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Whither Telus » Bell .. so Shaw » Rogers?

June 21, 2007

Telus and Bell have confirmed they’re in merger talks, after BCE earlier announced it was mulling over its options earlier this Spring. Both companies are weakened by declining landline revenues as competition from Wireless and the Cable Guys and, to a lesser extent pure-play VoIP contenders, is heating up. This makes a lot of sense, [...]

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FedEx and ZapMail…

January 8, 2003

http://shirky.com/writings/zapmail.html Customer-owned Networks: ZapMail and the Telecommunications Industry First published January 7, 2003 on the ‘Networks, Economics, and Culture’ mailing list. By Clay Shirky To understand what’s going to happen to the telephone companies this year thanks to WiFi (otherwise known as 802.11b) and Voice over IP (VoIP) you only need to know one story: [...]

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Big Surprise..

January 12, 2001

It’s finally done. -Ian. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010111/ts/media_timewarner_dc_5.html Thursday January 11 10:17 PM ET AOL Acquires Time Warner After FCC Approval By Jeremy Pelofsky WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Internet giant America Online Inc. on Thursday acquired cable and media conglomerate Time Warner Inc., becoming the world’s largest media company after winning conditional approval from the Federal Communications Commission. Exactly [...]

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