August 8, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
Sprint Sweetens Clearwire Deal
Trying desperately to avoid rejection by Clearwire shareholders, Sprint sweetened its offer to buy the 50 percent of the company it doesn’t already own on Tuesday, representing the company’s “best and final” offer according to CEO Dan Hesse. In an attempt to wrest shareholder interest away from competing offers from Dish Network and Verizon, Sprint [...]
Ericsson offers a Window into our Wireless Future
Looking to boost the wireless signal coming into your home? Forget switching providers or upgrading your router, upgrade the windows in your home instead. Always looking for ways to incorporate our growing technological existence with, well, our real existence, Ericsson has come up with some ideas of how to make our windows do more for [...]
WIND Offers up to $365 in Savings for Switching Mobilicity Customers
The Telus–Mobilicity deal was an interesting turn of events, but wasn’t unexpected. Reactions were mixed from both consumers and industry players, but WIND Mobile has grabbed the moment to boost the marketing campaign for its own services by attracting confused Mobilicity subscribers to its own network. “Mobilicity clients, don’t sweat the future of your plans [...]
Online data law would expose personal information
Back in February, the government dropped their plans to give the police greater powers to access personal information of internet users. And it seems like it was a just decision as a new study by a government watchdog shows that the law would leave users open to having their details exposed and viewable online. The [...]
New radio technology set to use any possible frequencies
There has been greater competition for frequency licenses in the last year or so as providers look to try and stake their claim on the wireless market. However, wireless network manufacturer Redline Communications has revealed that it’s now possible for radios to switch between a variety of different frequencies thanks to a change in the [...]
BlackBerry’s Lifebelt Could be a sub-$200 Q5
BlackBerry is aiming high by launching a new smartphone featuring the adored physical keyboard. The handset is expected to be a budget version of the BlackBerry 10, with a single goal: to regain global market share. The strategy is to gain traction in emerging markets, and Blackberry Q5 could be the right solution. The low-cost [...]
Mobile Privacy Bill Stalls behind Partisan Issues
The increasing public clamour around mobile privacy, particularly as it relates to the information accessed, stored, and shared by mobile applications, has finally reached the ears of those in Washington, as last week Rep. Hank Johnson, D-GA, introduced a bill in the House of Representatives that demands application developers gain explicit consent from users before collecting [...]
Bell set to appeal Northwest Territories verdict
2013 has not been an easy year for the Big Three wireless providers who have found themselves in the courts over several different matters throughout the year. The latest problem has seen Bell lose a lawsuit against a customer in the Northwest Territories over a dispute surrounding a 911 service in the region. In the [...]
Yahoo Acquires Tumblr for $1.1 Billion
As web giants continue to circle fast-growing start-ups like sharks circling a school of fish, Yahoo has decided to get in on the action, confirming that it agreed to pay $1.1 billion for micro-blogging site Tumblr, along with a “promise not to screw it up.” As part of that promise, under the terms of the [...]
Telus–Mobilicity Deal Demands Clear Rules for Buying New Players
Telus broke the news last week when it announced that it will acquire Mobilicity for $380 million, creating a precedent in the Canadian wireless market. This move, however, appears to be perfectly legal, despite at first glance being in conflict with Ottawa’s own rules. For this reason, other wireless startups such as Wind Mobile have [...]
Glentel enjoys successful start to the year
It has been a rather lively year for the Canadian mobile industry so far with companies like Blackberry launching new phones and wireless providers such as Rogers and Bell trying to make themselves more appealing to customers. This has provided mobile retailers with the perfect opportunity to capitalise on the busy market such as Glentel [...]
Bell Found Liable for Charging 911 Fees for Non-Existent Service in Northwest Territories
Bell was found liable to tens of thousands of wireless subscribers located in Canada’s North, for charging 75 cents per month for a 911 service that didn’t exist in that area. The lawsuit started in March in Yellowknife, making the first class-action lawsuit trial in Northwest Territories. However, the original lawsuit dates back to 2007, [...]
Samsung Unveils Futuristic 5G Mobile Technology
With advanced 4G LTE only just arriving on the scene, Samsung has shocked the mobile world with the announcement that it has successfully developed the world’s first next generation 5G wireless technology. As the company’s official blog explains, Samsung has created the “first adaptive array transceiver technology operating in the millimetre-wave Ka bands for cellular [...]
Rogers to start charging for paper bills
Many companies have changed the way they communicate with customers in recent years with many now opting to send everything through e-mail rather than receiving letters in the post. Rogers have certainly embraced the digital switch and has now decided to encourage their customers to make the switch by introducing a charge for paper bills. [...]
Justice Absent as Four LulzSec Hackers are Sentenced
How much time in prison would you expect one to serve if they robbed 24 million people or if their swath of destructive actions wreaked over $20 million in damages? If these crimes were committed in the real world you might justifiably assume the guilty would never again see the light of day, sentenced to [...]
Telus Agrees to Acquire Mobilicity for $380 Million
Telus has entered into an agreement to acquire Mobilicity for $380 million, an unprecedented move in the Canadian mobile market, the incumbent announced. The deal was pretty foreseeable, as earlier this month Mobilicity reached out to the government for financial help. The news comes after the struggling wireless startup had scoured the globe for a [...]
BlackBerry Plans to Launch BBM Across Multiple Platforms this Summer
BlackBerry is planning to release its popular messaging platform, BBM, for iOS and Android as early as this summer, the company has announced. This means the platform barriers will finally fall, and you will be able to connect with your friends using BBM and share the love. This also means that the company has finally [...]
Wind Mobile’s owners looking at broader picture
Independent carriers have had a tough time of it in recent months especially Wind Mobile who has struggled to make much headway against their larger rivals and found themselves put up for sale by their owner. Whilst Wind’s parent company VimpelCom is awaiting approval to take full control of the provider, the company has stated [...]
Patent Litigation Lags behind Smartphone Growth
It’s been no secret that in the tech industry one of the most popular (although arguably the least effective) weapons against a successful rival isn’t product development or radical innovation, its patent related lawsuits. For several years now patent wars have raged between mobile titans like Apple and Samsung, each trying to use every legal [...]
US & Canada finalise border spectrum agreement
Over the past few years, Canada has been strengthening its infrastructural ties with the US in order to minimize any possible disruption to services that overlap between the two countries. But a huge step has been reached as the two nations have agreed to an agreement which will see the sides share frequencies across the [...]