In its fiscal third quarter ended 31 May 2020, Canadian cableco Cogeco Connexion posted a 1.6% year-on-year revenue drop to CAD320.5 million (USD236.8 million), mainly driven by ongoing cable TV subscriber losses. Quarterly EBITDA also dropped moderately, by 1.1% y-o-y to CAD176.7 million. Cogeco's cable internet customers in Ontario and Quebec inc...

Canadian cableco Shaw Communications has reported the results for its fiscal third quarter ended 31 May 2020, including its Freedom Mobile subsidiary. Wireline sector revenue including fixed broadband, TV and telephony declined by 1.1% year-on-year to CAD1.063 billion (USD782 million), including CAD923 million consumer segment revenue (down 1.3%) a...

IOTA is an innovative way for you troubleshoot network issues by providing Real-time analysis on a Network Link. Mike Pennacchi, Owner of Network Protocol Specialists LLC, will discuss how you can quickly deploy IOTA to capture network traffic and enable real-time analysis remotely.  You will learn how to connect IOTA to your network, start ca...

Canada's Telus has announced the launch of its first-phase 5G mobile network in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal and the Greater Toronto Area, with plans to expand to an additional 26 markets across Canada throughout the remainder of the year. 5G access is being offered to Telus customers at no additional cost on post-paid packages with unlim...

As your network continues to grow physically and virtually and speeds increase up 100 Gig it becomes increasingly difficult to ensure that all your security and monitoring tools have access to the real-time traffic that they need to analyze. Profitap and Mike Pennacchi, Owner of Network Protocol Specialists LLC,  explain the role a Network Pac...

On June 11, 2020 Canada's largest rural-focused broadband provider Xplornet Communications announced the completion of its sale to New York-based private equity firm Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners, whereby Stonepeak acquired a controlling stake following receipt of all regulatory approvals and financing. Xplornet says the takeover gives it new c...

On June 11th, 2020 Bell Canada announced the launch of its commercial 5G mobile network, claiming initial coverage 'six times greater' than rival Rogers' existing 5G footprint. At launch, 5G from Bell is available in Montreal, the Greater Toronto Area, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver, following a rollout with technology partners including Nokia and...

Telus has announced 'a new benchmark for home and business internet speeds in Western Canada' with the launch of its new 1.5Gbps download/940Mbps upload 'PureFibre 1.5 Gigabit' broadband service, available now to residential and B2B customers in British Columbia and Alberta. Previously, Telus' peak retail broadband package speed was a symmetrical 9...

Innovation, Science & Economic Development Canada (ISED) has announced a six-month postponement to the country's 3500MHz 5G spectrum auction, which will now start on 15 June 2021, with a deadline for receipt of applications and pre-auction financial deposits set for 6 April. Minister Navdeep Bains said in a statement on Friday that the delay wi...

In this 30 minute webinar we will show how NMLink can coordinate the data and alarms from multiple monitoring systems like NMSs, SIEMs, APMs with Service Desks, and CMDBs. All of that manual activity goes away and is replaced with a simple Integration and Automation system.​to easily connect all of your critical IT Management, Monitoring,...

On June 2nd Bell Canada announced that Ericsson of Sweden will provide radio access network (RAN) equipment for its national 5G mobile network rollout. The announcement follows Bell's first commercial 5G network equipment supplier agreement with Finland's Nokia in February 2020. On 2 June another major Canadian mobile operator, Telus, also announce...

Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) has entered into a definitive agreement to sell 25 data centres at 13 sites to US-based multinational interconnection and data centre company Equinix in an all-cash transaction valued at CAD1.04 billion (USD761 million). BCE President and CEO Mirko Bibic announced that the transaction reinforces Bell's strategy to focu...

Bell Canada has been awarded regional government funding for expanding high speed fibre internet connections in 18 rural communities in Quebec covering 7,000 homes, businesses and other organisations, in partnership with the Quebec Ministry of Economy & Innovation's Connected Regions programme. Rival operator Videotron announced that it will co...

By Tyler Hohman, Director of Products, Orolia Defense & Security Most in our industry are aware of the threat that GPS interference poses, both in the US and overseas. GPS jamming is commonplace. Spoofing, however, is different than jamming in that it can be utilized in a far more devious manner. Both jamming and spoofing have a common goal – t...

Bell Canada has put on hold its commercial 5G network launch due to the COVID-19 pandemic, its CEO Mirko Bibic told investors. Quoted by RCRWireless News, Bibic clarified: 'We are ready with our initial 5G network, but frankly we don't think that it's the right time right now to officially launch it for marketing purposes. I just don't think that c...

Service Providers have the constant challenge of integrating and coordinating the data / alarms produced by multiple monitoring systems like NMSs, SIEMs, APMs with Service Desks, and CMDBs. With NMLinK, all of that manual activity goes away and is replaced with a simple, automated system This 30 minute webinar shows how the new NMLinK solution from...

Telus announced the milestone of expanding its mobile network services to every community in British Columbia (BC) with a population of 1,000 people or more, with the most recent communities to be reached named as Gold River on Vancouver Island, and Ahousaht off the coast of Tofino. More than 99% of BC residents have access to Telus' 4G LTE network...

Your network continues to face a barrage of security threats, and devices such as firewalls and security tools have increased in number and complexity. With this evolution do you still have insight into these 5 basic questions.  Issue #1 "What devices do I have on my network?"Issue #2 "Do I even know when a change has been made to a devic...

​In December 2015, Ukraine suffered sporadic power outages due to cyberattacks against three of their regional power companies. Hackers exploited deficiencies in the companies' network security architecture to disrupt operations and insert malware that would cause issues during restoration efforts. The US National Cybersecurity and Communications I...

​South Korean technology vendor Samsung has announced that it will provide 4G LTE-A and 5G radio access network (RAN) solutions to Canadian mobile operator and cableco Videotron. Starting in early 2020, Samsung will deliver LTE-A solutions across Quebec and Ottawa including Massive MIMO and dual-band base stations, alongside 5G solutions using 3.5G...