Canada Communications

Shares of Broadcom Corp., the leading U.S. cable-modem chip maker, surged 24% after the Irvine company said it will supply Canadian phone giant Northern Telecom Ltd. with a high-speed communications technology. Broadcom's shares climbed $12.57 to $66.50 in trading of 4.6 million, almost three times its three-month daily average. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter analyst Mark Edelstone raised his rating on Broadcom to "outperform" from "neutral."

BCE Inc., Canada's largest telecommunications company, said it is offering $1.6 billion in cash for CTV Inc., the country's biggest commercial television broadcaster. BCE wants to use programming from CTV to provide local and national content for Sympatico-Lycos, its Internet portal. CTV owns one of Canada's three national TV networks. Jean C.

BCE Inc., Canada's largest telecommunications company, said it is offering $1.6 billion in cash for CTV Inc., the country's biggest commercial television broadcaster. BCE wants to use programming from CTV to provide local and national content for Sympatico-Lycos, its Internet portal. CTV owns one of Canada's three national TV networks. Jean C.

Shares of Broadcom Corp., the leading U.S. cable-modem chip maker, surged 24% after the Irvine company said it will supply Canadian phone giant Northern Telecom Ltd. with a high-speed communications technology. Broadcom's shares climbed $12.57 to $66.50 in trading of 4.6 million, almost three times its three-month daily average. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter analyst Mark Edelstone raised his rating on Broadcom to "outperform" from "neutral."

AT&T Complaint Targets Rival MCI: American Telephone & Telegraph Co. said it has asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate rival MCI Communications Corp.'s deal to provide special cross-border phone services with Canada. AT&T contends that the agreement between MCI and the Stentor consortium of Canada's nine phone companies violates FCC rules by precluding AT&T and other U.S. companies from competing in the same market.

The government on Friday opened this country's $6.3-billion long-distance telephone market to competition in a decision that could also open the door to American suppliers. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ruled in response to applications from Unitel Communications Inc. of Toronto and BC Rail Telecommunications/Lightel Inc. consortium of Vancouver. The decision to allow competing long-distance services promised to end Bell Canada's century-old monopoly.

Having been sickened and outraged by the report of the tragic and unnecessary accident in Temecula involving Border Patrol officers, illegal immigrants and innocent citizens, I am compelled to write this letter. This needless slaughter caused by high-speed chases, by people who are hired to protect us, is absolutely senseless! There have been many such chases recently, some televised, which were potential accidents and certainly put people's lives in jeopardy.

Canada's Communications Minister Marcel Masse resigned, the second senior minister to quit Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's embattled Progressive Conservative government this week. Masse stunned the House of Commons when he announced he was stepping down because of a police investigation into his election spending last year. Claiming innocence, he said he was resigning to prevent the investigation from reflecting on the government's integrity.

TRW Inc. on Thursday announced plans to build and operate a $2-billion satellite telephone system in partnership with Teleglobe Inc. of Canada. Scheduled to begin operation in 1999, the 12-satellite system, known as Odyssey, will provide voice, fax and paging services and will enable a person using a pocket telephone to call anywhere in the world from anywhere in the world. But the two companies face a host of technical, legal and competitive obstacles in building the Odyssey system.

Discovery landed safely Friday with a senator and six others aboard, but the fiery reentry burned a wing flap and there was extensive breakage of its heat-shield tiles--the worst damage in 16 shuttle missions. In addition, one of the landing gear brakes locked because of a previously unseen type of failure and one 44-inch tire blew up shortly before the ship rolled to a stop. Three others must be replaced.

AT&T Complaint Targets Rival MCI: American Telephone & Telegraph Co. said it has asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate rival MCI Communications Corp.'s deal to provide special cross-border phone services with Canada. AT&T contends that the agreement between MCI and the Stentor consortium of Canada's nine phone companies violates FCC rules by precluding AT&T and other U.S. companies from competing in the same market.

The government on Friday opened this country's $6.3-billion long-distance telephone market to competition in a decision that could also open the door to American suppliers. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ruled in response to applications from Unitel Communications Inc. of Toronto and BC Rail Telecommunications/Lightel Inc. consortium of Vancouver. The decision to allow competing long-distance services promised to end Bell Canada's century-old monopoly.

Having been sickened and outraged by the report of the tragic and unnecessary accident in Temecula involving Border Patrol officers, illegal immigrants and innocent citizens, I am compelled to write this letter. This needless slaughter caused by high-speed chases, by people who are hired to protect us, is absolutely senseless! There have been many such chases recently, some televised, which were potential accidents and certainly put people's lives in jeopardy.

What medieval princes achieved with rings and ribbons and sealing wax, the lords of technology are creating with an electronic signature that is incontrovertible proof of authenticity for an electronic contract, check or tax return. Computer experts say the technique, called a digital signature, makes it impossible to forge or alter a document that exists only in a computer's fragile memory. It also makes it impossible for people to lie by denying they wrote or sent an electronic document.

Two of Canada's most powerful companies, BCE Inc. and Thomson Corp., announced a $2.7-billion multimedia joint venture Friday that combines the Internet, telecommunications and news media to create a powerful Canadian competitor in the digital world. Officials of the new venture hope it will have the scope and resources to compete with the tentacles of AOL-Time Warner and other multimedia giants reaching into the Canadian market.