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Cisco closes $2.9B Starent purchase, and targets data centre with Avnet partnership
Tim Wilson

Cisco Systems completes its acquisition of 4G tech vendor and Verizon partner Starent Networks, and builds data centre channel with Avnet partnership.

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Nortel roundup: CVAS unit stealth suitors; Roth wants $1 billion protection; Avaya closes the deal
David Anderson

Genband, NEC, Nokia Siemens, Sonus Networks, are sizing up Nortel’s Carrier VoIP and Application Solutions and its key customers, AT&T and Verizon, with big players Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson and Huawei likely bowing out.

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Biden announces US$2 billion in broadband grants – good news for Canadian telecom exporters
Anthony Gabryluk

US Vice President Joe Biden has announced $2 billion in Recovery Act grants and loans to bring broadband to communities that currently have little or no access to the technology – good news for Canadian telecom infrastructure exporters like Tranzeo Wireless Technologies Inc.

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Let the hubris begin!
Tim Wilson

Wind Mobile unveils its statues of young hipsters, and falsely claims that the Wind brand came from a “conversation” with Canadian consumers, and not Egyptian backer Naguib Sawiris and Wind Telecomunicazioni SpA.

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Bell teams up with Nomadesk, defends “largest, fastest, best and most powerful network"
David Anderson

Bell goes SOHO with Nomadesk, and loses on “most reliable” claim, but can still say it’s Canada's “largest, fastest, best and most powerful network.

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Wireless wars: Canada doesn’t have a “most reliable network”, and DAVE Wireless finds $75 million
Tim Wilson

Bell Mobility has to pull down all advertising claiming that it is “the most reliable network” after a challenge from Rogers Communications Inc., and start-up DAVE Wireless lands $75 million in institutional investment, led by National Bank and GMP Securities, only two months after raising $125 million through ING Bank N.V.

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OmniGlobe Networks Inc. brings high speed Internet to rural eastern Ontario
Suzanne Gellhorn


The Township of North Frontenac has announced that is has been awarded a network expansion contract to Montreal-headquartered OmniGlobe Networks to enhance broadband infrastructure and access, but a decline in consumer spending has meant a slower roll out.

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Google’s mobile strategy steps on some toes
David Anderson

Google risks alienating Motorola, Samsung, Sony-Ericsson, LG Electronics and Acer if it rolls out its own phone on the Android platform. But what’s wrong with a little co-opetition?

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Highlights of Morgan Stanley’s massive, 424 page global mobile Internet report
Anthony Gabryluk

Key themes in the Morgan Stanley report: the mobile internet cycle is just starting; mobile surpassing the desktop; Apple Corp leads in innovation; social networking is a game changer; Japan may be the future; data growth will force equipment/carrier transitions; emerging markets are for real; and regulation can be a good thing.

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Ryerson University’s Mobile Device Survey: Wi-Fi and mobile search in high demand
Tim Wilson

Ryerson University, with preferred vendor contracts with Dell and Apple,  and an employee purchase plan with Rogers, has completed its Mobile Device Survey, showing that Internet capable handheld devices are owned by two thirds of undergraduates, Wi-Fi and mobile search are in high demand, and that there is interest - but low usage - for ebooks such as the Sony Reader.

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