Reports and Coverage

Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) decided that Bell Canada has unfairly blocked access to its fixed infrastructure, giving Videotron a sense of victory.

Questions are being raised on whether WhatsApp is losing its reputation as the simple, reliable, secure messaging app after it has announced that users failing to agree to its new data policy before February 8 would risk losing their accounts.

A Canadian judge has rejected a request from Huawei's chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, who wanted testimony from employees of the Chinese telecom giant to be admitted as evidence in her fight against extradition to the United States.

Lawyers for Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou argued in a court to let her leave home without the security detail that was a condition of her bail since she was released after her December 2018 arrest.

The 25GS-PON MSA Group announced the addition of seven new member companies including AT&T, CommScope, Cortina Access, Feneck, HiLight Semiconductor, Hisense Broadband and Semtech. These companies, along with the ten founding 25GS-PON MSA members, are enabling a move beyond the limitations of 10 Gb/s next-generation PON, the current state-of-the-art.

Quebec’s minister of economy and innovation Pierre Fitzgibbon announced the establishment of the council of innovation with Luc Sirois as director general and chief innovator of Quebec. The mission of the council and chief innovator is to boost innovation in Quebec’s businesses and enterprises.

“With respect, we urge you to focus on the facts and the law and leave the politics to the politicians,” Robert Frater, a Crown lawyer, said urging Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes to ignore the “geopolitical winds swirling around” Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou’s extradition case.

Two years after being arrested, former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor seem to have been “indicted and tried”, according to Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying. The two Canadians were arrested on December 10, 2018, days after Canada detained Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, daughter of the founder of the Chinese colossus.

Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou has received a series of threatening letters, some containing bullets, while under house arrest in Vancouver. Doug Maynard, chief operating officer of Lions Gate Risk Management, revealed the details during a B.C. Supreme Court hearing.

Dubai, 18 November 2020: At the Telecom Review Summit 2020, the Middle East’s largest ICT gathering, Verizon was awarded the ‘Best North American Wholesale Operator’ This year’s Summit was organized both physically and virtually due to the ongoing pandemic, allowing panelists and attendees to participate in the hybrid event from anywhere in the world.