Deletes an obsolete clause and revises the applicability of certain clauses used in contracts for
telecommunications services.
(b)
Telecommunication Services--Currently, section 22.1 of Part V of Schedule VI of the ETA limits the zero-rating provision for
telecommunication services to supplies that are made to a person carrying on the business of supplying
telecommunication services.
While the past few years were brutal for the
telecommunications industry, the 2005 Telecom Industry Review: An Anthology of Market Facts and Forecasts predicts that worldwide
telecommunications industry services revenue will grow from $1.1 trillion in 2005 to $1.5 trillion in 2010, bringing an end to the industry slump.
Madelyn Butera, FRS program manager, spoke about telecom trends in the rural youth market at the Iowa
Telecommunications Association's Fall Convention in Des Moines, Iowa, October 25-26.
Seko, formerly NTT's public relations manager, stated at a meeting of the LDP's
Telecommunications Policy Committee that the US FCC (Federal Communications Commission) had lifted the requirement that regional telephone companies make optical fiber available to competitors, and suggested that Japan should do the same.
With 120 students preparing to descend on campus within days, school officials expected technologists to expand the campus
telecommunications network to an off-campus location quickly and seamlessly, all without investing big bucks in new wires.
Participants at this meeting focused on the far-reaching implications for local authorities of an anticipated rewrite of the 1996
Telecommunications Act, as well as the opportunities and threats of new technologies such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).
In 1997, Mexico ended the monopoly of the company Telmex for Mexican
telecommunications services.
LG Electronics, a major
telecommunications equipment provider based in Korea, has purchased the first Stratus ftServer T30 systems for a major softswitch implementation to be launched by Korea Telecom, (See related press release issued today).
In June, the government dissolved Telecom and formed a new state-run
telecommunications company, Colombia Telecom, to carry on the work of the country's major fixed-line carrier.
The carrier contacts database contains
telecommunications carrier-designated POCs that are: 1) submitted to the FCC by
telecommunications carriers in their respective CALEA Security Compliance Manuals, 2) given directly to the ESTS by
telecommunications carriers, or 3) received from the law enforcement community.
In a March 2000 Timmins strategic planning document, known as Building our Future, consultants KPMG said the monopoly imposed by the Canadian Radio and
Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) was not serving the Timiskaming-Cochrane district very well.