Anyone share their cell phone with a friend or a family member? Didn’t think so.
If you read the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission’s (CRTC)  annual telecom monitoring report, you’d think otherwise.
The regulator, bless its naive heart stated in the report, issued earlier today, that Canadian household wireless penetration is at 66%. (penetration is the industry term […]

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Received word this afternoon that Peter Nowak is leaving the Financial Post section of the National Post to work for the CBC.ca Web site.
More details to follow.
At the Post, Peter made a name for himself with stories on the wireless spectrum auction and Canadian cell phone prices.
Congrats Peter - I’m sure you’ll do a great […]

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With Amp’d Mobile USA set to close up shop today, can the Canadian operations be far behind?
The mobile virtual network operator, as tech and telecom nerds refer to this reseller type of cell phone service provider, is closing up shop in the United States today, according to published reports.
No word yet from Amp’d Mobile Canada […]

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Now that Sprint and Clearwire have announced plans to merge WiMax networks in the United States, does anyone wonder what happened to the Inukshuk WiMax network in Canada?
The network, now jointly owned by Rogers Communications and Bell Canada, seems to have been relegated to second-tier status. Faced with a use or it lose it spectrum […]

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If Michael Dell truly wants to bring fresh ideas into the eponymous computer maker, he should eventually acquire Zonbu.
The Silicon Valley startup may have found a new way to appeal to budget-conscious consumers that want a scaled down computer for Web surfing and other basic functions.
Zombu, like Dell, sells its computers direct to consumers. The […]

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Oddly, the ultra popular Nintendo Wii game console has elicited a small haters club of sorts, chief among them someone named sarcasticgamer.com.
The video, given the oh so original title “I Hate This .. (The Wii Song)”, trashes the Wii as an overhyped system that plays simplistic games and will be redundant in the very near […]

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Still don’t think Google has its sights set on the telecom space?
The Internet search king is developing a site that will allow cell phone junkies to find ringtones, games and all sorts of other good cell phone things they may want to add to their phones, according to the Wall St. Journal.
Once the unnamed site […]

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There is good news for those gadget lovers that can’t afford or don’t want to pony up the US$500+ for an iPhone.
Rival smart phone makers, such as Nokia, have released a slew of devices in the months leading up to the launch of the “Jesus phone” as New York Magazine recently dubbed the iPhone.

None of […]

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Last week, Shaw Communications increased the company’s annual dividend to shareholders for the fourth time in as many quarters while Videotron hit the 500,000 home phone subscriber mark.
Both companies have kickstarted growth engines over the past two to three years thanks in large part to the introduction of home phone service in Western Canada (Shaw) […]

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Will Telus try to buy Bell Canada?
There’s still a chance Burnaby, B.C.-based Telus - albeit a small one - the company will make a play for the country’s largest communications service provider, according to Derek DeCloet of The Globe and Mail.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070706.wdecloet0706/BNStory/Business/
He says there’s “no better than” a one in four chance that Telus submits an […]

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