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Today Nortel named two of the customers deploying its new 40G optical long-haul network equipment; Bell Canada is widening the lanes of its network between Montreal, Toronto and New York, and Alaska Communications Systems is beefing up the potential bandwidth between Alaska and Oregon.

Today Nortel named two of the customers deploying its new 40G optical long-haul network equipment; Bell Canada is widening the lanes of its network between Montreal, Toronto and New York, and Alaska Communications Systems is beefing up the potential bandwidth between Alaska and Oregon.

Scott Adams, creator of “Dilbert”, made a segment of his cartoon back in 1997 that spoke about Bell Canada. With all the restructuring and re-branding changes that are happening currently at the new Bell(er), I’m curious if this is still the case. Check it out here

News has it Bell Canada and Telus are making the switch over to HSPA as early as next week. The two companies are making the move to the same 3G cellular network type as Rogers Wireless, which is the only network capable of providing contracts to Canadians for the iPhone and iPhone 3G.

With all the hype with touchscreens these days we recently played around with the Samsung Instinct (aka the “Apple Eater” or “iPhone Killer”). This is a light device, only at 4.4 ounces and comes loaded with many great features such as a 2.0 mega pixel camera that has video recording capabilities, 3G

Filed under: Bell Mobility, Telus Mobility, HSDPA, UMTS, HSUPANow that literally everyone on the planet except Bell and Telus themselves has accepted that the Canadian carriers are moving away from CDMA, the rumors are really starting to heat up -- and there's a twist this time around.

Bell and Telus plan to shift from CDMA to WCDMA (Canada) September 1st, 2008 8:56 am Bell and Telus, Canada’s mobile operators, are planning a joint venture for the upgradation of the network, which in turn will allow them to offer services based on a WCDMA platform, who are presently operating a CDMA network.

Roger Wireless expected recieve highest ARPU at US$ 65.29 per month in 2010 (Canada) August 28th, 2008 12:06 pm Canada’s telecommunications environment is fully privatised with the government having no holding in any telecom carrier. Telecom Service Providers within the Canadian market are broadly categorised as either incumbents or competitors.

If you take a look at this PDF chart provided by the CWTA (Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association) you will see that Telus has dramatically increased their number of subscribers this year by adding [...]

Colleague Alec Saunders had an action-speaks-louder-than-words post yesterday that read my mind perfectly. I had exactly the same reaction as Alec after reading Bell Canada's current position on infrastructure spending in the Globe & Mail.