Mobility

BlackBerry fans who mourned the demise of the keyboard phone now have hope, thanks to a Shanghai-based vendor called Unihertz that has been developing...

Fiona aftermath: N.S. premier irate over telecoms’ response to storm

Paul Barker - September 28, 2022

Nova Scotia premier Tim Houston today called on Canada’s telecommunications firms to be far more “collaborative” with the province’s Emergency Management Office (EMO) and...

Major Canadian telecommunication companies agree to an emergency outage deal

Samira Balsara - September 9, 2022

Major telecommunication companies have agreed to an emergency outage deal following Roger’s July outage, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry,...

Visa partners with Metrolinx to bring Tap to Pay to transit riders in the GTA

Ashee Pamma - August 12, 2022

Financial services company Visa has announced a collaboration with Metrolinx to offer transit riders in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) the choice of making...

Champagne orders telcos to produce clear resiliency plan in 60 days

Paul Barker - July 13, 2022

The national outage of telecom services that millions of Canadians experienced in the last few days is “unacceptable -- full stop,” federal Minister of...

Globalive signs wireless spectrum sharing deal with Telus

Tom Li - May 19, 2022

Globalive has signed a network and spectrum sharing agreement with Telus to better position itself as a buyer for Freedom Mobile, whose divestiture stands...

LoRaWAN-enabled IoT being used to save Africa’s endangered wildlife from poachers

Samira Balsara - April 24, 2022

Volunteering Africa, a South African non-profit organization which works for the preservation of wildlife, has partnered with Abeeway and Actility to create a system...

Blackberry to settle shareholder lawsuit for $165 million

ITBusiness Staff - April 7, 2022

Blackberry has announced that it will settle an eight-year-old shareholder class action lawsuit filed against the company in 2013, accusing it of inflating the...

Canadian government to offer affordable high-speed Internet to low-income families

Pragya Sehgal - April 4, 2022

The government of Canada is launching Connecting Families 2.0 to offer faster speeds and increased data usage for low-income families and seniors

Rogers combines its 5G network with Microsoft Azure to help SMBs enhance customer experience

Pragya Sehgal - March 17, 2022

Rogers and Microsoft have formed a five-year strategic alliance to help enterprise and SMB customers take advantage of hybrid work and 5G-enabled solutions.

Rogers partners with Sheridan College on 5G research

Tom Li - March 16, 2022

Rogers has entered into a two-year partnership with Sheridan College’s Centre for Mobile Innovation (CMI) to research and develop 5G autonomous vehicle systems. Under the...

Globalive wants to buy Freedom Mobile for $3.75 billion

Tom Li - March 16, 2022

Globalive Capital, a Canadian private equity firm, has allegedly expressed interest in scooping up Freedom Mobile, the cellphone service provider subsidiary of Shaw Communications,...

Samsung and Telus deploy Canada’s first MCPTX service for emergency responders

Tom Li - March 3, 2022

Samsung Networks has partnered with Telus to deploy Canada’s first Mission Critical Push-to-X (MCPTX) services to offer richer information to first responders.