Paul Nicholls

Bell Canada Monday committed $1.5 billion over three years to fast-track its high-speed Internet access service to residential and business customers. Bell is currently accelerating its high-speed Internet connectivity to reach five million, or over 70 percent, of its customers by year end, with a goal of 85 percent by the end of 2002. Bell […]

Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications this week agreed to a major swap of cable assets and the creation of strategic Internet alliances. Shaw (SJR) and Rogers (RG) will merge the operations of its @Home Canada and Excite Canada — a 50/50 partnership between Excite@Home and Rogers Media — into a single national broadband and narrowband […]

According to a new report issued by Yankee Group, 50 percent of all Internet traffic in Europe now travels over optical Internet equipment from Nortel Networks. “The massive Internet growth we are seeing in Europe — estimated at 200 million users by 2005 — is only possible with the optical backbone networks to support it,” […]

Canadian Internet solutions company Thomson Corp. Thursday bought the online information business of Dialog Corp. for $275 million. Under terms of the agreement, Thomson acquires rights to the technology and software to deliver to customers the products acquired from Dialog and all rights to the Dialogue brand, including related brands such as DataStar and Profound. […]

Cyberplex has agreed to acquire ProCure.com, an application service provider (ASP). ProCure is a wholly owned subsidiary of Livingston Group, specializing in designing and operating customized e-business solutions that enable businesses to effectively manage orders using Internet technologies. ProCure delivers a customizable, integrated, end-to-end order management service that allows businesses to create a single order […]

Bell Canada International (BCI) this week took a 45 percent stake in Brazil’s BV Interativa, a new company formed to pursue Internet access and Web-based services opportunities in the region. BCI’s (BCICF) partners in BV Interativa are U.S.-based VeloCom and Qualcomm — existing BCI partners in two Brazilian competitive access companies providing services under the […]

Internet professional services firm Organic this week opened a new office in Toronto. The Toronto facility is the fifth new office opened by Organic ognc”>(OGNC) since January of last year, including offices in London, Singapore, and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Taking charge in Toronto is Troy Young, vice president/managing director, who joins Organic from Vickers & […]

E*Trade Canada and Primus Telecommunications Canada, formed a strategic alliance this week to jointly market products and services. At the heart of the alliance is a marketing agreement in which E*Trade Canada gains the opportunity to generate new brokerage accounts from among PRIMUS Canada’s base of over 700,000 retail customers, including more than 80,000 ISP […]

Rogers AT&T Wireless and GoAmerica are negotiating a strategic agreement to offer Go.Web service on Rogers’ upcoming BlackBerry service. The agreement will allow customers to browse and fully access the Internet using the Rogers AT&T Mobitex network. The Rogers AT&T Mobitex network is a nationwide, dedicated data network that provides wireless data device users access […]

The Internet Advertising Bureau Of Canada (IAB Canada) released its report this week on the state of the online advertising industry in the coutry. According to the report, the Internet advertising industry stands to make a significant contribution to the Canadian Internet economy, both in its own right and in its role as a promoter […]

COGNICASE and Microcell Labs this week entered into an agreement to jointly form an Internet and wireless provider of advanced e-services. In addition, NB Capitals Partners, a merchant bank affiliated with National Bank of Canada, has conditionally agreed to invest CAN$15 million in the new company. “This strategic partnership is a clear recognition of the […]

Bell Mobility and PDA manufacturer JTEL are teaming up to provide wireless Internet services via Bell Mobility’s CDMA wireless data network using JTEL’s CellVic. The announcement follows the successful completion of trials on wireless Internet services, which were conducted by connecting JTEL’s CellVic PDA to data-enabled mobile phones operating on Bell Mobility’s CDMA network. The […]